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If you’ve ever been in the market for a good third party alarm application for Android, then chances are you’ve heard of Bitspin, the Android development team behind the excellent Timely application. Timely is definitely one of the most well designed…

In September 2013, the mobile app team that created Bump and Flock announced that they had joined Google to continue their work of “helping people share and interact with one another using mobile devices.” Their most popular app, Bump, was used…

What was hot in 2013. Topping Google’s search list was Fast & Furious star Paul Walker, 40, who died in a car crash on the last day of November. News of the actor’s death Nov. 30 of this year spiked to the top of Google’s list. Second was the Boston…

Under fire from courts and allies over a vast US spying dragnet, President Barack Obama faced new heat Tuesday from Internet titans who fear the surveillance has crossed constitutional lines. Obama met bosses of tech giants Google, Apple, Netflix, Yahoo…

Google has been offering their flagship Nexus smartphone in white for the greater part of the year, first stuffing the virtual shelves with the Nexus 4 with a in a limited run of white models and more recently with the white Nexus 5. Well it appears…

The discovery of some two million stolen online passwords this week prompted fresh warnings from security researchers to strengthen protection from hackers. US-based security firm Trustwave said it located the stolen credentials on a server in the Netherlands…

A new piece in the New York Times today features an interview with Google’s Andy Rubin (no relation), the former head of the company’s Android division. Since stepping down from that role, Rubin has decided to go after the mobile operating system…

Back in September, I wrote about how I thought Google’s plan to integrate Google+ into YouTube’s famously horrible comments would be a positive step. By forcing commenters to go by their actual names, there’d be fewer chances for anonymous trolls…