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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

Shiny, but not polished

Google surprised just about all of us in the bit-tech office when it announced Chrome - its first foray into the browser market. Tim Smalley has been playing around with the first beta for a few days and has some thoughts on the browser's direction.

September 6, 2008 | 07:55

Google launches Chrome browser

Google has taken the next logical step in its plans to conquer the Internet, with the beta launch of an open-source standards-compliant browser dubbed Chrome.

September 3, 2008 | 10:10

Microsoft to buy ciao.com

Microsoft has announced its planned purchase of Greenfield Online, the corporation behind shopping comparison site ciao.com, to bolster its Live Search platform.

September 1, 2008 | 13:03

T-Mobile to debut Android handset

Rumours spreading across the 'net have T-Mobile ready to launch the HTC Dream smartphone, the first handset to run on Google's Linux-based Android platform.

August 18, 2008 | 09:27

Google launches Knol

Google has announced the launch of Knol, a new Wikipedia-style site aimed at allowing those knowledgeable on a topic to create informative pages and collaborate on others.

July 24, 2008 | 08:56

Google launches MMO game, Lively

Google has launched a competitor to Second Life, dubbed Lively, that allows users to interact in a 3D environment.

July 9, 2008 | 13:31

Billionaire Icahn battles Yahoo board over buyout

The war of words between billionaire investor Carl Icahn and the Yahoo! board over the company's future and direction continues.

June 11, 2008 | 08:21

Mobile Linux at 23 percent by 2013

Mobile internet devices based on the open-source Linux operating system are expected to account for 23 percent of the market by 2013 according to analysts.

June 5, 2008 | 09:24

Image-based search with TinEye

Idée Incorporated have launched a closed beta of an image-based search engine which allows you to upload pictures from your computer and search for similar images on the web.

May 13, 2008 | 09:45

CoreAVC for Linux downed

The popular CoreAVC for Linux project, which allows registered users of the CoreCodec's CoreAVC DirectShow filter to run the product under Linux, has been removed from Google Code.

May 6, 2008 | 09:53

Microsoft launches news aggregator

Microsoft is still trying its best to beat Google at its own game, with the launch of a new aggregation add-on to its Live Search service. Has the company cracked it - or just cracked?

April 17, 2008 | 06:49

Hacker frees Google App Engine

Hacker Chris Anderson has developed a tool which allows web applications developed on the Google App Engine SDK to run on any Unix-like server.

April 16, 2008 | 07:08

Google Docs now available offline

Search giant Google has introduced a clever hack allowing its web-based office suite Google Docs to be accessed whilst you're disconnected from the Internet.

April 2, 2008 | 09:54

Google pins hopes on whitespace

Google has published a letter to the FCC which outlines the company's plans for utilising the radio spectrum freed by the move to all-digital TV transmissions.

March 25, 2008 | 08:33

Flickr Video Beta due in April

Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr is due to allow its users to upload videos as well as photos in a clear attempt to challenge Google's YouTube service.

March 17, 2008 | 13:01

Google funds massive undersea cable

Search giant Google is to join six other companies in a project to lay a 6,200 mile undersea cable joining the USA and Japan and capable of carrying 4.8Tb/s.

February 27, 2008 | 08:55

Google wants your medical records

Google has announced a trial of a new service allowing patients to upload and store their entire medical history on-line.

February 22, 2008 | 07:41

Google funds Wine work

Search giant Google has slipped a bundle of used notes to the team behind the Wine package in order to get better support for Adobe Photoshop on Linux.

February 20, 2008 | 11:46

Google responds to Microsoft's Yahoo! takeover bid

Google has responded to Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo! on the official Google Blog and questions the legality of such a move.

February 4, 2008 | 14:24

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for £22.4bn

UPDATED: Microsoft has said that it has formally offered to buy Yahoo! for a massive £22.4 billion - if the deal goes through it'd be the biggest in Internet history.

February 1, 2008 | 13:37

Google Talk now features real-time translation

Google's IM package now features real-time translation to and from multiple languages. Next step: a small fish you slip into your ear?

December 20, 2007 | 13:23

Ask.com introduces anonymous-ish searching

Ask.com now offers an Eraser option that nukes the logs of your search. Great, but you have to use Ask..

December 12, 2007 | 13:10

Rogers forces own content onto users

A Canadian ISP is trialling a new invasive service that currently lets users know about their current bandwidth use, however the possibilities this service could provide are a little more sinister.

December 11, 2007 | 12:59