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Pressure mounts on Google's UK street view service

Tom Warren — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:31:46 +0000

Google's UK version of street view for Google Maps launched last week in the UK and has created a media circus ever since. The Google Maps feature, which allows users to browse through popular cities... Read more...

Google's Gmail returns to normal after 4hr outage

Tom Warren — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:48:16 +0000

Visitors to Google's Gmail service are being greeted with server errors when trying to access their mail accounts this morning. It's not yet known what the exact issue is but Gmail officials have confirmed they... Read more...

Google's Q4 earnings beats expectations

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:04:35 +0000

Google's fourth quarter earnings rose up to 34% for the quarter ended December 31, 2008. The company reported a net income of $382 million, a big decline from the $1.21 billion the year earlier.... Read more...

Google's Android open source OS 'jailbroken'

CrimsonRedMk — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:30:23 +0000

Fans of Google's Android OS, now available on T-Mobile G1 phones, can finally feel more "at home" with the Open Source notion Google is taking. "Jailbreaking", a popular term popularized by Apple's iPhone, means "getting... Read more...

Google's Street View Captures Drunken Moment

RangerLG — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:14:40 +0100

A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. He had been drowning his sorrows over the death... Read more...

Google's Answer to Wikipedia

EL1TE — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:42:18 +0000

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Google recently announced Knol, a new experimental website that puts information online in a way that encourages authorial attribution. Unlike articles for the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which anyone is free to revise, Knol articles... Read more...

FTC Clears Google's Acquisition of DoubleClick

Slimy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:36:53 +0000

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has cleared Google Incorporated of its planned acquisition of DoubleClick Incorporated. In April 2007, the search giant announced plans to acquire the provider of display ad serving technology and services... Read more...

Worm Squirms Through Google's Orkut

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:13:23 +0000

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A fast moving worm is squirming though Google's Orkut social network, adding hundreds of thousands of users to an Orkut community created by a Brazilian hacker. The worm, which first appeared on Dec. 19, has... Read more...

Google's search share jumps

Tom Warren — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:29:17 +0000

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Google Inc enjoyed one of its biggest monthly gains in U.S. Web search market share in October, building on consistent gains over the past two years, according to industry data out on Wednesday. Market research... Read more...

AT&T Considers Joining Google's Wireless Group

Sagittarius — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:25:07 +0000

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Phone-company AT&T is reportedly talking to internet search giant Google about joining its mobile-phone software alliance. According to an interview on Friday with Ralph de la Vega, chief executive officer of the AT&T's wireless unit,... Read more...

Google's Android OS early look SDK now available

recon13 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:01:20 +0000

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Just like the boys promised, the early look software developer kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet. Pedal your steam-engine over to the Open Handset Alliance site where you... Read more...

MySpace Joins Google's Social Network Partner Platform

Slimy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:13:39 +0000

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For more than a year, Google and MySpace have been working together to give the world's largest social network access to the Internet search leader's platform that allows outside developers to write programs for social... Read more...

Google's 'Gphone' said to be mobile OS

Steven Parker — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:30:43 +0100

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New reports suggest search giant Google is believed to be working on a mobile operating system and not a handset device as previously speculated. Engineers at the company have been working on a secret mobile... Read more...

Google's 9th Birthday

Amano — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:49:17 +0100

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Two weeks ago, AFP informed us that "Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet. Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human... Read more...

Google's Stock Price Hits New High

Sagittarius — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:58:49 +0100

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Shares of Google jumped to a new high of $559.99 on Friday, a surge which comes on the heels of a few positive analyst reports and news Thursday that co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page... Read more...

Google's Blogger fixes bug, adds video uploading

Slimy — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:11:58 +0100

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Google's Blogger team solved a technical problem Wednesday with the blog publishing and hosting service that affected an undetermined number of Blogger publishers with editing and posting operations on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, Blogger... Read more...

Google's Blogger Hit by Outage

Sagittarius — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:16:12 +0100

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Search-engine giant Google's Blogger blog publishing and Blogspot blog hosting services went offline earlier today. Among the organizations affected by this apparently widespread outage was Google itself, which hosts its official company blogs on Blogspot.... Read more...

European officials question Google's privacy policy

Slimy — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:24:07 +0100

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A European Commission advisory group, composed of representatives from all of the European Union countries, sent Google a letter expressing concern over Google's new privacy policy announced in March. The issue surrounds Google's policy of... Read more...

Does Google's New Tagline Imply a Shift to Enterprise Apps?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:15:15 +0100

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With a new tagline of "Search, Ads and Apps" announced May 14, and a new presentation application coming soon to complete the desktop quatrain of spreadsheets, word processing, presentation and e-mail, Google is poised to... Read more...

Privacy activists attempt block of Google's purchase

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:50:21 +0100

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Privacy groups have lodged a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over Google's proposed acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick. The merger will give the combined company unprecedented power, they argue. Three groups have... Read more...