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Google Drive officially announced offering 5GB of free storage
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Google Drive offers 5GB of free cloud storage, Dropbox/Evernote can’t be chuffed

Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 - by mike s

  Google has officially announced Google Drive, billing it as a “place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff.”

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Google unveils the futuristic Project Glass augmented reality glasses
computing / Google / portable

Google unveils the futuristic Project Glass augmented reality specs [video]

Thursday, Apr 5, 2012Thursday, Apr 5, 2012 - by Alex S

Google has unveiled a glimpse of how the future may look, with a video showing off their sci-fi Google Glass augmented reality concept glasses.

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Google's Art Project gets big upgrade, now contains 30,000 artworks
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Google’s Art Project gets big upgrade, now contains 30,000 global artworks

Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

First introduced last year, Google has now announced a major expansion of their Google Art Project, adding sculpture, street art and photographs from 151 museums in 40 countries to their online collection of paintings.

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Google announces Nintendo Google maps and morse-code for Gmail
Google / web

Google announces Nintendo Google maps and morse-code for Gmail

Sunday, Apr 1, 2012Sunday, Apr 1, 2012 - by Lee J.

Those cheeky wagsters at Google have certainly put some effort into their April Fools’ pranks this year, announcing a version of their Maps service for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), …

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Google shows its love for Colossus and Bletchley Park
computing / Google / hardware

Google celebrates the UK’s Bletchley Park and ground-breaking Colossus computer

Friday, Mar 9, 2012Friday, Mar 9, 2012 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Google has enjoyed something of a love affair with Bletchley Park in recent times, Now known as the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and the birthplace …

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Android explodes: 450,000 Android Apps, 300 million devices, one billion app downloads per month
Android / Google / mobiles

Android explodes: 450,000 Android Apps, 300 million devices, one billion app downloads per month

Monday, Feb 27, 2012 - by Lee J.

Google’s Android platform continues its trajectory for total global dominance, with a new Google blog post revealing details of a year-on-year growth rate of more than 250%, with no less …

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google launches Chrome browser for Android

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 - by Lee J.

We’re big fans of Google’s Chrome desktop browser, so we’re stoked to see that the search engine giant has now released a mobile version for the Android mobile OS.

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computing / Google / portable

It’s not all about the iPad – Google Chromebooks are also catching on in US schools

Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 - by Pete Railton

There’s been much discussion about what kind of technology is best for students, with conflicting opinions arguing over the likes of the iPad and education-targeted machines like the Lenovo X130e. While we’ve taken …

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Google on SOPA: ‘Don’t Censor The Web’

Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012 - by mike s

In  line with the web-wide protests taking place today, Google has issued a strong statement voicing its opposition to the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop …

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gaming / Google / web

Google shows off its Google Maps 3D maze challenge [video]

Sunday, Jan 15, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

Google has  slipped out a promotional video showing off a Google Maps-driven game for the Google+ Games platform.

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google intros speedier, sleekier Google Search for Android app

Thursday, Jan 12, 2012 - by Pete Railton

On a roll after the recent release of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, Google have whipped out an updated version of Google Search for Android, sporting a rather splendid new …

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LG ready 3D Google TV for CES 2012 announcement

Friday, Jan 6, 2012Friday, Jan 6, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

When it first launched at the end of 2010,  Google TV didn’t exactly set the world on fire, but electronics giant LG has jumped onboard with their new Google TV television – and …

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Google / video

Google launches YouTube Slam for ‘hot or not’ video face-offs, office productivity set to plummet

Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 - by Lee J.

Keen to help you find more entertaining distractions, Google has launched YouTube Slam, serving up the hottest, oddest and (ahem) ‘funnest’ video clips.

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Christmas Google Doodle animates, bangs out ‘Jingle Bells’

Saturday, Dec 24, 2011 - by Lee J.

We reported on what we thought was a rather understated Christmas Google doodle yesterday, but an large extra dollop of festive spirit has now been added to the google.com homepage.

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Google / web

Google gets in the festive spirit with a Christmas doodle

Friday, Dec 23, 2011Friday, Dec 23, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

With some parts of the world (like New Zealand, South Korea and Japan) already into Christmas Eve, Google’s festive logo has started appearing on their search homepage.

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