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Google Says It Has No ‘Serious’ Plans To Bring Fibre To The UK

Google fibre won't be coming to the UK any time soon

10 years ago

Search Warrant For GMail User’s Emails Sparks Privacy Worries

Privacy concerns raised after US judge grants a warrant against Google to seize an individual's Gmail emails

10 years ago

Google Announces Project Zero To Hunt Bugs Across The Net

The project will employ security experts to search for ‘zero-day’ exploits in popular software

11 years ago

Google Partners Novartis For ‘Smart’ Contact Lenses

Google teams up with Swiss drugmaker Novartis to develop smart contact lenses to help diabetics

11 years ago

Amazon Hires Google Glass Founder Babak Parviz

Amazon signals its growing hardware intentions by hiring the founder of the Google Glass project

11 years ago

Google’s Nest Establishes Yet Another IoT Standards Group

The Thread Group, which promotes the eponymous standard, already includes ARM, Samsung and Freescale

11 years ago

Russia Wants Domestic Alternatives To Replace Foreign Tech

Some government oprganisations ban Google services, while the procurement process changes to favour Russian companies

11 years ago

Google Disruption Resumes In China After Brief Respite

The Great Firewall of China is back up and blocking Google access after a brief pause for Chinese users

11 years ago

Samsung Relaunches Its Android App Store As Galaxy Apps

Samsung Galaxy Apps offers optimised and exclusive apps for Galaxy devices

11 years ago

IBM, Microsoft And Red Hat Back Google Kubernetes Container Project

Big players commit to Google's Kubernetes scheme for open source container management, taking virtualisation up a level

11 years ago

Google, SAP And Friends Unite Against Patent Trolls

Some of the world’s largest patent holders say they have invented ‘arms control for the patent world’

11 years ago

Google’s BBC Blog Search Block Spreads Confusion

Google has applied the "right to be forgotten" to searches for a BBC blog - amid rising criticism

11 years ago

Google Gives Away 100 ‘Project Ara’ Modular Smartphones

The Do-It-Yourself mobile device platform is expected to launch by March 2015

11 years ago

Google Search Suffers Short Outage

Someone typed "Google" into Google apparently

11 years ago

UK Cinema Trade Group Bans Google Glass

The Cinema Exhibitors' Association, representing more than 90 percent of British cinemas, said it will ban Glass from auditoriums

11 years ago

Google To Shutter Orkut Social Network

Launched in 2004, the same year as Facebook, Orkut only caught on in Brazil and India

11 years ago

Google’s Project Tango To Appear In Consumer Tech In 2015

LG will make the first consumer mobile device capable of modelling its environment in 3D

11 years ago

Google Introduces Android Auto – A Platform That Makes Cars Smart

The company gets ready to fight Apple on a brand new battlefield

11 years ago

Google Drive Tweaked As Docs Gains MS Office Support

Google Drive updated for businesses, and Docs gets the ability to edit Microsoft Office documents

11 years ago

Google Establishes Android One Programme For Affordable Smartphones

Android One aims to help manufacturers create affordable smartphones for emerging markets as Google takes on Microsoft and Mozilla

11 years ago

Google Announces First Android Wear Smartwatches

LG’s G Watch and Samsung’s Gear Live will ship next month, while Moto 360 is expected by the end of…

11 years ago

Android L To Boast New Interface And Samsung Knox Integration

Developer preview of Android L is released as Google seeks to expand reach of its mobile operating system

11 years ago

Google Glass Goes On Sale In The UK

The Google Glass devices have launched in Britain with improved battery life and locally tuned voice recognition

11 years ago

Google’s Nest Opens API To Control Home Devices

Google extends Nest with a developer programme for third party devices

11 years ago

Google Puts Spotlight On Energy, Access Efforts

Google is giving a new prominence to its wide range of Internet access and power delivery projects, and to vice…

11 years ago

BoringSSL: Google Creates Its Own OpenSSL After Heartbleed Pain

Google isn't changing the world with BoringSSL, it's just creating its own version of OpenSSL for its own products

11 years ago

Google Mulls Underwater Cable Investment – Report

Google is reportedly looking to make an investment in a new subsea cable in the Pacific Ocean

11 years ago

Android And Windows Phone To Get A Mobile ‘Kill Switch’

Microsoft and Google join Apple and Samsung in introducing a new security measure

11 years ago

Bing Anniversary Prompts Questions Over Microsoft’s Google Challenge

Bing celebrates its fifth birthday this month, but some question its actual impact on the search engine market

11 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Search Engines

Try our most probing quiz ever. Do you know the truth about search engines?

11 years ago