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Google closes Knol, Friend Connect and other services

Google continues to shut down underperforming services, announcing Tuesday that Friend Connect, Knol and a few other services will soon go the way of Google Health and Google Buzz. “We’re in the process of shutting a number [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Translate for iPhone updated with new Indic languages

The Google Mobile blog has declared the latest update to Google Translate for iPhone. The Google app has added a total of five new Indian languages to its kitty namely, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. The Translate app fo [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Street View Hangs Around In Parks

Google has once again added a stack of new Street View images to its amazing voyeur tool, bringing a selection of the world’s most popular city parks to its database. As you can see from the idyllic portrayal of urban life in the im [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Google updates list of government demands for info

The U.S., India and several European countries are where Google gets the most government demands to turn over information about its users and censor online material. The Internet search leader released the snapshot in a Tuesday update on [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Music: Share your MP3s via Google+

Google is planning to closely link an upcoming music download store with its Google+ social network, according to a published report. ZDNet Asia sister site CNET reported last week that Google was planning a new social "twist" t [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Facebook and eBay downplay Google threat

Silicon Valley star Sean Parker said Facebook would have to blunder in a big way for Google's social network to steal its crown. "Facebook would have to screw up royally and Google would have to do something really smart," P [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Google to close down Google Buzz

Google Friday announced to shut down the highly-controversial social networking product Google Buzz, along with several other services in the coming weeks, Xinhua reported. Google on its official blog, Google announced the death penalty t [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Earth passes 1 billion download mark

When it was introduced in 2005, Google Earth felt like a distinctly modern way of seeing the world – a spinning, interactive digital mosaic, which incorporated satellite and aerial photographs with troves of geospatial data. In the [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Google launches Flight Search

Internet giant Google has launched a flight search tool in a potential challenge to online travel services. Flight Search is the first travel product from Google since its $US700 million ($A676.92 million) acquisition of ITA Software earl [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Google and Facebook get personal in battle for social networ...

It is one month since the launch of Google+, a belated attempt at a social networking tool that invites users to follow friends' activities in their news feed and share favourite content by marking it "+1". If this sounds fa [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Four Things Google Plus Could Do To Fix Google Plus

Saturday’s Google+ user account deletion purge plunged the new social network into a crisis of user trust. The community wants it fixed. Saturday’s deletion of multiple Google+ user accounts spanned from well-known tech fig [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Plus garners 20mn visitors in 3 weeks: report

‘Google Plus’ has reportedly attracted about 20 mn visitors in the initial three weeks, half of them being from US and India. According to reports, research firm ComScore estimated that Google Plus had 19.93 mn unique visitors [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Sounds Alarm on Malware Problem

Google said late Tuesday that it will use its search engine to respond to an outbreak of malicious software, or malware, that the company recently uncovered. Writing on Google’s blog, Damian Menscher, a security engineer, said the c [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Takes on Climate Change Skeptics with New Technology ...

For him, passing or rejecting the House amendments is less important than whether lawmakers actually understand climate science and are thoughtfully considering the risks of inaction. "If we were well informed as a society &mda [...]