Google (1922 articles)
Google is an American company based in Mountain View, California. It has come to be the most popular internet search engine in the world with the help of its PageRank website relevance tech. It currently runs over 1 million servers worldwide. Google has expanded into a variety of cloud-based areas including email, mapping and video and has aided its own expansion through numerous takeovers and partnerships. The mobile phone OS Android, and Chrome browser and operating system are just a few of the ways in which Google is continuing to cement itself as one of the world's biggest and most influential tech companies.
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Android kills the menu button, demands action
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Apple doubles iPad shipments, Android gains ground
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Rebel Android Market to house naughty apps
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Google Docs Android app now offers offline editing
And improved tablet features 2 February 2012 11:57 GMT TweetGoogle Docs on Android just upped its game with the introduction of offline viewing.
The new feature means that when you're without Wi-Fi or 3G you'll still be able to fire up your files and work away on them on the move - provided you've marked...
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Facebook IPO could value site at $100 billion, but is it worth it?
COMMENT: The social net worth 30 January 2012 16:46 GMT TweetFacebook is about to start the process of becoming a public listed company this week, with various online rumours valuing the site up to $100 billion.
The mega amount has spilt industry opinion and forced many to wonder whether a second dotcom...
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Multiple Google Calendars available on Windows Phone 7.5
Syncing fun 27 January 2012 12:18 GMT TweetWindows Phone 7.5 users rejoice - for multiple Google Calendar syncing is now available on your Mango handset.
That's right - after months of waiting and having to do complicated work-arounds, no longer will you forget to go to that important...
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Android kills the menu button, demands action
Action bar is the future 27 January 2012 10:11 GMT TweetThe menu button on Google's Android is all but dead and is to be replaced permanently by the action bar. That's the message from Scott Main, lead tech writer for developer.android.com, who has posted an article advising Android developers to change...
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Google Maps adds Public Alerts to keep searchers safe
New feature from the Big G 26 January 2012 16:00 GMT TweetGoogle is always tweaking with its services, adding the odd feature here and there, and its latest jiggery-pokery with Google Maps has seen the addition of Google Public Alerts - "a platform designed to bring you relevant emergency alerts when and...
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Apple doubles iPad shipments but Android gains ground
Google catching up fast 26 January 2012 11:00 GMT TweetThe Q4 2011 tablet results are in and, despite Apple growing its global iPad shipments - increasing 111 per cent year on year - from 7.3 million to 15.4 million, there will be concern in the Cupertino board room that its market dominance is declining.
And...
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Google privacy streamlined ahead of big EU data changes
Policy fun 25 January 2012 16:44 GMT TweetGoogle is combining its 70+ privacy policies into one, hopefully easier to understand, single policy that covers all of its online services (bar a few it has to keep for legal reasons).
So whether you're using Google+, Google's mobile search...
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Rebel Android Market ready to house naughty apps
Anti-Google fun 23 January 2012 11:07 GMT TweetA rebel Android developer, part of the CyanogenMod team and the creator of ClockworkMod, Koushik Dutta, is working on an alternative Android Market; one that will host the types of apps that have been banned from Google’s official portfolio.
We're...
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Google breaches $10 billion revenue in a quarter for first time
Recession? What recession? 20 January 2012 10:01 GMT TweetGoogle has published its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 report and has revealed that its full year revenue was up by 25 per cent, while its final quarter revenue breached $10 billion for the first time.
Larry Page, CEO of the online tour...
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Google Maps teams up with thetrainline for UK travel info
Added search functionality 19 January 2012 11:49 GMT TweetBack in July last year Google Maps added public transport directions to its repertoire, meaning Googlers were able to check out what Underground line to jump on and now, in partnership with thetrainline, the travel information has been extended across...
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Wikipedia hits record numbers following SOPA black-out
Big win claims Jimmy Wales 19 January 2012 11:13 GMT TweetWe always want what we can't have. And clearly that was the case on Wednesday when Wikipedia blacked-out for the day in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), and recorded bigger hits than...
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Nokia CEO: Android is too fragmented
EXCLUSIVE: Doesn't want same to happen to WP7 19 January 2012 8:30 GMT TweetStephen Elop has told Pocket-lint that he thinks Google's Android operating system is too fragmented, a pitfall he wants to avoid with Windows Phone 7 and Nokia in the future.
Talking to Pocket-lint at CES in Las Vegas, the Nokia CEO said:
"We...
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Google, Wikipedia and others go dark against SOPA
Protests across the Internet 18 January 2012 10:29 GMT TweetWikipedia, Google, Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, Flickr, and dozens of other websites have shown their support against SOPA by either going dark, or showing their dislike of the US bill in some way.
SOPA, standing for Stop Online Piracy Act,...
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Google+ looks for epic wins and lols with new meme picture editor
I can has ROFLs 17 January 2012 16:25 GMT TweetGoogle has launched a new feature for its social network, Google+, that it hopes will result in epic lols, rofls, lmaos and pmsls.
That's right web-meme seekers, you can now turn your own photos into the sorts of images made famous by sites...
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Samsung folds Bada into open-source Tizen Project
Own-brand phones go open source 16 January 2012 16:48 GMT TweetSamsung is merging its Bada mobile phone operating system with the Tizen Project, an open-source Linux Foundation software platform, aimed at a broad range of devices, including smartphones. "We have an effort that will merge Bada and Tizen", Tae-Jin...
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