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Google Music swapping clean songs with explicit ones; how to fix
Los Angeles Times
Google's service appears to be suffering from the same problems Apple's iTunes Match went through when it launched in 2011 -- it too was mixing up clean and explicit versions of songs, according to The Verge. Fortunately, if you've recently scanned and ...
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Google Apps makes gains on Microsoft Office
Christian Science Monitor
For years, Microsoft Office was widely considered to be the way for businesses to get "serious" work done. Google Apps, the cloud-based office suite, wasn't generally thought of as being stable or full-featured enough for company use. But as Google ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Google Voice Calls Remain Free in 2013
PC Magazine
Gmail users in several other countries can also use Google Voice to make international voice calls at heavily discounted rates, Google said. Callers in India, for example, get a 2-cents-per-minute rate, compared with 9-cents-per-minute from the country ...
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Apple and Google still in the hunt for control of mobile market
The Guardian
In one noisy corner is Google, claiming victory for its strategy of free, ubiquitous software, while in the other, there are Apple's eye-watering profits as the world's most valuable company. This is the titanic battle to control the future of the ...
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The Guardian
Google Music scan-and-match is swapping versions, report says
CBS News
Google Music users have been complaining that the search giant's new scan-and-match service is mixing up different versions of songs, a recent report says. Google recently launched a free music scan-and-match service. Like Apple's iTunes Match -- which ...
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CBS News
Google Acts Against Malicious Chrome Extensions
PC Magazine
Google's latest steps will make it harder for malicious developers trying to exploit Chrome users via browser extensions. Extensions are plugins for Google Chrome and allow developers to add extra functionality to the Web browser. Many Chrome ...
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Journalists' Addresses Posted In Revenge For Newspaper's Google Map Of Gun ...
TechCrunch
A week after the Newtown massacre, The Journal News published an interactive Google Map with the names and addresses of gun permit owners in select New York cities. The bold move has escalated into a transparency arms race, after a Connecticut ...
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How to side-load Google's own apps onto your Kindle Fire HD
Ars Technica
Whether Santa brought you a new Kindle Fire HD or your old one just needs the dust blown off, holiday down time is the perfect chance to side-load several of Google's apps onto your Amazon tablet without rooting the device. As you may know, the Kindle ...
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Google News Crumbles, And More 2013 Media Predictions
Forbes
All 154 members of the Association of Newspapers in Brazil have already opted out of Google News as boycott for Google not paying to display the headlines and excerpts — this represents 90% of the country's newspaper circulation. France and Germany ...
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Google Extends Free Gmail Voice Calls In The U.S. And Canada Through 2013
TechCrunch
This is becoming somewhat of a holiday tradition for Google: the company just announced that it is extending it free domestic calls from Gmail in the U.S. and Canada for yet another year. Just like at the end of 2011 and 2010, Google today said that ...
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Nightcaps: Watch Tyler Florence's Google Talk [Video]
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Video: Tyler Florence stops by the Google HQ for a conversation with Google's executive chef Liv Wu. The conversation mainly centers around Florence's new cookbook, Fresh, but veers into a bounty of other topics, like making sardines sexy, how Florence ...
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What's Better for Today's Businesses: Google Apps or Microsoft Office?
Mashable
Microsoft has created a series of ads over the last couple of years specifically targeting Google services such as Gmail and Google Drive. They're well-made snippets that highlight the weaknesses of Google's ad-supported, cloud-first approach to ...
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Today in Tech: Why Amazon and Google will duke it out next year
Fortune
Both companies have a lot at stake. Google's market capitalization of $235 billion is about double Amazon's, largely because Google makes massive net earnings, expected by analysts to be $13.2 billion this year, based on a huge 32 percent net profit ...
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Only 5% Of News Publishers Use The Google News Keywords Meta Tag
Search Engine Land
Just over three months ago, Google launched the news keyword meta tag designed to let news publishers have a better chance of ranking for words they might not have included in their headlines. Adoption rate so far? Only about 5% of the sources within ...
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Search Engine Land
Top Google searches in 2012
Politico
Top Google searches in 2012 reflected an eclectic year in politics as Americans turned to their keyboards to query the lighter side of the news, such as presidential candidates' gaffes, and the serious, including policy issues like SOPA. That's ...
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Politico
Google's Plans for Taking On Apple in 2013
Motley Fool
It's no secret Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) aren't the best of friends. Nor will it come as a shock that Google's Android OS dominates the world of mobile computing. So it shouldn't be surprising that Google plans to better compete ...
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Santa Tracker Highlights Google Brand, Services
AdAge.com
When the government recently awarded Microsoft the job of visualizing Santa's worldwide Christmas Eve trek, it was billed by many as a coup for Microsoft. An NBC headline read, "Sorry, Google," the article explaining that Microsoft had usurped the ...
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AdAge.com
Google Integrates Kevin Bacon In Its Search Function
NPR
Google has incorporated the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game into its search function. Morning Edition's David Greene goes to the movies and traces the history of the iconic college game. (This piece initially aired on September 14, 2012 on Morning ...
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Google in 2012: A year when mobile and social seeds began to shoot roots
The Next Web (blog)
This year has been an important one for Google. It's been one in which the company has built on previous growth and new products, sharpening its focuses on mobile and social and showing a glimpse of its 'wearable computing future'. The company made a ...
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Microsoft Can't Ignore Google Apps Forever
Motley Fool
Instead of fully addressing the threat that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) poses, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) seems content to downplay the risk until it's too late. You'd think that the software giant would take it more seriously considering Google Apps is ...
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'Make me Asian': Asian-Americans call Google app offensive
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
The maker of a Google app thinks it's fun to make yourself look Asian by changing the shape of your eyes and wearing a Fu Manchu mustache and rice paddy hat. Or you could be a Native American with brown skin, war paint and a feather headband.
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ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Google Tests "Quick View" Button In Mobile Search Results
Search Engine Land
Google seems to be testing a new feature named "Quick View" in their smart phone enabled search results. The feature lets you load a page from the source web site in a quicker method, instead of loading the full page, which might require longer ...
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Search Engine Land
Google sings praises of Ireland's cold, chilly weather – it's perfect for its ...
Digital Trends
According to Google, its data centers use 50 percent less energy than typical data centers by incorporating smart temperature controls, the latest power distribution methods, and what it describes as 'free-cooling' techniques, enabled by building the ...
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This Morning: Google Challenges MSFT, Apple mini needs Bigger Production
Barron's (blog)
The Nasdaq Composite Index is down half a percent at 2,995.71 following the U.S. holiday break yesterday, slightly underperforming the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Dow. One of the strongest performers this morning is Research in Motion (RIMM), ...
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Apple's Siri has a rival: Google voice search
Christian Science Monitor
Apple promises a lot from Siri. The company advertises this "intelligent assistant" as a major selling point for new iPhones and iPads. Ask a question out loud, and Siri digs up an answer; dictate an appointment, and Apple's software will jot down the ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Best Buy in Search for 2013: Google, Baidu, or Yandex?
Motley Fool
Google is the global leader, of course. From Western Europe to India to North and South America, Big G is the search engine of choice. However, Google isn't much of a force in China. The market -- home to the world's largest online audience -- belongs ...
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Nexus 4 Phone - A Thing Of Beauty From Google
Forbes
The Nexus 4 smartphone, from Google, but built by LG, is elegant. No, it is downright awesome. I've had a loaner test unit for well over a month and it just feels right in the hand. The camera is a dream to use, too. Besides all the tech specs that ...
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Blogs12 new results for Google
 
Daily Report: Google Moves Onto Microsoft's Turf in Business Software
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
When it comes to enterprise software for the cloud, Google is gaining ground on Microsoft. Read more...
NYT Bits
Google Music matching explicit songs with clean ones, but contains ...
By Jon Fingas
Early iTunes Match adopters will remember the unintentional bowdlerization of their music libraries: they\'d listen to their scanned music collection on a.
Engadget
Google's Music Matching Reportedly Replacing Explicit Songs With ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Some users of Google Music's new scan-and-match functionality, recently rolled out in the US, are complaining of problems when it comes to explicit content in their library.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Google grabs for 90% of Microsoft Office users - SlashGear
By Shane McGlaun
Microsoft has two bread-and-butter software products that generate the vast majority of the company's revenue. Those two software products include the Windows.
SlashGear
Global data doesn't support Reuters "fracking" Google search trend ...
By Anthony Watts
Tom Nelson pointed this out this morning. 'Fracking' overtakes 'climate change' in Google searches | The Dickinson Press | Dickinson, North Dakota This year, for the first time, U.S. online searches for the term "fracking" became more popular ...
Watts Up With That?
Google 'Make Me Asian' App Faces Protests From Asian-American ...
By Alexander C. Kaufman
Google app "Make Me Asian" allows users to change their eye shapes and don Fu Manchu mustaches.
TheWrap.com - Entertainment Industry...
Google Makes Voice Calling Via Gmail Free Through 2013 - Livewire
By Carl Franzen
Google announced on Wednesday on its Gmail blog that it will continue to make its internet voice calling feature through Gmail (Google email) available for free to users in the U.S. and Canada throughout 2013. The move comes after Google ...
TPM LiveWire
Google once again extends free Gmail domestic voice calls in the ...
By Nathan Ingraham
If you were worried that the free domestic voice calls Google has offered through Gmail in the US and Canada were going to go away when 2012 ends, fear not — the company has just announced that...
The Verge - All Posts
Google is winning on Microsoft's business turf, including - 9to5Google
By Jordan Kahn
The New York Times is out today with a piece that profiled Google's Apps for Business service push and how Google has slowly captured a large cut of the market that previously belonged to Microsoft. While noting Google Apps is winning out ...
9to5Google
Google Apps Taking a Bite Out of Microsoft's Office Business ...
You don't have to look far to find pundits that'll deny it, but you have to wonder if Microsoft is feeling threatened. Despite owning a colossal share of the desktop OS market -- a fact that isn't likely to change in our lifetimes -- the company's other ...
HotHardware.com News Rss Feed
Review: New Google Maps boasts big improvements - Nashua ...
NEW YORK – Like a lot of people, I was happy and relieved to see.
Nashuatelegraph.com: Business...
Our Google Play Gift Card giveaway continues today! | Android Central
By Phil Nickinson
Android Central Stocking Stuffers Oh, my. So ... full. Can't ... hardly ... type. But the giving must go on. We're marching toward the final round of our month-long (ish) Google Play Gift Card giveaway, in which we're giving 31 lucky winners $10 to ...
Android Central - Android Forums,...

Web6 new results for Google
 
Google Finance: Stock market quotes, news, currency conversions ...
By Chikako Mogi. TOKYO | Tue Dec 25, 2012 12:52am EST. TOKYO (Reuters) - Uncertainty over whether U.S. lawmakers will strike a deal by an end-of-year ...
www.google.com/finance?ei=y5zZUNiLOI2mlgPdSg
4 – Google Search « Top 100 Tools for Learning
Google is a powerful search engine. Often described as the only ... Comments from some of those who selected Google Search as one of their Top 10 Tools ...
c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/google-search/
Google Maps' return to iOS may not be permanent, says analyst ...
Google Maps' return to the iPhone and iPad this week may not be permanent, an analyst said today.
www.computerworld.com/.../Google_Maps_return_to_iOS_m...
Kurzweil joins Google to work on new projects involving machine ...
Ray Kurzweil confirmed today that he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing. "I'm excited to.
www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweil-joins-google-to-work-on-new-pr...
Santa Tracker Race: Google's Santa Tracker vs. NORAD | ABC ...
From the blog ABC News: Only on the Internet could you find two tech companies competing to track Santa. Last week NORAD, which has tracked Santa since ...
gma.yahoo.com/.../santa-tracker-race-googles-santa-tracker-vs...
Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013 | Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos got word of a project at Google Inc to scan and digitize product catalogs a decade ago, the ...
www.reuters.com/.../net-us-google-amazon-idUSBRE8BM094...


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