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Google web workshop targets developers
News Google is stepping up its efforts to engage developers, with a two-day workshop called "Google I/O: Web Forward", scheduled for 28 to 29 May at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco. At a time when its competitors see extending developer involvement...
[March 12, 2008, 14:38]
Google earnings upbeat despite downturn
News Buoyed by continued growth in search and by cost cuts, Google reported better-than-expected profits for the first quarter of 2009. Google's net income increased eight percent annually to $1.42bn (£959m) for the quarter ended 31 March, the search...
[April 17, 2009, 12:25]
Google's Brin: Time to speed up the web
News Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he wants to change the rules of software and help traditional media find a new business model, but the web needs a performance boost first. In a conversation at Google's I/O developer event in San Francisco on...
[June 1, 2009, 17:20]
Google introducing pay-per-view to YouTube
News Google plans to build payment mechanisms into its video-sharing site, YouTube, which so far has been a free, advertising-supported service. We do expect over time to see micropayments and other forms of subscription models coming as well," said...
[April 17, 2009, 9:59]
Move over, Google: Here's MSN Virtual Earth
News Microsoft is playing catch-up to rival Google with the release of a beta world mapping service, MSN Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth is a wrap up of a number of location-based services, including mapping of the world's surface, map annotation and...
[July 25, 2005, 18:25]
Google's finances: Analysts debate downturn's effect
News Google has withstood the current economic troubles better than other advertising-dependent companies, but on Thursday, investors will get to see how well the company's belt-tightening is offsetting the recession's deepening effects.
[April 16, 2009, 8:48]
Google SketchUp
Downloads Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-learn 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships. You can place your finished models in Google Earth...
[November 18, 2008, 17:30]
Google Toolbar for IE
Downloads Google Toolbar enhances Internet Explorer with a Google search box and other useful tools like a pop-up blocker, web form filler, and spellchecker. With the new Google Toolbar beta, you can add buttons and bookmarks, get instant search suggestions...
[February 25, 2009, 20:55]
Google confirms its mobile Linux plans
News Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android. According to a statement released by Google on Monday, Android incorporates an "operating system, middleware [the software that sits between the...
[November 5, 2007, 17:03]
Google: An Apology
Talkback There is no way Google is going to accept this insincere rambling as an apology, so what was your point in writing it? This leader continues the smear campaign that you've instigated against Google. Why don't you come clean and tell your readers...
[August 11, 2005, 14:59]
Google goes to the top of the language class
Talkback "Google could not be immediately reached for comment. So the US gov't (aka Evil Empire) can't find enough human stooges to spy on its arch enemies, Moslems and Chinese, so it will have google do it. The CIA and google - perfect together for finding...
[August 23, 2005, 15:17]
Google offers coders early Android 1.5 SDK
News Google has released an Android 1.5 software developer kit, giving programmers access to several new features, such as video support and a faster browser that will appear in a forthcoming version of the company's open-source mobile-phone operating...
[April 15, 2009, 9:09]
Google makes its update software open source
News Google has released the source code of its Google Update software, a project code-named Omaha that can automatically install new versions of programs, including the Chrome browser and Google Earth. Some users can be surprised to find this program...
[April 14, 2009, 8:45]
Google Quick Links
Downloads Icons of various Google products and services will take you to the corresponding locations quickly. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[September 12, 2007, 10:29]
Google ready to lose Microsoft battle
News When it hired Kai-Fu Lee away from Microsoft last month, Google anticipated the prospect of legal wrangling with its rival, according to court documents unsealed earlier this week. Google in fact had devised a Plan B for Lee - 12 months of paid...
[August 5, 2005, 12:25]
Google's Lively, but not adding much for the business community
Blog Long rumoured by now upon us without any formal pre-announcement, Google gives us Lively, it's new social network with plans to be all over the web soon. However, if you are expecting a useful business focused application to add to your Google...
[July 9, 2008, 10:03]
Google: An Apology
Leader As you may have read elsewhere, News.com - our sister publication in the US - recently published a story concerning Google and online personal privacy. In it staff writer Elinor Mills used Google itself to find out public information about Google...
[August 9, 2005, 14:55]
Photos: Google shows off Wave's potential review
Reviews Stephanie Hannon, a product manager on the Google Wave team, shows off some functions of the new online communication and collaboration tool released during the May 28 keynote at the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco.
[May 29, 2009, 15:18]
Google opens geographic search interface
News Google has added a new element to its search interface that will let others' websites use geographically linked information. The company has opened up outside access to its Geo Search API (application programming interface), said John Hanke, head...
[May 14, 2008, 14:08]
Google adding Java support to App Engine
News Google announced on Tuesday that it is adding support for Java to App Engine, its service for running software on Google's own computing infrastructure. Currently, Google only offers applications written in Python, a language that is popular among...
[April 8, 2009, 13:02]
