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Chrome-plated lawsuit against Google

adamg — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:15:50 -0400

An Israeli software company with an office in Waltham yesterday charged the way Google sends out updates for its Chrome Web browser violates its patent.

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Blogger says he was threatened with arrest for handing out flyers at Google/MBTA lovefest

adamg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:46:35 -0400

Jonathan Kamens reports an MBTA cop threatened him with arrest for trying to give reporters at this morning's Google Maps/MBTA press conference at South Station flyers about incorrect bus-route information at mbta.com.

Although the building is publicly owned, it is managed by a private company, a representative of which told Kamens he couldn't exercise the First Amendment without a permit. A few minutes later, a T cop told him to knock it off or she'd have to take him away, he says.

Google Moves City Hall

Brett — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:09:33 -0400

New game: Where's Mumbles?

(Google Maps has a history of getting landmarks in Boston wrong. A year or two ago, they had Kendall Station about 2 blocks east of its real location.)

Great Googleymoogley

adamg — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:19:05 -0400

Google set to extend tendrils into Boston:

Job listings for the Boston area and a reputed search for suitable facilities in the city add up to a forthcoming Beantown presence for the search advertising company. ...

Via Skadz.

Microsoft vs. Google: The Data War

John Guilfoil — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:07:50 -0400

Google began with an almost ridiculously simple web site in an age of complexity. At the same time, the most popular search engines including Yahoo! were complicated and verbose portals of information, sorted into detailed categories. Google appeared with little more than a dialog box and very rapidly changed the way people seek out data on the Internet.

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Fox + MySpace + Google

John Guilfoil — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:26:31 -0400

As Seen on:

This may cause a little confusion.

According to a News Corp. press release, Twentieth Century Fox will start selling movies and television shows through web sites owned by its parent company, News Corp, which also owns IGN Entertainment.

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