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What Does the Future Gamer Look Like?

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 26, 2011 at 12:09 pm PT

A new study concludes that, increasingly, men and women alike are squeezing a few minutes of game play into their daily lives, leading to more social interactions.

Google Latitude Adds Check-Ins (How 2009!)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 10:13 am PT

Today Google Latitude will give users the ability to share their location with friends and strangers by “checking in” to a particular establishment.

Google Social Researcher Jumps Ship for Facebook

Liz Gannes in Social on December 20, 2010 at 6:28 pm PT

Paul Adams, a senior user experience researcher at Google who was the company’s research lead for social, announced today he will be joining Facebook next year.

Shocking Bieber Upset: Oil Spill Tops Twitter's 2010 Trends

Liz Gannes in Social on December 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on Twitter this year was actually the Gulf oil spill, said the San Francisco-based company tonight.

Chrome OS, Huh? Will It Be Based on a Google Analytics Kernel?

John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2009 at 7:35 am PT

So Google has finally copped to developing an operating system–Chrome OS, a software platform “created for people who spend most of their time on the Web, and…designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.” It is an extraordinary market play. And an unsettling one. For it seeks to place Google, which already collects vast amounts of data about our Internet use, at the very center of our information experience. The privacy implications of that are, of course, horrendous.

Sharing Where You Are When You Care to Share

Nick Wingfield in Personal Technology on May 20, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

By Nick Wingfield

Cellphone location-sharing service Glympse is simple, useful and a non-creepy way to share your whereabouts when you want someone to know.

Tracking Friends the Google Way

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on February 3, 2009 at 9:02 pm PT

Katie reviews Latitude, a new feature of Google Maps that uses location-based technology to track its users’ movements. Latitude displays the user’s location on a map for friends to see, so they can know where the person is at all times.

Mapping Your Digital Photo World

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 19, 2008 at 6:02 pm PT

The Eye-Fi Explore Card, a wireless memory card with a geotagging feature that geographically prelabels photos, was unreliable in one scenario, but we found it to be a great way to automatically organize and label photos.

Phoning Home Without a Phone

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on January 30, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

The SPOT Satellite Messenger gives outdoor thrill seekers a little extra insurance: It lets the folks back home track their progress, and learn when they’re OK or when they’re in trouble. However, the device isn’t perfect.