Google has been hit by a record fine by France’s National Commission for Information Freedom. Their misstep? Being found guilty of collecting private information while compiling Street View pictures. The Californian internet giant has been fined 100,000 euros (around $142,000) for accidentally intercepting private data being transmitted …
Google Blames China for Slowing Down Gmail
The concept of “free internet” never really takes hold until the very first moment you sit down at a Chinese computer and type in ‘Facebook.com’. Here in China, it’s blocked. And even though tech giant Google pulled out of mainland China over a year ago, it’s only been harder to access Google’s services recently.
One of the …
TechFast: Google vs China, iPad Success, Facebook Snaps Up Snaptu
Good morning! Here are some of this morning’s interesting tech stories. More on these, and more besides, coming up later.
iPad 2 Will Keep The Top Spot
In a market analysis report that will surprise exactly no-one, some analysts from Gartner said the Apple iPad will continue to dominate the tablet computer market for some time to
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Google Just Added 50 Seconds to Your Day
Google just saved you as much as 50 seconds a day. That’s almost six minutes per week. Over five hours every year. Wow. Thanks Google.
How did they do it? Well, yesterday Google engineers announced a change to the code used to display AdSense ads all over the web.
The announcement is aimed at web developers and goes into technical …
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Google (Or Maybe 11)
James Altucher writes great stories about his background in the world of investment, but his latest, 10 Things I Didn’t Know About Google reads like a secret history of the I’m Feeling Lucky search company.
Read it, and you’ll learn not only how long the guy used to spend playing Defender each day, but also what Google’s first Tweet …
Study: Android Smokes iPhone 4 Crunching Web Pages?
Everyone loves a smackdown, so how about one that proves whether Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone is faster? And from a disinterested third-party researcher to boot?
Blaze Software says it ran a whopping 45,000 tests to prove whose browser was really king of the mobile mountain. The results: Android’s Chrome browser was an …
Google Docs Gets Chatty With Discussions
The mundane world of document editing is about to get a little more lively with discussions in Google Docs.
Although Google Docs previously allowed collaborators to comment within a document, this overhaul lets users reply to other comments and edit their own remarks, with a timestamp and profile image appearing alongside each …
How to Update the eHow Website
eHow wants you to know that it’s not just a purveyor of churned-out SEO spam. To that end, parent company Demand Media has redesigned the eHow website to focus on quality content.
The redesign uses a bright-green color scheme instead of sickly blue, with colorful banners announcing the category of each featured article. Dare I say it, …
Google Mobile for iPhone Gets Revamped as Google Search
Say goodbye to Google Mobile, and say hello to Google Search. Google’s revamped its app, giving it a whole new look and feel. It just wouldn’t be the same if you didn’t change the name too.
The revamped iPhone app is a nice update, making ithe previous version seem clunky and old. Along with voice search, the search feature …
Google Buys Video Tech Company, Plans YouTube Upgrade
Google has purchased Green Parrot, an Irish video technology company whose software can do amazing things with moving pictures.
Just take a look at the example video above to see what we mean. The shaky, juddering original footage is smoothed out into something much more pleasant to watch. And that’s just one of Green Parrot’s …
Twitter Boosts Security with Permanent HTTPS Support
First Google did it, then Facebook, and now Twitter’s following suit, adding an option to permanently shore up your account’s defenses courtesy the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, commonly abbreviated HTTPS.
Normally you type ‘http’ into your URL bar to conjure a website, but if you’ve ever used a service like online banking, you …
TechFast: YouTube Upgrade, Green Luxury Cars, End of Internet as We Know It
Google upgrades YouTube with Irish video company purchase
Google has bought Irish video technology company Green Parrot, in the hope it can use their code to sharpen, straighten, and generally tidy up a lot of the video content that gets uploaded to YouTube. What you see is no longer what you got. Look out for more on this story later
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