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Google Developing Cheaper Mirror Technology for Solar Panels

In 2007, Google announced that it was delving into scientific research, specifically the investigation and development of viable green energy sources. According to Reuters, the world's biggest brand is particularly interested in solar power and ... Read more →

Man Paints the World With Google Street View 3 months ago on Switched

Bill Guffey has seen the world from his rural Kentucky home, thanks to Google's Street View application. Using the mapping tool, which allows users to navigate maps via 360-degree views, he's created a unique series of oil paintings. According to ...

Is the T-Mobile myTouch 3G the Google Phone to Beat? 3 months ago on Switched

What it is: The myTouch 3G, the second Android smartphone (aka "Googlephone") to be introduced by T-Mobile, after the G1, is essentially a re-branded HTC Magic. What's different about it? Unlike the G1 (the first "Googlephone"), the myTouch opts ...

'Blind Search' Tells You What You Really Think About Google 3 months ago on Switched

Google is just about everyone's go-to search engine. Hell, it's the only search engine whose name has become a verb. (We don't foresee anyone "Binging" anything anytime soon.) But we wonder: Is Google really the search engine for you? Enter a ...

Expanded Google Earth Reveals More Ravages of Darfur 3 months ago on Switched

In 2007, Google Earth joined forces with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to help raise awareness of the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. According to Google's Lat Long Blog, the joint venture is now providing "the most detailed picture to ...

Kill Gmail Ads With a Few Choice Words 3 months ago on Switched

There are people who will go through a lot to avoid having to look at advertisements online. There are add-ons for all of the major Web browsers completely dedicated to stripping pages of their revenue-generating ads. Somehow, though, the sponsored ...

Google Street View Sees the Light... in Brooklyn 3 months ago on Switched

Google Street View is well known for some of the crazy things picked up by its roving band of car-mounted cameras. There are mundane, if disturbing, sights -- like these shots of Bambi getting run down -- and more surreal images of lasers, ghosts, ...

Google Placing Giant Map Pins Around Tokyo? 3 months ago on Switched

We can't read Japanese, and using Google Translate is a bit like reading poetry written by a stoned Yoda, so we're left trying to piece together what's going on here from a bunch of photos of people standing next to giant "pins" a la Google Maps. Our ...

Is Apple More Evil Than Microsoft? 3 months ago on Switched

We're not exactly huge Microsoft boosters around here. Most of us in the Switched offices are devoted Mac users, and there's at least one professed Linux nerd in house. We regularly joke that it takes just as long in 2009 to open Microsoft Word as ...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Leaves Apple Board 3 months ago on Switched

With the announcement that Google would be moving into the OS realm, it became a lot tougher for Google CEO Eric Schmidt to perform his other duties on Apple's board of directors. Today, Schmidt, who joined the board in August 2006, stepped down ...

Apple Patches iPhone SMS Security Flaw 3 months ago on Switched

A month after first announcing that the iPhone had a serious security flaw in how it handled text messages (and even longer still since it was first brought to Apple's attention), Charlie Miller at last publicly demonstrated the attack at yesterday's ...

Apple Rejects Google Voice, Shuts Down Third Party Options 3 months ago on Switched

About two weeks ago, Google released native Voice apps for Android and BlackBerry devices, but an iPhone version was suspiciously MIA. The big news on the blogosphere today is that Apple has rejected the Google Voice iPhone app -- a move that looks ...

Nintendo 'Zelda' Emblem Secretly Hidden in Google Logos 4 months ago on Switched

For being one of the wealthiest and most-powerful companies of all time, Google sure likes to play things with a lighthearted touch. Make no mistake about it, Google lords over Internet search today every bit as menacingly as Microsoft did with ...

Scientologists Advertising With Alias Web Sites 4 months ago on Switched

Web and animation designer Reese Leysen is inundated with Google Adsense and YouTube ads on a daily basis, much like the rest of us Internet dwellers. One day he decided to poke around a bit and noticed that the site for "Foundation for a ...

FFSearcher Stealthily Hijacks Your Searches 4 months ago on Switched

Click fraud, the redirecting of search requests to malicious sites, is one of the more easily recognized pests in the malware world. The problem for the fraudsters is that most users quickly realize something is amiss when they search for something ...

Thieves Using Google Earth to Kidnap Koi Fish 4 months ago on Switched

People have been using Google Earth to find all sorts of crazy things: secret military installations, marijuana crops, sunken ships, and pools for "dipping." Thieves have even used the satellite imaging app to seek out lead roof tiles. So it should ...

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