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News We started looking at our products and discovered that while the door to leave wasn't locked, in some cases it was a bit "stuck" and we thought that we could do better," Google said in an FAQ accompanying the launch of... [15 Sep 2009]
Google ditches plan to buy newspaper
News Schmidt also dismissed what he called "clever ideas" suggested about sheltering newspapers in not-for-profit structures through the Google.org foundation. Google CEO Eric Schmidt... [21 May 2009]
Amazon says no to Phorm tracking
News To date, none of the other six companies addressed by the ORG's letter - namely Microsoft, Google/YouTube, Facebook, AOL/Bebo, Yahoo! On 22 March, campaigners at the Open Rights Group... [15 Apr 2009]
Louisiana State University Taps SmartDraw for Org Charts
White Paper Jodi searched Google for org chart software, and found SmartDraw. They needed a quick, easy way to create a polished-looking org chart. Jodi Benton works as administrative program... [14 Apr 2009]
Brits to get paid-for Android apps this week
News Cheat Sheets Cheat Sheet: Google Android Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV Cheat Sheet: Galileo Video Cheat Sheet: Femtocells Mike Jennings, head of mobile engineering at The Telegraph Media Group - which has an Android... [11 Mar 2009]
Google Chrome waves bye bye to beta
News Users can monitor Chrome's progress at Chromium.org, or download the Google Chrome Channel Chooser, which will tell their installation of Chrome to download either the betas between major updates of... [12 Dec 2008]
UK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals
News G is for Google Nick Staib, director of GetSafeOnline.org and senior manager at HSBC, warned of the long term implications of falling victim to internet crime. The value of the average UK person's salary... [17 Nov 2008]
Larry Brilliant: "Today is a good day to choose to save the world"
News The tech industry can play a major role in tackling global disease and battling climate change, according to the executive director of Google.org, Larry Brilliant. Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce... [06 Nov 2008]
Google digs deep for geothermal energy
News Through its philanthropic arm Google.org, the internet giant will invest in two geothermal technology start-up companies and give a university grant to study the potential of geothermal resources. The... [20 Aug 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Last month StopBadware.org, a site sponsored by Google, found that Google itself was one of the top five networks hosting malicious web pages, largely due to the popularity among... [14 Jul 2008]
Google warns: Malicious 'drive-by downloads' on the up
News According to a Google source, Google security researchers report compromised sites to StopBadware.org, a clearinghouse for web malware research run by Harvard Law School, Oxford... [20 Feb 2008]
Google invests in web to fight disaster
News Google.org's technology project to help save lives in the event of natural disasters or public health threats is expected to launch today. Google, through its charitable foundation... [17 Jan 2008]
Google calls for help in flagging up the bad guys
News According to StopBadware.org, which is working together with Google in its fight against malware-carrying websites, Google "independently checks the web for badware and badware-linking... [04 Dec 2007]
Google pours money into renewable energy
News Dr Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google.org, the search giant's charitable organisation, said the company hopes its own R&D work, combined with its funding of research and companies, will help... [28 Nov 2007]
Can Redmond rivals storm the Office stronghold?
News Meanwhile, Google has introduced Google Presentations, an online version of Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation application that complements Google's web-hosted document editor and... [19 Sep 2007]
