Posts Tagged ‘Google’
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Google knows which of your photos is the best
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on May 16, 2013 under Channel
Google is looking to make your Google + page that bit better looking, by helping sift through all your awful photos to find the best ones. Using a new algorithm, the search giant is now able to highli... more. -
Google free storage to increase to 15GB
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on May 14, 2013 under Channel
Until now Google has offered 5GB of storage for its free services, like Google Drive and Google+ and 10GB on Gmail. Today though, it announced that over the next few weeks it'll be rolling out an up... more. -
LucasArts veteran hired by Google for games design
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on May 3, 2013 under Development, Gaming
Google has hired a veteran of the videogame industry, Noah Falstein, to head up its Game Design division, presumably to work on a new Android title/platform/series - maybe even something that will run... more. -
Google agrees to search result changes after EU investigation
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on April 15, 2013 under Channel
Being the dominant search engine for over a decade has seen Google face-off against many commissions for potential anti-competitiveness practices. If you're on top, this is bound to happen. Now thoug... more. -
Google DMCA takedowns hit by DMCA takedowns
1 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on April 5, 2013 under Channel
Movie studios aren't keen on having people share their content illegally online, they've made a big point about this. However, now they're claiming that their takedown requests are actually infringing... more. -
Google discontinues Blocked Sites, replaces it with Chrome app
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on March 26, 2013 under Channel
Google has continued its recent trend of shutting down some of its services, with today's Blocked Sites following on from Google Reader earlier this month. However, the search giant is at least offeri... more. -
Google brings affirmative action hiring policy to Israel
0 CommentsPosted by Jules on March 21, 2013 under General Tech, Online
Go almost anywhere in the world and ask people what kind of building they want to work in - and Google's creations are discussed early on and with passion. The company prides itself on integrating hum... more. -
Ebay study finds Google adverts ineffective
2 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on March 14, 2013 under Channel
Google makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising, almost £30 billion a year in fact. However that foundation of income could be threatened, as Ebay has just produced a new study that claims the ... more. -
Google “arrogance” over street view house blurring
3 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on March 8, 2013 under Channel
Google might have taken a beating from the EIA this morning, but it's about to take another. Residents of one street in Carshalton, in Surrey, UK, have described the search giant as arrogant, after it... more. -
Google Japan has ivory and whale products for sale
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on March 8, 2013 under Channel
Despite its own policies outlawing any items that come from endangered species, Google has been found by the Environmental Investigation Agency, to have thousands of ivory and whale products on the Ja... more. -
Google champions Glass, describes phones as “emasculating”
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on February 28, 2013 under Mobile
Staring down at a screen is "emasculating", according to Google Boss Sergey Brin, who has been talking up the Google Glass project that sees most of a smartphone's functions incorporated into a piece ... more. -
Possible Weibo max-exodus is brewing
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on February 18, 2013 under Channel
Twitter could be set to get a big influx of users in the coming few weeks, as Ex-Google China head, Lee Kai-fu, has called for his 30 million+ followers on the Chinese social networking site Weibo, to... more. -
Google is suing BT for copyright infringement
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on February 15, 2013 under Channel
Normally when I cover infringement stories here at Kitguru, it's to do with patent arguments between Apple and Samsung, or artists taking a pop at The Pirate Bay, but today it's two giant companies fa... more. -
Google to pay $1 billion to Apple for default search privilege
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on February 12, 2013 under Channel
You might think that considering they individually own the rights to the two most competing smartphone operating systems in the world, Google and Apple would be at each other's throats and never likel... more. -
Google submits anti-trust settlement proposal to EU Commission
2 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on February 1, 2013 under Channel
Google has been under the investigative eye of the European Commission for the past couple of years, where it has been threatened with anti-trust action, after claims that Google was using its search ... more. -
Google+ takes second place in social network race
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on January 28, 2013 under Channel
While Facebook is still far and beyond the world's most used social website, Google's own + service has now taken the second place medal, beating out both Youtube and Twitter by a few per cent of the ... more. -
Eric Schmidt shown how North Korean’s “Google”
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on January 8, 2013 under Channel
During his humanitarian trip to North Korea, Google's Eric Schmidt has been shown how some of the country's most privileged access the internet. In such a strictly controlled society, only a select ... more. -
Microsoft buying R2 Studios from under Apple’s nose
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on January 3, 2013 under Channel
Microsoft has bought up R2 Studios, a startup from the makers of the Slingbox, in a deal that had both Apple and Google in the running for highest bidder. However it looks like Microsoft was able to s... more. -
Google dodged £1 billion in taxes
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on January 2, 2013 under Channel
As part of a call for a global crackdown on tax avoidance, it has been revealed that Google is one of the biggest culprits. In 2011, the search giant pushed 80 per cent of its revenue, some £6 billio... more. -
Intel/AMD nowhere to be seen as Acer/Asus ramp up tablets
0 CommentsPosted by Harrison on December 26, 2012 under Android, Apple, Tablet PC
It's not often that a company can say that they made an entire class of products viable, single handedly. IBM did it with the PC, Apple with the tablet and Asus with the netbook. Sometimes the new cla... more. -
Google naming and shaming fake takedown requesters
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on December 14, 2012 under Channel
Google receives a lot of takedown requests from companies around the world. Most of these are from large movie studios that don't want torrent links to their works appearing in the search engine's res... more. -
Google takes a swipe at Facebook
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on November 29, 2012 under Channel
Google's social vice president Bradley Horowitz has taken a few swings at Facebook, as part of his suggestion that the time is ripe for Google's + service to become the dominant social network, citing... more. -
Microsoft planning its own glasses heads up display tech
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on November 22, 2012 under Peripheral
We know Google isn't the only one working on a glasses based, heads up display, but now we can add one more name to that list, with a published Microsoft patent showing that it too is keen to get in o... more. -
Google not a fan of Bitch magazine
2 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on November 16, 2012 under Channel
While Google might be ranked up there as one of the top companies to work for in the world, partly for its progressive stance on employment, it isn't quite so forward thinking when it comes to languag... more. -
Google vs Doogle
2 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on November 14, 2012 under Channel
Google has fired off a legal notice to online job search site, Doogle, suggesting that because of the similarities in name, it is harmful to the company's brand. The owner of Doogle, 22 year old Andri... more. -
Google logo celebrates Bram Stoker
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on November 8, 2012 under Channel
As well as having a decidedly manly name, Bram Stoker was the figure behind the original Dracula novel and today, Google celebrates that fact with its Stoker inspired logo. 8th November 2012 is an apt... more. -
UK government to investigate Google over piracy link removal
0 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on November 6, 2012 under Channel
While that headline might sound like the British government is doing something noble, by cracking down on evil Google's practices, it's actually the other way around. Despite the search giant's remo... more. -
Google privacy policy breaks European law
1 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on October 16, 2012 under Channel
Google has been ordered to make changes to its privacy policy after several EU organisations found it to be breaching European law, by not providing enough information to users on the amount and cat... more. -
Rumours suggest a $99 Nexus 7 coming soon
0 CommentsPosted by Blair McClelland on September 28, 2012 under Android, Mobile, Tablet PC
Digitimes is reporting that two new Nexus 7 models from Google and ASUS are on their way. According to their sources one will be priced at $199 USD, the other at an impressive $99 USD. Both models are... more. -
Iran takes out Google search and Gmail
1 CommentsPosted by Jon Martindale on September 24, 2012 under Channel
Iran no longer has access to the Google search engine, or the Gmail email system, with no explanation by officials as to if or when they will be reinstated and what the reason for their filtering was.... more.
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