I juxtaposed Google Zeitgeist 2006 vs. Yahoo Buzz 2006 yesterday in “Google searchers vs. Yahoo searchers.” Digital Markets TalkBacker saran945@... underscored: “no words/phrases repeated in both ...

is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, home theater, smartphones, and more. The Nexus Q was such a misguided product that ...

Google unveiled its media-streaming glowing orb to many oohs and ahhs, followed by head-scratches. The thing looks cool. And it sounds good, both in concept and fidelity. But two major questions ...

"We're missing a nut," says a bemused Matt Hershenson, former Danger founder and now Google's director of hardware for Android, pointing at a vacant spot on an exploded photo of the Nexus Q. Its parts ...

When setting up a gadget for review, delicately unboxing and smelling the carcinogenic whiff of freshly molded plastics, we typically feel some amount of excitement and anticipation to see how it ...

Google has shown that it's serious about hardware, especially hardware that carries the Nexus name. The Nexus 4 phone and the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets are all as good as or better than anything ...

At first glance, it makes little sense. It’s a black sphere with a thin strip of rainbow pulsating LEDs. Maybe it’s something crafted in the deepest dungeons of Sony without the suits finding out, ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Sharing music with friends used to be intimate, even messy. We visited each other’s homes with stacks of records, and plundered album sleeves until vinyl littered the floor. Everyone ...

Six months ago former Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted that Google TV would be embedded on the majority of new televisions by this summer. That hasn’t happened, but it’s not stopping Mountain View ...

This week we're having a look at the Nexus Q, a Google device released during the 2012 Google I/O developers conference both for free to all attendees and for $299 to anyone wanting to buy one from ...