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- Google's Green Cred: A Storm in a Teacup?
- A Harvard University physicist has left Google a bit hot under the collar with research claiming a couple of Google searches generate as much carbon dioxide as boiling the kettle. Alex Wissner-Gross claims "Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- GrandCentral Becomes Google Voice, Adds Features
- Ever wish you could have the same phone number for the rest of your life? And that you could make that number ring your home office, work office, and/or mobile phone at the same time? That's the idea behind GrandCentral, a much-loved service that Google acquired way back in 2007....
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
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- Google Gives You More Storage for Less, but Still No GDrive
- Google just announced dramatically reduced prices for their online storage options via a post on the company's Official Google Blog . The new rates give you 20 GB for $5 per year, or, as Google puts it "twice as much storage for a quarter of the...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Google Voice Invites Now Available
- The innovative telephony app Google Voice is now making invitations available to new users, according to an announcement on the Official Google Blog . Users with existing accounts can send up to 3 invitations and the rest of us can request invites via ...
- News items 2009-10-13
- It's not just Bing - Google makes Twitter search deal, too
- Filed under: Google , Search When Microsoft partnered with Twitter to allow its Bing search engine to index tweets in real time, it looked like they had finally gotten the jump on Google at something. Just hours later, Google VP...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Google Search by voice travels the world, finds Nokia, learns Chinese
- (cross-posted with Official Google Blog ) Google Search by voice has grown up quickly. Some might say that search by voice has matured from a toddler to a tween. It's certainly been traveling across the English-speaking world and getting better at understanding a range of accents, from the...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Google lays off 100 recruiters, closes engineering offices
- Google, the company that always seems to be hiring, has finally started firing. And it's starting with the people responsible for the hiring. The search giant said today that it planned to let go about 100 recruiters. The cuts were first reported by Valleywag and quickly confirmed on the Official...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Build a Workgroup Web Site with Google Sites
- Back in February, Google unveiled Google Sites, a free service enabling users to whip together secure, team-friendly Web sites. Unfortunately, it was available only to Google Apps users. But as of yesterday, Google Sites is now available to everyone. Here's an overview: Similar to Google Docs, built-in...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- How to Get the Most From Google Tasks
- Sometimes I feel like Google treats its task manager (a.k.a. Tasks) like the red-headed stepchild. That's slowly starting to change, as Tasks has not only graduated from Google Labs, but also gained integration with Gmail and Google Calendar. As of today, Google Tasks has its own iGoogle...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Access Google Calendar on Your Phone
- Savvy Google Calendar users know that they can get reminders of upcoming appointments sent to their phones via SMS. Now it's possible to access your calendar in its entirety right from your phone. Just point your Web browser to calendar.google.com and you'll see all your upcoming events, complete with dates,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Does the World Need Google's Operating System?
- Joel West submits: Google GOOG has been a platform and systems company but now they’re officially an OS company. From the official Google blog: [T]oday, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Google Adds 'Search Options' to Search Results
- Google just took the wraps off a kick-ass new addition to its bread-and-butter search engine: Search Options are tools that let you "slice and dice" your results to produce new, more targeted views. Watch and learn: To access Search Options, just click the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Energy Roundup: Wave Power Loses Out, Another Ethanol Bankruptcy, Google's New Partners
- Wave power developer loses majority investor -- Bad luck again for Pelamis Wave Power, which is testing out a series of ocean generators near Portugal. The company's major investor, Babcock & Brown, has filed for bankruptcy, leaving Pelamis adrift until someone else steps in to take up Babcock's stake. Late...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Google Tries To Save You From Swine Flu
- The media frenzy over swine flu may have died down a little since earlier this year; it's no longer a top headline on every other news site, at least. But people remain extremely concerned about it (anyone care to guess how many tons of hand sanitizer have been sold?), and...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Google's new years revolution: Six products slashed or maimed
- Well, Google picked a good day to announce layoffs and kill a bunch of products. While everyone is busy reading about Apple chief executive Steve Jobs' leave of absence for health related issues, Google has more or less killed six of its products. Let's survey the damage, shall we? Dodgeball...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Google's Increasing Integration With Twitter
- One thing quite clear from that cache of internal Twitter documents leaked to TechCrunch last week is that the micro-blogging service has been holding ongoing talks with Google about the ways the two companies might work more closely together. It's also evident that Google is taking its...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Microsoft Fixing Bing's Chinese Search 'Bug'
- Microsoft responded to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's assertion, made in a Nov. 20 column, that Bing offers pro-Chinese-government results for politically sensitive queries inputted in simplified Chinese. Microsoft now asserts that those results are related to what the company calls a "bug" that will be fixed soon, although...
- News items 2009-11-23
- Google PowerMeter Snags First European Utility Partner
- Google has expanded its PowerMeter home-energy management software into Europe in its new partnership with German utility Yello Strom. The announcement made this morning on the official Google.org blog marks the ninth utility -- and the first European one -- to partner with the giant search engine company. In...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Google's free navigation app could drive out premium services
- Google's rumored free turn-by-turn navigation app is a reality--the web services giant confirmed the launch of Google Maps Navigation Beta for its new Android 2.0 operating system, issued in conjunction with Motorola's forthcoming Droid smartphone. According to Google, the mobile app boasts all the familiar bells and...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Why You Should Create a Google Profile. Now.
- A Google profile is exactly what it sounds like: A personal profile that appears when someone does a Google search of your name. My advice: Create one now to make sure you're properly represented on the Web. What does that mean? Suppose a prospective or current employer...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
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