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Apple Buys Their Very Own Maps Company (See Ya, Google Maps?)

The Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn’t buy companies it’s not going to use. Meaning, Apple’s getting into making their own maps. Peace out, Google. https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-might-use-apples-own-processors-equal-net-5313688 Seth at ComputerWorld, who put this together, points to a post on GigaOm last year…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 1

Google Acquisitions and Investments Map Shows How Much Google Likes Buying Stuff

Google sure has a lot of money! And man, does it like to spend it! This map shows all of Google’s acquisitions and investments, detailing just how vast and diverse Google’s interests are. [Meet the Boss via The Awl]

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 30

DIY Google Street View Camera Lets You Infuriate Shut-Ins For Fun and Profit

Google’s spent millions of dollars sending its Street View cars around the world, photographing streets so you can see them on the internet. And now you can replicate this for some reason. Created for a class at West Point, Roy D. Ragsdale created his prototype setup using a laptop, $300 of off-the-shelf components and open…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 30

ODROID Gaming Handheld Runs Android; Now Available for Pre-Order

No, it’s not a new Wonderswan, it’s the ODROID. This curious little gaming handheld has a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen, Android 1.5 OS, 512MB of RAM, and the same 833MHz Samsung CPU as the iPhone 3GS. A developer version is now up for pre-order, and includes a charger cable, serial console debugging board, and batteries. It…

Tech News Danny Allen Sep 30

Motorola Cliq Android Phone Ships November 2 For $200 on T-Mobile

You will be able to buy the Motorola Cliq, their social networking-focused version of an Android phone, on November 2 for $200. If you pre-order the device from Oct. 19 to Nov. 1, you’ll be guaranteed to receive it first. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-cliq-gallery-and-impressions-5356943 T-Mobile also says that their voice plans start at $30 a month, with the…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 29

Google Wave Rolls Out to 100,000 Users Tomorrow

The NYT just discovered that Google Wave will be rolling out invites to 100,000 users starting today tomorrow. Google Wave, in case you forgot, is a mix between Google Docs and emailing, and is meant for collaboration. [NYT]

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 29

Cyanogen Custom Android Builds Will Live On, Sans Google Apps

When Google started hurling lawyerisms at the maker of the souped-up, stripped-down Cyanogen custom Android ROMs, the outlook was pretty grim. Luckily for Android hackers, Cyanogen and Google have reached an agreeable, albeit still stupid, compromise. https://gizmodo.com/google-threatens-cyanogen-android-hacker-with-cease-and-5367420 The issue Google takes with CyanogenMod isn’t that it fundamentally changes Android—they’re generally open to that, seeing as…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 28

Judge Orders Mail Account Shut Down Because of Idiotic Bank Mistake

Imagine some idiot in a bank sends you a mail by mistake, thinking you are someone else. Now imagine that the bank idiots sue to reveal your identity, Google refuses, and a judge orders to shutdown your account. So logical! It all happened thanks to the Wyoming-based Rocky Mountain Bank and Judge James Ware—a U.S.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 28

Want To See Climate Change In Action? Google It

Wondering how you too can warn people about the dangers of global warning? Google have created a way to make all of us into mini-Al Gores, by adding an Estimated Climate Change option to Google Earth. According to Google’s official blog, In collaboration with the Danish government and others, we are launching a series of…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 27

Steve Ballmer Up Close, Sipping Coffee, Talkin’ Bout Phones and Stuff

There’s something disarming, humanizing even, about sitting Steve Ballmer in front of a webcam, sipping a giant iced coffee from Starbucks (which explains so much), talking about how Apple can only dominate "niche" categories, like media players, not something bigger. He says that uberlarge categories—”non-niche” ones, like PCs and phones that sell over 300 million…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 25

Google Threatens Cyanogen Android Hacker With Cease-and-Desist

This is a weird one: Google has just slapped Cyanogen, maker of the biggest and most successful Android ROM mod around, with a cease-and-desist letter. But Google’s reasoning doesn’t make any sense, and we’re wondering what their game is. See, Google’s cease-and-desist specifically states that Cyanogen should stop passing around Google’s closed-source apps like Google…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Sep 25

Internet Explorer, Now Powered by Google Chrome

Though Internet Explorer has been panned for lack of web-standard compliance, many are forced to use the browser because of stubborn IT departments. Fortunately, Google has issued its latest “up yours” to Microsoft with the Chrome Frame plug-in for IE. The Chrome Frame allows IE to use HTML5 and other open source technologies, including high…

Tech News Don Nguyen Sep 22

Push Gmail Finally Comes to the iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile

Apple hasn’t added push for Gmail to its Mail app on the iPhone, but Google has worked around that via Google Sync. All you have to do is set it up as a Microsoft Exchange account. At last! Previously you could just sync your Google contacts and calendars, but now finally it supports Gmail as…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 22

Ustream Video Streaming Android App Out Now

While the Android app store is still far from the gajillion iPhone mark, some software is better on the former because of Apple’s third-party developer limitations. Like the new Ustream for Android, which can broadcast live video to the web. While on the iPhone version you can’t broadcast video straight to the web, the Android…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 18

Apple Fires Back, Still Says They Didn’t Reject Google Voice

So, uh, this isn’t going to end quietly. Fresh off the release of Google’s previously redacted FCC inquiry answers, which claimed Apple did reject Google’s Voice app, Apple’s fired back, and they’re not happy. https://gizmodo.com/google-apples-a-liar-did-reject-google-voice-iphone-a-5362635 An Apple rep gave Silicon Valley Insider a familiar line: We do not agree with all of the statements made…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 18

Google: Apple’s a Liar, Did Reject Google Voice iPhone App

The juicy stuff in Google’s response to the FCC about the Google Voice iPhone app that we couldn’t read? Apple’s a lying liarface, because they did reject the app. UPDATE: Apple responds, denies. https://gizmodo.com/you-cant-read-the-good-part-of-googles-fcc-response-5342981 If you remember Apple gave the FCC this gem of a response: “Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 18

Archos 5 Android Internet Tablet: Amazon Taking Pre-Orders

The 4.8-inch screen tablet won’t get full Flash support until December-ish, but you can slap down your plastic now if you don’t wanna wait: 160GB ($330), 500GB ($430), 32GB SSD ($380). No word yet on the shipping date. [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/archos-5-internet-tablet-hands-on-android-power-but-w-5358355

Tech News Danny Allen Sep 17

Motorola Cliq Review: Most Customizable Android Phone Yet

T3 got an exclusive review on the Motorola Cliq—in Europe, Dext—and they seem quite impressed. They go as far as saying it’s a “new dawn” for Motorola. Here are the basic points: https://gizmodo.com/motorola-cliq-android-smartphone-everything-you-need-t-5356590 The good • Motoblur: Motorola’s combination of user interface and social service seems to be the winner. They say the widgets that…

Reviews Jesus Diaz Sep 16

Android 1.6 SDK Now Available, Donut Possibly Hitting Phones Next Month

The Android Team released the SDK for Android 1.6 a.k.a. "Donut" which, among other things, promises CDMA compatibility, screen resolution scaling and support for gestures. Even better, Donut might be available on phones as early as next month. All the stuff mentioned in the past, such as APIs for text-to speech and translator functionality, plus…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 15

Google Chrome 3 Crawls Out of Beta, Speedily

Good god, Google’s storming forward with these things: Just a year after Chrome first launched, version 3.0 has left Google’s beta dungeon, bringing with it much faster Javascript rendering, theme support, a smarter Omnibox, and a reshuffled tab page. Lifehacker’s got the whole rundown, and the Windows downlaod is riiiiiiiight here—let us know what you…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 15

Apple Buys Their Very Own Maps Company (See Ya, Google Maps?)

Google Acquisitions and Investments Map Shows How Much Google Likes Buying Stuff

DIY Google Street View Camera Lets You Infuriate Shut-Ins For Fun and Profit

ODROID Gaming Handheld Runs Android; Now Available for Pre-Order

Motorola Cliq Android Phone Ships November 2 For $200 on T-Mobile

Google Wave Rolls Out to 100,000 Users Tomorrow

Cyanogen Custom Android Builds Will Live On, Sans Google Apps

Judge Orders Mail Account Shut Down Because of Idiotic Bank Mistake

Want To See Climate Change In Action? Google It

Steve Ballmer Up Close, Sipping Coffee, Talkin’ Bout Phones and Stuff

Google Threatens Cyanogen Android Hacker With Cease-and-Desist

Internet Explorer, Now Powered by Google Chrome

Push Gmail Finally Comes to the iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile

Ustream Video Streaming Android App Out Now

Apple Fires Back, Still Says They Didn’t Reject Google Voice

Google: Apple’s a Liar, Did Reject Google Voice iPhone App

Archos 5 Android Internet Tablet: Amazon Taking Pre-Orders

Motorola Cliq Review: Most Customizable Android Phone Yet

Android 1.6 SDK Now Available, Donut Possibly Hitting Phones Next Month

Google Chrome 3 Crawls Out of Beta, Speedily

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