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Google offering free Wi-Fi in some U.S. airports this holiday season

In another attempt to win our hearts and/or take over our lives, Google has announced that they'll be providing free wireless internet at select airports across America this holiday season. Yay! Virgin America has already partnered with Google to offer free Wi-Fi to...

Tags: Google Inc., Airport, Virgin America, Internet, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Google providing free airport WiFi this holiday season

To help people enjoy this holiday season Google, Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and others are providing free WiFi across airports in the United States. 47 airports are currently included in the program, including Las Vegas, San Jose, Boston, Baltimore, Burbank, Houston, Indianapolis, Seattle, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale,...

Tags: Google Inc., Airport, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Google: Is there anyone who doesn't have an opinion?

Google is evil. It's not evil. Perhaps it's the George Washington of the Internet. Or maybe it's just one huge dominant company trying to stay out of antitrust trouble. Ask a person about Google and you're going to get a bunch of opinions. Why? People love Google and hate it...

Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-10

News to know: Exchange 2010; Google; Oracle and EC; CIO priorities; Smartphone buyer guide

Handicapping Exchange 2010; Google buys AdMob and CIO priorities under the microscope lead today's news. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Google Inc., CIO, Oracle Corp., Priority, Smartphone, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Google spent about $780 million today

Two acquisitions were announced today -- together totaling around $800 million dollars. This comes about a month and a half after Eric Schmidt told us that acquisitions are back on. Both acquisitions are significant -- but one cost a lot more than the other. AdMob...

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Phone, AdMob, Gizmo5, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Google picks up AdMob for $750 million; Targets mobile display ads

Google said that it will acquire mobile advertising company AdMob in a deal valued at $750 million in stock. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business last week that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line" when it comes to the data it gathers. CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business last week that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line"...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Google, privacy, Tom Krazit CNET News

News items 2009-11-09

News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Coming Soon: Free video conferencing from Google

According to Rishi Chandra a Google Apps product manager who talked to SFGate, Google is set to roll out their first update in a long line of updates that will include multi-user video conferencing. The video conferencing will be rolled out soon -- the rest of their plan will...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Video Conferencing, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Client for Google Translate 4.1.236 (Windows)

Google Translate is the most widely used free translation service. But translating a webpage or a piece of text can still be a tiresome process: you need to visit Google Translator Web site, copypaste the text, choosing the language--too long. Client for Google Translate is a free translator which translates...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Alexey Iljin, Google Translate, Wiki, Web Browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Web Site Development, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Internet, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-08

Google classic homepage sports Motorola Droid ad

I don't see itCould be that it detects that I'm in Canada. Come on Motorola, bring this to Canada and I'll buy it! :)Re: I don't see it Not a Canadian thing. Either it is random, focused on some cookie info, or pulled. Not on mine in the US as...

Tags: advertisement, Motorola Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Google classic homepage sports Motorola Droid ad

Notice anything different about Google's classic homepage? Yep -- there's an ad for the Motorola Droid smartphone on it. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Home Page, Motorola Inc., Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-11-06

High-risk flaw dings Google Chrome

no NoScript..No Google Chromethis is one of the reasons i don't want to get near this browser. Till Google wakes up and builds an add-on support for Adblock and NoScript, then and only then i might give it a try.Chrome wont even give me the Option to manually disable Scripting....

Tags: Scripting languages, Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., JavaScript, NoScript, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

High-risk flaw dings Google Chrome

A "high-risk" flaw in Google Chrome presents a threat of arbitrary code execution. by Ryan Naraine

Tags: Google Inc., Google Chrome, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Why Google released Closure Tools

another nail in M$ coffinIt seems Google is second to FSF to send M$ to its grave.You are an idiot....First of all did you even read the article...Not only the article makes no senselike your idiotic rant aggainst MS but it contains several errors.AJAX is javascript and is not unique...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, tool, Rhino, JavaScript, Java, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Why Google released Closure Tools

Anything Google can do to make Javascript more valuable to you is in its best interests, and the tools described on its blog today are pretty marvelous. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Tool, Productivity, Scripting Languages, Blogging, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-06

See what Google knows about you, kind of

Smoke and Mirrors?What makes an illusionist so good? The ability to show you exactly what they are doing, while never actually doing what you are seeing.You may [i]believe[/i] Google is showing you what they "know" about you, while never actually showing you what they really know about you.RE: See what...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Google Dashboard brings security settings to the forefront

Google = power of Linux distro'sDon't tell the rabid Windows users since they sayLinux distro or Linux kernel is a 'niche'....lol sounds like the MS.net passportSo this is google innovating again eh?RE: Google Dashboard brings security settings to the forefrontGoogle and security in the same sentence? That is a...

Tags: E-mail, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., security, dashboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Firefox, Chrome get quick fixes

Mozilla and Google have released new Firefox and Chrome browsers to fix bugs. The new Firefox patches one critical bug across Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. For Windows, Mac, and Linux, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 fixes three bugs: one critical bug across all platforms, and then one lower priority one...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Bug, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, security, Chrome, Firefox, Seth Rosenblatt CNET News

News items 2009-11-06

Google Dashboard brings security settings to the forefront

Keeping user in mind, Google released Dashboard, a page that gives users access to the privacy settings for all of their Google accounts. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Security, Google Inc., Dashboard, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-06