1. Chromebook Pixel, The New Laptop From Google, Offers Great Hardware But Falls Short Because It Runs on Google’s Operating System
(Matching tags: google)

Google has manufactured a great piece of hardware, but it makes no sense because it still only runs Google Apps, which does not offer the functionality professional users demand for work. That the conclusion ...

2. Did You Know That iGoogle Was Being Discontinued? Here Are Replacement Ideas
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This is not news, but it was news to me. iGoogle is being discontinued on November 13, 2013.   iGoogle is a great service but Google in July said it the need for it has “eroded. ” ...

3. Google Apps Challenging Microsoft In Business
(Matching tags: microsoft,google)

Google’s software for businesses, Google Apps, is catching on with larger enterprises. In the last year Google has scored some wins, including the Swiss drug maker Hoffmann-La Roche, where over 80,000 ...

4. Google Drops A Bombshell In Its Escalating With With Microsoft: Google To Stop Support For Synching Gmail And Apps With Windows
(Matching tags: microsoft,google,Operating Systems)

Google announced it will not support Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol for new devices after January 30th, 2013. For Windows users who also use Gmail and Google Apps for contacts and calendaring, ...

5. Google Will Start Charging Small Businesses For Google Apps: Do Advisors Care?
(Matching tags: google,microsoft)

Google is ending availability of a free version of its Google Apps online application suite for small businesses, saying it wants to provide a stronger and more uniform experience to users. Do advisors ...

6. Google Wallet Represents A New Way For Content Providers To Be Paid, And Some Advisors May Want To Become Content Providers
(Matching tags: productizing,client education,google,intellectual property,prospecting,Offbeat)

Google Wallet for content is an experiment to see if users will be prepared to pay for individual web pages if the buying process is easy enough. Should advisors participate in this experiment? ...

7. Google Uses Android Phones To Make Automobile Traffic Reports Worldwide
(Matching tags: google,phones,privacy; security)

Google announced today that its mobile maps will provide live traffic data on 130 new U.S. cities, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as well as in the capitals of Colombia, Costa Rica, ...

8. Getting Feedback Is Required In Discovering Your Brand
(Matching tags: brand,client feedback,Client advisory board,client satisfaction,marketing,client communications,practice management,referrals,google)

  Your brand is what people (and Google) say it is. ...

9. Half Of RIAs Plan To Move To The Cloud This Year And 25% Are Already There; Microsoft Is The Favorite Over Google
(Matching tags: microsoft,cloud,advisor technology,google)

... by Advisors4Advisors.   Of the 26% of respondents who have already migrated their core IT stack to the cloud, 47% have moved to a Micosoft solution while just 11% have moved to Google Apps. ...

10. Why Do Advisors Continue To Use Free Gmail Accounts? Do They Not Know The Risks?
(Matching tags: microsoft,security,google,apple,privacy)

This week I received yet another question from an advisor asking if it was ok to use a “free Gmail account” to conduct business. 

11. Google, Sadly, Is Evil, According To Wall Street Journal Report
(Matching tags: FTC,google,apple,privacy; security,Operating Systems)

Accusing Google of intentionally “tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked,” the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Internet ...

12. 10 New Google Analytics Features: A Guide For The Overwhelmed
(Matching tags: google,Search Engines)

Google Analytics, a tool for analyzing traffic to your website so you can improve its search engine ranking, has been revamped in recent months. But Google Analytics is so big and so confusing to the ...

13. Google Changes Search Algorithm; For Advisors It Means Fresh Content Is More Important
(Matching tags: google,client communications,Search Engines,Social Media)

About 35% of Google's search results are being affected by changes to its algorithm, making fresh content more important in search engine optimization.   While the vast majority of advisors remain ...

14. Google Launches News Service To Help You Find Flights
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Google Tuesday provided a preview of its new feature finding flights. Here's a video with the basics about it.  ...

15. Google Places Snafu: Your Competitors Can Report Your Business Closed To Get You Delisted From Google Maps
(Matching tags: google,Search Engines,Social Media)

Google Places has a section open to the public titled “Report a problem,” and one of the problems to report is “this place is permanently closed.”  If enough users click it, ...

16. S&P Downgrades Google Stock Rating To "Sell"
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Equity analysts at Standard & Poor’s downgraded Google’s stock rating from “buy” to “sell” Tuesday, following the search giant’s decision to acquire Motorola ...

17. 40 Google+ Tips And Tricks For Power Users
(Matching tags: google,Social Media)

For early adopters of Google+, here's a cheat sheet.  ...

18. Add Google TV To The List Of Google Failures; Still Google Dominates The Web
(Matching tags: marketing,Search Engines,google)

"Google TV is sinking,"  according to TechCrunch. It's hurting Logitech, which slashed the price of Google TV's hardware, Revue, from $250 to $99. But despite Google TV's failure, Google ...

19. Natural Search Engine Rankings Versus Pay Per Click: Which Search Engine Technique Is Better For Advisors?
(Matching tags: google,marketing,Search Engines)

... advisors.” The results highlighted by Google with a yellow background are pay-per-click ads. The results on the right below the map are also PPC ads. The results in the main body of the page with ...

20. FTC Is Reportedly About To Serve Google With Civil Subpoenas In A Broad Anti-Trust Probe
(Matching tags: google)

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is poised to serve Google Inc. with civil subpoenas, according to The Street Journal.   It signalsi the start of a wide-ranging, formal antitrust investigation ...