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Google Android Tackles Persistent Malware Problems With Bouncer

Google Android Tackles Persistent Malware Problems With Bouncer

Google Android have developed a new system called Bouncer, designed to rid the Android Market of malicious apps. The company, which has been criticised for its open ended approach to verifying apps, will now scan every app to see if it’s malware while allowing users to combat them on their own devices…

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French Courts Order Google Maps To Pay €500,000 For Unfair Competition

French Courts Order Google Maps To Pay €500,000 For Unfair Competition

Google have been ordered by a French commercial court to pay €500,000 to a French mapping company after it was found guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application…

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First Twitter, Now Google: Blogger to Censor Posts Country by Country

First Twitter, Now Google: Blogger to Censor Posts Country by Country

Twitter has been getting a huge amount of coverage lately over its decision to censor tweets based on the country that the tweeter is in, but Google also quietly unveiled a similar policy that has gone largely unnoticed until recent days…

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Google Preparing to Relaunch OnePass Publishing Service; Challenge Apple’s Ebooks

Google Preparing to Relaunch OnePass Publishing Service; Challenge Apple’s Ebooks

After a relatively slow uptake among publishers, Google are preparing a overhaul of their online content OnePass to mark its first year in existence. The upgrades are not yet confirmed but they will be implemented over the next few weeks to help increase the uptake among publishers…

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Google Expands Business Interior View With ‘Trusted Photographer’ Scheme

Google Expands Business Interior View With ‘Trusted Photographer’ Scheme

Google has been pushing their street view service commercially in recent months with the introduction of interior street view and indoor photos for businesses. The latter was expanded into its own service called Business Photos allowing users to see the interior of their store or building through Street View. Now they’ve introduced…

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Google Launch Public Alerts For Maps: Highlight Hazardous Weather Conditions

Google Launch Public Alerts For Maps: Highlight Hazardous Weather Conditions

Google are always making improvements to their maps service, which is quite easily one of their most popular features to date, having been responsible for a number of spin-off features. Now after adding 3D maps, traffic reports and indoor street view, Google have now revealed a new crisis response service called ‘Google Public Alerts’…

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Google Updates Privacy Policy: Tracks Users’ History Across Sites

Google Updates Privacy Policy: Tracks Users’ History Across Sites

Privacy policies and terms of service are things that most of us don’t pay much attention to when we sign up for a service on the web, given the clunky legal jargon and huge length of such documents, but Google want to draw our attention to changes to their Privacy Policy…

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Google+ Introduce Alternative Names But How Many More Changes Can They Make?

Google+ Introduce Alternative Names But How Many More Changes Can They Make?

The past few weeks have been strange for Google and their social media site. Google+ has been making so many changes in such short proximity of each other that it almost reeks of desperation, as if it’s trying to stay in the public consciousness by announcing more additions to be eventually picked up by tech sites and blogs…

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Cool site shows what Google’s social search should really be like

Cool site shows what Google’s social search should really be like

Blake Ross, who is currently director of product at Facebook has just launched a new project in collaboration with  Tom Occhino (developer at Facebook) and Marshall Roch to show Google up by demonstrating what its social search feature is really capable of. Google is currently defending its position to prioritise Google+ results in social search, as they claim they are [...]

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Breakdown Of How Google Made Its Money In 2011

Breakdown Of How Google Made Its Money In 2011

Google got a fair bit of flak last week for missing their revenue targets and their share price dropping 10% but the following chart shows just how much money the internet giant is making. With close to $40 billion in revenues and 97% of that coming through advertising things like fairly good from this angle…

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Google Hotel Finder Introduces ‘Travel Time’; See How Far You Can Go In 20mins

Google Hotel Finder Introduces ‘Travel Time’; See How Far You Can Go In 20mins

If you’re travelling abroad and checking into your hotel, the first thing you will want to know is how far away the city’s landmarks are from your base of operations. The question of whether it’d be possible to walk to a location, or to get public transport is something that will cross the mind at one point or another so Google have introduced a new feature…

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On the Same Day Facebook ‘Actions’ Launches, Google+ Introduces More New Features

On the Same Day Facebook ‘Actions’ Launches, Google+ Introduces More New Features

While the internet is abuzz with news of Facebook’s new ‘actions’ that rolled out today, Google+ have also launched some new features to their social networking offering. Google+ have been actively enhancing their product since the new year…

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