Google has finally signed on the bottom line and finalised the deal that sees the internet giant purchase Motorola Mobility.

The deal is believed to be worth a whopping $12.5 billion and is the first time Google has actually owned a mobile...

Do we still care about .com and .co.uk? Does anyone even bother with www.? Well thanks to ICANN, a body in charge of licensing new top-level domain names, the way we search for a website might be about to change.

Most people who type Google...

Google has started to offer its Knowledge Graph aided-search results to US English users, with a global roll-out on the cards later. It is a new technology that understands and uses associations between people, places, events and "things" in the world...

Google’s next version of Android could arrive on as many as five different manufactured smartphones as it changes its approach to launching new operating systems.

In the past Google has tested the water by partnering with one manufacturer...

A court has heard that Google’s Android OS lost the internet giant money in every quarter of 2010.

Google avoids publishing its financial reports on Android, but during the case in which software developer Oracle is suing Google for copyright...

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich share has grown to 4.4 per cent in Google's latest platform versions report, showing that the newest version of Android is growing in popularity, but by no means the most popular version of the mobile OS.

That...

Productivity apps form the core of every smartphone experience. They are the reason that most of us invest in one, along with mapping and music. The useful apps available  are numbered in the hundreds, but these are the ones we think every mobile should...

Images of the first ever Google Phone have emerged during the court case between the internet company and technology outfit Oracle.

No, not the T-Mobile G1. Housing a Qwerty keyboard and small display, the unnamed handset was in Google’s...

It’s been a busy time for cloud storage and music services and Apple’s launch onto the scene with Apple iCloud has officially declared it global war. The lines have begun to blur as to what you own, where you own it and just how much you...

Google’s cloud storage service Google Drive is now official, meaning you’ll be able to pick up and share files on the move on your Android device.

Available now as a desktop app on both PC and Mac, the user interface has been simplified...

Google used its Google Doodle on Monday to celebrate the 30th birthday of the ZX Spectrum and St George's Day in the UK. 

The Google doodle features an 8-bit version of the sainted knight slaying a dragon and links through to a search on the...

Half spoof, half a look into a possible future for the Google Project Glass Project, ThereIsaCanal has released a video on what it believes Battlefield 5 would look like on Google Glasses.

The duo behind ThereIsaCanal - who like making Battlefield...

Google Drive, Google's Cloud Storage service that plans to take on Microsoft's SkyDrive, Apple's iCloud, and Dropbox, has been detailed in a leaked document.

According to the documents seen by TheNextWeb.com, the new service will come with...

Google has announced that Google+, its social network, is getting a major design overhaul with a new user interface to make things easier to share. 

The new features and new look is still to be rolled out to the 170m Google+ users, however...

The latest version of Chrome, Google’s desktop browser, will now offer tab syncing to multiple machines including your Android smartphone. 

The news means that if you use the company's browser on different computers or devices at different...