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Google Apps Dominate the Indian Android Experience

A recent Nielsen study of Indian mobile usage has revealed that Android is the dominant operating system of choice, and has even been attributed to the smartphone explosion in the country,…

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Google Ireland Hit With €450 Parking Fine

On the same day we reported that Google Earth was getting a bit of a facelift, news emerged that the Internet giant had been summoned to appear in an Irish…

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Google Launches Project to Boost Welsh Online Economy

Google has announced a tie-up with the Welsh government that will see it push for thousands of firms across Wales to get online and boost their business. The Internet giant…

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Google introduces new options for Google+ badges

Social media badges are a great way to promote profiles and pages on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, and today Google introduced new options for its Google+ badge to…

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Google Earth Gets Google+ Share Feature

Today, the Google Earth team announced some improvements for its latest version of the the service, 6.2. With the update comes some visual enhancements as well as some social ones…

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Google+ Is Now Open For Teens

Good news for those between the ages of 13 and 18, they can now join Google+ thanks to some security enhancements announced by Google VP of Product Bradley Horowitz today….

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Google at Leveson Inquiry: "We are Not the Internet"

Google was summoned to the stand today, as part of the public inquiry looking at the culture and ethics of the British media. On 13 July, Prime Minister David Cameron…

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Google is the Most 'Global' Website. But Where's Apple?

Google has been declared as the number one global website for 2012, narrowly pushing out Facebook which claimed top spot last year. ByteLevel’s 2012 Web Globalization Report Card reviews 105…

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Google's new privacy policy won't affect enterprise customers

Google’s announcement of new privacy policies yesterday made headlines, with the company introducing a new simplified policy covering the majority of its services. The new policy means users’ privacy will…

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Manage Your Google Ad Preferences

With yesterday’s news that Google was updating and condensing its privacy policies, the Internet has been in a bit of an uproar. While I still hold to my belief that…

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Google Launches a Public Alerts Platform

Today Google announced a new service, Google Public Alerts, which has been integrated into the existing Google Maps. The new platform will provide users with up-to-date information on emergency messages, such…

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Google Updates Takeout to Support Google Docs

Google Takeout, the service which allows Google users to download their data from various Google products all at once, has been updated with an option to be emailed when the…

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Google's New Privacy Policy Isn't as Scary as it Looks

According to a release from Google, the company is trimming down its privacy policies and blanketing many of them underneath a single release: “So we’re rolling out a new main…

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French Startup Files Anti-Trust Complaint Against Google

Google can’t seem to catch a break these days. Its latest major feature, social search, has made its way into the FTC antitrust probe the company is facing, and we’re still…

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HP Quadruples Top Prize Fund For Pwn2Own

HP has stepped up to become the sponsor of the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest, putting its money where its mouth is by quadrupling the top prize to $60,000, with Google…