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Google has introduced a new Gmail feature that lets people use it offline.This was made possible by Google Gears, a browser plugin that is integrated into Google’s Chrome browser. The Gears plugin allows for downloading a local cache of email. As long as a person is connected to the network, that [...]
The search engine Ask.com is relying on people’s concerns of online threats to attract more traffic to its website. To allow web users a higher degree of assurance, Ask has signed a deal that will combine its search engine with Symantec’s Norton security software. The latest test version of Norton 360, [...]
Google is tightening the belt in an effort to make back the $1.65 billion it spent in November 2006 for YouTube.
The company’s revenue strategy is to have commercial ads as part of the search, based on categories that users choose. Advertisers will offer contextual ads that will appear based on a certain [...]
Google is bringing ancient Rome to modern-day life by opening a detailed virtual tour of the city, for history and tech buffs alike to explore.
The Ancient Rome offering is brought to us via the popular Google Earth software, and allows users to view ancient Rome as it is thought [...]
Due to the growth of emails, instant messaging, and cell phones, multiple surveys have described that work productivity has been negatively affected. It may appear ironic but some of the corporations responsible for the above technologies are now trying to find the solution.
The big technology companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Google, and [...]
The ad sharing deal that has been discussed between Google and Yahoo could be ending. The talks between the 2 companies and the US Department of Justice have stalled, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The proposed deal, first raised in June, had faced criticism from the advertising industry, which feared [...]
Google has recently announced a $10 million project for the most beneficial, world changing ideas, which subsequently generated 150,000 online submissions.
The deadline for the project was Monday and now Google employees are going through the suggestions written in 25 languages, to choose the 100 semifinalists by January 27th. The funding [...]
Although Sergey Brin is the Russian entrepreneur who helped start Google, he’s having a tough time convincing his former country men to approve a business deal with Google. The deal, valued at $140 million, was rejected by The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).
Google was attempting to buy the Russian Internet [...]
Google has officially unleashed their Android source code for the world to see! They unabashedly proclaim that “this is probably the largest repository of open source code that has been released at any one time” – with the code being a very large 2.1GB, that could certainly be true.
In case [...]
Google is currently appealing 2 court decisions that could prohibit it, as well as other search engines in Germany, from displaying images in its search results.
Last month, the Hamburg district court had ruled in favor of 2 men who claimed that search engines pull pictures from their websites, which would infringe on their copyrights.
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