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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may fine Google millions for hacking past a key privacy setting on iPhones and iPads using Apple’s Safari web browser. The Commission is reportedly analyzing the matter to determine how big the fine should be.Google reportedly placed tracking cookies on iOS, the underlying sof... |
5 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Google has started sending notifications to the individuals that Microsoft appointed as being behind the ZeuS botnet they've disrupted. Some applaud this decision, while others say that the company’s “one-size-fits-all” privacy policy isn’t the best way to handle things.
Microsoft’... |
5 May 2012
06:42 GMT |
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Google is adding a very interesting tool to Analytics, it is now possible to see all the backlinks to any of your pages via the new Social Reports. This makes it easy to see who is talking about you on the web and in what context. The idea is borrowed from blogs, but it's been extended to all websites. "The con... |
4 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Google recently announced, at its Android Developers Forum, the latest update to their NDK. This was a fulfilment of Amit Rohatgi’s promise that Google would be adding the MIPS ABI into the Android NDK. Amit Rohatgi is MIPS Mobile Architect and, in the light of recent MIPS developments, he promised that MIPS wi... |
4 May 2012
10:48 GMT |
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There's a good two weeks until Google Chrome 20 is set to graduate to the beta channel, but it seems Google has already started preparing Chrome 20.0.1123.* for this.
The latest update to the dev channel, Chrome 20.0.1123.4, is a bug-fixing release and that's what all the future ones will be until Chrome 2... |
4 May 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Google Currents, the application that delivers magazine-like editions to your tablet and smartphone for offline reading, has been enhanced for the new iPad.Google Currents version 1.1.1 was released this week with support for the third-generation iPad. Namely, the app now has Retina display support, meaning the graph... |
4 May 2012
06:57 GMT |
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Google is celebrating the work of Keith Haring in its latest global doodle. The doodle depicts the Google logo drawn in Haring's unmistakable vibrant style. Each letter is created by one or more human figures dancing or flying in one case, in a very dynamic doodle. Haring became very popular in the 80s with his... |
4 May 2012
05:41 GMT |
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YouTube's big plan to spend a lot of money and get some high-quality content is moving ahead as scheduled. In fact, it's expanding, the site, well Google, is putting up $200 million, €152 million to help fund projects, specifically the branded channels it's been talking about lately.YouTube is pay... |
3 May 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Google has always been experimenting with different layouts, new features and changes in the open, to get real feedback. It only uses a small portion of its user base in tests, so if people don't like it or something goes wrong, there won't be many casualties.
The premise has worked so far, but it seems to... |
3 May 2012
10:21 GMT |
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In order to help developers maintain a common style and for others to have a peek at how Google does things internally, the company has published its own HTML and CSS Style Guide. It's not a definitive document, there's no such thing, but it should be a clear and mostly common sense guide to writing code t... |
3 May 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Google has been churning out new Chrome versions with a fury for a long time now and it's not about to stop. The dev channel has just been updated and so has the stable channel, and now it's the beta channel's turn. Google Chrome 19.0.1084.41 beta is now available for all users. As you can imagine, th... |
3 May 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Google is bragging about a new improvement to the V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome. The engine can be considered state-of-the-art, but the technology is not standing still. The latest additions improve the way V8 optimizes code, especially for short running scripts.
The improvements should result in more optimized cod... |
2 May 2012
16:01 GMT |
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There's been a lot of talk about SPDY lately, with two major browsers adopting it and the updated protocol being proposed as the basis for the upcoming HTTP 2.0. Still, SPDY usage is small, that much is clear, the only other major website outside of Google to support it being Twitter.
It's hard to know how... |
2 May 2012
14:51 GMT |
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The US Doodle 4 Google competition has chosen its finalists, the 50 state winners which now have a chance of becoming the national winners and land a doodle on the Google homepage.
This year's "If I could travel in time, I'd visit ..." theme has attracted a record number of applications, 114,000, perhaps s... |
2 May 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Blogger is continuing to add new gadgets for anyone that uses dynamic view themes. Gadgets were one of the biggest things people missed when they made the switch to the new high-tech templates.
Blogger added support for gadgets along with several of the most popular gadgets a few months back. Now, it's adding s... |
2 May 2012
08:11 GMT |
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There's a new Google Chrome release in the dev channel. Chrome 20.0.1123.1, available for Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame, comes with an updated JavaScript engine – V8 3.10.6.0 is included, several fixes and a slightly refreshed UI on Windows. The Linux version is expected within a day.
The latest update fixes th... |
2 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Gmail Labs have always been a source of interesting features and tools. Many of the experiments were destined to live their lives part of Labs as few of them graduate. But Google has chosen three which have now become a part of Gmail proper. However, it also killed off many of the less popular experiments.
The bigge... |
2 May 2012
04:50 GMT |
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The browser market is evolving, at its own pace, but only two browsers are really moving, Chrome and IE, one up the other down. Judging by StatCounter numbers, Chrome is set overtake IE within months.In fact, it's already bigger than IE, if only for a day or two at a time. Chrome first overtook IE on a Sunday a ... |
1 May 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Google SPDY is in a very good position. It's poised to become the foundation for the upcoming HTTP 2.0 standard and is already supported by Chrome and Firefox. Google is using it extensively on its servers and the Apache module which enables SPDY is now stable.Wanting to show off SPDY's improvements, Google... |
1 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Google Wave has been dead for quite a while. But not as dead as now. It was only a few weeks after the service was made available to everyone that Google announced it would kill it. Euthanasia though takes a long time for something like Wave.The technology behind the project was open sourced and became part of the Ap... |
1 May 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Google is expanding its Business Photos program which enables business owners to add 360 degree panoramic photos of their locations to be published on Google Maps and on their Places pages. The program enables businesses to hire accredited photographers and have them come and shoot at their locations. This enables... |
1 May 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Mozilla is not the only one improving its web developer tools. Chrome's built-in dev tools have long been the industry standard and still are, for all of Firefox's advances. They're getting better too, Google is boasting about the latest addition, support for debugging Web Workers, a relatively modern ... |
1 May 2012
07:16 GMT |
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The stable Google Chrome has been updated to Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168. As is the norm at this stage of development, it's a bug fixing and security update.
Three vulnerabilities labeled as "High" risk and two labeled as "Medium," but Google only found one to be worthy of a monetary reward and paid $1,000, &eu... |
1 May 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Google is running a May Day doodle in several parts of the world. The celebration which is officially known as the international Workers' Day is a national holiday in some 80 countries and is observed in plenty of other places as well. The doodle isn't that remarkable, but it gets points for a certain kind... |
1 May 2012
04:52 GMT |
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Google's WiFi snooping scandal, if you can call it that, doesn't want to go away. Though the whole thing was revealed some two years ago, Google is still dealing with criticism, though it seems, at least in part, rightfully so.
The FCC concluded its investigation over the matter, the last government agency... |
30 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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It may be a couple of months late but Google has finally launched the Google Maps game it teased in January. The game is now live, at playmapscube.com, but you're going to need a modern browser and a decent enough computer to run it. The game is built on WebGL and makes ample use of the 3D graphics and the 3D bu... |
28 April 2012
19:31 GMT |
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As expected, Google has now integrated Google Drive into Chrome OS, albeit in the dev channel. The latest update to the dev channel brings Chrome 20.0.1116.0, part of Chrome OS 2199.0.0.The big addition is Drive which is now integrated into the file manager. It's the first step, but the idea is to have Drive bec... |
27 April 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Google is now completely off the hook for the Street View WiFi mess it inflicted on itself. The US Federal Communications Commission has concluded its lengthy investigation and will not take any further action against Google.However, it did fine the company $25,000, €18,900 for impeding the investigation. Google... |
27 April 2012
12:31 GMT |
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There are plenty of Easter Eggs in Google Search and more added all the time. The latest has gamers in mind, search for "zerg rush" and you'll see what it's about. For those of you who are not gamers, or haven't played StarCraft, zerg rush is the "tactic" of swamping your enemy with a huge number of lo... |
27 April 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Google has announced a very rare move, it's selling one of its products, specifically the 3D modeling software SketchUp and the team behind it. Google acquired the company behind SketchUp six years ago when it was just a small and new startup.
Google is selling the technology and the people working on it to Tim... |
27 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google Translate is as much part of the web as is Google Search at this point. There's hardly anyone who hasn't relied on it at least occasionally. And there's no one who hasn't laughed or been baffled by some of the things Translate spills out. But it's easy to forget that tools like Google... |
27 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Security is a big concern for any software maker, but browsers are at the forefront and the ones targeted most often. Browser security can't be overestimated and browser makers are constantly looking at ways of improving the security of their apps.
Security has been one of the cornerstones of Google Chrome sin... |
27 April 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Google has now brought to Google Maps GL the detailed 3D building models that it recently introduced. These models are a significant improvement over the previous ones and were only available in the regular version of Maps, not the WebGL-powered one.
"In March, we shared news of a significant improvement over our pr... |
27 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Google may be late to the party with Drive, it may even be last, but it's trying to present the service as something different from what Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box, iCloud and everyone else is offering. On the face of it, that's not really true, you get a desktop app, cloud sync, mobile apps, a web interf... |
26 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Java patents and copyright has at least one good side effect; it forced Google to reveal, for the first time, some Android revenue numbers. Granted they're fairly old, but they also show an insight on how Google expected Android to grow. The figures date from July 12, 2... |
26 April 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Google's self-driving car may sound like SF, even though they're very real, but they're coming to a street near you much sooner than you'd think, within a decade Google hopes.
Talking to the WSJ, Google's Anthony Levandowski who leads the project, is very hopeful.
He says Google is already... |
26 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Panos Ipeirotis, a computer scientists working at New York University, learned the hard way that Google can be used to launch successful denial-of-service (DOS) attacks against sites with minimal effort.
On his personal blog Ipeirotis explained that it all started when he saw that Amazon Web Services was charging hi... |
26 April 2012
09:19 GMT |
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Surprising no one, Google has said that there are plans to integrate Google Drive into Chrome OS. Considering that the blog post announcing Drive was written by Google Senior VP Sundar Pichai, head of the Chrome division, that's not much of an unexpected development.
Drive will be tightly integrated with Chrome... |
26 April 2012
07:15 GMT |
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Google regularly provides updated images for Google Maps, they wouldn't be much use if roads or buildings in them were no longer there or had changed. Along with satellite imagery, which covers the entire planet, Maps also provides aerial imagery, shot from a plane, of major cities around the world.
These image... |
26 April 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Not all of the Google news of late focus on Google Drive, Google+ remains a very important project at Google. It's always getting new features or improvements, the most recent being a share button for websites which enables visitors to, well, share the page on Google+.The share button joins the existing +1 butto... |
25 April 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Google Maps has always had a strong photo component. The map of a place is great for getting your bearings and Street View may be useful for checking out the interesting places, but it's user photos that provide the best experience if you really want to enjoy a famous landmark or location.Thankfully, by definiti... |
25 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Google's Photography Prize has come to an end, the Google+ photographer that happens to be a student has been chosen. The winner, out of the 10 finalists that were announced a short while ago, is Viktor Johansson from Sweden. His collection of photos focusing on Sweden's best male diver from 10 meters, Chr... |
25 April 2012
12:22 GMT |
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Social games developer Zynga has plans to become similar to Google when it comes to brand recognition and to continue growing its community of players.
Speaking at the USA Today, CEO Forum Mark Pinkus, the leader of the company, has stated, “If you play our games, if you give us 15 minutes a day, I’m hop... |
25 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Google is really starting to ramp up Street View launches, it seems. Either that or it's just a coincidence, but Street View is now available in the Ukraine, less than a week after officially debuting in Israel.
This being the debut, only a few cities are covered by Street View in Ukraine, the big ones.
Grante... |
25 April 2012
11:21 GMT |
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One thing that Google Drive does have to boast about at launch, though it's not exactly an exclusive, is an SDK and APIs from day one. Google has learned its lessons from the Google+ drive and is providing a rather full set of tools for developers to integrate Drive into their apps.
Of course, the fact that Dri... |
25 April 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Google Drive is finally here, there have been so many rumors about it that it was hardly a surprise. But with Google's new cloud storage service, the company decided to update some of its other cloud storage offers as well, for example by bumping the free storage amount in Gmail from about 7.5 GB, where it'... |
25 April 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Matt Cutts has been posting interesting and helpful videos about Google Search, SEO and related topics for years. His most recent video from the Google Webmasters YouTube channel is quite interesting and quite long by his standard. Given that he tries to explain how the entire Google Search works, starting with the ... |
24 April 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Google Drive is definitely debuting any second now. In fact, Google leaked the info itself by publishing the blog post announcement on its French blog. The post is gone now, but not before someone managed to get a copy.TechCrunch has a full translation of the post detailing all the information. Of course, there'... |
24 April 2012
11:40 GMT |
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Google's Summer of Code program is progressing nicely, all that's left now is the actual coding, as the 1,212 students that have been accepted to the program have now been announced. They'll be working with 180 organizations on various projects.
Google Summer of Code 2012 started a couple of months ba... |
24 April 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Google is getting even more generous with its rewards for security bug reports and fixes. Google has been offering money to researches pointing out vulnerabilities in Chrome and more recently in other Google products.
The program has proven rather successful so much so that Google decided it should step up the game ... |
24 April 2012
09:47 GMT |
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