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earlier coverage of Google considering integrations between Google Buzz and Google Latitude. Still others may have seen my supporting story detailing Google's appreciation of location-based mashups. Steve Lee, the product manager for Google Latitude and Google Maps for mobile who so graciously granted me chat time recently, also told me Google is experimenting with new location-based ...

Google Buzz has gone through a number of changes since its release more than a month ago, but most of these changes have been privacy related . After the privacy control concerns, the second biggest complaint centers around how noisy Buzz can get. When you've got every Tom, Dick and Harry you don't know following you, seeing their Buzz can be tiresome. Turn that ...

written often about Google Creep, the notion that the search engine's tendrils are seeping into every aspect of the Internet realm, from broadband networks ( no, really ) to social networks (Buzz), to niche Web services such as annotations to ambitious forays into mobile platforms (Android). Some are still waiting for Google to build robots that cook and clean for us. Presumably, ...

on Wednesday wrote: Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. (...) The partners envision technology that will make it as easy for TV users to navigate Web applications, like the Twitter social network and the Picasa photo site, as it is to change the ...

Google has used its search ranking algorithms to create a gadget for Google Calendar that helps busy users track and reschedule meetings and appointments. When any of the 25 million Google Apps users install the Smart Rescheduler gadget from Google Calendar Labs , they can select the event they want to reschedule and click the "Find a New Time" link in the gadget: ...

Mark Zuckerberg or Google Co-founder Sergey Brin on stage at Web 2.0 Summit knows he's on target when it comes to search and its inevitable intersection with social media. But he's become somewhat bored by the current Google model and is clearly looking for the next big thing in this must read Q&A with Hotchkiss : We had a very, very basic, well-understood use case for 10 years, ...

2009 were marked by Google employees leaving for Facebook, 2010 may be the year Google employees leave for Apple. That's OK, so long as Google can continue to poach some high-tech legends. The rub is this: Google hired Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and a longtime Sun Microsystems employee, to work on the Android mobile operating system. Meanwhile, Apple has, according to TechCrunch, ...

Google fulfilled a much-made request March 9 with the introduction of bicycle directions and bike trail data for some 12,000 miles of trails on Google Maps in the U.S. Bicycling directions appear as an option in the drop-down menu when users search for directions in Google Maps. In my hometown, we have a popular bike trail that spans a few towns. I thought that if ...

Google is soliciting help from U.S. communities to build ultrahigh-speed broadband networks that zip 1 gigabit of data per second to users' computers, according to the Wall Street Journal . Google plans to test the networks for anywhere from 50,000 to 500,000 users. The idea is to help stimulate the creation and use of new applications, such as streaming ...