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Google Voice released in the US
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Google Voice is open to all. If you live in the US, that is.

Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010 - by Lee J.

Over in the States, Google Voice has been creating quite a buzz, offering a powerful set of free tools that let users give out one number for all of their …

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broadcasting / Google / web

Google TV explained for the baffled and befuddled [video]

Monday, Jun 21, 2010Sunday, Jun 20, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

A lot of people liked the idea of Google TV when it was announced last month, but we suspect we weren’t alone in not entirely ‘getting’ it.

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Google / software / video / web

YouTube adds online editing for your videos

Thursday, Jun 17, 2010Friday, Jun 18, 2010 - by mike s

Set to inspire wannabe Hitchcock film-makers is YouTube’s natty new cloud-based video editing tools which have just been added to the video sharing site.

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Google / web

Google invites you to ‘paint your browser’ for the World Cup

Saturday, Jun 12, 2010 - by Pete Railton

God dang it if the whole world isn’t going football crazy, with the internet recording its busiest day ever and popular sites like Twitter falling over themselves to get a …

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Google / web

Google’s homepage gets customised full screen images and artwork

Thursday, Jun 10, 2010Thursday, Jun 10, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Google recently announced a spanking new feature that lets users add their own photo or image to the background of their Google.com homepage.

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Google / web

Google’s new Caffeine search index promises farm-fresh results

Wednesday, Jun 9, 2010Wednesday, Jun 9, 2010 - by Lee J.

Google have announced the completion of their new web indexing system called Caffeine which they claim will provide “50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index.” It’s …

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Google / web

Google scores a World Cup gooooooooooal!

Tuesday, Jun 8, 2010 - by mike s

Fans of Google will be familiar with the company’s policy of adding topical logo tweaks and general anniversary-related japes (like the fabulous PACMAN game recently) and it seems that they’re …

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Google / web

Google lists the top 1000 websites in the world

Friday, May 28, 2010Friday, May 28, 2010 - by Lee J.

Google has given its mighty calculators a bit of a spin and released a list of the top 1,000 websites on the planet.

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Google / web

Google offers SSL encrypted search beta service

Monday, May 24, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Google has switched on a beta version of its SSL encrypted search service, which encrypts data sent between your PC and Google’s servers, making it just about impossible for sneaky …

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gaming / Google

Google celebrates PAC-MAN’s 30th Anniversary with playable front page

Friday, May 21, 2010Friday, May 21, 2010 - by mike s - 14 Comments.

Paying tribute to the 30th anniversary of  the arcade game classic PAC-MAN, Google have put up their first-ever playable Google doodle on the search homepage.

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Android / Google / video

Google announces Google TV: “TV meets web. Web meets TV”

Thursday, May 20, 2010Friday, May 21, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Declaring that it will “change the future of television,” Google has announced Google TV, a new Android powered application which lets users search for content from their television, DVR and …

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Google face lawsuits over Wi-Fi Street View data privacy

Wednesday, May 19, 2010Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - by mike s

The fall out continues after Google’s Street View cars were discovered to have been scooping up samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks. Despite posting a comprehensively …

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Google admits to colossal Wi-Fi cock-up. Punitive wedgies delivered

Saturday, May 15, 2010Saturday, May 15, 2010 - by mike s

A suitably contrite Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering & Research at Google, has posted up an ‘umble apology after it was discovered that Google’s Street View cars had been collecting …

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Google ‘Model Your Town’ competition winner announced! [video]

Friday, May 14, 2010 - by mike s

Way back in April we flagged up Google’s Model Your Town Competition which invited towns to submit 3D models of their community using Google’s free SketchUp or Google Building Maker 3D …

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Google / stuff

Google giant logo constructed out of 884 London photos

Thursday, May 13, 2010Thursday, May 13, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

A bunch of employees at Google’s offices in London have constructed a giant Google logo out of 884 individually printed 4×6 photographs.

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