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Google Code reverses open-source licence ban
News Google has undone a ban on the Mozilla Public License, an option for open-source projects hosted at its Google Code site. Ostensibly as part of an effort to discourage the proliferation of open-source licences, Google dropped support for the MPL...
[August 29, 2008, 8:39]
Google gets Code Jamming in the UK
News Google is on the prowl for talented developers in the UK and across Europe. As well as the cash prizes on offer, the winners could find themselves working at Google. The search engine company is holding its Code Jam contest here for the first time...
[May 3, 2006, 18:00]
Google releases Donut code, denies multitouch
News Google has released the latest version of code for the 'Donut' branch of its Android mobile operating system, without the hoped-for multitouch capability. Google, which oversees Android development, issued the new code for 'Donut' on Saturday.
[July 27, 2009, 17:25]
Google wins source-code ruling in Viacom lawsuit
News Google has scored a legal victory in keeping its search source code secret from Viacom, but YouTube users have not been so fortunate as regards their privacy. A US federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the search giant does not have to turn over...
[July 3, 2008, 15:07]
Google shares Android source code
News Less than a year after announcing Android, the open-source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile internet, Google began sharing the project's underlying source code. The code is managed by the Android Open Source Project, and...
[October 22, 2008, 8:30]
Google adds improvements to Code Search
News Google has expanded the capabilities of its Code Search feature, including introducing better indexing, the company claims. The service, conceived by the Google Labs early technology group and launched in October, can crawl publicly available code...
[July 9, 2007, 17:48]
Google Android platform source code: "free for everyone"
Blog In a quiet but friendly tip off this afternoon I’ve been told that Google and the Open Handset Alliance have made the Android platform source code available free - “For everyone,” says Google. By making this move, Google is targeting developers...
[October 21, 2008, 16:01]
Photos: Eastern Europe dominates Google Code Jam
News Programmers from across Europe went head to head in Dublin at Google’s first ever Code Jam Europe event this week, competing for a share of a €30,000 prize fund. Google uses the Code Jam competition as a way of attracting engineering talent to its...
[June 30, 2006, 17:05]
Google code jam
Talkback I did the GCJ last year. In foreign countries, it is also an English contest! All problems are written in English and you waste a lot of precious time if you don't understand quickly and accurately the problem statement.there are 3 problems to be...
[August 17, 2007, 13:49]
Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
Blog Comment That's an uplifting thing to read - even for someone who switches off when actual code is on show. Well found!
[September 12, 2008, 10:46]
Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
Blog Comment Seriously? MS the giant is developing a friendlier and more gentle approach? Hard to imagine. Ah yes, MS the gentle giant now.
[December 20, 2008, 4:26]
Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
Blog A great post over at Scott Hanselman's blog goes into some detail of the Microsoft code Google has included in Chrome. It's all street-legal: the code was made available under a very permissive open source licence back in 2004, and may be the first...
[September 12, 2008, 9:11]
Google gives developers code-search capabilities
News On Thursday the company is expected to launch a Web site, Google Code Search, which the company says will let programmers search billions of lines of code. The service, conceived by the Google Labs early technology group, will crawl publicly...
[October 5, 2006, 9:50]
Top tech companies compete for interns
News Ben Maurer is one of hundreds of Google interns this summer whose days include free clothes, free meals and free reign to delve into Google's code. For a software developer, diving into the code at Google is a comparable experience," said Maurer...
[July 4, 2007, 11:48]
Google launches developer resources
News The new Google Code will be a repository for source code, APIs, and other tools to assist developers working on Google-related projects, according to a welcome note on Thursday from Chris DiBona, Google's open-source program manager and former...
[March 18, 2005, 13:55]
McAfee: Malware scam using Google developer site
News Google's free code-hosting website for developers is being used to distribute malware, a security researcher said on Friday. Google Code is a place where programmers can host projects and code. A Google spokesman said the company has removed...
[January 12, 2009, 8:02]
Internet giants agree Beijing 'code of conduct'
News Just days before the Olympic torch will reach Beijing, internet leaders Google, Yahoo and Microsoft say they are close to an agreement on a code of conduct for doing business in China and other countries that censor the internet.
[August 6, 2008, 10:33]
Google denies disassembling Vista code for Chrome
News The source code underlying Google's Chrome web browser suggests Google used a reverse-engineering technique called disassembly to figure out how to use a useful Windows Vista security feature, but the company has denied doing this.
[September 22, 2008, 8:36]
Code search is not the source of all evil
Leader The latest monster to escape from Google's labs is Code Search, a service designed to reach into every scrap of source code published on the Web and expose it to curious minds. It is true that hackers, crackers and the rest of the black hat gang...
[October 9, 2006, 14:50]
Google fixes risky Chrome bugs
News Google has updated its Chrome browser to fix a critical bug that could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on a user's system. Chrome 3.0.195.32, released on Thursday, fixes a bug in the browser's implementation of the Gears SQL application...
[November 9, 2009, 15:42]
