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• Did Google Just Turn Motorola Into the New Super-TiVo?
  The best-case scenario for consumers if the proposed Google-Motorola deal goes through might be that cable TV gets a whole lot better. Earlier, we touched on Motorola's sizable patent portfolio and its position as a leading maker of TV set-top boxes. Now, let's put the two together, add Google TV's promising software interface and utter failure ...
  08.15.11

• Google + Motorola = Android Patent-Troll Repellent
  Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility is another one of those big "should have seen it coming" moments the search giant seems to delight in springing.
  08.15.11

• Scratchpad Puts a JavaScript Editor Inside Firefox
  Firefox 6 is set to make its move from beta to final release this week, and we'll look at the latest version once it's official, but in the mean time the Mozilla Devtools blog has posted details on a new feature for JavaScript developers: Scratchpad. If you're a JavaScript developer you probably use tools like web ...
  08.15.11

• Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility
  Google will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, the company announced Monday, in a surprise move that for the first time puts the company squarely in the smartphone hardware -- rather than solely software -- business. "The combination of Google and Motorola will not only supercharge Android, but will also enhance competition and offer consumers accelerating innovation, ...
  08.15.11

• Google's Mapping Tools Spawn New Breed of Art Projects
  Instead of walking out on the street to find interesting scenes and people, a few photographers are now simply curating the pre-documented streets from the comfort of their desks at home.
  08.15.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, August 15th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.15.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Sunday, August 14th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.14.11

• Google Steps Up to Defend Android Developers From Patent Lawsuit
  Google has intervened in an ongoing intellectual property dispute between smartphone application developers and a patent-holding firm, Wired.com has learned, marking the Mountain View company's first public move to defend Android coders from a patent troll lawsuit that's cast a pall on the community. The company says it filed a request with the United States Patent ...
  08.13.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Saturday, August 13th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.13.11

• Google+ Punts on Kafkaesque Name Policy
  One of my favorite moments in Franz Kafka's The Trial is shortly after the protagonist Josef K is placed under arrest for an unnamed offense. The men notifying him of his arrest don't cuff him or take him to jail. They just tell him proceedings are underway and that he'll learn everything in due course. ...
  08.12.11

• Pics of New Android Operating System Leak into the Wild
  Images surfaced late Thursday afternoon that purport to show an unreleased new version of the Android operating system, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The leaks first surfaced on Android enthusiast sites Android Police and RootzWiki. From what we're seeing, the images aren't a radical departure from the most current release of Android for phones, version 2.3.4, code-named ...
  08.12.11

• Aug. 12, 1981: IBM Gets Personal With 5150 PC
  IBM introduces the 5150 personal computer. It will sweep away the competition and effectively have the field to itself, for a while.
  08.12.11

• The Modern PC Turns 30
  The revolutionary IBM 5150 landed 30 years ago today. This gallery celebrates the IBM 5150 and nine other major milestones that helped the personal computer achieve its invaluable, and ubiquitous, place in society.
  08.12.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Friday, August 12th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.12.11

• When Startups Fail, Investors Recoup by Selling Patents
  We usually talk about software patents when big tech companies sue each other or start talking trash on their blogs. I think we don't always realize how much the growth of software and business process patents has transformed the culture of Silicon Valley and the broader tech industry, from the smallest young companies upwards. Marty Pichinson ...
  08.11.11

• Google Street View Hijinks in Ireland
  We all love a bit of Google Street View hijinks. We should expect the Irish to be in fine form when the Street View car rolls around, and at Google's offices in Dublin they didn't disappoint. Over 2000 staff members lined the street outside Google's Dublin offices in Barrow St, Dublin and even took video ...
  08.11.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Thursday, August 11th by Dr. Jane Goodall
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.11.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Wednesday, August 10th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.10.11

• Well, That Happened: Apple Now Was Biggest Public Company in the World
  At the close of the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange trading days, Apple had a market capitalization of $344.21 $346.74 billion, narrowly edging behind Exxon at $344.09 $348.32 billion. And with that, a company that was on the ropes in 1998 became the biggest publicly-traded company in the world. [At least temporarily.] Update: An early version ...
  08.09.11

• Tablet Makers Hope Cheaper Means Better Sales
  Manufacturers are vying for advantage in today's crowded tablet market by slashing product prices to undercut competitors. The iPad, the frontrunner in the field, set the entry-level price for tablets at $500. It's the price to beat.
  08.09.11

• Aug. 9, 1995: When the Future Looked Bright for Netscape
  1995: Netscape Communications stages a successful initial public offering, making it one of the first companies to capitalize on the growing World Wide Web. The company, whose premium product was the Navigator web browser (originally called Mosaic Netscape 0.9), saw its stock shoot up to $75 per share on the first day of trading, a near-record ...
  08.09.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Tuesday, August 9th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.09.11

• Survey Finds Smartphone Apps Store Too Much Personal Data
  In harnessing the capabilities of an app-based platform, smartphones gave us far more power than any cellular devices we��ve ever seen. But they're privy to more information about our personal lives than even our closest friends are.
  08.08.11

• Google, Mozilla Team Up to Create a Smarter, Action-Based Web
  Google has announced a new set of APIs for its Chrome web browser, which are designed to connect applications and sites across the web. Web Intents, as Google is calling its new meta-website API, allows websites to pass data between each other -- for example, to edit a photograph or share a URL with friends.
  08.08.11

• A Month With Google+ Shows Why This Social Network Has Legs
  Sending updates to certain groups of people and not to others is the main appeal of the service. You can do the same thing on Facebook, but so few people know this, that it's basically a nonexistent feature.
  08.08.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, August 8th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.08.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Sunday, August 7th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), ...
  08.07.11