Tag Archives: Google
Google Continues It’s Global Takeover By Acquiring Energy Rights

Google Continues It’s Global Takeover By Acquiring Energy Rights

If there was ever a time to start buying up stocks in energy (note: TechTrackr in no way recommends or evaluates the stock market, thus all “suggestions” are for creative purposes only), now would be the time.
If you do decide to buy shares in the energy market, you’ll most likely be getting them from an [...]

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gDial Pro Creator Removes App From App Catalog Because of Google APIs

gDial Pro Creator Removes App From App Catalog Because of Google APIs

GDial Pro was one of the best Google Voice applications for Palm’s WebOS.  Last week, Google updated their Google Voice APIs, rendering Palm’s Mojo framework (Palm’s SDK) unable to support further Google Voice applications.  As many of you know, WebOS  is a skin on top of the oh-so-powerful Linux, but WebOS is actually an extremely modified WebKit browser, [...]

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My Thoughts on Google Buzz

My Thoughts on Google Buzz

There’s been a lot of ‘buzz’ today about the new Google project, “Google Buzz”, which was finally released to the general public today. Many people said this project from Google would  start a revolution — that it would rival Twitter and Facebook as social networks. Now that it’s released, does it? Does it even come [...]

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Google Aims for Voice-to-Voice Translation

Google Aims for Voice-to-Voice Translation

Ah, Google. They’re the tech company that isn’t evil.  Of course, Steve Jobs disagrees with that, but that’s another story.  However today Google has announced its plans to create a voice-to-voice translation service on their phone, the Nexus One (hint: TechTrackr Review?).  To find the full scoop, read on past the breakage point.

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Verizon Announces Motorola Devour

Verizon Announces Motorola Devour

Hello Moto!  After being down and out for a number of years (well, their phone devision at least), Motorola has come back with a vengeance.  In just over a year’s time, they’ve introduced the Cliq, the Droid, the Backflip, and now the Devour;  it’s amazing how much they’ve accomplished.! The Devour is the third Verizon phone [...]

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Nexus One Gets an Update & Multitouch

Nexus One Gets an Update & Multitouch

Earlier today, Google released an update for the Nexus One, its flagship mobile device.
Like in most firmware updates, a variety of safety improvements are included. Additionally, Google seems to have addressed (and corrected) the 3G glitch that plagued T-Mobile users.
However, most of the buzz that’s surrounding this update has to do with the highly anticipated integration of multi- touch capability into the [...]

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China is Further Implicated in Google Hack

Cyber attacks generally originate overseas, and this computing law stands true even in today’s most sophisticated spoofing communities. Google, as well as 33 other American based corporations, were hacked supposedly from a site located in China, Google says. The evidence is beginning to stack up, making China seem like a very likely candidate [...]

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Google adds additional ETF ($350); more woes for Nexus One [Update]

Google adds additional ETF ($350); more woes for Nexus One [Update]

More bad news for Nexus One owners:
Today, Google imposed a whopping $350 early termination fee (ETF), or “Equipment Recovery Fee” as they’re calling it, if you cancel your plan with the Nexus One within the first 120 days (four months).
That’s not the bad part though… This fee is on top of any fees imposed by [...]

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T-Mobile + Nexus One = A Match NOT Made in Heaven

T-Mobile + Nexus One = A Match NOT Made in Heaven

In a statement on Sunday afternoon, T-Mobile acknowledged the issues the Nexus One is having with its network.
“Google and T-Mobile are investigating this issue and hope to have more information for you soon.”
Some devices are switching between 3G and EDGE, while other devices can’t access 3G speeds at all.
It appears that its not T-Mobile’s [...]

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8 Google Wave Invites

We here at TechTrackr highly value the traffic and the advertising you guys provide us, and would like to thank you in one of the few physical ways we can:  yet another Google Wave Giveaway(although many of you probably already have it).  What better way to spread the word about TechTrackr than spreading it in [...]

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Online Collaboration

Online Collaboration

Two things: One, sorry for the lack of posts the last few days.
Two, this was written for the school newspaper so whenever a school reference is made, just substitute what you think should be in there.
\Meeting up with your classmates for group projects can be hard. However, it doesn’t have to be. There [...]

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