Today in Tech: 850,000 Android devices activated each day now

• Angry Birds: 350 million downloads and counting

  Think the popular game has peaked? These astonishing stats may make you think twice.

  FORTUNE -- Angry Birds is the game franchise that just keeps on giving.

  Some wonder whether the casual video game's popularity has peaked. Rovio's General Manager for North America, Andrew Stalbow, thinks otherwise. Today, Stalbow revealed that there have been 350 million Angry Birds downloads since the game's launch in December 2009. PLayers are putting in an astonishing 300 million MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 12, 2011 2:24 PM ET
  Posted in: Angry Birds, Google Chrome, Helsinki, IOS (Apple), Nook, Rovio, Tony Conrad

• How Apple drove Amazon's Kindle from the App Store

  The new Kindle Cloud Reader paves the way for others to sidestep Apple's 30% tax

  Steve Jobs made no friends on Publishers Row last February.

  After flying to New York City in early 2010 to sell book and magazine publishers on the wonders of the iPad as a reading device (see Enter Steve Jobs with top hat and iPad), he announced subscription rules a year later that he said would "delight" readers MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 10, 2011 10:34 AM ET
  Posted in: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, App Store, Apple, Google Chrome, iPad, Steve Jobs

• Today in Tech: Too late to IPO?

  Fortune's curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day. 

  * Has the tech IPO (initial public offering) window closed thanks to the extremely volatile market? (VentureBeat)

  * Whether or not Spotify can achieve its ambitious goal of nabbing 50 million U.S. users during its first year of domestic operations remains to be seen, but at the very least, it MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 9, 2011 6:30 AM ET
  Posted in: CharlieKindel, Google Chrome, Initial public offering, Twitter, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7

• Google search finds its voice

  The tech giant unveiled a slew of new search features, including the ability to search by images and input queries by voice on desktop computers.

  FORTUNE -- Google (GOOG) makes a lot of waves with products like Android and Gmail, but its bread and butter is still search. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a slew of new search features, including the ability to search by images and input queries by voice MORE

  Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jun 14, 2011 6:11 PM ET
  Posted in: Amit Singhal, Google, Google Chrome, Larry Page, Search, Yahoo

• Today in Tech: Why Google's former CEO 'screwed up'

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  "I clearly knew that I had to do something, and I failed to do it ... A CEO should take responsibility. I screwed up." -- Chairman Eric Schmidt on the company's struggle with social. (All Things D)

  * During his appearance at All Things D's D9 conference MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 1, 2011 6:30 AM ET
  Posted in: AdWeek, Apple, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Google Chrome, IOS (Apple), TechCrunch

• Today in Tech: iPhone 5 ships September, RockMelt mobile sneak peek

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  If you've ever want to call your Facebook friends directly via FB and not uh, you know over your cell phone, now you can. T-Mobile introduced Bobsled, a calling feature integrated into Facebook chat that lets users call one another for free, as well as leave private and MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 20, 2011 5:00 AM ET
  Posted in: App Store, Apple, Bobsled, Facebook, Google Chrome, Intel, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 5, Kobo, Mobile, RockMelt, T-Mobile, Yahoo

• Chrome 11, the browser you can talk to

  Google updated its browser again today with a pretty significant new feature.

  Google's (GOOG)  newest browser, Chrome 11 Beta, has the ability to understand the spoken word.  This isn't just a Java Plugin or Flash tool either.  This is all done in HTML5 with something called the HTML5 speech input API.

  Today, we're updating the Chrome beta channel with a couple of new capabilities, especially for web developers. Fresh from the work that we've MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Mar 23, 2011 1:29 AM ET
  Posted in: Application programming interface, Cascading Style Sheets, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Google Docs, Mozilla Firefox, Speech recognition

• Google fixes Flash's security issues ahead of Adobe

  Google's record on Chrome browser security is impressive, and that is important.

  Google (GOOG) today fixed the recent Adobe (ADBE) Flash Zero-day exploit in which a devious hacker could embed a malicious Flash file in an Excel document and if opened could compromise Windows-based computers.  Microsoft says that Office 2010 users aren't vulnerable.  Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh users  are not vulnerable to this particular attack either, though others could be developed using this MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Mar 21, 2011 12:59 PM ET
  Posted in: Adobe Systems, AdobeFlashPlayer, Apple Inc., Google, Google Chrome, Microsoft, Webkit, Zero-day attack

• Why I hate the CR-48 (but might like Chrome OS)

  Google's cloud-based operating system seems promising. Too bad the lousy demo hardware gets in the way.

  Google's Chrome OS isn't as farfetched as it sounds. The underlying concept, the computer and operating system as portals to content in the cloud, seems like an inevitability, really. While a lot of content still resides on hard or solid state drives, all signs point to a day when we'll rouse a sliver of a MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 1, 2011 4:27 PM ET
  Posted in: cloud computing, Google, Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS, Intel Atom, MacBook, Netbook, YouTube