GoGo Goes for IPO

Stock symbol? You guessed it: GOGO.
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Ex-Googlers Raise $5.8 Million to Help Retailers Track Foot Traffic

Euclid Elements is hoping to be the Google Analytics of the physical retail world.
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Apple, Android Owners Diverge on Wi-Fi Usage — But Why?

A new point of differentiation between iOS and Android users. People who own iOS devices tend to use WiFi a hell of a lot more than Android users do.
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It’s a So-Lo-Mo World, After All

Let it be said: For a digital information junkie such as myself, traveling abroad without any cellular or consistent Internet connection on my spanking new white iPhone is agonizing. As in: No social, no local, no mobile.
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Connecticut Won't Press for Google WiSpy Data, Looks to Settle

Saying settlement talks are in the offing, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen won’t pursue his predecessor’s demand to review the consumer data inadvertently harvested by Google’s Street View cars.

Well, Hell, If I Knew All I Had to Do Was Seize the Hard Drives…

Connecticut Attorney General Senator Richard Blumenthal must be beside himself. South Korea has managed to do what he so far has not: Analyze the consumer data harvested by Google’s Street View cars. And the results of that analysis do not bode well for the company’s relationship with the country.

Vizio Extends Battle Plan

Vizio Inc., which put inexpensive flat-panel TVs in living rooms, now is setting its sights on cellphones and tablet computers. Vizio, which has vied with Samsung Electronics Co. for leadership in U.S. sales of television sets, plans Monday in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to discuss its new mobile products.

Wi-Fi Threat to Trees Rooted in Shaky Stats

Recent headlines in international newspapers, on television news and in technology blogs highlighted a startling statistic from the Netherlands—70 percent of urban trees are sick, up from 10 percent a few years earlier.

Look, Sergey, a Christmas Card From the Connecticut AG! Wait…

Google’s amends for inadvertently harvesting consumer data with its Street View cars may have been good enough for the Federal Trade Commission, but not for Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal. Working with the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, his office has issued a civil investigative demand, hoping to force the company to turn over the personal data it collected and to which it has so far refused him access.

50 Percent of Smartphones Sold in China Last Quarter Run Android

The smartphone market in China is growing at an extraordinary rate, largely thanks to Google’s Android OS. Chinese consumers purchased 8 to 10 million smartphones last quarter, up from an estimated 2 to 3 million in the same period last year. And according to Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt, the bulk of them ran Android.

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FTC Closes Google Street View Probe

Look Out, Dell, HP, Lenovo: iPad Is $499

Apple’s Tablet: MacBook Airbus?