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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Google launches Reader Play

Google has taken the wraps off its experimental new RSS interface, Reader Play - a highly visual system which is clearly aimed at touchscreen devices.

March 16, 2010 | 14:01

FTC investigating Google's AdMob deal

The US Federal Trade Commission is asking for declarations following complaints that Google's purchase of mobile advertising company AdMob would stifle competition.

March 12, 2010 | 10:37

Apple tops Fortune admiration list

Apple has topped the Fortune list of 'World's Most Admired Companies" for the third year running, leaving rival Microsoft languishing in eleventh place.

March 5, 2010 | 10:14

Street View goes user-generated

Google's Street View service is now equipped to accept photographs taken by third parties and map them onto a 3D space - although the fact that faces aren't blurred could cause concern.

March 1, 2010 | 12:48

Google employees convicted by Italian court

Google employees have been found guilty by an Italian court over a video uploaded by a third party to the Google Video service.

February 25, 2010 | 10:33

Xerox sues Google, Yahoo!

Xerox has filed suit against search giants Google and Yahoo!, alleging infringement of patents held on knowledge management and automatic query generation.

February 24, 2010 | 14:27

Google sounds death knell for IE 6

Google has announced it is to officially drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 in its YouTube video streaming service from March this year.

February 24, 2010 | 10:04

Google Gears moving to HTML 5

Google Gears, the search giant's offline caching technology, is being redeveloped using the HTML 5 specification - potentially making it easier for third parties to implement.

February 22, 2010 | 11:00

Google netbooks set to hit market

Manufacturers are lining up to create netbooks running Google's operating systems, but the market is split as to which to support: Chrome or Android.

February 15, 2010 | 10:36

Google buys Aardvark social search

Google has confirmed its purchase of the Aardvark social search engine - founded by ex-Google employees - for $50 million, giving its Buzz service a boost.

February 12, 2010 | 10:13

Google moves into ISP realm

Google has announced plans to launch a trial fibre-to-the-home service which will see the search and advertising giant offering 1Gb/s Internet connections to home users.

February 11, 2010 | 13:35

Google's Buzz causes privacy concerns

Google's Buzz status update system - launched earlier this week - has journalists in a flap following the discovery that it automatically publishes a list of most common contacts.

February 11, 2010 | 10:15

Google plans new research funding

Google has announced a series of grants for twelve outside research projects in the areas of machine learning, data collection on mobile handsets, energy efficient computing, and privacy.

February 2, 2010 | 10:09

Google to pay for Chrome bugs

Google has announced that it is to pay security researchers $500 per bug found in the Chrome or Chromium codebase - rising to $1,337 if the bug is particularly vexing.

February 1, 2010 | 10:16

Google Social Search goes beta

Google's Social Search features - which pulls in content from users' social networking contacts - has official entered the mainstream, albeit in beta form.

January 29, 2010 | 11:57

Kaspersky blocks Google's Adsense

An update to Kaspersky's anti-virus software left many users unable to browse the most innocuous of websites after the company mistakenly added Google's Adsense to its detection.

January 26, 2010 | 10:11

N900 hacked to boot Android

Nokia's flagship N900 smartphone - built around the Maemo 5 operating system - has been hacked and made to boot Google's rival Android platform.

January 25, 2010 | 09:53

App stores worth £3.8 billion in 2010

Market watcher Gartner predicts that mobile application stores like the Android Market or Apple's App Store will generate $6.2 billion in revenue in 2010 - and could decide the platform war.

January 19, 2010 | 13:49

Majority of LG output to be Android

LG Mobile has announced that "more than half" of its planned 'phone output is to run Google's increasingly popular Android platform, with Windows Mobile pushed into second place.

January 14, 2010 | 13:56

Nexus One suffers T-Mobile issue

T-Mobile US customers who have bought a Google Nexus One handset are reporting that it refuses to hold a 3G connection, always falling back to 2G EDGE.

January 12, 2010 | 13:58

Banking trojan hits Android

A trojan application which attempts to steal banking details, uncovered by First Tech Credit Union, has been removed from the Android Market - but leaves unanswered questions.

January 11, 2010 | 14:02

Google sweetens On2 deal

Google has upped its offer for the acquisition of video compression specialist On2 Technologies by $0.15 a share, and will offer 0.001 of a share of its own in exchange.

January 8, 2010 | 13:59

Google to announce tablet at CES?

Rumours are rife that Google is to announce a tablet device in partnership with hardware manufacturer HTC at CES - pre-empting Apple's own rumoured tablet device.

January 4, 2010 | 13:59