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Google adds handy Instant Previews to mobile search

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Now available on Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices and in 38 languages is Google’s new Instant Previews feature which offers a speedy and interactive way to evaluate search results.

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google Maps 5.2 shuffles into the Android Market

Friday, Mar 4, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

The gang at Google have now despatched the latest update to their Google Maps app for Android handsets out into the cruel, cruel world.

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Google / web

Google cocks up catastrophically: claims BMJ and urban75.org are ‘content farms’

Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 - by mike s

Google recently announced a “pretty big” change in the way that its search engine would rank websites, promising to downgrade “low-quality” or “shallow” websites from online search engine results, in …

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Google / software / web

Google Cloud Connect keeps MS Office and Google Docs in sync

Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 - by Pete Railton

The helpful folks at Google have dished out a natty free utility that lets users synchronise Microsoft Office documents with the cloud-based Google Docs service.

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Android / Google / mobiles

Global Android activations mapped and animated in Tron-like video

Thursday, Feb 24, 2011Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 - by Lee J.

As the all-conquering Android OS strides on to total world domination, a new video has been created showing the timeline of device activations across the world from Oct 2008 to Jan 2011.

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Google / web

Christchurch earthquake: Google Crisis Response page goes live

Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

A Google Crisis Response page has been created in the wake of Christchurch’s deadly earthquake, which hit New Zealand’s south island with a magnitude of 6.3 at 1251 (2351 GMT) on 22 February, …

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Apple / business / Google / web

Google One Pass trumps Apple with a far more flexible subscription model

Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Slammed down on the table just 24 hours after Apple launched its controversial App Store subscription service, Google has announcing a similar service for its Android platform.

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google releases Blogger app for Android and it’s free

Friday, Feb 4, 2011 - by mike s

It’s taking an embarrassingly long time to arrive, but Google has finally got around to releasing an official Blogger app for the Android operating system.

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Google / web

Chrome browser hits version 9, complete with Chrome Web Store

Friday, Feb 4, 2011Friday, Feb 4, 2011 - by Pete Railton

It became our de facto browser after Firefox crashed one time too often, and now Google’s Chrome browser has hit the giddy heights of version 9.

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Android / Apple / Blackberry / computing / Google / iPhone

Tablet face-off: iPad vs Xoom, Dell Streak 7 and Blackberry PlayBook

Thursday, Feb 3, 2011Thursday, Feb 3, 2011 - by Lee J.

Sometimes mere words aren’t enough, so we’re grateful for the folks at Skatter Tech for knocking together a neat infographic showing the current state of play between some of the …

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles / web

Android Market website lets you install apps from your browser

Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011 - by Pete Railton

With the Android Market now stuffed with over 100,000 apps, games and widgets, Google has made it easier to browse and search the collection – and install new apps – …

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Google / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Google Shopper comes to the iPhone for your skillet buying pleasure

Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011 - by Lee J.

Released last November, Google Shopper for Android has already proved a big hit, so the search engine giant is now letting iPhone-toting shopaholics get a slice of the action with their …

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Google

Google’s speak-to-tweet service lets internet-starved Egyptians Tweet by phone

Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

Google have announced on their official Google Blog that they’ve already implemented a new speak-to-tweet service to help internet-starved Egyptians get their message out.

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Google / mobile apps / mobiles / web

Google add more ‘fun’ to their mobile weather app

Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011 - by mike s

Google are insisting that their new weather website for mobiles manages to add some ‘fun’ to a week full of rainy forecasts, serving up the meteorological news in an “app-like …

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Google / web

Google shunts Reader link off the GMail interface, users not chuffed

Friday, Jan 21, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Here’s a fresh little annoyance that Google have just delivered to our daily experience. Although we all know that popularity of RSS feeds are fast fading as people continue to …

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