The Motorola DEVOUR left us underwhelmed from the press shots piqued our interest when we played with its excellent metal casing at MWC 2010 last week, and prompted confusion when we saw how closely it would be priced to the Motorola DROID. With a review unit in hand, the argument becomes a whole lot more straightforward, but is that in Motorola’s favor? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
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Somewhere Rupert Murdoch is fuming right now. Google has been fighting legal pressure and pressure from some publishers with its book-scanning program for a while now. That pressure hasn't stopped the search giant from looking at other tech that will let it put more print materials online.
Recently Google entered the world of social media with their own service called Buzz. Buzz put Google directly in the real-time and social spaces, combined with a strong mobile component. Their approach is tied directly into Gmail on the desktop with a mobile website, and integration into various flavors of Google Maps. It would seem like a no-brainer and a success. Except I stopped using it almost immediately. Here’s why.
The European Union is readying a new antitrust probe that will set sights on Google, upon complaints over the tech giant’s business tactics from three European internet companies; vertical search site Foundem, legal search engine Ejustice.fr, and Ciao.de, the German-based subsidiary of Microsoft.
For the first time, Google Earth has recently released this incredible view of a retired aircraft facility via satellite. It’s the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration (AMARG), aka the Boneyard. It’s four square miles of 4,000 retired aircraft located in Arizona, including nearly every plane the US armed forces have flown since WWII.
Casio’s concept GPS-enabled camera, shown at CES 2010 last month, has been given a release schedule and estimated price tag. Photography Bay have been pestering Casio for details at PMA 2010, and the company have confirmed that the Casio EX-10HG is expected to go on sale in October this year, costing around $400.
According to the Financial Times, the code used in the cyberattacks on Google’s China-based systems were traced by U.S. authorities to a Chinese hacker, who allegedly had close ties to the Chinese government.
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After over two years since it was released for the iPhone, Google Earth has finally made available to Android users. It takes advantage of the voice recognition features on Android 2.1; unfortunately users with devices running Android older than 2.1 would have to wait before they can use this app.
One of the biggest announcements from MWC 2010 this past week has been the official debut of the HTC Desire, instantly dubbed the Google Nexus One with HTC Sense. With HTC the OEM parent behind both theirs and the Google-branded smartphone, would-be buyers (and potentially remorseful Nexus One owners) are already looking for the differentiating factors between the two; check out our head-to-head comparison after the cut.
If it seems that Google is trying to cover all the bases these days, this move definitely hits the mark. Fresh off from social-networking Buzz, it’s just been granted clearance by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to buy and sell electricity in bulk, say, like any other power utility out there.
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