There’s been a ton of talk this past week about Google’s Glass, the augmented reality project that essentially puts a smartphone on your face! My appearance on HLN about Google’s augmented reality project generated a lot of interest, and even landed a clip of me on the Daily Show! Did you miss the hype and […]
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Here comes Motogoogle! Even though regulators claim they will keep a “close eye” on Google, I don’t think anyone is surprised that U.S. and European regulators approved Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the arm that focused on portable devices. Most people think that this is Google finally getting into the patent war that has thus […]
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Just about every review site has a mobile app and many small business owners have a love/hate relationship with these apps. On one hand, a slew of negative reviews could wreck a budding entrepreneur’s vision. On the other hand, well-placed positive reviews could sway a potential client and gain their trust. Online reviews are a […]
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From the Google Voice Blog: As the holiday season approaches, we’re happy to announce that we’ve extended free domestic calls within the US and Canada for 2012… Call it Google’s gift to all of us small businesses who depend on Google Voice as our primary number that we use to make us look “professional” when […]
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As we close out a long and eventful week, one last little tech tease to keep you busy this weekend. While the public hasn’t been able to play with a phone running Google’s long-coming Ice Cream Sandwich version of their Android operating system—the combination of their Honeycomb tablet operating system with their previous work on […]
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For those of you who either can’t completely rely on adding your Google/Gmail accounts in to your smartphone for accurate email updates, or use a Google Apps account and haven’t quite figured out how to use Microsoft Exchange/Google Sync to get all synced up (if you don’t have an Android device) – you are in […]
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Even though it wasn’t too hard to get an invite into Google+, Google’s social networking site that is still in “Field Testing”, you now should be able to access and edit your Google+ profile the next time you log in to your Gmail account. Google has made the brand-spanking new social networking site available to […]
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Is your small business conducting e-commerce directly through Facebook? According to a recent study by Ability Commerce, only 10% of the Web’s largest retailers sell products directly through Facebook. Are retailers simply not hip to the sell-through potential of the world’s most popular social media site? Or, as I pointed out in my early review […]
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If you’re a mobile warrior and have been known to set up shop at your local coffee shop to get some things done, you are at the mercy of that businesses Wifi to connect to the outside world. If for whatever reason, you can’t get a decent signal or no signal at all, you may […]
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This week’s big news is Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. There’s been a barrage of news and analysis surrounding this announcement, so we here at SmallBizGoMobile are going to distill it all down, and try to separate the facts from the hype, and the PR buzz from the players’ “real” motivations.
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