Devil’s Advocate: Google - an electronic freedom argument
Comment Martin Brampton considers free exchange of information and the role Google may or may not have to play… I remember Google as the first time I decided to make a search engine my home page. Fears for the... [03 Nov 2003]
BBC, Google in talks over international iPlayer?
News According to media reports, BBC director general Mark Thomson is in negotiations with Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the possibility of hosting long-form BBC content on Google-owned video website, YouTube. [29 May 2009]
Google squares up to Microsoft
News Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files on the PC and through a person's web history, a move that could shake up the landscape of internet search and... [14 Oct 2004]
Google "profusely" sorry for Blogger blackouts
News Internet search giant Google has apologised for a series of "unplanned outages" that hit its Blogger site last week. Google's blogging service experienced five outages, both planned and unplanned, due to... [30 Oct 2006]
Google code hides IM secrets
News Google watchers abuzz about the search darling's new desktop tool are already betting on its next product: instant chat. First, although few people seem to realise it, Google already owns an... [18 Oct 2004]
Google Apps feels the Force.com
News Salesforce.com has introduced a new version of Force.com that improves the cloud-computing platform's integration with Google App Engine. The launch follows on from an initial version of Force.com for... [28 May 2009]
Google 'Gdrive' coming soon?
News Google's much-rumoured online storage service should be available in a few months, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal that cites unnamed sources. The service would allow people to store any kind of data on... [27 Nov 2007]
Google In-Game Advertising
White Paper Playfish deployed Google AdSense that enabled easy access to standardized media inventory means. Playfish is one of the world's largest and fastest growing social games companies. The company combines creativity,... [23 Jun 2009]
Google: Apps to shun OS for the desktop
News Google spent Wednesday morning trying to get developers excited about the next generation of web technologies by showing off how future web applications will mimic desktop apps. In his speech kicking off... [28 May 2009]
Google grabs AOL Europe from Overture
News America Online and Google have expanded their partnership in Europe, in a deal that once again pushes search rival Overture Services to the margins. Under the deal, announced on Tuesday, AOL subscribers in the United... [20 Oct 2004]
Google 'poised to buy Twitter'
News Google is in "late stage" talks to acquire microblogging service Twitter, according to a report Thursday on TechCrunch citing two unnamed sources. Google's origins, core technology, and profits come from... [03 Apr 2009]
Google adds wikis to its arsenal
News Google's empire building has swallowed up JotSpot, a company which provides a hosted service to corporate customers building wikis. In a blog post announcing the deal JotSpot co-founder and CEO Joe Kraus wrote: "We... [01 Nov 2006]
Google sweating to make YouTube legit
News Google is trying to persuade traditional media companies to come aboard the good ship YouTube and supply their content to the video website. According to Google, CBS, Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal Music... [03 Nov 2006]
Google: How to succeed in the web 2.0 world
News YouTube succeeded where Google Video didn't because users were able to see their videos posted immediately, Google executive Marissa Mayer said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday. By... [10 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome
Cheat Sheet So Google's invented its own metal now has it? Erm, no - Chrome is Google's open source web browser that launched around a year ago. Google has also said it's working on Chrome for Mac... [22 Sep 2009]