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Not long has passed since Google released its new browser solution called Chrome, and security researchers have already announced that it has a serious vulnerability. The vulnerability itself is not new, having been originally reported in Apple's Safari 3.1.1 browser, and patched in the 3.3.2 version. However, s... |
3 September 2008
09:26 GMT |
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The news about Google's upcoming web browser, the Chrome, has been flying around the Internet all day long, our editors writing some comprehensive reports about it earlier today. However, it would seem that the search-engine giant has finally decided to let the downloading begin and so, without further ado, we g... |
2 September 2008
15:44 GMT |
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Google has decided to fall back from a partnership with an eco-friendly startup. A week ago, Google partnered with Forestle, a Germany-based search engine whose purpose is saving the rainforest. All the income originated from ad clicking, except for 5% in administrative costs, was to be delivered to the Nature C... |
2 September 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Google is launching its own free, open source web browser. Google Chrome, as the browser is called, will only be available for Windows operating systems for a while, but the team is working on developing the product for Mac and Linux users as well. Since Google is undoubtedly ruling the search market, many wonde... |
2 September 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Google's Android mobile platform will indeed have a so-called Android Market embedded in it, as we reported yesterday. Presented as "a user-driven content distribution system," Android Market was unveiled for the first time, in screenshots and details, on the official Android Developers Blog. Somehow simila... |
29 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Not long after the real form factor of T-Mobile USA's upcoming HTC Dream (or G1) has been unveiled, an almost complete list with its specs has also showed up on the Web, allowing us to get a better picture of what the first Google-branded mobile device is capable of. Although the Dream doesn't seem to ... |
28 August 2008
09:16 GMT |
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Amit Agarwal reported that screenshots of a beta version of Analytics, which integrates AdSense data, have been noticed in a blog post on TheGoogleCache. The post has since been removed, possibly in an attempt to keep this secret until launch. Nevertheless, the screenshots revealed several new intriguing features tha... |
26 August 2008
11:38 GMT |
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Links to a rogue security solution, XP Antivirus 2008, are being displayed by Google's AdSense. As we previously reported, AdSense serves malvertizements that make the most unwary of users follow a link and download a piece of software that has nothing to do with its claimed purpose. The rogue antivirus, instead... |
25 August 2008
10:24 GMT |
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Google's Street View is being accused, once again, of having infringed privacy rights. Betty Webba, a resident of Sonoma, Humboldt County, US, told PressDemocrat that one of the cars carrying a camera meant to shoot the imagery necessary for the development of the Street View network trespassed on her property. ... |
25 August 2008
08:23 GMT |
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Google has released two APIs to enhance geo-location. One is AJAX-based and the other one makes use of the Gears browser extension. This enables web and mobile developers to easily distribute content or to authenticate users based on location.The AJAX API determines the location of a user based on their IP address. I... |
25 August 2008
04:16 GMT |
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The latest comScore report that shows what the search preferences of Americans were in July indicates a rather stagnant situation at the top of the chart. Google sites are still on the first place, with 61.9% of the total market, which represents a 0.4% growth in comparison with the previous month. Yahoo! and Microso... |
22 August 2008
10:26 GMT |
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In an e-mail sent on Monday to the popular Full Disclosure mailing list, the Android Security Team introduces itself to the security community and provides contact information for people interested in tracking bugs and discovering vulnerabilities in the new Android Platform.Android is a software platform for mobile d... |
20 August 2008
10:41 GMT |
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The American Customer Satisfaction Index study released today by the University of Michigan, in collaboration with consulting company ForeSee Results, shows that U.S. citizens are most content with Google. The satisfaction score in its case reaches 86%, a 10.3% increase as of last year. The category of portals and se... |
19 August 2008
09:51 GMT |
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Following the wave of concern expressed by several media companies that Google was favoring its own services and websites in search results, like the new Knol service, Timo Paloheimo, a Finnish digital planner for an advertising agency, had an interesting idea - to give people the option to use Google search without ... |
19 August 2008
08:06 GMT |
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As of late, Google has been dealing with an increasing wave of lawsuits filed against it because of the content on the video hosting property YouTube. The latest legal action initiated against the Mountain View based search giant comes from GraphOn, an application developer that claims that Google infringed its paten... |
19 August 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Google has initiated the program "Free the Airwaves," which comes as a continuation to its efforts to determine the Federal Communications Commission to accept the free use of "TV white spaces." These are the analog frequencies that will be freed-up starting with February 2009, when broadcasters will be forced to an ... |
19 August 2008
04:17 GMT |
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An Indian company, tired of the unceasing attacks of an anonymous blogger, decided to file a lawsuit against him, as Blog Wired, citing a Wall Street Journal article, reports. But Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects encounters a problem. The company cannot find out the identity of the blogger who made a habi... |
16 August 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Google's Android mobile platform was officially announced quite some time ago, but there's still no device on the market to run on it. Well, according to recently unveiled details, this will change pretty soon, as T-Mobile USA is said to be the world's first mobile carrier to offer an Android-powered h... |
15 August 2008
07:04 GMT |
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For the past few days, reports about the cyber attack on Georgia, which disrupted the government sites and other .ge domains, have flooded the news websites and blogs all over the world. New reactions emerged, as security researcher Gadi Evron thinks the attacks could be carried out by kids, while Google denies delet... |
13 August 2008
11:26 GMT |
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According to a study performed by Nielsen Online, Google is still the number one brand in the U.S., considering the Internet traffic in July 2008. Although the number of users who chose to navigate Google pages in July was of approximately 123 million, Yahoo! proved to be more efficient in engaging people with its we... |
13 August 2008
09:26 GMT |
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Globex Designs, a Canadian company, has released a Firefox extension that completely changes the design of Google services using a lot of visual enhancements. It's called Google Redesigned and, at the moment, it supports Google Mail and Google Calendar. The extension uses local CSS files and remotely hosted imag... |
11 August 2008
10:04 GMT |
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The content of the Yahoo!-Google agreement was finally made public, just as many were dying to know what one of the most intriguing partnerships in the history of Internet might be about. The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission published on its official website the text that was made available by the two companies.... |
9 August 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Most people enjoy watching several types of sports or, even better, playing them in real life or at least virtually. While Google announced the launch of a portal that would cover the Beijing Olympics, Yahoo! chooses to base its strategy on American football only. The 12th season of Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football com... |
8 August 2008
12:00 GMT |
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If you ever felt that your iPhone (be it 3G or not) could be of more help to you when you're in a foreign country, or if you simply need to translate something, Google has now optimized the Google Translate service to be used with Apple's famous handset. Of course, accessing the Google Translate website vi... |
8 August 2008
11:45 GMT |
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As the Beijing Olympics just opened, Google announced the launch of a new website that comprises the latest news in the sports world, videos of the competitions provided by YouTube, or 3D models of the stadiums that host the events, created with the Google SketchUp. The events schedule and a medal count, either for s... |
8 August 2008
09:57 GMT |
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games will debut today (August 8); this is why the Mobile version of Google's official website has undergone through some changes. These have enhanced the search engine in such way that it is now optimized to offer users the best-possible Olympic coverage. More exactly, when sear... |
8 August 2008
07:01 GMT |
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An article written by Rajas Moonka, Senior Business Product Manager, and posted today on the Google blog, announces that in the upcoming months the Google content network (AdSense) will benefit from several enhancements based on DoubleClick technology.Several months ago, Google purchased the DoubleClick ad management... |
8 August 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Google has announced that its search marketing business, Performics, is to be acquired by Publicis Groupe, a France-based company. Publicis Groupe is more of a multinational search advertising business, which has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, London, Hamburg, Sydney, Singapore and Beijing. The Google t... |
7 August 2008
04:22 GMT |
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A recent comScore study showed that the popularity that Yahoo! is enjoying in the UK is growing smaller with each month. The websites of the search engine were used by merely 4.3% of the Britons in June. The stats from May showed that Yahoo!'s share of the search market had risen to 4.7% of the audience. Neverth... |
6 August 2008
12:22 GMT |
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According to a study performed by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, over 99% of the music Chinese people listen to is unlicensed. The Chinese are major music consumers, but they're also among those who rely the most on piracy when it comes to listening to their favorite tracks. Google ha... |
6 August 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Although Google did not prepare its users for the launch of a human translation tool, as of yesterday, people could access the homepage of the new Google Translation Center. One day after its early beta launch and the new application has already failed, probably because Google engineers only wanted to offer a preview... |
5 August 2008
09:20 GMT |
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Paris was the first European location chosen by Google to be part of the Street View project and Tour de France was a great opportunity for a July launch of the new online service coming from the search giant. However, now Street View is going to Australia and Japan, despite the fact that nothing happening there at t... |
5 August 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Although Google has always said that people's privacy is one of the main reasons for concern for the company, Google Street View somehow comes to contradict that statement. Aaron and Christine Boring, a couple from Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit against the search giant because their house appeared, without their... |
1 August 2008
11:50 GMT |
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The anti-Microsoft recipe is rather simple and with evident ingredients. And in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Redmond giant spelled out the main risks and competitors to its business: Linux, open source, Google and Apple. The software giant has made inroads on a vari... |
1 August 2008
07:30 GMT |
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IGA Worldwide and Double Fusion already give companies the chance to insert in-game advertising, especially for MMO games and other online-based video games. It appears that this is the future: Grand Theft Auto IV proves that huge, lively virtual worlds can be created and, just like the city you live in, these worlds... |
1 August 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Britons continue to be most interested in portals, search engines and conversational media when they are navigating the web. Although the largest part of the population prefers these three types of online applications, the number of people using them has been rather stagnant over the last months. In June, as a comSco... |
29 July 2008
06:42 GMT |
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We have heard about semantic search, which returns results that are suited to users' intentions, and about contextual display of results, when search engines are guided by the long-term search behavior. But SearchCloud, a search engine that launched a few days ago, uses word "weight," as it was called, in order... |
29 July 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Sprint, the third largest mobile operator in the US, has just announced the availability of Sprint Web, a new home page set to improve the mobile Internet experience of its subscribers. Sprint Web features quick Google search access, as now Google is the default search engine on Sprint's phones. Moreover, lev... |
28 July 2008
10:33 GMT |
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The number of unique Internet pages indexed by Google has reached the outstanding number of 1 trillion, says Google's team on the official blog. Considering the fact that existent technology gives regular end users the capabilities of genuine webmasters, creating a webpage has stopped being something extravagant... |
28 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Today, a team of engineers who have previously worked at Google, IBM, eBay, Altavista and the Stanford University, announced the launching of the "biggest search engine on the web." The fact that its database adds up to more than 120 billion pages makes it indeed large - three times bigger than any other known search... |
28 July 2008
03:23 GMT |
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Indians' preferences when it comes to navigating on certain websites are definitely inclined towards Google. The company's websites were the most popular in India in May 2008, as a comScore report shows. With almost 20 million visitors, Google manages to overpass Yahoo!, which was first in the Indian rankin... |
23 July 2008
11:41 GMT |
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Yahoo!'s Search market share is presented very differently by the two major companies that have conducted studies regarding the number of American people who performed searches in June. According to comScore, 20.9% of the users resorted to Yahoo! with their queries. However, Nielsen Online says that only 16.6% p... |
19 July 2008
04:53 GMT |
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In 2008, Google has focused, more than ever, on making its web properties' content available for as many people as possible, no matter their mother tongue. "A huge part of that goal is making our services available in as many languages as possible. And as I'm sure you can imagine, that isn't as easy as... |
18 July 2008
12:04 GMT |
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Google announced the upcoming acquisition of one of the most conspicuous contextual advertising companies in Russia. Begun, a property of Rambler Media, will become part of Google's advertising business most probably starting with September. By that time, the American company will have to pay a total of $140 mil... |
18 July 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Google has launched today a new feature for all advertisers. While their campaigns were, up to this point, either keyword based or placement based, the two possibilities can now be integrated in one unitary proceeding. By adding keywords to a placement-targeted campaign, more websites from a specified area will displ... |
18 July 2008
06:10 GMT |
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Google's decision of focusing more on the quality of the ads provided to the users, and not on their number, has apparently paid off. The total revenues recorded for the second semester of 2008 reached $5.37 billion, an increase of 3% compared with the first three months of this year. Going even further than tha... |
18 July 2008
03:24 GMT |
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It has recently come to light that by signing up to Google Calendar, one can find out the name used to register any Gmail account. This is a serious issue for those who have used their real names, but prefer the information stays private. The thing is that by getting access to such data, a spammer can deliver a pers... |
17 July 2008
11:36 GMT |
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At the end of June, the current year, we were announcing that Google's Safe Browsing API can improve online security. Thanks to this utility you are less likely to visit a malware spreading site because a warning is issued every time you try to access such a site. If the number of visitors to your site or blog h... |
17 July 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Recently, Google launched a new feature that allows users to have two specific lists of contacts on their Gmail account - their manually added friends and the suggested contacts. This came as a solution after people complained about the fact that their list of contacts was getting bulkier and bulkier. Thanks to it, G... |
17 July 2008
05:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is one of the most vocal opponents of an online advertising and search partnership between direct rivals Google and Yahoo. The no. 1 and no. 2 Internet search and advertising players worldwide announced in the first half of the past month a non-exclusive alliance in a move designed specifically to keep Yaho... |
16 July 2008
07:54 GMT |
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