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• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, May 30th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...
  05.30.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Sunday, May 29th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...
  05.29.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Saturday, May 28th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...
  05.28.11

• U.S. Senator Demands Privacy Policies for Smartphone Apps
  Apple and Google claim they're doing what they can to respect user privacy on smartphones, but customers need protection from third-party app programmers, too, says one U.S. senator. Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) this week sent a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google CEO Larry Page demanding that the companies institute privacy policies for app ...
  05.27.11

• PayPal Sues Over 'Wallet' Secrets; Google Says It Will Fight Back
  Updated: May 27, 2011 at 13:43 p.m. EDT with new details on the developing story. Online payments giant PayPal has sued Google, alleging that two of the search titan's senior executives who had previously worked at PayPal violated their contracts, and in one case actually stole confidential PayPal information and shared it with Google and other ...
  05.27.11

• My Daughter Out-Geeked Me!
  My kids seem to get into music that's much too old for them. I do keep an eye on the lyrics, but largely I don't mind as long as it's getting them singing along and dancing. One downside is that it makes me feel much older. In fact, when I heard about the upcoming collaboration between ...
  05.27.11

• Hands-On: Incredible 2, a Phone That Lives Up to Its Name
  I scoffed when HTC first released the Incredible 2. Not necessarily at its hardware or features, but rather for its presumptuous name. But after spending some time with the device itself, I can safely say the phone's title is no misnomer (if not a little overconfident). The phone bucks the trend of the huge, power-hungry phones we're ...
  05.27.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Friday, May 27th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...
  05.27.11

• Steve Ballmer: Should He Stay, or Should He Go?
  Some people call him the Monkey Man. His goofy public appearances have provided millions of YouTube viewers with endless entertainment. And under his leadership for the past 11 years, Microsoft's performance in the stock market has been limp. That's Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, everyone. And one high-profile investor is sick of him. David Einhorn, a major hedge-fund ...
  05.26.11

• Google Bursts Onto Mobile-Payments Scene With 'Wallet,' 'Offers'
  NEW YORK -- Tech juggernaut Google rolled out its highly anticipated mobile-payments system on Thursday, with company officials unabashedly declaring the advent of "a new era of commerce." Dubbed Google Wallet, the new product launched with a closely related initiative: Google Offers, a targeted daily-deal service that will compete with the first-movers Groupon and LivingSocial. Google's move ...
  05.26.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Thursday, May 26th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...
  05.26.11

• Microsoft on Windows 8, Tablets: Now You See It, Now You Don't
  Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer got ahead of himself on Monday when he publicly blurted out a general roadmap for the next version of Windows. Ballmer told an audience at a developer forum in Tokyo that Microsoft will have news to share about Windows 8 on tablets, slates and PCs over the next year. "As we look forward ...
  05.25.11

• Wired.com FAQ: Near Field Communications' Big (Money) Moment
  Mobile payments are booming -- and the space is set to get bigger. Silicon Valley titan Google is expected to announce a new mobile payments system at an event in New York City on Thursday. According to Bloomberg, Google is teaming up with Sprint, a longtime Google partner and the No. 3 wireless provider in the ...
  05.25.11

• Apple Promises Software Update to Kill 'MacDefender' Malware
  Apple has published instructions on removing a piece of malicious software that targeted Mac customers. The company claims that an upcoming Mac software update will remove the malware from infected systems. In a bulletin published Tuesday evening, Apple listed steps to remove the malware, and added that an upcoming software update for Mac OS X would ...
  05.25.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Wednesday, May 25th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...
  05.25.11

• Report: Google, Sprint Join Mobile-Payments Arms Race
  Google will announce a new mobile payments system on Thursday, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, adding even more urgency to the all-out arms-race taking place in the point-of-sale digital money space. The announcement will include news of a partnership with mobile service provider Sprint to roll out a mobile-payments system based on Near Field Communication, or NFC, technology, ...
  05.24.11

• Microsoft Makes Windows Phone More Social
  NEW YORK ¿ Microsoft previewed new features in its upcoming software update for Windows Phone 7 here Tuesday. Code-named "Mango," the update focuses on streamlining different forms of wireless communication. Microsoft highlighted the "People" hub in Mango, an all-in-one contacts list with tight Facebook integration that allows users to text, call, e-mail, IM or tweet at ...
  05.24.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Tuesday, May 24th
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...
  05.24.11

• Google Blocks Rooted Android Devices From Renting Movies
  For many Android enthusiasts, having total control is part of the platform's attraction. But Google is imposing some annoying new restrictions for those who want to be superusers on their own phones. Google is blocking access to its new Android Market movie rental service for those using rooted Android devices. If you try to access a ...
  05.23.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, May 23rd
  As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so each ...
  05.23.11

• New Mac Malware Fools Customers, But Threat Still Relatively Small
  A new piece of malware has caused an uptick in Apple customers reporting infected machines, renewing a timeless debate on the state of Macintosh security versus Windows. The trojan horse is called Mac Defender. It's a web pop-up containing a spoof message that tells customers their machines are infected by a virus and they must install ...
  05.19.11

• Modders Make Android Work the Way You Want
  CyanogenMod is one of the biggest hacks to ever hit the Android mobile platform. It's got an estimated 500,000 users. Many Android programmers use it as a starting point for their own coding projects. And according to the project's founder, a number of Google employees have it installed on their Android devices. Essentially, CyanogenMod is a tricked-out ...
  05.19.11

• Camera Reads Fingerprints From a Distance in Seconds
  In the future (or distant past?), Obi Wan Kenobi might not be quite so cocky about which droids you are looking for. If the Empire had equipped its weak-minded Storm Troopers with the AIRprint Fingerprint scanner, it would have seen his arrogant hand wave and recorded the prints of each of his self-important fingers. The AIRprint ...
  05.19.11

• Visa Digital Wallet Accelerates Mobile-Payments Race
  Electronic point-of-sale mobile payments at retail locations aren't quite ready for prime-time -- but they're getting closer. The latest heavy-hitter to enter the fray is Visa, the ubiquitous financial services company, which has announced plans for a digital wallet based on Near Field Communication, or NFC, technology. Visa's announcement accelerates the all-out race over digital payments. Major ...
  05.16.11

• Bing Bumps Facebook Options to Outsocial Google
  Bing is weaving even more Facebook into its search results in a bid to create a search experience that is unmatchable by Google. Whether it's better is, ironically, a matter of opinion. Bing first introduced a taste of Facebook into search results in October. But starting Tuesday, when you search Bing after associating your Bing account ...
  05.16.11

• How Google Chromebook Will Feel for Music Fans
  As it tends to do around this time of year, Google is making waves this week with its Google I/O developers' conference in San Francisco, where it announced not only the innovative WebGL-enabled music video we profiled Wednesday, but -- more importantly for the future of computing -- its Chromebook series of ...
  05.14.11

• Burson-Marsteller Deletes Critical Facebook Posts, Spares Google-Smear Flacks
  Updated May 13, 2011 at 5 p.m. EDT with response from a Burson spokesperson, who acknowledged the deletion depicted above. Just when it looked like the Facebook Burson-Marsteller black-ops anti-Google smear scandal couldn't possibly get any more bizarre, because, after all, the principals are PR professionals, new details emerged about the botched campaign Friday as the ...
  05.13.11