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The future of the $200 tablet

Spending $150 to $200 on a tablet won't get you much these days: In most cases, you're looking at an off-brand Android product with a single-core processor, barely any RAM and a low-resolution, low-quality display. Depending on the device, you might not even have access to Google's app market or other basic services -- and while that approach may work with retailer-backed, limited-use products like Amazon's Kindle Fire, when it comes to more traditional Androidtablets, it doesn't usually lead to the best user experience.

By JR Raphael | 26 April, 2012 21:18

Tags: Google, hardware, hardware systems, Mobile and Wireless

Catching the eye of Google

Google's man in charge of acquisitions - vice-president of corporate development David Lawee - was in Auckland recently, but he was keeping quiet on whether any Kiwi businesses were on his radar.

By Sarah Putt | 17 April, 2012 03:33

Tags: business issues, Google

In depth: Nokia's great Windows Phone hope - Beauty without brawn

Nokia may sell more cellphones than any other company in the world, but it's been all but excluded from the United States for years -- and it's seen its global sales steadily shrink as the iPhone and Android smartphones have become the darlings of buyers in an increasing number of countries. Nokia's relevance has been fast receding, and its Symbian, Maemo, and MeeGo efforts became a pattern of failure for a company that just didn't get it. In response, a year ago, Nokia bet its future largely on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's answer to Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

By Galen Gruman | 10 April, 2012 20:13

Tags: Apple, Computer Hardware, consumer electronics, consumerization of IT, Google, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile OSes, mobile technology, Nokia, smartphones, symbian, Windows Phone

10 must-have tools for Cloud power users

For many of us, the Cloud has changed the way we work and play. Thanks to well-known services like Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook and Instapaper, practically our whole lives - photos, documents, contacts and more - are online. So isn't it time to take control?

By JR Raphael | 08 December, 2011 03:06

Tags: apps, cloud computing, Google, internet

Google's Ice Cream Sandwich - a new era for Android

Google's Android 4.0 operating system is more than just another upgrade.

By JR Raphael | 23 November, 2011 03:18

Tags: Android OS, Google, Ice Cream Sandwich, mobile solutions, mobility

Technology argument 5: iPad vs. everything else

We debated whether to call this piece "iPad vs. Motorola Xoom" or "iPad vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" or whatever the Android tablet du jour is. But really it's still "iPad vs Everything Else."

By John Cox | 02 November, 2011 21:33

Tags: Android tablets, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, Google, hardware systems, ipad3, Motorola, networking, Palm, pc, tablets, wireless

Google's China decision ignores conventional wisdom

Google's decision to stop censoring search engine results in China, announced in a blog posting Monday, flies in the face of common wisdom when it comes to doing business in the country.

By Sumner Lemon | 23 March, 2010 07:37

Tags: Google, search engines

Bing gains again -- should Google worry?

Microsoft's Bing search engine may still be a bit player in the lucrative online search business dominated by Google, but it's slowly and steadily gaining users.

By Jeff Bertolucci | 11 March, 2010 11:06

Tags: bing, Google, search engines

Google grows revenue, profit in Q3

Google grew both its revenue and profit in the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, registering results its CEO called "strong" and that exceeded Wall Street expectations.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 16 October, 2009 09:51

Tags: Google

Yahoo Search: RIP

Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo who were at the time students at Stanford University.

By Jared Newman | 30 July, 2009 08:59

Tags: bing, Google, Microsoft, search engines, Yahoo

Searching where Google can't

We read a lot about the delivery, and popularity, of SMS services such as market prices, health advice and job alerts in developing countries, information there is clearly a need for. Only last week Grameen's AppLab initiative, in conjunction with Google and MTN, launched a suite of SMS services in Uganda. These are the services you'll get to hear most about when you search the Web, trawl the blogosphere and attend various conferences on the subject. It all seems pretty sewn up on the content side -- I mean, what else could people earning a few dollars a day (at most) possibly want?

By Ken Banks | 09 July, 2009 02:24

Tags: Google, Grameen Foundation, search engines

Five slick search engines you should know about

With Microsoft's recent addition of Bing to the search landscape, the spotlight is again shining on who has the best engine for finding anything and everything on the Internet. The debate over who has the best search likely will go on into eternity with a focus on the big three: Google,Yahoo and Microsoft. But there are countless other search engines out there focused on zeroing users in on the data they want or need. Here is a look at five that are offering some slick service.

By John Fontana | 02 July, 2009 12:03

Tags: exalead, hunch, indeed, scirus, scour, search engines

China orders Google to suspend foreign site searches

China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak, state media said Friday.

By Owen Fletcher | 19 June, 2009 21:20

Tags: China, Google, search

Bing makes gains, but is Google actually suffering?

Microsoft is gaining new ground with its freshly rebranded Bing search engine, some recently released data suggests. Bing, the research finds, grew 0.8 percent during its second week online.

By JR Raphael | 18 June, 2009 08:26

Tags: bing, Google, Microsoft, search engines

Microsoft Bing goes live: So what?

Now that its available, my first experiences with Microsoft Bing lead me to a simple, inescapable conclusion, "So what?" I had imagined that something as widely hyped as Bing would be a life-changing experience. It wasn't. Not even close.

By David Coursey | 01 June, 2009 23:16

Tags: bing, Google, search engines

Why Google's outage wasn't a complete failure

I noticed something interesting in the Google outage and its aftermath on Thursday. Google's sites, in case you were hiding in a cave yesterday, were unreachable around the world for a good hour and a half. Gmail, YouTube, Google News, even the google.com home page were inaccessible to scores of people.

By JR Raphael | 16 May, 2009 23:05

Tags: Google

Google ran out of bandwidth? ... Google?

For a while there a few days ago it sure seemed to some as though the Google Chrome browser development team had proven again that no matter how much bandwidth is made available, someone, somewhere, for some reason, is going to need or want more.

By Paul McNamara | 15 May, 2009 09:13

Tags: Google, Google Chrome

Search engine Wolfram Alpha focuses on great answers

The natural-language search engine Wolfram Alpha is expected to launch May 18 and more details about the site are emerging. Most notably, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Alpha's creator and the brain behind the computational software Mathematica, says his site is not the next Google killer, but an add-on for your Web searches.

By Ian Paul | 12 May, 2009 09:56

Tags: Google, search engines, stephen wolfram, wolfram alpha

10 new search tools that complement Google

Search engines get to grips with Web 2.0

By Edward N. Albro | 06 May, 2009 13:49

Tags: Google, search engines

Don't be fooled by Google's phony 'beta' label

A typical release cycle for software development includes something called the beta-testing phase. The idea is to improve the product by enabling users, rather than developers or professional testers, to provide feedback.

By Mike Elgan | 17 February, 2009 08:43

Tags: Google

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