Google set up new offices in Tel Aviv at the end of last year, putting any other cool office layout you have ever seen to shame. Going to work takes on a whole new meaning when you can spend your time in office space like this. Trees, picnic tables and a super tube are just […]
Everything in life goes through a teething stage and the internet has been no exception. Things were rather awkward way back when. Please enjoy this stunning collection of past home pages from our favourite websites. Google (1999): MySpace (2004): Ebay (1999): Ask Jeeves (1998): 2oceansvibe (2003): Thanks to Wayback Machine, you too can see what […]
Look, we can’t fault Microsoft for trying, and they seem to have pulled off a cool advert. But whether that will make any difference as to whether you actually want to use Internet Explorer or not, remains the unanswered question.
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Google is looking to change the password game. No longer will you have to remember complex password phrases, or give away incredibly stupid ones (password1, w’re looking at you), but simply tap a ring on a computer, or insert a USB drive.
What are you doing for the rest of the afternoon? Don’t pretend like you are actually working, because we know you are not. It’s way passed the hour of the Cape Town Friday Rule, and it’s time to get your Gizoogle on my nizzle.
Many strange things have been seen on Google’s Street View application. Now they’ve been forced to answer about the fate of a donkey in Botswana that they may or may not have knocked over. They have of course denied knocking the donkey over.
Google has been handed a clear message from Brussels that will see the search giant have to modify the way it presents its results because it unfairly promotes links to its own services above those of third party companies.
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It seems that most of the larger car manufacturers are keen to follow in the footsteps of Google and launch their own self-driving cars. Toyota has just joined that party.
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Yesterday Google dropped its annual Zeitgeist video – detailing what the world searched for during 2012. According to the search giant, an incredible 1,2 trillion searches in 146 languages were conducted this year!
It’s not just Google who are looking to have us all driving around in self-driving cars – Volvo is also gearing up for production and release of their own fleet of self-driving vehicles.
Gmail users will be pleased: you guys can now send files as large as 10 gigabytes! Look, in the world of email, this is quite something.
Australia has decided that search results that Google publishes amount to content that the company “publishes”, and is therefore responsible for.
Google and 8ta have just teamed up to provide a unique service to South Africans: if you have an 8ta sim card, you now get access to “Free Zone” — a project that allows users to access the web for free.
As one of the world’s biggest and most successful companies, it’s no surprise that Google is pretty much the first place people look when they’re considering online advertising. But, what exactly does that mean for the search giant? As it turns out, it means money, lots and lots of money.
The French President, Francois Hollande, is in favour of a law that would seek to force Internet search engines like Google to pay a fee for displaying links to newspaper articles.
We’ve previously seen loads of pictures of the cool offices Google employees get to work in. But for the first time, Google has lifted the mystery surrounding their data centres.
Yahoo has convinced a second high-ranking Google employee to come and work for them. After being one of Google’s top sales execs, Henrique De Castro served more recently as Google’s president of partners business solutions. He will now be serving as Yahoo’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Google has become famous for its fun, interactive Doodles, each new iteration drawing in a few more newcomers. Today’s Doodle is no different and also happens to be the online giant’s biggest, most expansive effort yet.
International brand consultancy Interbrand released its rankings of the world’s biggest brands yesterday, and there are some interesting shifts to take note of. We’ve already reported on Google being ranked higher than Microsoft, but where do our other favourite brands fall in the world’s top ten?
Microsoft now resides at position number three on the list of most valuable technology businesses in the world. Only Apple tops Google, but by quite a lot.
A Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of the head of Google’s operations in Brazil for failure to remove YouTube videos that attacked a mayoral candidate.
Always wanted to explore the Great Barrier Reef but couldn’t quite get the cash together? Don’t worry, good guy Google has it covered. Its latest Street View collection comes from beneath the waves of several famous diving spots and the results are nothing less than spectacular.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said that Google has not yet submitted a new Google Maps application to Apple.
Maybe you’ve heard of the concept of six degrees of separation, which states that any two people can be connected to each other by six other people. This is where the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon comes from, as well as Google’s latest built-in feature: The Bacon Calculator.
There are half a billion Android devices worldwide. You have to believe that Google is planning to, at some stage, release Google TV for Android.
Autonomous cars are soon to become even more commonplace in the United Sates, of America. Californian legislators have sent a bill to the governor’s desk that should push forward the development of autonomous cars in the Golden State.
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