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Android sales surge in the UK, market share grows by 300%

Monday, Jul 26, 2010 - by mike s

Google Android’s share of the UK mobile phone contract market has soared over the last three months, rising more than 300% from the beginning of 2010, according to retail watcher …

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Google / web

Google Images Search gets a funky new look

Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010 - by mike s

When it launched back in 2001, Google Images initially indexed around 250 million images, a figure that had risen to 1 billion by 2005, and now stands in excess of …

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Google / web

Use Google Chrome “like a pro” with this bumper list of fave extensions

Friday, Jul 16, 2010Friday, Jul 16, 2010 - by Pete Railton

We’ve been faffing about like mad between Firefox and Chrome for months now, unable to decide which browser to stick with.

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Android Market overflows with 100,000 Apps, hits 1 billion downloads

Friday, Jul 16, 2010Thursday, Jul 15, 2010 - by Lee J. - 2 Comments.

According to unconfirmed figures collected by AndroLib, Android users have now downloaded more than one billion applications, with the rate of downloads increasing at a very nifty pace.

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business / Google

Google rakes in the moolah as revenue soars

Friday, Jul 16, 2010Friday, Jul 16, 2010 - by mike s

Google has released its second quarter 2010 earnings report and, put simply, they’re positively raking in the greenbacks.

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YouTube – entire website is down

Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen one of these, but YouTube has now been down for far longer than the 30 seconds that its error page reports. We’re …

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Google Maps finally gets user-friendly shorter URLs

Monday, Jul 12, 2010Monday, Jul 12, 2010 - by mike s

If you’re regularly forwarding Google Maps URL’s by email/Twitter or using them in web documents, you’ll already be aware of the mahoosive length of the things, with location links made …

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Google’s many forays into social media [infographic]

Saturday, Jul 10, 2010Saturday, Jul 10, 2010 - by Lee J.

Google is reportedly set to launch its own social networking service Google Me, but it won’t be the first time the search giant has tried to elbow its way into …

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GMail lets you get jiggy with customised rich text signatures

Friday, Jul 9, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

We’ve been wanting this feature for ages, so it’s good to see Goggle on the case and adding the ability to include rich text signatures in GMail.

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Google / web

Google celebrate 4th of July with witty Rube Goldberg animation

Monday, Jul 5, 2010Monday, Jul 5, 2010 - by Lee J.

Google are never one to miss out on an opportunity to knock out an amusing/interesting/entertaining logo for a notable occasion, and yesterday the site was honouring Independence Day in America …

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Google / video

Google gets down with Grandmas for some video chat

Friday, Jul 2, 2010Friday, Jul 2, 2010 - by mike s

We’re rather partial to Google’s quirky promo videos, and this latest one is certainly more offbeat than most. Titled, “Introducing the Grandmother’s Guide to Video Chat,” the 1.45 min cartoon …

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Android / Google / mobiles

Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ update rolls out to Nexus One users, Desire in Q3

Tuesday, Jun 29, 2010Tuesday, Jun 29, 2010 - by mike s

Nexus One users should soon start feeling the Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) love, with over-the-air software updates starting from today. The update adds some nifty features, most notably the ability …

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Apple / Google / Microsoft / web

Google Chrome shimmies past Safari in the US, IE still rules

Monday, Jun 28, 2010 - by Lee J.

Like Billy Whizz on a bag of Columbian marching powder, Google’s internet browser Chrome has zipped past Apple’s Safari for the first time in the US to grab third place …

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Google / web

Historypin mashes up archive photos with Google Street View

Saturday, Jun 26, 2010 - by mike s

An interesting new site called HistoryPin lets users ‘pin’ old images on to Google’s Street View to provide an instant ‘then and now’ view.

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Google Maps for Android gets updated
Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google Maps for Android gets nifty update

Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010 - by Pete Railton

It’s long been one of our favourite mobile apps, and a new update of Google Maps for Android is rocking our world that little bit more.

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