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"A Google A Day," was rolled out by the search-engine giant on Monday. The daily quiz offers up a single question that's supposed to be hard enough that typing a quick set of words into a search query box won't find the solution. Answers to these questions will be posted the next day on the...

Apple has made the app store both a popular way to shop and something users now expect to have access to on a new device. Google has followed by creating the Android Market, and Amazon has its own app store for Android. Even Ubuntu has a Software Center offering up lots of apps in different...

Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- In the technology world, a form of breaking bread can involve sharing hardware schematics. Facebook invited reporters, hardware makers and rival internet companies to its headquarters to debut a new initiative on Thursday for improving website infrastructure...

Android chief Andy Rubin took to the blogs Wednesday evening to combat recent reports of Google clamping down on Android's openness. "We continue to be an open source platform and will continue releasing source code when it is ready," wrote Rubin on the Android Developer Blog. "As I write...

Google Latitude, the search giant's location-sharing mobile app, is launching checkin offers nationwide, giving users the ability to unlock discounts with a handful of launch partners. Much like Foursquare and Facebook, Latitude now reveals different offers if a user checks in to locations...

Android’s open-source approach to mobile operating systems had enabled Google (Link Removed) to spread its platform far and wide, at a relatively rapid pace. But the now-established OS faces another challenge in maintaining security for apps and user access. After dozens of Market apps were...

Microsoft plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday, accusing Google of abusing its position as the region's dominant search engine. The software giant -- once subject to its own landmark antitrust investigation in the United States and Link Removed -- claimed in...

What more could a city do? In an effort to woo a Google high-speed internet project, the Kansas capital of Topeka last year changed its name to Google, Kansas, for a month. Like, actually changed it. By a Link Removed due to 404 Error. Apparently that wasn't enough. The search giant on...

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I just installed IE9 and am impressed with the much faster response and the better use of screen space for IE's various functions and controls. However, I am having one bizarre problem. I have both the Bing and Google toolbars along the top along with IE's Command and Menu bars. I turn off the...