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Hands on with the new tab synchronization feature in Chrome 19

Chrome's tab sync impresses, but the mobile story is incomplete.

The Zooey Deschanel effect

The iPhone's "buzz" got a bump after Apple started using celebrities in its Siri ads

FORTUNE -- Some purists used the fact that Apple (AAPL) had replaced the always appealing but generally anonymous faces in its TV ads with a couple of Hollywood celebrities -- Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson -- as evidence that the company had...

Coming soon: Chrome for iPhone & iPad

Google's Chrome browser is will appear on Apple's iOS devices this quarter suggests Macquarie (USA) Equities Research, reducing the payments that Google makes to Apple for search results in Safari. That sounds great but Apple's third-party browser limitations will surely minimize any benefits for Google.

Google’s Android profits: ’40% of a little is a lot less’

An eye-opening comparison of Android's income statement with Apple's

FORTUNE -- As part of an extended look at what he calls Google's (GOOG) "Android economics," Asymco's Horace Dediu on Monday published what may be the first independent estimate of the company's Android income statement.

As the chart at right shows, Android generates revenue for Google through three...

Oracle v. Google patent phase wraps up

Oracle is handed another small win by the judge—along with a warning.

Superstacks: How consumers trade convenience for choice

Welcome to the concept of the superstack -- which acts to circumvent the openness that the Internet and the digitization of content has enabled and once again lock consumers into a single platform for their content determined in part by the hardware they choose.

Build versus buy: One company’s decision to go it alone

Do you build your own technology in-house, or buy/license from someone else?

This Week’s Must-Have iOS Apps: Instacast, iTranslate Voice, Weathermob & More

Weathermob-iPhoneInstacast, undoubtedly the best podcast manager for iOS, got a great update this week that deserves a place in our must-have apps roundup. We’ve also got an impressive voice translation tool that you just have to try, a social weather app that’s more reliable than the weatherman,...

Video: Is this what Apple’s new maps will look like?

After 5 years with Google's maps, Apple is reportedly set to unveil its own

FORTUNE -- Big news in iOS mapping this week.

Mark Gurman, 9to5Mac's teen blogging phenom, reported Friday that Apple (AAPL) is prepared to replace the iPhone and iPad's Map app -- built on Google's (GOOG) back-end mapping data -- with something entirely its own.

Its unveiling,...

New Maps for iOS? It’s not exactly a surprise

The latest rumor to get everyone talking is that Apple will drop Google Maps for their own proprietary software. Sources told 9to5 Mac that a new Maps app will debut with iOS 6 with an Apple-created backend that will resemble the current Maps app, bu...

Oracle to pursue longshot claim for copyright damages

Judge calls Oracle's attempt at huge damages a "weak proposition"

Google+ App Makes Social Networking Add Up [Review]

My hangouts never look like thisThe general reaction to Google’s release of its new Google+ app has been very positive. Lots of people have been saying how good it looks and how nice it is to use. Yes, it is pretty. Pretty enough to...