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30 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

Google Checkout Offering Discounts

Save $5, $10 or $20 off purchases for a limited time when you use Google Checkout. This no-rebate-required savings is automatic when you select Google Checkout as your payment method. To use Google Checkout log into your Google Account (create one here if needed) then navigate to http://www.google.com/checkout to save a payment method.  Current promotions [...]

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25 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

Droids Power Times Square Voice Searches

Amazing as it may seem there’s actually a series of Motorola Droid smartphones powering Google voice searches this week in New York City’s Times Square. Over the past couple weeks from 12:30-2:00pm or 6:30-8:00pm,  Google Search by voice has been powering Times Square’s largest combined displays — the Reuters Sign and the NASDAQ sign. Anyone [...]

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23 November 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Google Maps Navigation Now Available for Android 1.6

Google Maps Navigation (beta) just drove onto the Android Market highway and is available for download to Android phones using OS 1.6 or higher. Sadly this kicks sand in the face of the Sprint HTC Hero and Verizo Droid Eris – both of which shipped with Android 1.5 and are therefore unable to run this [...]

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19 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

Google Labs Adds Cool Android Icon Feature

GMAIL users now have a cool Google Labs setting  they can enable to display Android users’ status in Google Talk as a cool robot (Android). Previously the icon would be displayed as either a circle or mobile phone (the color varies from green to organge to red or gray depending upon availability). With this new [...]

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18 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

How To Report Trouble With Your Google Voice Number

Last night for a period of only a few minutes my Google Voice phone number played a message to anyone that called saying it was out of service. During this time I wasn’t able to connect via my Droid using the native Google Voice application. I also could not call my Google Voice number directly [...]

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