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Google Stands Up For Free Expression

Google Stands Up For Free Expression

Google takes on the world’s governments today, publishing details about how often countries around the world ask it for user...

Google HTTP’s Off Nerds

Google HTTP’s Off Nerds

The web has been around for some time now, and the world is divided into two camps: people who get...

Instant Twitplay: Google Replays Tweets on Twitter Timeline

Instant Twitplay: Google Replays Tweets on Twitter Timeline

For all the chatter about the inanity of Twitter, ultimately it is a pretty amazing resource of what people are...

Google Docs Gets A Makeover

Google Docs Gets A Makeover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hJ3R8jEZM Google Docs today received several updates that take the software to the next level and in some cases innovate...

Google Confirms Site Speed is Factor in How It Ranks Websites

Google Confirms Site Speed is Factor in How It Ranks Websites

Google confirmed officially on its blog that it takes site speed into account when it decides how highly a website...

The Greatest Tech Developments of the Past Decade

The Greatest Tech Developments of the Past Decade

There has been an explosion in technological developments over the past decade, but not all of them are as important...

Google and Nintendo Team Up to Produce Completely Inexplicable Product

Google and Nintendo Team Up to Produce Completely Inexplicable Product

I’m no small fan of Nintendo. In fact, as soon as I’m done with Techi today, I’m probably going to...

Vowel Outage Over at Gmail

Vowel Outage Over at Gmail

Oh no! A server malfunction has left Gmail vowel-less since around 6am this morning, Pacific Time. During routine maintenance at...

April Fool’s: Why The Tech World Needs Its Annual Carnival

April Fool’s: Why The Tech World Needs Its Annual Carnival

Last year, when YouTube decided to Rickroll all its users - i.e. send all video links to Rick Astley's "Never...

Google Envelopes Snail Mail Concept to Please Both Luddites and Fans of The Absurd

Google Envelopes Snail Mail Concept to Please Both Luddites and Fans of The Absurd

Those of you are fans of both letter-writing and Samuel Beckett-like absurdity are really going to like this: Google Envelopes...

Everybody Cross Your Fingers: Google Announces Next Steps in Fiber-Optic for the US

Everybody Cross Your Fingers: Google Announces Next Steps in Fiber-Optic for the US

For some time now there has been talk of Google just going out and building experimental fiber optic networks in...

Crisis on Infinite Google Earths – A Virtual World That Might Not Suck

Crisis on Infinite Google Earths – A Virtual World That Might Not Suck

I’m an avid gamer. When I say ‘avid’, I mean it in all possible terms. I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve...

Google Adds New Security Measure to Protect Your Private Emails

Google Adds New Security Measure to Protect Your Private Emails

Fed up with the tireless Gmail access attempts from continental Asia? Well, no longer! Google has implemented a new warning...

Did Google Get Hacked?

Did Google Get Hacked?

The bust up between Google and China is ongoing, and the latest news is that Google's corporate page may have...

Valleywag Scoop Outs Google Boss Schmidt’s Relationship Secrets

Valleywag Scoop Outs Google Boss Schmidt’s Relationship Secrets

‘Don’t be evil’ may be the old Google mantra, but it looks as if that still leaves space for a...

Chinese Media to Google: No, You Suck!

Chinese Media to Google: No, You Suck!

If China and Google were listed as a couple on Facebook, right now they'd have to change their status to...

SAS Attacks Google For StreetView Blunder

SAS Attacks Google For StreetView Blunder

Google’s in big, big trouble in the UK, where military chiefs and MPs are furious with the company after a...

Google Poised to Invade Yet Another Market: Your Living Room

Google Poised to Invade Yet Another Market: Your Living Room

Nobody has their hands in as many industries as Google. Nobody. As early as this summer, we may begin to...

Google, Intel and Sony Team Up for GoogleTV

Google, Intel and Sony Team Up for GoogleTV

Where Microsoft and Apple have failed, Google, those arrogant so-and-so's, think they can succeed. Today, the New York Times reported...

Apple vs. Google War Puts iPad At Risk

Apple vs. Google War Puts iPad At Risk

Google’s older ‘Don’t be evil’ mantra still generates hysterical laughter over at Apple headquarters, but the rivalry will become even...