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Google’s Real Time Search Disabled
July 4th, 2011 
Agron It seems the deal that allowed Google (and Bing) to have access to Twitter’s firehose of data has expired and Google decided not to renew the deal.. for now. Google says they plan to integrate Google+ data into it’s Real Time Search, but will continue to work with Twitter. Tweets and other realtime data streams [...]
How To Get a Google+ Invite
June 29th, 2011 Agron Can’t wait to try Google+? Do you know someone who has an invite? Great! Just ask them to share a post with you. You will be sent a link that says “Learn more about Google+” Upon clicking that link you will be able to sign up for the service.
Google Pulls Yongzh’s *oid Emulators
May 29th, 2011 Agron via Phandroid: Arguably, but not really, the most popular emulators on the Android Market have been yanked by Google. The *oid line, developed by Yongzh, seems to have finally rubbed Google, or some console developers the wrong way. Engadget has noted that Mr. Zhang has moved his line of emulators to the SlideME store where [...]
Web Store, the Most Important New Feature in Chrome
December 3rd, 2010 Agron Even if Google didn’t mention it in the release notes, Chrome 7 has support for installing web apps, but Chrome Web Store is not yet released. The store will be the most important new feature in Chrome 8, which will be launched very soon. “Chrome 8 is the first version that supports the Chrome Web Store,” mentions [...]
Chrome Is Now The Web’s Most Popular Browser
December 1st, 2010 Agron It has finally happened. It took a little longer than anticipated, but Chrome has now passed Firefox as the browser most often used to visit TechCrunch. For the month of November, Chrome is number one for the first time, edging out Firefox 27.80 percent to 27.67 percent. Back in early September, on Chrome’s second birthday, Google’s [...]
Google announces new photo format: WebP
October 3rd, 2010 Agron digitaltrends.com reports: Google is pushing for the future of photo formatting to be done in WebP, leaving JPEG in the dust. WebP (pronounced weppy) has been under development by Google and reduces file sizes by 40 percent compared to JPEGs. That means faster downloads from websites and less strain on networks. Richard Rabbat, product manager [...]
Google Me coming this Fall?
September 15th, 2010 Agron ZDNET reports: Eric Schmidt has confirmed that we could be getting “Google Me” sometime this Fall. This Google Me service will introduce what Google calls “a social layer” into online search, video and Google Maps. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters quote Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying the company will integrate social networking elements to [...]
Google Launches “Instant Search” Results
September 10th, 2010 Agron Have you noticed something different about Google recently? Yesterday, Google started rolling out a major overhaul to its familiar homepage. Now, you’ll see instant search results that are generated with each key that you type. These results will be shown in addition to the search suggestions that were previously available. The new feature is known [...]
Music Industry Rejoicing For Google vs. Apple Music War
September 8th, 2010 Agron The music industry is rejoicing about the Google vs. Apple music war. Both companies are competing for control of the mobile phone market and in the digital music realm. According to Reuters, Google is currently talking to music labels regarding plans of an online music store and the ability for mobile users to download and [...]
Gmail Gets Rich Text Signatures
July 13th, 2010 Agron Until now Gmail users were only able to have plain text signatures. That mean no changing font colour or size, no images and no links. Google announced rich text signatures on the official Gmail blog today. From the blog post: “The next time you log in and visit the Settings page, you’ll see a rich [...]
Android Gets Multi-touch!
February 2nd, 2010 Agron Google announced an update for the Nexus One today that enables multi-touch in the browser, photos and maps applications. Most Android handsets were multi-touch capable and multi-touch was even available in some third party apps, but not until now were they available in native apps. I’ve read rumors that the reason Google didn’t enable it [...]
Will Google’s Nexus One Be available in Canada?
January 14th, 2010 Agron I hope so! Speculations are that it will be available on Wind Mobile the new GSM MVNO carrier in Canada. They are currently using Rogers lines and towers so to me that means you should be able to buy an unlocked version and activate it with Rogers. Fingers crossed! The Nexus One is the first [...]
