Remember the flurry of hate that flew in Google’s direction after Buzz premiered which lowered the privacy wall for some users? Google sent out a “mandatory statement yesterday to all Gmail account owners stating a settlement had been reached and users will not be receiving money. Instead, the money will go to support organizations promoting more »

Ever since Buzz launched, it has had a great mobile interface thanks to the engineers at Google. But it had he flaw of being a completely separate application, making it hard to follow your personal stream if you wanted to see posts from your Twitter, especially on a mobile phone. But now Seesmic has made more »

Google, by way of Labs, has recently begun offering previews of Google Maps in Gmail and Buzz. In other words, you can now see a preview of the map right inline with your email message. The new functionality does need to be enabled, however that is simple enough. In Gmail, just click on Settings -> more »

Remember Buzz? That Google-made social network that lots of people said could put a dent in Twitter, then had all those privacy issues? There are a lot of people who have Buzz, everyone with a Gmail account who didn’t deactivate it does, though not many use it. When it first launched, Buzz mobile was only more »

At launch Google’s stab at social networking outraged many at the lack of concern over privacy. Since launch, Google has made many changes (rather quickly too) in efforts to right the wrongs the company committed. Rumored to be tomorrow, Google will reset everyone’s privacy, asking users to confirm their settings. The move is a good more »

Android’s differences in look and feel to the iPhone stand out when you show the home screen. On the iPhone you are greeted with rows and columns of little chicklet style shortcuts. However Android’s home screen is a bit more intuitive, allowing you to set widgets to the home screen that perform functions of the more »

If you have a Google Profile but have no interest in linking it to Buzz, the company’s new social networking service, you may find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place. The problem is this: Google has taken over user’s profiles and replaced the About Me section with the user’s newsfeed from Buzz. more »

Welcome to this week’s Who’s on Crack, Gadgetell’s lump sum of odd moves in tech for the past week. This week, the action was in Barcelona as the big guns showed off their stuff at the Mobile World Congress, possibly the biggest mobile phone event of the year. This week’s nominees are: Microsoft gets all more »

It seems like over night Google went from one of the most loved companies on the Internet to one of the most hated. All because of it’s new Buzz service. First a lot of users complain about privacy issues, which Google fixes in days. Then there are complaints that it doesn’t work as well as more »

The Canadian Privacy Commissioner is now investigating if Google violated more than just users trust when it threw the switch to turn Google Buzz on for everyone. The Commissioner is actively pursuing Google and was in talks with the company over the weekend regarding Buzz and the privacy concerns of Canadians. Buzz is increasingly becoming more »