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Google Chrome and Android OS will merge in the future

Mike Ferro — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

Google is currently working on two operating systems for different platforms. One of the OS is Chrome, which targets Netbooks and the other one is Android, targeting smart phones. Apparently, the [...]

YouTube introduces automatic video captioning

John Lister — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:13:59 +0000

YouTube has announced it will offer automated video captioning for clips. It will serve as an accessibility tool for hard-of-hearing viewers, but could also make clips easier to find.

The site already allows manual captioning, but most clip uploaders don’t take advantage simply because of [...]

What to look for in Google OS launch

John Lister — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:14:44 +0000

Google is scheduled to give the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Chrome operating system tomorrow. Here are some of the questions which could be answered by the event:

What’s the selling point? Is it speed? Price (or lack of it)? The Google [...]

Windows Mobile bleeds market share

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:42:10 +0000

The Gartner Group reported last week that the almost meteoric rise of the iPhone and the longer steady rise of the RIM Blackberry have been largely at the expense of Microsoft and their Windows Mobile platform.

Both the [...]

Switzerland sues Google over Street View data protection

Dave Parrack — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:38:28 +0000

Here we go again. Another week, another country threatening to take legal action against Google for its Street View service. Although it’s pretty clear by now that Street View is legal [...]

Google Books restrictions grow

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:11:00 +0000

The noose continues to tighten around Google Book Search as legal actions from all quarters restrict the source material that can be digitized and the uses that Google can make of them.

Google Book Search is a service from Google [...]

Google Chrome OS could “launch within a week”

Dave Parrack — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:24:25 +0000

Google first announced its Chrome OS operating system in July. Many people were very interested to see what Google could do to enter the already crowded OS market. Those people may [...]

Rupert Murdoch will remove content from Google within “months”

Sean P. Aune — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:11:34 +0000

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will disappear from Google indexing sometime in the coming months.

Mr. Murdoch has made it very clear that he no longer has any interest in his content appearing in the Google search index, and that he [...]

Google looking to speed up the Web with new protocol

Sean P. Aune — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:30:52 +0000

If Google is to be believed, by replacing the existing HTTP protocol, we could see the Web double in speed.

According to a post on the Chromium blog, Google has been running laboratory tests on a new protocol named [...]

Google slashes prices of cloud storage and ups the limit

Sean P. Aune — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:41:16 +0000

Google wants to make sure you have more than enough room to store all of your digital images, and they want to make sure you can have it at a price you can afford.

While Google has offered additional [...]