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Google Books has been the source of much controversy for Google over the years and the problems aren't gone just yet, despite the company having reached an agreement more than a year ago with the author and publisher groups with which it was in litigation over the service. After delays and concerns from governme... |
14 November 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Google is facing issues with its Street View service yet again. It seems that every time the service opens up in another country the same discussion pops up with officials worried about privacy. It happened in Germany, it happened in Greece, in Japan and the UK, and so on. Now, Switzerland is saying its piece, with t... |
13 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Twitter looks to be as popular as ever, judging by all the attention it's been getting, but for several months traffic numbers in the US have been stalling and they've actually dropped in October from the previous month, going from 20.9 to just 19.2 million, according to comScore numbers. Traffic has been ... |
13 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Google's most hotly anticipated project, the brand-new, web-based operating system Chrome OS, is about to become a reality if rumors about its impending launch as soon as next week turn out to be true. When it first announced the project, Google said that the first public release should come this fall so this w... |
13 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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A few years ago, when online video really started to take off, users were satisfied with webcam-quality, blurry and pixelated videos. Just the fact that you were watching video on the Web was mind-blowing enough. This changed soon enough and HD videos have become pretty much standard for any proper online video serv... |
13 November 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Google's eagerly anticipated communications service Wave has opened to a lot more people for about a month now. Unfortunately, many users were unimpressed with the current state of the service, be it because of its rather clunky interface or simply because they just don't get what problem exactly it is try... |
13 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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The latest update introduced to the Stable version of the Google browser is designed to resolve an issue in which Chrome does not start. On November 12, 2009, the Mountain View-based search giant started pushing Google Chrome 3.0.195.33 through the Stable channel. In addition to the startup problem, the latest update... |
13 November 2009
05:28 GMT |
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There's no doubt Google is a speed junkie. It wants everything to be faster and its doing anything to make it so. It built its own web browser, Chrome, just for this, and it's even building a new operating system, Chrome OS, with the same idea in mind. It obsesses about its search engine to squeeze every l... |
13 November 2009
04:35 GMT |
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It's official, Google has confirmed the acquisition of VoIP startup Gizmo5. The company hasn't provided any financial details about the deal or what its plans are for Gizmo5, but it said that it would integrate it in some way with Google Voice, the hot new service which enables users to switch between mobi... |
13 November 2009
03:47 GMT |
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The economy is still in a dire state and companies are firing people left and right but there are signs of recovery in some areas particularly in online advertising. After years and years of sustained growth, online advertising revenue actually declined in the first half of this year. But in the third quarter, the ma... |
12 November 2009
11:46 GMT |
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Google is introducing a new tool for concerned parents or teachers, which allows them to lock the SafeSearch setting in the search engine. The feature which removes results of a more adult nature from the search engine has been around for years, but now Google is making it so that you can't change it unless you... |
12 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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YouTube can't talk money just yet, but it can talk about size and there's plenty to boast about that. The site is the biggest online avenue for video and enjoys a huge lead over any other video site. It can put forward impressive numbers like one billion views per day, but now it's sharing some stats ... |
12 November 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Google provides direct results for a number of queries, like stock quotes, weather, even music with the brand new Music OneBox. There is also a Movie OneBox which shows locations where the movie is playing and at what times. Now Google updated the feature to provide more details on the movie, but it went one step fu... |
12 November 2009
05:03 GMT |
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Google just announced the addition of a wealth of new data coming straight from the World Bank. The data covers all sorts of statistics and numbers related to geopolitical information, things like Internet users in the US over time or GDP growth of almost any country in the world. The data is presented in new OneBox... |
12 November 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Online video is growing at an increased rate and, despite growing revenue from advertising, video sites are still struggling to become profitable. Even YouTube, which dominates the market, hasn't managed to achieve this, but it's not for lack of trying. Slowly but surely, though, it's getting there and... |
11 November 2009
11:13 GMT |
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Google is finally offering Picasa users more storage. Unfortunately, it's for a price albeit a significantly decreased one. Google has always had a paid option for additional storage space for those who'd fill up the free space provided by Picasa or Gmail, but now the company has slashed the prices while a... |
11 November 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Swine flu is the hot trendy infectious disease right now and everyone wants a piece of it. Not literally obviously, but seeing that even Google got on the swine flu bandwagon, it's hard to blame all of the over-the-top headlines news outlets have been sporting for a couple of months. Still, it could all be in g... |
11 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Google has just made a series of changes to the Android Market agreement that all developers need to accept. According to Google, the new changes and agreement will have to be accepted by all developers, as long as they want their applications to be distributed / sold through the Android Market, a... |
11 November 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Location-based services are becoming increasingly popular as more mobile devices get GPS features and people are less concerned about their privacy. There are a couple of hot startups, like Foursquares, catering to this space, but Google has now updated its own similar service Latitude with a couple of new features,... |
11 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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There's nothing Google wouldn't want to have a crack at. Its engineers are working on anything from operating systems, two of them in fact, to power-saving widgets so the only surprise in the fact that they've now built a new programing language is that it took them so long to do it. Called Go, the ne... |
11 November 2009
03:14 GMT |
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Google is getting in the holiday spirit and has announced it's offering free Wi-Fi to all travelers in some 47 airports in the US. Seeing that these hotspots usually don't come cheap and adding the fact that many people spend more time in the terminals than in the actual flights especially during the busy s... |
10 November 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Google Street View has been expanding to more and more countries and locations, but it has just now finally finished with the US having included the final state, Hawaii. Fittingly, the 50th US state became the 50th to be featured in the service. And to mark the occasion, Google has also launched an online gallery wit... |
10 November 2009
07:06 GMT |
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The Google Books saga is getting dragged on for a few more days as the deadline for presenting a revised settlement deal was pushed back until Friday. Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, the two parties involved in the five-year-old lawsuit, said they would have a new settlement i... |
10 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Google is finally getting ready to take the big step and introduce the new Caffeine search back end to a wider audience with the goal of completely replacing the current architecture it uses. Revealed back in August, the project has been in testing in a dedicated sandbox since then, but the page is now replaced with ... |
10 November 2009
04:03 GMT |
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VoIP startup Gizmo5 is a hot property, apparently. Rumors of it being in talks to be acquired by Skype last month seemed valid at the time, but the deal never went through and, now that Skype has settled all of its lawsuits, it makes little sense. But it now looks like Google was also interested and, apparently, it h... |
10 November 2009
03:17 GMT |
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Search engine company Google announced on Monday that it signed an agreement for the purchase of AdMob, a mobile advertising firm. According to Google, the San Mateo, CA.-based AdMob, which was founded in 2006 by Omar Hamoui, has become a company with great mobile advertising products, and its talented team will soon... |
10 November 2009
02:28 GMT |
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Google isn't in the phone-making business, but it's not leaving anything to chance with the latest and greatest handset to sport the brand-new Android 2.0, the Motorola Droid. By all accounts, it's a great phone, and it's clear that Google has put all of its muscles behind the product. A couple of... |
9 November 2009
12:18 GMT |
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Google may be planning to give all of its apps and services a great do-over, creating a more unified experience across the different products. None of Google's biggest names is spared, starting with Gmail and moving to Docs and News, all of which will supposedly get a brand-new interface, very similar to Google ... |
9 November 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Old media giants have been clamoring on about how search engines, Google being the biggest target, have been making money for years on the backs of the hard-working news agencies and how they're not going to stand for it any longer. Of course, there's a great reply to this, one that Google itself made on nu... |
9 November 2009
09:38 GMT |
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The enterprise market is getting more crowded and competitive, with new players challenging established names like Microsoft or IBM. Cisco just launched a wide set of new collaboration tools aimed at enterprises and Google has been pushing hard in this sector for the past few years. Now, Google says it plans to expan... |
9 November 2009
06:23 GMT |
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The Google Chrome Dev Channel has been updated to version 4.0.237.0 for all platforms, according to Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager, who writes on the related blog. According to the post, this release is focused on feature polish, as well as on improvements to the stability of the browser and exte... |
9 November 2009
03:43 GMT |
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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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