Earlier this year, an anonymous Samsung executive indicated that his (or her) company might build TVs based on Android.  Now, although Samsung hasn’t exactly released a list of shipping dates, an exec has at least gone on record saying that the possibility remains. According to Jun Yang and Pavel Alpeyev, Yoon Boo Keun, President of [...]

How many times have you created a new account at a website and seen a message that said: “Thank you for creating an account. To activate your new account, please access your email and click the verification URL provided.” Even though you just want to start using the website, this lengthy process requires you to [...]

Google shareholders who have a few extra thank you notes sitting around might consider sending them to AT&T, the Apollo Group, and Expedia, along with a handful of other companies.  New data identifies these organizations as the biggest AdWords spenders in June (and pins down the dollar amounts involved). Michael Learmonth apparently obtained "an internal [...]

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed. Recently we introduced powerful, time-saving features in Gmail: Priority Inbox and the ability to call phones right from Gmail. Google spreadsheets added new [...]

Google announced that mobile advertisers can now use multiple addresses in local extensions This way, customers can get the right address for businesses with multiple locations.    The feature is available on Google Maps for Mobile versions 4.4 and above on Android devices.    "Featuring your business location alongside your mobile ad is a powerful [...]

Long, complicated and lawyerly—that’s what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they’re legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies. To be clear, we aren’t changing any of our privacy practices; we want to make [...]

Google has given an update on its immediate plans for Google Wave. As you probably know, the company recently announced that it would be shutting down Google Wave as a standalone product, thought Google said it would preserve the technology behind Wave for future use and integration with other Google products. Google announced that it [...]

It seems that bedbugs can be found everywhere these days, and the New York office of a certain search giant is no exception.  Late yesterday, a Googler reportedly tweeted that her workplace had been invaded. According to Nicholas Carlson, the pammy5 Twitter account belonging to "a Googler in marketing" just sent the message, "jeepers i [...]

Google is planning to launch a mobile music download service that would allow users to access songs wherever they have access to an Internet connection. According to Reuters, Google has been in discussions with the major labels about reaching licensing agreements.  Google has not yet signed any licensing deals but the major labels are reportedly [...]

When it comes to Street View and the collection of sensitive WiFi data, Google is, at least to some degree, safe from serious penalties in New Zealand.  A police investigation has determined that the company didn’t violate any laws. Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff referred the matter to police in June, which seemed to put Google [...]