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How the Government Used a Con Artist to Catch Google’s Criminal Activities

Last summer, Google had to pay $500 million to avoid criminal prosecution by the US government. Using a convicted con artist, the feds caught Google aiding illegal online pharmaceutical drug sales. The operation—as described by the Wall Street Journal—is movie material. The con artist is the man in the photo: David Whitaker. He presented himself…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 25

The Kurio: A Kid’s Tablet That Parents Can Use, Too?

We’ve seen kid-friendly tablets come and go in the past, but most recently the OLPC XO 3.0 looked like it could be the computing savior of third word children. The new Kurio might not quite match the OLPC, but at least you’ll be able to buy it. The new Kurio tablet, made by Inspiration Works,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 25

How To: Escape From Google’s Clutches, Once and For All

So you’re fed up with Google, and you’ve got a litany of reasons. More now than ever. You don’t even have to explain—we’re just here to help you crawl out from under the shadow of the big G, step by step. The decision to close your Google account has to be carefully considered—after all, this…

Tech News Gizmodo Jan 24

Google’s Broken Promise: The End of “Don’t Be Evil”

In a privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users universally across all its services—Gmail, Search, YouTube and more—and sharing data on user activity across all of them. So much for the Google we signed up for. The change was announced in a blog post today, and will go into effect…

Tech News Mat Honan Jan 24

Google Is Betraying Itself

From a 2004 Playboy interview with Larry Page, in which the Google co-founder describes a very different company from the one we use now: PLAYBOY: Portals attempt to create what they call sticky content to keep a user as long as possible. PAGE: That’s the problem. Most portals show their own content above content elsewhere…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 24

How Do You Police Cars That Drive Themselves?

Google is already testing its autonomous cars on the roads of California, and plenty of other manufacturers are starting to muscle in on the act, too. But when they hit the roads, how do you go about policing a city full of self-driven cars? The New York Times reports that that very question is causing…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 24

Hideous G-Shock Phone Is Too Durable to Be Destroyed

Try to drown it, crush it with up to a ton of weight, or give it a ten-foot toss—this prototype G-Shock phone will just laugh its heinous mug at you. Why can’t super-rugged things not look like this? The phone, which appears to be running Android, is only a concept for now—so we hope Casio…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 24

How To Turn Your Wall Into a Touchscreen Phone Using a Kinect

Okay, this isn’t going to be easy, but a developer has posted a video on YouTube showing how it’s possible to use an Android handset, a projector, a Kinect and a computer to create the future. In your living room. Now. In the video, he shows how, by hooking his Galaxy Nexus up to a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 24

The “Don’t Be Evil” Bookmarklet Lets You See a Web Without Google’s Search Plus Your World

Facebook, Twitter and Myspace engineers have developed a browser plug-in that helps you skirt the horrible intrusion that is Google’s new Search Plus Your World. It should send a pretty clear message: it’s called “Don’t Be Evil”. The tool, actually a bookmarklet, is available from the Focus On The User web site, and was created…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 24

Google’s New Plan: Annoy You Into Compliance

Google Plus users just got a pretty horrible new feature: search your name, and instead of finding out information about yourself, you’re asked to provide it. Quite simply, Google doesn’t want to give you information until you give it information. Guh. As Drew Olanoff of The Next Web noted today, if you are using Google’s…

Tech News Mat Honan Jan 23

President Obama Will Be Hanging Out on Google+ Next Week

Well, we said it was going to happen, but we didn’t think it would be so soon. Less than two weeks after the White House joined Google+, President Obama will go live in a Google+ Hangout to answer your questions. In the Hangout, President Obama will discuss the finer points of his State of the…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 23

An Unofficial Android Store Will Provide All The Apps Banned By Google

Unlike getting hold of iOS apps, it’s always been possible to trawl the web for software that doesn’t appear in the Android Market. But that process is about to get even easier, because soon there will be an unofficial store for banned Android apps. Koushik Dutta, a member of the team behind CyanogenMod and the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 23

Google Puts the Hammer Down on Three More Services

Good news everyone! Google announced today that three of its web services will be getting the axe by mid-year. Picnik, a photo-editing company that Google acquired in 2010 with hopes of integrating into Picasa will be shuttered by April 19th, “so the Picnik team can continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products,” said Dave Girouard,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 20

DOJ Says Apple, Google, Pixar and Intel Conspired to Not Poach Each Other’s Employees

In addition to shutting down Megaupload, the DOJ made another choice chunk of information public last night: evidence of multiple Silicon Valley companies conspiring to not poach each other’s employees. On the surface, it may sound like tepid HR industry fodder, but it’s something that affects all of us through the products we use. According…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 20

LG’s New X3 Phone May Be Powerful Enough to Tear Your Face Off

We generally pass on random phone rumors, but PocketNow seems to have scooped something that sounds awfully tasty. The LG X3 (codename) will supposedly have a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 4.7-inch 720p screen, an 8MP camera, and NFC. Um, yum? It will supposedly launch in the first half of this year with Android 4.0…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 20

Put Pants On Before You “Hangout” With President Obama on Google+

Google+, impervious to the teasing of tech-bloggers, marches on. Now with more than 90 million users, they just picked up a rather prominent one. The Big O (not Oprah), El Presidente, Mr. Barack Obama himself, and the house he lives in. This is just the latest foray into social media for the White House. Twitter…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 20

Music Video Megamart Vevo Might Find New Home at Facebook

The go-to service for music videos on YouTube could be heading to Facebook of all places. Because we all know how well it works out when social networks become a place for musicians to hang out (*cough* MySpace). According to CNET, Vevo has been talking to Facebook about leaving YouTube. The music video service has…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Jan 20

Google Spoils Its Workers So Much It’s Now the Best Employer in the World

Apple: walk into work without knowing any of your coworkers, get fired if you talk about your job. Google: walk into work and get on location eyebrow shaping. Which sounds better to you? Fortune just placed Google atop its 100 Best Companies to Work For list, and it’s not hard to imagine why: Employees rave…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 19

The Android Takeover Rolls On: 250 Million Handsets Worldwide

Google announced today that while it might have 90 million Google+ users, it has 250 million people using its Android handsets. That’s 700,000 activations per day, on average, with over 11 billion downloads from the Android market in all. That’s a whole lot of devices; 50 million more than just three months ago. And how…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 19

Google Hauled in $10 Billion of Highly Relevant Money Last Quarter

Google just reported its earnings results from the most recent financial quarter, and while there’s not too much to go on yet, it’s notable that for the first time, the company took in over $10 billion of revenue in a single three-month period. Other details were either boring or scarce—although Google+ now has 90 million…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 19

How the Government Used a Con Artist to Catch Google’s Criminal Activities

The Kurio: A Kid’s Tablet That Parents Can Use, Too?

How To: Escape From Google’s Clutches, Once and For All

Google’s Broken Promise: The End of “Don’t Be Evil”

Google Is Betraying Itself

How Do You Police Cars That Drive Themselves?

Hideous G-Shock Phone Is Too Durable to Be Destroyed

How To Turn Your Wall Into a Touchscreen Phone Using a Kinect

The “Don’t Be Evil” Bookmarklet Lets You See a Web Without Google’s Search Plus Your World

Google’s New Plan: Annoy You Into Compliance

President Obama Will Be Hanging Out on Google+ Next Week

An Unofficial Android Store Will Provide All The Apps Banned By Google

Google Puts the Hammer Down on Three More Services

DOJ Says Apple, Google, Pixar and Intel Conspired to Not Poach Each Other’s Employees

LG’s New X3 Phone May Be Powerful Enough to Tear Your Face Off

Put Pants On Before You “Hangout” With President Obama on Google+

Music Video Megamart Vevo Might Find New Home at Facebook

Google Spoils Its Workers So Much It’s Now the Best Employer in the World

The Android Takeover Rolls On: 250 Million Handsets Worldwide

Google Hauled in $10 Billion of Highly Relevant Money Last Quarter

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