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Facebook Acquires Web Workspace Specialist Sharegrove

Facebook announces it has acquired startup Sharegrove, which makes private Web workspaces

14 years ago

Low-cost Apple TV May Challenge Google TV

Apple could be preparing a new version of its digital-content-streaming Apple TV that runs iPhone OS 4

14 years ago

Microsoft Starts Internet Explorer 9 Push

The software giant has all manner of tactics at its disposal to get users to move from the oldest supported…

15 years ago

Google Apps Tool Eases Outlook Migration

Google has released a new Microsoft Outlook tool to help users migrate their data and contacts to Google Apps

15 years ago

Google AdMob Deal Pits It Against Apple

Google has finalised its acquisition of mobile advertising network AdMob, setting up a battle with Apple for ads in smartphone…

15 years ago

Siemens Aims Unified Comms At Mid-sized Firms

OpenScape Office MX unified communications (UC) solution offers features such as drag-and-drop conferencing for SMBs

15 years ago

Palm WebOS Boss To Improve Google Android UX

Google has hired webOS user interface director Matias Duarte from Palm to improve the user experience for the Android operating…

15 years ago

Google Denies Access To Street View Wi-Fi Data

Google is refusing to allow Germany and Hong Kong to look at the data collected accidentally from unsecured Wi-Fi networks…

15 years ago

Youth Not So Carefree About Privacy

The younger social networking generations take proactive approach to privacy, a survey finds

15 years ago

Firefox Home Coming To iPhone

Mozilla is finalising a submission to Apple for a free iPhone browser app based on its own Sync technology

15 years ago

Microsoft Launches Hohm Energy Management Tool

Microsoft joins the likes of Google in launching online tools to help consumers manage their energy usage

15 years ago

Facebook Unveils Privacy Revamp

Facebook has slashed the number of settings required to make all information private and create one control for user content.

15 years ago

Google Pac-Man Cost $120.5m In Lost Productivity

Users spent more than 4.8 million hours of time playing Google's free Pac-Man game last Friday, a time drain that…

15 years ago

Adobe Sets Adobe Reader Free For Android Users

Adobe has released Adobe Reader for Android to the Android Market, just after Google pledged support for Adobe's Flash and…

15 years ago

Google Chrome 5.0 Stable for Windows, Mac, Linux

Google's Chrome team has released stable builds loaded with HTML5 utilities for Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux

15 years ago

Facebook Plans To ‘Drastically Simplify’ Privacy

In the face of a user backlash, Facebook has announced plans to update its privacy settings

15 years ago

Promoted Tweets Protected From Third-party Ads

Revised developer terms of service deny third parties ability to inject paid tweets on any service that uses its API

15 years ago

Facebook Chief Acknowledges Privacy Criticisms

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg admits mistakes in changing the social network’s privacy controls and repeats a pledge to simplify them in…

15 years ago

Google TV Gets Cautious Welcome

Analysts have given Google’s upcoming Android 2.1-based TV offering the thumbs up, but caution that the IT industry is littered…

15 years ago

Do We Really Want To Break Google?

Successful IT companies get targetted by regulators, says Clint Boulton. First it was Microsoft, soon it will be Google, and…

15 years ago

Spain And France Join Inquiry Into Google Wi-Fi Data

Google will be investigated by more European countries, including France and Czech Republic, after revealing that it accidentally collected data

15 years ago

Poll Reveals Widespread Concern Over Facebook Privacy

Sixty percent of respondents to a Sophos poll say they are considering quitting Facebook due to privacy fears

15 years ago

Google Adds SSL Encryption In Wake Of Wi-Fi Gaffe

Google has begun adding SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for its search engine, a direct response to the company's "accidental"…

15 years ago

Analyst Predicts Tablet Goldrush From iPad Success

With the iPad, Apple kicked open a door that numerous competitors are expected to follow it through, sending tablet sales…

15 years ago

More Speed For Google Android 2.2

Google has launched Android 2.2 at Google I/O, bringing Adobe Flash 10.1, greater performance and enterprise capabilities to the platform

15 years ago

Google Offers Cloud Storage For Developers

Google Storage for Developers utilises the RESTful API and Google's existing storage and networking infrastructure to store code from cloud-computing…

15 years ago

Google Latitude API Lets Users Display Location

Google has launched an API for Google Latitude: the friend-finding service that lets users display their locations on Google Maps

15 years ago

Pakistan Bans Facebook Over Muhammad Images

A Facebook group showing images of the Prophet Muhammad led the Pakistani government to block the site

15 years ago

Juniper ‘Flattens’ Data Centre Networks

Juniper has stepped up its game against Cisco, with new products designed to "flatten" data centre networks

15 years ago

iPad App Store Goes Live In UK

Apple opens up access to the App Store for its tablet device to fans outside of the US, but locks…

15 years ago