After unveiling its lovably dinky trike a few weeks ago, Google Street View has updated its homepage to give users a behind-the-scenes peek at how the Street View team operates.
This added transparency is not without reason, as Google Street View continues to be mired in controversies around the globe concerning privacy. The new site …
You’re wrapping up dinner at your favorite restaurant, but how do you reply to the maître d’ who hands you the bill and asks “paper, plastic, or semiconductor”?
With your phone, of course, and that’s just what Google’s hoping you’ll do when its new mobile payment service goes live sometime during the next four months, according to …
There was something of a collective shrug at the Austin Convention Center Friday afternoon, following the much-anticipated presentation by Google’s Marissa Mayer. But that said, there was irony to be found in the lackluster response, serving as yet further proof of just how dominant the company has become, in providing and filtering …
Did you know you had a Google Profile? Because you probably do, and as TIME’s Joel Stein discovered this week, it might be just another case of big business knowing more about you than you might think.
If you have a Google account – which you will have, if you’ve ever signed up for a Google online service like Gmail, Google Docs, or …
A new mobile version of Google Instant Previews is useful in ways that the desktop version never was.
The search tool will now automatically appear on Android phones running version 2.2 and up, and iPhones running iOS 4. Next to every search result, you’ll see a little magnifying glass. Tapping it takes you to a new page that shows a …
Well, well, well. Looks like we have some more fuel for the ages-old Google Music rumors. An enterprising developer shoehorned the new Motorola Xoom Android tablet’s music application onto his plain old Android smartphone and went he went into the phone’s settings menu, he was surprised to find a feature labeled “Sync Music” sandwiched …
Google says, “You’ve got better things to do than wait in traffic.” It’s a bold assumption clearly indicating that Google’s never met babies, the unemployed or retirees, but the company’s heart is in the right place.
The beta version of the free Google Maps Navigation app for Android phones now features automatic rerouting based on …
I try to keep a level head about Apple products. I own several, but I also own plenty of non-Apple stuff as well (I use a PC! Can you believe it?!).
This whole tablet movement has been fascinating to watch, though, and Apple’s been navigating the minefield impressively. It’s setting up some mines along the way, which helps, but …
Early in my reporting for Fortune’s annual survey of the World’s Most Admired Companies, it became apparent that Apple and Google would again rank near or at the top of the list. As it happened, they ended up as number 1 and 2 respectively. (Technology companies landed four spots in the top 10, with Amazon.com at number 7, and …
Data. Google wants it, and is good at getting it.
And that’s fine and dandy when the data they need is already online, because they can send the Googlebot scurrying along to index everything it finds. But what about the data that isn’t online?
Google’s cameras-on-cars collected data for Google Maps, but even they can’t drive …
A rogue developer managed to lure thousands of Android users into downloading dodgy malware for their mobile devices.
Google acted fast and axed the account run by developer Myournet, also taking steps to remove its 21 stolen applications from users’ phones via a built-in “back door” system put there for just such an …
Demand Media, the soul-crushingly prolific supplier of SEO-friendly link-bait, has convinced celebrity chef Rachael Ray to join its fold. This is quite the coup for the company, which recently went public and which has also been battling all those newly-menacing Google algorithms aimed at lowering the rankings of content farms on search …
