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Google adds 'Video for Business' to Apps platform
News Google has given YouTube an enterprise makeover with the latest addition to its Google Apps platform: a video-sharing service. In traditional cloud-computing style, the latest offering, Google Video for Business, can be accessed through most...
[September 2, 2008, 10:14]
Google Enters Audio / Video Chat Market
Blog Google has released an audio/video chat plugin for their GMail service. As I have said before, despite all the talk about whether or not eBay "wants" to sell Skype, their problem is going to be finding someone foolish enough to pay for it - and now...
[November 12, 2008, 14:27]
Google adds revenue through video ads
News This began to emerge for some users last week, according to ReelSEO, but Google is now offering advertisers a chance to insert a video trailer into their text ads. In many cases, the best information is video," said Nick Fox, business product...
[September 10, 2009, 10:46]
Google: Businesses can benefit from video sharing
News Video sharing and social networking aren't just for the kids — Google reckons there is a place for both in the business world. Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of enterprise at Google, told silicon.com: "Our intention is to bring...
[October 24, 2007, 16:09]
DVD Jon modifies Google video viewer
News A day after Google released its Video Viewer, a Norwegian programmer tweaked the application to make it play clips that are not on Google's servers. Google introduced the Video Viewer on Monday as part of a Web-based video search service that lets...
[June 30, 2005, 10:30]
Google buys video compression firm On2
News Google on Wednesday said it will acquire On2 Technologies, a video-compression company, for $106.5m (£62.7m). Under the terms of the stock swap, each share of On2 will be exchanged for $0.60 worth of Google common stock.
[August 6, 2009, 8:17]
Google researcher presents video Captcha
News A new technique for using video to gauge whether a website is being accessed by a human or a machine will be presented at a Google-hosted security symposium this week. However, this type of Captcha can discourage people from using a website...
[July 13, 2009, 16:03]
Reuters.com Increases Search Use by 500% and Counting; Delivers Real-Time News, Stock Quotes, Images, Video and More With the Google Search Appliance
White Papers Reuters.com deployed Google Search Appliance (GSA), the Reuters search team enabled end users to view relevant information from multiple sources, including databases that are populated from ongoing news feeds and continuously updated stock market...
[June 22, 2009, 1:19]
Video: Google's web apps push
News As Google releases Web Apps Premier, ZDNet UK's David Meyer talks to the company's European enterprise director, Roberto Solimene, about the past, present and future of hosted office applications.
[February 22, 2007, 14:34]
Video: Your data in Google's hands
News Ex-Microsoft employee Peter Fleischer is now Google's senior legal advisor on privacy policy, and clearly relishes the chance to talk about what the company thinks on this constantly contentious issue.
[July 23, 2007, 11:03]
Google mistake spreads email worm
News Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra email worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video email group. Three postings were made on Tuesday evening to an email list that sends out postings to the Google Video blog.
[November 9, 2006, 9:36]
Google sinks $1bn into AOL
News Google will invest $1bn (£568m) for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's America Online unit as part of a partnership that expands their existing search engine deal to include collaboration on advertising, instant messaging and video.
[December 21, 2005, 7:55]
wrong url
Talkback I thought the hit hips don't lie spoof was this one: http://video.google.com/videoplay? I have a feeling Google might be embarassed to know the video was created by Yahoo! Launch using fans of Shakira video clips.
[January 11, 2007, 16:09]
Google readying Web-only video search
News Google is expected to unveil a search engine for Web-only video this summer that will let people preview media clips from its Web site. Google's planned service will let visitors find free short-form videos such as the popular 'Star Wars' video...
[June 14, 2005, 12:50]
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
News Google has agreed to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube for $1.65bn in stock, the companies announced on Monday. The deal, which had been rumoured for days, will dramatically improve Google's video-sharing service with one of the Internet's...
[October 10, 2006, 8:35]
Google explains privacy policy on YouTube
News Google has posted a video on YouTube that explains aspects of its privacy policy. Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, said in a blog post on Wednesday that Google had launched the video to explain "cookies, IP addresses, and logs" to...
[August 9, 2007, 15:10]
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
News HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. Google has implemented both H.264 and Ogg Theora in Chrome.
[July 3, 2009, 17:08]
Google Chrome adds HTML video support
News Google has begun supporting a new HTML feature to show video in its Chrome browser as an alternative to Adobe's much more widely used Flash, but the technology overall remains rough around the edges. HTML video is one of a handful of technologies...
[May 29, 2009, 9:35]
Google Mail gets voice and video chat
News Google has integrated voice and video chat into its Google Mail web application. Google Mail users can activate the feature by opening a chat window and choosing 'add voice/video chat' from the options menu, an action that will lead to a one-time...
[November 12, 2008, 15:41]
On2 shareholders challenge Google deal
News Google's acquisition of video-compression software company On2 Technologies is being challenged in court by On2 shareholders dissatisfied by Google's $106.5m offer. The suit, first reported by the New York Post, also seeks an accounting of all...
[August 13, 2009, 9:16]
