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Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.
Nokia N900 gets Android 2.3 Gingerbread port
12/22/2010, Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread is hot property at the moment, as hackers out there are busy trying to get the mobile operating system installed on various devices. Now next in line to get Gingerbread is Nokia’s N900, which was previously [...]
Web-based Android Market is ready and raring to go
12/22/2010, The Android Market’s online version is tipped to be right around the corner as promised earlier in the year. According to developer René Hesse, Google recently updated its Market URL convention, which now points toward a http://market.android.com/ prefix, which in [...]
Judge sides with Google in Android trademark suit
12/21/2010, You might remember that when Google’s Android operating system first kicked off, the name was challenged by a person who ran a company called Android Data from 1998 to 2002. Google was accused of trademark infringement and the person wanted [...]
Google knocks Facebook off mobile web perch
12/21/2010, Google and Facebook – these two are the current giants of the Internet scene, where the former will handle just about all your search queries, while the latter’s founder was TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year”, having kicked off social [...]
Free Gmail Calls Extended Through 2011
12/20/2010, Google is extending its promotion to let users make free calls to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada through 2011. The original Gmail calling service was launched back in August as an affordable and easy way to dial your contacts [...]
Google’s UK Street View Wi-Fi data deleted for good
12/20/2010, The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has just confirmed that Google UK has deleted all Wi-Fi data collected from the Internet giant’s Street View cars, where among the data included bits and pieces of e-mails, URLs and passwords. The deletion [...]
Google Nexus S experiences delay in the UK
12/20/2010, Folks who reside in the UK (and are reveling in a white winter wonderland at the moment) and are looking forward to getting their gloved hands wrapped around a Google Nexus S handset will be disappointed to know that both [...]
Apple hiring staff with navigation experience, new service on the way?
12/20/2010, Could Apple be looking to take on Google in the navigation scene? Job openings at Apple have been spotted, noting that the fruity company is searching for four employees and specify that Computational Geometry/Graph Theory and having experience in developing [...]
Froyo update for Bell’s Vibrant pulled after reports of fried storage
12/20/2010, Bell subscribers out there who are rocking the Galaxy S might want to take note. Word is out that the carrier has pulled the phone’s Android 2.2 Froyo update after many users who attempted the upgrade via Samsung’s Kies desktop [...]
Google ditches latitude location alerts
12/20/2010, Folks who tried Google Latitude a while back might have noticed that there was a rather disturbing feature that would notify you of friends who were nearby – Location Alerts. It probably wouldn’t be so bad if you were shown [...]
Google TV Hardware Delayed Due To Software Upgrades
12/20/2010, While it’s great news that CES is just around the corner, the bad news is that if you were looking forward to seeing many Google TV hardware devices there, you might be in for a bit of disappointment. Word is [...]
Google offers new hacked site notification
12/19/2010, Google has released a slight improvement to its search results that it hopes might help consumers out there avoid problematic sites. The search giant has already been providing notices for malware for years and now it’s expanding the search results [...]
Google Body Browser checks out body like Google Earth
12/17/2010, Talk about an out of this world experience – the Google Body Browser will help you explore your very own body in a Google Earth-like experience, where it is supposed to function as an in-browser tool. Basically, Body Browser is [...]
