Gadgetwise Blog: Tip of the Week: Spring Cleaning for Android Phones
If your once-zippy Android phone has noticeably slowed down or certain apps have started to behave erratically, clearing cache files may help.
DealBook Column: Stock Split for Google That Cements Control at the Top
Though Google’s founders plan sell shares and the company continues to issue new shares to employees, they have a developed a plan to retain an iron grip over their company.
DealBook: The Instagram Deal: A Mark Zuckerberg Production
Mark Zuckerberg is said to have had a large role in Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram, but he has not always played a heavy hand in the company’s acquisitions.
Bits: Google Ventures’ Big Data Bet
The venture capital firm funded by Google is building up its data sciences team to increase the capabilities inside its companies and to look for new investments in the area.
Gadgetwise Blog: Gmail Fires Back in the War on Spam
After a Microsoft-sponsored bake-off that put its Hotmail service a hair ahead of Google’s Gmail in spam blocking, Google has stepped forward with its own statistics demonstrating that Gmail is the antispam leader.
Media Decoder: Google Moves In on Hollywood’s Night in Washington
A few media executives, still smarting over the role Google played in defeating antipiracy legislation this year, see its presence at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner as a victory lap.
Bits Blog: Lawmakers Ask Apple App Makers About Privacy
After contacting Apple earlier this month with questions about app privacy, lawmakers have now sent letters to 34 app developers requesting information about their data-collection techniques.
Bits Blog: Blekko Works With Lavasoft on Spam-Free Search
Blekko will announce a partnership with Lavasoft, which makes security software that detects spyware and adware on users’ PCs.
Gadgetwise Blog: Tip of the Week: Going from Gmail to Google Docs
Gmail users who cut and paste email messages from the Gmail Web site into text documents for printing may want to try out the optional Create a Document feature that lets you quickly create a Google Doc from a message.
Bits Blog: A Turing Award for Helping Make Computers Smarter
Judea Pearl was a pioneer in the thinking and techniques behind modern artificial intelligence. His ideas are used in computing applications as varied as Google search, voice recognition and fraud detection.
Bits: Is Google Plus’s Problem One of Design?
People love Google Plus. Wait, they hate Google Plus. No, that’s not right, either. Maybe the problem is that Google is like Microsoft. It has amazing engineers, but it has no sense of aesthetics. And today, design matters in tech.
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Screaming for Google Ice Cream
How to find out if your Android device is eligible for an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s latest mobile operating system.
