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Your definitive guide to today's Android smartphone

Which is best: Droids, Cliqs, Xperias, Moments and Heroes?
Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 11/05/09 - 6:31pm.

Although phones featuring Google's open-source Android operating system have been out for more than a year, it's only been in recent months that the platform has really caught on. In fact, this fall alone has seen the debut of several new high-profile Android devices from such esteemed manufacturers as HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.

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Google SketchUp 3D buildings are a wowser

What do you get when you marry Google SketchUp with Google Earth?
Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 11/05/09 - 6:07pm.

Among all the free tools that Google produces, Google's 3D modeling software, SketchUp, has to be one of the best and most addicting. Here is a link to a slideshow of 10 models that were selected from Google's 3D Warehouse, its online library of thousands of models created by SketchUp users.

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Google releases beta of Chrome for Windows 4.0

Chrome adds Synched bookmarks but Firefox users have had that function for years.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 11/03/09 - 12:57pm.

Google has released the 4.0 beta of its Chrome browser. The main new feature is a way to synch your bookmarks across multiple computers. The synch technology is based on the same XMPP-based servers that power Google Talk.

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Answers to this month's triva questions for all contests

I promised to reveal the correct answers and here they are.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 10/29/09 - 5:13pm.

Information on all current contests, including entry forms, can be found here http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests

Here are the answers to the November, 2009, trivia questions.

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Google thumbs its nose at SharePoint with 10 new enterprise search features

Google Search Appliance adds self-tuning, better SharePoint indexing.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 10/20/09 - 6:04pm.

Google today took the wraps off of more than 10 new features for its Google Search Appliance aimed at the enterprise, including better SharePoint integration. Perhaps the coolest feature is the Self-learning Scorer, which lets the device fine-tune and improve itself.

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Google increases revenue, profit and says economy is recovering

Schmidt hints that Google is ready to start an acquisition spree
Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 10/15/09 - 5:21pm.

If you are looking at Google as an indicator of overall economic health, you'll be happy to know the company had a good third quarter. It reported increased revenue and profit over its year-ago third-quarter, beating analysts estimates in the process. Google CEO Eric Schmidt even went so far as to say, "we believe the worst of the recession is behind us and now feel confident about investing heavily in our future."

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10 Google Apps add-ons for the enterprise

Thanks to third-party developers, Google Apps grows more enterprise friendly every day.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Wed, 10/14/09 - 3:21pm.

Google Apps is growing up. Over the past six months, dozens of developers have built apps to make Google's office wares (Apps, Docs, Gmail, Calendar) more appealing for the enterprise. The following is a selection of these apps. They range from the practical (backups) to the creative (a freebie VPN replacement based on Google Talk). Better still, most of them are free.

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Google to tell you how your site was hacked

New Webmaster tools will show you why Google is warning users off your site and what the Googlebot sees.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 10/13/09 - 4:13pm.

Google on Monday rolled out a new service to help Webmasters identify malware that may have been slipped into their sites. The new tool will show Webmasters of sites flagged as "unsafe" just what the offending code is.

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Apple severs board ties with Google, buys mapping serivice, readies for a fight

With an FTC investigation pending, another round of ties are severed between the two companies
Submitted by Google Subnet on Mon, 10/12/09 - 2:24pm.

The final ties have been cut between Apple's and Google's board (and it's about time they have been). Arthur Levinson had been serving as an independent member on both the Apple and Google board of directors but has resigned his position from Google's board.

No one is shocked that Levinson left, but it sure took a while. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt resigned (or was shown the door?) in August, shortly after Google announced it would be competing head on with Apple in the operating system market with Chrome OS just as it was competing with the iPhone with Android.

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Lawmakers ask FCC to investigate Google Voice

Members of Congress want the FCC to enforce Google Voice to follow regulations that forbid blocked calls.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 10/08/09 - 6:39pm.

UPDATED 10/12/09: The FCC has agreed to investigate Google Voice at the urging of AT&T and a group of lawmakers. On Friday the FCC sent a letter to Google asking it to explain the service and why it thinks the service is in compliance with regulations.

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Dell plans Android phone on AT&T network

With the AT&T/Dell combo, Android devices will be available from all major carriers.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 10/08/09 - 5:35pm.

Dell is reporedly planning to launch an Android smartphone that will be carried on AT&T's network, according to Reuters. and the Wall Street Journal.

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Adobe brings Flash to Android, BlackBerry and more

Google joins Adobe's consortium while Adobe announces Flash 10.1 for all but the iPhone
Submitted by Google Subnet on Mon, 10/05/09 - 5:27pm.

Adobe made two announcements today sure to bring joy to the hearts of smartphone users. Google has joined Adobe's Open Screen Project, an initiative that helps standardize the display of Flash no matter the screen. Adobe also announced that full support of Flash 10.1 would be available in Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Palm webOS and Windows Mobile devices.

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Textscape sues Google for patent infringement

Google and Adobe are both named in suit that alleges violations of text processing patents.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Fri, 10/02/09 - 2:43pm.

Google is being sued by Textscape, a New Jersey company who claims Google violates its patents for processing text. Textscape claims the Google "find" feature in Chrome, which allows a search of text on a Web page and indicates the location of search hits in the scrollbar, is one of the alleged culprits.

Textscape is seeking royalties. Textscape is similarly suing Adobe Systems for patent violations as well.

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Nine new apps that show off the power of Google Wave

Because Wave uses a popular IM protocol, a tsunami of developers are already working on add-on apps.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Fri, 10/02/09 - 12:55pm.

Invitations to Google Wave were sent to 10,000 people this week and the hype machine has begun. Some are calling Google Wave revolutionary. Others aren't going so far, but do say that its integrated approach to social networking and business communications will be at least helpful. It's not the first app to tackle this.

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Android developer finds way around Google's cease-and-desist letter

Google wants developer to stop bundling its mobile apps with modifed version of Android.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 09/29/09 - 12:38pm.

The creator of a popular souped-up version of Android thinks he's found a way to avoid a further tussle with Google over distribution of the company's mobile applications. Google recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Android guru Steve Kondik asking him to stop distributing applications such as Gmail with Cyanogen, his modified version of the open-source Android operating system.

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Should Gmail be held to a higher reliability standard?

How much downtime is ok for cloud-based e-mail?
Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 09/24/09 - 4:08pm.

When Google contacts crashed yesterday, it created Google's second high-profile outage this month. It took out Gmail and Gtalk, Google's chat service, that relies on contacts. The Gmail problem comes on the heels of an hour-and-a-half Google News glitch Tuesday.

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Chrome Frame makes IE smokin' fast but breaks Outlook

Frame seems to speed IE's Javascript performance, but leaves a messy trail.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 09/24/09 - 3:33pm.

Testers are claiming that the Google's new Internet Explorer plug-in, Google Chrome Frame, makes IE8 run ten times faster. Microsoft is not amused. The company has already started a push-back campaign that notes that Frame breaks stuff in Outlook and Word and might offer a big target for hackers

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Google Chrome Frame solves Internet Explorer's rendering problems

Google IE plugin brings support for HTML5 and other new technologies.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 09/22/09 - 6:40pm.

Google today introduced a plug-in for Internet Explorer called Chrome Frame. This plug-in gives Internet Explorer Chrome's standards-compliant rendering capabilities. If it becomes massively adopted by IE users, it could also push new standards along (like HTML5) with or without Microsoft's cooperation.

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Google Voice wins under Net Neutrality but could face its own scrutiny

As one hand of the FCC opens the pipes, the other could demand more regulation.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 09/22/09 - 5:43pm.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Monday that the FCC would be moving ahead to implement net neutrality rules. Should these come to pass, Google Voice could wind up a big winner. On the other hand, pundits speculate that Google Voice itself could be facing even more FCC scrutiny.

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Will Google Wave make the network just dumb plumbing?

One network guy says that Google Wave will change everything, most importantly the network.
Submitted by Google Subnet on Mon, 09/21/09 - 5:47pm.

When news of Google Wave first bubbled to the surface in May, it created a lot of buzz, a little hype and has since ebbed out of the public eye. Earlier this month, Google began letting some of its Apps users test-drive Wave.

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