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Google, Microsoft, and others buy networking gear directly from Asia
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Massive Internet companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook would seemingly consume networking gear like breath mints. These companies are some of the biggest online, and as they grow, they would need a never-ending stream of new servers and networking gear to maintain the speed and efficiency of their networks. You might expect these companies purchase their gear from big names like Cisco or HP.
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Internet Explorer gains market share while Chrome slips
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Internet Explorer has been losing ground as of late, but it’s important to remember the sheer amount of Windows PCs out there with the browser pre-installed. While Chrome and Firefox aim to try and eventually dethrone Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer has seen an increase in usage for the first time since September 2011.
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Oracle and Google get a trial date, April 16th is the start of Android armageddon
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As regular readers of this site are well aware, Google and Oracle have had an ongoing legal spat for nearly two years now. In the time since the lawsuit's filing, the legal claims have been narrowed, damages claims have been adjusted, reduced, and reduced again. All that activity, plus continuous settlement talks caused the trial to be delayed several times. But now it appears that the two sides have officially reached an impasse, and so the tech giants will go to trial on April 16th to determine if Android illicitly pulled code from Java. Will Oracle get paid? Will Google and its green bots be gloating in the end? Pop some popcorn and settle in, folks, we'll start getting some answers in a ...
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Google Maps typical traffic expands to regular roads
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Google Maps on Monday answered a frequent call to widen the coverage of its typical traffic layer. Previously limited to highways and other main routes, it now includes "arterial" roads, or larger main streets often connected to or otherwise near the highways. Google Maps Android users can still voluntarily contribute periodic location updates to help improve the data themselves.
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ICS reaches 2.9 percent of active Android devices, 63.7 percent still on Gingerbread
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As we check back in on Android's Platform Versions dashboard for the first time since January, we can finally see notable growth in the percentage of devices running some flavor of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, up for 0.6 percent then to 2.9 percent. That's likely fueled by the release of updates for the Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Sensation family of devices, and is a sharp uptick from last month when it registered on 1.6 percent. Gingerbread (2.3) still reigns supreme, running 63.7 percent of the Android hardware that accessed the Play market in the last two weeks, but its growth seems to finally be slowing. Last year at this time that position was filled by Android 2.2, with 2.3 on just...
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LG Optimus S to resume Gingerbread update on April 4th
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Back last September, Sprint started rolling out the Gingerbread update for the LG Optimus S. But the update had to be halted when owners of the device started having some issues. Some owners were having problems recharging their phone or connecting to data. Other problems included the failure of predictive text to appear while typing on the virtual QWERTY, an incorrect message would appear stating that the microSD card is unmounted, and when connected to a PC, the device was unrecognized by Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7
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Google Wallet updated for the two phones that can use it
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Google has released an update for its Wallet NFC payment app for the Google Nexus S 4G on Sprint and the unlocked Google Galaxy Nexus used with an AT&T SIM card. The update adds some user interface improvements and includes bug fixes and privacy enhancements. It is available to download on compatible devices in the Google Play Store now.
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Nexus S 4G official Android 4.0.4 update leaked, WiMAX radio improvements included?
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Google released its Android 4.0.4 updates for the GSM Nexus S just a couple of days ago, but for users with Sprint's version of the phone it's been a long wait for Ice Cream Sandwich. Thankfully, BriefMobile has posted what it says is the official over-the-air 4.0.4 ROM for the WiMAX-enabled Nexus S. Along with the newest version of Android, the update has a new baseband that early adopters say has significantly improved WiMAX reception. The site promises that the update will be released OTA for the Nexus S 4G soon, but we've been here before — two months ago a similar 4.0.4 ROM for the device was leaked. If you're not convinced that the update is coming soon and you're aware of the risks, c...
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Google Drive leak suggests 5GB of free cloud storage
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Rumors surrounding Google’s cloud storage service are ramping up as we move closer toward the product’s rumored release date. The service will apparently be called Google Drive and is similar to Dropbox, which allows users to store files on cloud servers and access them from computers and mobile devices. According to a leaked screenshot obtained by TalkAndroid, Google Drive will offer 5GB of free storage instead of the previously rumored 1GB. The image also reaffirms that files can be accessed through computers, mobile phones, tablets and via a web browser, and it will allow users to edit a document in one place that will automatically be updated in all locations. Google Drive is rumored to ...
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Android 4.0.4 leaked for Nexus S 4G, lets Sprint users join ICS party
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Well, that didn't take long. Sprint may not have opened its own icebox just yet, but thanks to a BriefMobile source, Nexus S 4G owners can snag themselves Ice Cream Sandwich anyway. While there have been previous efforts, BriefMobile says the leak contains the full, official ICS update, which will be delivered to handsets OTA shortly. Of course, if you can't wait the site has full installation instructions. Hit the source link below to get started.
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Google’s programming language “Go” hits version 1 milestone
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As if there weren’t enough languages to deal with, Google just had to go and create another. Conceived back in November 2009, the project was designed to create an open source programming language, and now Google say the project has reached a major milestone: version one, or “Go 1″ for short. So far over 200 contributors have made thousands of changes to the code and documentation.
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Google Chrome 18 final arrives with graphics speedups
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Google on Wednesday posted the finished version of Chrome 18. The stable version now brings hardware graphics speedups to HTML5's Canvas for 2D and is potentially much faster for certain websites. Acceleration works on both Macs and Windows PCs, but not Linux so far.
The visual improvement partly extends to older computers. Chrome now uses TransGaming's SwiftShader to allow for WebGL 3D apps on graphics chips or platforms that wouldn't normally support it, such as older Intel integrated video and Windows XP systems. Performance will be slower as it's reliant entirely on the main processor, but it will let Chrome users on these PCs see some content that was previously off-limits.
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Google dives into personal analytics with new Account Activity feature
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We recently saw Stephen Wolfram reveal what he called the personal analytics of his life (built from decades of meticulous data collection), and it looks like Google is now going some way towards making that easier for you to do yourself. It rolled out its new Account Activity feature today, an opt-in tool (still technically in beta) that tracks your activity across Google's services and delivers a report each month on your internet use. That includes things like the number of emails sent and received, your most contacted email addresses, information about your search history (if you have it enabled), stats from Google Latitude, and the different browsers and devices you've used to sign into...
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Oracle rejected Google's damages offer in lawsuit
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Oracle has rejected a proposal to steamline the damages portion in their ongoing lawsuit against Android. Both sides had been asked by the judge to make proposals to streamline the upcoming lawsuit, and one of Google’s proposals was to waive their right to object to damages calculations if Oracle accepted the methods calculated by a court-appointed expert.
Those damages would apply if Google were found to infringe on the two remaining patents in the case (the others having been withdrawn after the USPTO found them to be invalid). Google was offering, if Android is found to be infringing, to pay a percentage of Android royalties to Oracle until the patents expire. Based on the numbers genera...
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Google celebrates Nelson Mandela with virtual museum
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Google today announced the grand opening of the Nelson Mandela Digital Archive, an online collection of digitized photos, videos and documents centering around the former South African president. The site, based out of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, South Africa, was developed with the help of $1.25 million in funding provided by the software giant. The collection includes unseen drafts of Mandela's work, letters to friends and family members and diary entries made during his 27 year imprisonment. The multimedia archive is available for view now. You can check it out by clicking the source link below.
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