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Valentine's Day is a good excuse to be romantic, though there's nothing keeping you from being romantic all year round, or ignoring this day completely, for that matter. Since love is in the air, and on the web, you can share your best or most memorable kisses with the world and place them on a map, anonymo... |
14 February 2012
19:01 GMT |
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By now, Google's Valentine's Day doodle is making the rounds around the world and has touched millions of people, or at least given something fun and interesting to look at and forget what they wanted to search for in the first place.The animation is rather interesting and a special project at Google. Whil... |
14 February 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Circles was Google+'s most touted feature. It enabled users to quickly manage the different groups in their lives and offered an intuitive interface for sorting their contacts. Still, any sort of contact management is a chore so any improvement to the feature is welcomed.The Circles page has gotten several impro... |
14 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Since Google is based on Chromium, an open source project, many of the new features, improvements and changes are documented as soon as they go live in the latest dev channel builds or even the Chromium builds, as long as you're willing to scour the Chromium and WebKit bug trackers.
Google's Peter Beverloo... |
14 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Google is enabling a sort of "Web History" for Google Maps and it's welcomed addition unless you're a bit paranoid about privacy. Now the My Places tab displays your previous Directions searches as well as the route you selected.The idea is to make it easier to go back to a search that you've already c... |
14 February 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Google's Map Maker has been responsible for populating great expanses of the world in Google Maps. With help from volunteers and their knowledge of the places they live in has helped Google Maps provide detailed data in many countries where it wouldn't have had otherwise, either because such data is non-exi... |
14 February 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Google Drive is coming, it's not a matter of "if" it's a matter of "when." And "when" is looking increasingly like "soon." The company has been testing its cloud storage and sync service for a few months now and the drive.google.com URL has been spotted before. But if you try to visit it by yourself, you�... |
14 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Google has gotten the go-ahead to buy Motorola from both EU and US competition regulators, on the same day. It still needs approval in China and a couple of other places, but the major hurdles have been cleared. Regulators said that the deal posed no real threat to competition and so would approve the acquisition, h... |
14 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Google and Motorola are now one step closer to finalizing the proposed acquisition and merger that were announced last year.
On Monday, both the European Commission and the US Department of Justice announced that they approved of the deal.
The European Commission has announced that it had cleared under the EU Me... |
14 February 2012
06:06 GMT |
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It's Valentine's Day again and this means one thing and one thing only, Google is running a customary doodle. This time around, Google pulled no punches and has created a video animation for the occasion.
The video depicts one boy's try at winning the affection of the girl he likes, to little avail. T... |
14 February 2012
05:25 GMT |
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Google introduced "What's Hot" for Google+ a few months ago as a way to discover the topics and posts that were the most discussed on the site, Google+'s Trending Topics, in a way.The difference is that posts in the What's Hot section are based on your interest. What's more, some also show up in t... |
13 February 2012
17:41 GMT |
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To no one's surprise, Google has confirmed that Iran is indeed blocking services that use SSL, at least part of them but probably all, but also other services such as YouTube. The move comes after plenty of similar attempts by the authorities there. There are even plans to build an alternative internet that woul... |
13 February 2012
16:40 GMT |
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Like it or not, Valentine's Day is upon us. Whether you revel in the celebration of love or are put off by the commercialization of the holiday, you'll probably be compelled to do something about it or in retaliation of it, even if you're doing it "ironically," as Xkcd eloquently put it. In that light... |
13 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Google is getting serious about hardware. There have been several reports of Google working on several devices for the home, like an entertainment hub or a "personal communication device." It's becoming clear that these are not just disparate devices but part of a bigger strategy at Google.
More evidence of thi... |
13 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google has updated the YouTube app for Google TV, one of the biggest updates to date. YouTube is one of the central apps of Google TV and a new version means an improved experience for Google TV users.
The new app is faster, Google boasts, and also makes it easier to discover new stuff, channels in particular, to st... |
13 February 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Google Chrome 19 has just been pushed to the dev channel. But, as always, the update only covered Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but not Google's own Chrome OS. Instead, Chromebook owners have received an update to Google Chrome 18 in the dev channel. Chrome 18.0.1025.29, part of Chrome OS 1660.20.0, is available... |
11 February 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome 19 has landed in the dev channel and is ready for testing. It already brings several new features and it's got six more weeks in the dev channel to get more. But apart form the new features, Chrome 19 also adds support for some advanced JavaScript concepts part of the Harmony project, which is slat... |
11 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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All Google Chrome channels have been updated in the past few days. Now the developer incremented the version number for the dev channel to 19.0.1036.7 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame, and there are plenty of modifications available, reintroducing the refreshed “Settings” page, already available i... |
11 February 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is reportedly gearing up for the release of a “next generation personal communication device,” the latest reports out there suggest. The said device was already spotted at the FCC and was confirmed to arrive on the market with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity capab... |
11 February 2012
01:57 GMT |
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Google entering the hardware business? Surprising as it might sound, this could be possible as the search giant is reportedly planning to develop a wireless home entertainment system.
This will apparently allow users to stream music wirelessly throughout the home to web-connected devices and "Google-made speakers," ... |
10 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Google is celebrating two years since it started offering monetary rewards for security vulnerability reports in Chrome and related technology. During that time, Google paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to researchers revealing vulnerabilities.
Now, Google is expanding the program to include Chrome OS issues as ... |
10 February 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Google Earth 6.2 was launched recently and it added quite a few new features or rather improvements. For one, all satellite imagery has been enhanced and now blends with its surrounding landscape to create one uniform and beautiful Earth.
Second, ocean terrain data has been improved with a big update that brings a l... |
10 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Google's Image Search received a major update with the introduction of "visual search" i.e. the possibility of searching via an image, either from your computer or from the web.
This feature though opened up all sorts of new possibilities. One very interesting use of the visual search feature as well as the mod... |
10 February 2012
09:12 GMT |
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Google is getting into the hardware business, at least that's the latest rumor. And no, this isn't about Motorola or Android, it's actual Google-branded hardware, a "home entertainment system" that would stream music from the web and keep your device in sync.
It is very likely that it will stream vide... |
10 February 2012
08:43 GMT |
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The beta channel for Google Chrome has been updated to version 18.0.1025.11. The current build is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame) and among the most notable changes is enabling 3D content for older GPUs. It also touches on GPU accelerating 2D Canvas. However, the GPU-acc... |
10 February 2012
06:03 GMT |
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It's official, the old black navbar is back. Well, actually a hybrid of the old black bar and the new unified header has been set loose and this is the final version of the Google bar, at least for now, rolling out to everyone in the next few weeks.
The black navbar was introduced about the time Google+ was lau... |
10 February 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Now that Google Chrome 17 is in the stable channel, Google Chrome 18 has been pushed to the beta channel. The latest chrome to wear the beta label comes with two big new features, both focusing on graphics. Accelerated 2D HTML5 Canvas On the one hand, 2D HTML5 Canvas graphics are now hardware accelerated, resulting... |
10 February 2012
05:25 GMT |
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Google has several programs aimed at spurring kids into getting more involved with science, of any kind. With the new Solve for X, it's also bringing together people bent on making a change in the world. Now it's trying to do the same for the more precocious with the Zeitgeist Young Minds 2012. Those tha... |
9 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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After zvelo unveiled the existence of a vulnerability in Google Wallet allowing for the PIN to be discovered with the use of a brute-force attack, Google responded to clarify that the issue only affected rooted phones, fact already mentioned by the researchers. Even though they didn’t highlight the fact that o... |
9 February 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Google Chrome 17 has landed in the stable channel. As always, Chromebook owners have to wait some more though, they're still stuck with Chrome 16 for the time being. It shouldn't be long now, but Chrome 17 certainly isn't ready for now. Google though decided to at least give Chromebook owners a heads-... |
9 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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The latest variant of the popular web browser, Chrome 17, not only brings new malicious file scanning technologies and page preloading features, but also patches some major security vulnerabilities found by researchers as part of Google’s bug bounty program.
A number of 20 security holes were identified in the... |
9 February 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Google Analytics is undergoing a massive revamp. The new Analytics has been in the works for about a year now, more if you count internal development and testing. It's been available to all users for quite a while now and Google has been adding more features, such as flow visualizations in the meantime.
But the... |
9 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Google Chrome 17 is here, in the stable channel. After several weeks in the beta channel and in the dev channel, the latest and greatest Chrome is available to everyone. Google Chrome 17 comes with two notable features, as far as Google is concerned, page preloading and download scanning for malicious files.
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9 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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We've been hearing about Google Drive, the cloud file hosting and sharing service from Google for a while now. There have been plenty of clues and hints and Drive was most definitely coming. But now we have another confirmation, the Wall Street Journal is saying that Drive is on its way, in the coming weeks or m... |
9 February 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Google Chrome 17 moved to stable channel on all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame) and it makes available all the goodies touted in the beta version. The most notable of them are faster browsing and improved protection against malicious downloads.
In order to shorten the time for you to reach... |
9 February 2012
03:28 GMT |
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Google Chrome for Android comes with plenty of features. It's got the WebKit engine from the desktop Chrome and the V8 JavaScript engine as well, optimized for ARM processors. One thing that it hasn't got though is support for Adobe Flash.
And it's never going to get it either, since Adobe made it ver... |
8 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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It may not have seemed like it, but January was a busy month for the Docs team. Several new features have been introduced, from the hard to miss customizable paragraph styles to more subtle changes such as progress bars for Google Sites uploads. Earlier this week, the Google Docs document editor got a much welc... |
8 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Developers will love Chrome for Android since it comes with a full set of dev tools. You can connect it to a remote debugger, which you can run on your desktop, and enjoy all of the tools that the desktop version provides. "In addition to support for the latest web technologies, we hope to make interactive web conte... |
8 February 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Google has provided updates for Chromebook owners in the dev and the beta channel. Dev channel users get Google Chrome 18.0.1025.6, part of Chrome OS 1660.13.0, along with the new Verizon portal that is already available to beta users.
Beta channel users get Google Chrome 17.0.963.51, part of Chrome OS 1412.174, a m... |
8 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Google+ is still relatively small, compared to Facebook, but it's growing. And it already has close to one hundred million registered users. You can imagine then that some of them may not post the best quality comments and some may be out right spammers.
Even if they're not spammers, they may be annoying e... |
8 February 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Google Chrome for Android may differ a lot from the desktop version, but it's got enough in common to warrant the name. Chrome for Android is a big upgrade over the regular Android browser and it's not all in how it looks.
Under the hood, Chrome for Android has plenty to show for itself. The browser is sti... |
8 February 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Google has updated aerial imagery for 23 cities in Google Maps. People in 14 US cities and 9 international ones can now explore their home towns from a bird's eye perspective.
Aerial imagery is a step up from satellite imagery that, while fairly detailed, can't go too close to the ground. What's more,... |
8 February 2012
08:20 GMT |
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A new build for Google Chrome has been released on the dev channel. It is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame) and besides improving the stability of the application, it also solves synchronization of New Tab Page icons across different instances of the web browser.
Synchroniz... |
8 February 2012
07:18 GMT |
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Cybercriminals are coming up with new techniques to make sure webmaster don’t spot their malicious codes too easily. Researchers found a piece of code cleverly masqueraded to look like a legitimate Google Analytics piece of code on compromised websites.
Websense experts found that the ill-intended code is desi... |
8 February 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Chrome for Android has finally landed. It's a pretty big project and it meant rewriting and adapting most of the existing Google Chrome code to the Android platform and the special requirements of mobile devices. While the Android browser already shared several components with Chrome, they were different beasts... |
8 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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One interesting concept pioneered first put into practice by Mozilla but then quickly adopted based on an idea by Google is "web intents." The idea is to be able to "register" web apps for certain actions just as easily as you'd register desktop or mobile app to be the default option for various actions.Editing ... |
7 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Officially launched in 2008 Google’s Chrome web browser is now available for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich users. The search-giant has just announced the availability of Chrome for Android Beta in the Android Market.Those who use Chrome as their default web browser will be thrilled by Google’s announceme... |
7 February 2012
13:20 GMT |
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Slower than planned, Google is finally starting to get to work on its ambitious gigabit fiber project. A couple of years ago, Google announced that it would be building a fast gigabit network in one or more locations in the US to test new technologies and lower the price of deploying such connections for everyone. B... |
7 February 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Google is extending its developer relations program for Google+ with the new Google+ Developers page. The idea is to give developers a place to ask questions and stay informed on the very platform they use.
Of course, the big problem with the Google+ platform is that there isn't one, but Google wants to take ca... |
7 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Google's Solve for X has now been made available officially. The website went live yesterday, but was only made accessible later. Google also explained the concept of Solve for X. Essentially, it's a conference and a forum for big "moonshoot" ideas.
The first such conference already took place at the begin... |
7 February 2012
07:21 GMT |
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