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Instant messaging is about to get a lot more interesting and a lot more crowded if Facebook has its way. Apparently, the social network is very close to launching support for XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), allowing Facebook users to connect with any IM client which also supports the protocol.... |
6 November 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Search engine giant Google has been hard at work with the development of its operating system for mobile phones, the increasingly popular Android. First launched on the market about a year ago, the Android OS has just reached version 2.0, which is also known around the world as Eclair, and has been through a series o... |
6 November 2009
08:12 GMT |
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Google is all about the web apps and, for Google, web apps means JavaScript. The giant has been a huge backer of the scripting language and has played a big part in making it one of the most popular web technologies today. But, now, it wants to help it become even more popular and allow developers to build faster and... |
6 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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The development on Google Chrome is moving forward on three fronts, with builds suited for all different type of users. The Stable channel build doesn't seem to be getting a lot of attention, as the development is focused on the Beta and especially the Dev channels, but, if Chrome is ever going to get some real ... |
6 November 2009
03:27 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that MySpace has seen better days, as the once-biggest social network in the world loses even more traffic and users. But at least it had something to fall back on, a $900-million deal with Google running until mid-2010, which would guarantee at least part of its profits. But this isn'... |
5 November 2009
08:34 GMT |
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Google Wave may not be winning over the regular users, but it looks like it might have better luck in the enterprise sector. Novell, a software company specializing in enterprise products and maker of the popular SUSE Linux distribution, has just announced a brand-new, real-time collaboration tool dubbed Novell Pulse... |
5 November 2009
06:48 GMT |
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The Chrome Dev Channel has been updated with a new version of Chrome for Mac OS X. Orit Mazor, Google Chrome technical program manager, reveals that version 4.0.229.1 is Mac OS X-only and includes a number of UI improvements. Although labeled as a Mac-specific release, the blog update does mention a couple of all-pl... |
5 November 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Google has been as open as any company its size, but, with the number of services and products it has, it can be hard to know what exactly is shared and with whom and what Google really knows about you. Now, though, Google has introduced the “Dashboard,” a tool to centrally manage the security and privacy... |
5 November 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Google News, one of the company's most “feared” products, is about to get even more powerful with a new customization option. Plainly labeled “Custom sections,” the feature does exactly what you'd expect, it allows you to create your own news section based on any topic you want. What... |
5 November 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Google is aiming for the enterprise and business market with several products and it's slowly making some progress in the sector. Now, it's launching a new product aimed at e-commerce sites, but, this time, based on what it does best, search. The new Google Commerce Search is a dedicated cloud service aimed... |
5 November 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Facebook may be winning the social wars for now but Google is not giving up just yet. At first glance, Google may not be exactly the first that pops into your head when you think social features but that's because it’s taking a different approach than Facebook for example, a less successful one though so f... |
4 November 2009
11:40 GMT |
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Google Chrome is still behind other browsers in some aspects. Extensions are especially lacking when compared with Firefox and, judging by their popularity for the Mozilla browser, they could be a huge asset for Chrome. Right now, extension support is a little lacking, but development is moving fast and an upcoming f... |
4 November 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Password and account management is one of the biggest hassles to people using any sort of online service. Nobody likes to keep track of dozens of passwords, but, on the other hand, using one password across several sites opens up the door to all kinds of troubles. This problem isn't exactly new, but, despite sev... |
4 November 2009
04:54 GMT |
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There's no shortage of companies or even countries wanting to get their hands on some of Google's wealth, sometimes rightfully so, though, most of the times, the claims are a little weak. Now, Turkey is having a go at it by claiming that Google owes the country 71 million Turkish Lira (approx. €32 mill... |
3 November 2009
10:50 GMT |
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One of the most useful tools to be introduced for Google Search has been Search Options. It allows users to customize the search to include only a certain type of results or only entries made during a specific timeline. Now, Google has introduced several new options that could prove useful enough in many cases. Users... |
3 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The economic downturn hasn't spared anyone but some companies have been hit harder than others. Google has managed to get through pretty much unscathed but some aspects of its business have been affected. It has enjoyed big growth throughout the years and has been acquiring small firms or hiring talented enginee... |
3 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Google Wave has been available for a wider audience for about a month now, to mixed impressions, but it's still far from being mature enough for a complete roll out. Still, things are moving forward fast and Google has just announced that the Wave protocol and implementation is currently available for anyone to ... |
3 November 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Google has come up with a layered development cycle for its web browser, Chrome. This way, new features can be implemented at a fast pace, while also making sure that users also have more stable but less cutting-edge versions available. Halfway between the experimental dev channel release and the stable version, the ... |
3 November 2009
02:41 GMT |
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It has been revealed that Apple is using yet another one of its marketing tricks to undermine the Windows 7 hype. Apple has turned to Google advertising, according to observers who claim that entering terms such as “download windows 7” into a Google web search may direct users to Apple's Get a Mac (a... |
3 November 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Anyone is eyeing the mobile web space these days and Google is no exception. In fact, the search giant is pushing hard on all fronts, from its dedicated search services for mobile to creating its own mobile OS, Android. After making a big splash last week with a dedicated turn-by-turn GPS app for Android, it's n... |
2 November 2009
12:13 GMT |
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Google is constantly tweaking and updating its products and the homepage isn't spared. But if you thought that something as iconic as the Google homepage would be spared of any major change, especially considering that the 11 or so years it has been around haven't taken too much toll on it, you'd be wr... |
2 November 2009
11:41 GMT |
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Maybe the Holloween spirit hasn't completely worn off or maybe Google is adding a new 'feature,' but it looks like Google Maps is now listing ghost towns that show up as real places, but that don't actually exist. UK users are reporting the town of Argleton in the L39 postcode, which shows up on G... |
2 November 2009
10:22 GMT |
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Google Wave has been available to a much greater audience for about a month now and the impressions are mixed. The technology is there and it definitely has potential, but most people don't really get it and even find it useless. Add to this the relative complexity of the app and you can understand why people ar... |
2 November 2009
09:35 GMT |
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Search engine giant Google has been rumored a few times before to plan coming to the market with a handset developed by itself, yet it seems that the company has now stepped up and denied those sayings. Google is not into the phone-making business, according to Andy Rubin, head of Android development.“We'r... |
2 November 2009
08:01 GMT |
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Microsoft follows Google in the world’s Top 50 most attractive employers put together by Universum. The first global index of employer attractiveness has Google as THE company to work for on both the Global Top 50 Business and the Global Top 50 Engineering. Microsoft is only third on the Global Top 50 Business... |
2 November 2009
05:30 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile is reportedly getting ready to deliver Android 2.0 updates to the handsets available on its airwaves with Google's operating system on board. It seems that the mobile phone operator and the search engine-based company have already started the work on offering the Android 2.0 OS to users... |
2 November 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Google's bread and butter is online advertising. The company makes a large percentage of its revenue from ads so it's no surprise that it takes the business very seriously. One promising feature introduced more than half a year ago, targeted ads, looked poised to be the next big thing in online marketing bu... |
31 October 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Over the summer, Google introduced the Real Estate listing to Google Maps and, since then, it has been working on improving the feature. When it was first introduced, it proved somewhat useful, but it was still lacking and couldn't really be seen as a real alternative to real-estate search engines. But Google d... |
30 October 2009
12:32 GMT |
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About a month ago Google launched an ambitious project to allow users to comment on every page on the web. With Google Sidewiki, Firefox and Internet Explorer users could view what others had to say about a particular page or subject and they could also make their own annotation. But in order to view the comments or ... |
30 October 2009
11:31 GMT |
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Google has introduced a new type of ad that aims to take out some of the guesswork by serving users several offers from advertisers and allowing them to easily compare them. Called AdWords Comparison Ads, these will only be available for mortgages and will see a limited rollout over the next week. The ads will be ava... |
30 October 2009
09:57 GMT |
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As Google grew into the giant it is today, it also managed to maintain a good image with its business practices but also with the green projects it's involved with and, more recently, with a greater emphasis on education. Google has been offering the Google Apps suite of services to schools for free for a while ... |
29 October 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Google's not-so-spectacular-after-all music service, first rumored last week, is now official and no, it's not an iTunes killer or a Spotify killer for that matter. It's something closer to home for Google, an extension of its search engine dedicated to music. That being said, the music OneBox (Google ... |
29 October 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Google has been pushing hard in the mobile space with its Android operating system for smartphones, which is now mature enough to tackle the best phones out there. The devices running Android are also getting more competitive especially with the new Motorola Droid announced today. But being just as good wasn't g... |
28 October 2009
12:10 GMT |
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Lawsuits are a fact of life for large companies and they don't get any more common than patent lawsuits and all-time favorite for companies large and small. Patent laws are already widely disputed as being abused and this even more true for software patents, which most engineers would agree have very little fact... |
28 October 2009
11:30 GMT |
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Google is a software and web services company and, despite being present in almost every segment of those markets, its ventures outside of them have been less successful. At the same time, it is nurturing a very green image and is investing in green technology while concomitantly doing its best to be as energy effici... |
28 October 2009
07:39 GMT |
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Search engine-company Google has just released the SDK for its latest mobile operating system flavor, Android 2.0. Also known as Eclair, the new platform version is expected to make an appearance today on the first handset that will be powered by it, namely Motorola Droid, to be included in Verizon Wireless' off... |
28 October 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Google Labs is a great place to test out new technology without risking integrating it into the main services before it is proven. Every once in a while though a technology is popular and mature enough that it gets promoted and introduced to the proper product. One interesting feature revealed last spring, when Googl... |
28 October 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Google scored a major victory for Google Apps by getting the city of Los Angeles to switch to using the company's email and other services. This is now the biggest city in the US to move to the Google service and the biggest win isn't the financial reward but the image boost that comes from having one of th... |
28 October 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Google seems committed to its Data Liberation Front program which aims to make the data from the various Google services easily exportable and open. The project has been in the works and active for a couple of years but it was just recently revealed and efforts intensified. At the time of the launch Google Docs was h... |
27 October 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Google Custom Search is now three years old and to mark the occasion the search giant has introduced a couple of new features and a brand-new Custom Search Wikipedia Skin that enables users to extend the functionality of the built-in Wikipedia search. The skin comes with quite a few enhancements but it's unfortu... |
27 October 2009
05:18 GMT |
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The search landscape is getting a lot more complicated lately and all the major players are moving beyond just the traditional search, adding new elements like real time and social search. Google and Microsoft both announced a deal with Twitter to integrate content from the microblogging service into their search res... |
27 October 2009
04:16 GMT |
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The Chrome Dev Channel has been updated with a crash and calendar fix for the Mac, Windows and Linux versions of the web browser. Available immediately, Google Chrome version 4.0.223.11 for Mac OS X can be obtained right here, on Softpedia. “This release fixes a crash when running extensions like the Subscribe... |
26 October 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Facebook is huge, the biggest social network and one of the largest websites on the planet. It's also growing at a hefty pace with no slowdown in sight. It has 300 million users worldwide and is one of the top five sites in terms of traffic in many countries. Yet, despite all this, some stats still manage to sur... |
24 October 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Google Maps is closing in on five years now and the mapping service was in need of a little touching up, as it was looking a little dated, but, more importantly, because it was getting very crowded with more and more information added over time. So, Google decided it was finally time to make some changes and, by Goog... |
24 October 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is expected to have a great year in 2009, with shipments predicted to reach 6.5 million units before 2010 is here, and the platform should see an even greater growth in the following years. According to a recent report from Taipei-based Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute... |
23 October 2009
09:32 GMT |
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Google Maps isn't exactly Google's most controversial product. It's taken a lot of heat over Google Books, Street View and others. In some parts of the world though the mapping service is causing quite an outrage at an international level and Google is forced to maintain its impartial stance while also... |
23 October 2009
06:22 GMT |
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According to the development team behind Google Chrome, this week, “Printing and the QuickTime plugin make their initial appearance on Chrome for Mac,” while “lots of important Extensions changes and quite a few bugs are also fixed.” Users are advised to also read the Known Issues if they are ... |
23 October 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Search engine company Google announced on Thursday a new feature available with its Google Custom Search, namely the fact that it now formats search results to fit on mobile phones. Google Custom Search, as many of you might already be aware of, enables web site owners to add Google-powered search boxes to their site... |
23 October 2009
04:18 GMT |
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RSS/Atom feeds aren't exactly the most exciting technology and there are plenty that are ready to hail it as dead. There are quite a few obvious shortcomings but many people still rely on feeds and at least some developers haven't given up on them. Google has been plowing ahead adding new features and expan... |
23 October 2009
03:18 GMT |
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The search world is changing and it's becoming more complex and more spread out. The big search engines are doing a great job at recovering the static information available on the World Wide Web but a much poorer one with real-time information or with social search. But that is changing with both Bing and Google... |
22 October 2009
09:09 GMT |
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