The Sony SmartWatch allows you to email, text and make social network updates on a 1.3-inch OLED touch display. The SmartWatch costs $150, while colored sporty rubber armbands are available for $20. The watch syncs up with any smartphone running Android 2.1 or higher, using a Bluetooth 3 connection and a free app from the [...]

Google has launched a partnership with insurance company Catlin Group Limited and the nonprofit Underwater Earth in a bid to let people explore the underwater world from their computers. The program, which was officially announced on February 23, will in the future allow the public to use Google Earth to explore under the ocean surface [...]

Google and other online advertisers bypassed the privacy settings of an Apple web browser on iPhones and computers in order to survey millions of users, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The Journal said the companies used a special code that tricks Apple’s Safari software into letting them monitor the browsing habits of many users. [...]

Via Business Insider: “Apple’s stock is hitting new highs during today’s trading. It’s currently at $494. That makes its market cap ($460 billion) greater than Google ($198 billion) and Microsoft ($257 billion) combined. The crazy thing is that Apple is just getting started. It could sell a ton of iPhones, iPads, and even TVs this [...]

David Hanauer is a brilliant designer from Munich — using imagery from Google Earth to weave his creations. Persian rugs meet cityscapes with his “worldwide carpets” — showing ariel views of Los Angeles and New York in mezmorizing patterns. Here’s David in his own words: “The project shows different patterns for a carpet / carpeted [...]

Google + has just spilled over to Google search results. Launched today, Google’s new search option integrates results pulled from Google+ social network connections into Google search queries, a major step into providing relevant social content into the company’s main search product. As the Official Google blog adds: We’re transforming Google into a search engine [...]

LG and Samsung to join Sony and Vizio in producing Android sets, while Apple is expected to launch iTV later this year

Google’s has opening their new French headquarters. The new Google office is located on 8, rue de Londres, Paris — in a “new 10,000-square meter office in a refurbished 19th century Second Empire building near the St. Lazare Train Station,” according to the Google Blog. Eric Schmidt of Google and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France [...]

Larry Page, Google CEO, hates meetings, hates e-mail, likes bathroom breaks and wants the search giant to be a more focused, more agile and faster-moving company. And not everyone at Google is happy about it. “It’s much more of a style like Steve Jobs than the three-headed monster that Google was,” said a former Google [...]

Googlers embarked on an adventurous project for this year’s Halloween Doodle; a project that involved carving the Google logo into six huge pumpkins on the company’s Mountain View, California campus. “Instead of picking up a few pumpkins from the grocery store, however, we decided to work on six giant pumpkins, specially delivered from nearby Half [...]

According to Nina and Tim Zagat’s blog, Zagat — the popular restaurant guide that has been around for more than 32 years– has been acquired by Google. As Google continues to focus on local search results and services, the move is a brilliant one, as Zagat has a rich database of local reviews and ratings. [...]

The Mad Men of Mountain View are testing out a new ad format. Since July, Google has been experimenting with new social ads custom built for Gmail — allowing you to send, save and interact with the new ad units. In our very own beta testing of the Gmail ads, which will be powered by [...]

Time has posted its annual list of the 50 Best Websites of 2011 and it’s full of interesting and noteworthy sites. Personalized internet radio startup 8tracks features at the top of the list and is followed by (American only) on-demand TV and movie streaming website HBO GO, how-to video site Howcast, and comedy video site My Damn Channel. Other celebrated websites [...]

The Dealmap, a company that aggregates local deals in three US cities, has been acquired by Google. “We are impressed with what The Dealmap team has accomplished and excited to welcome them to Google,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. “We’ve been thrilled with the early success of our commerce offerings, and we think [...]

Want to know more about the painting you are standing in front of while visiting the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles? Grab your smartphone and snap a picture of it, says Google. The team behind Google Goggles, the company’s image search and recognition engine, has “Goggles-enabled” the entire permanent collection at the gallery [...]