Google reveals action over Mosley
Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life from its search results index, Britain’s Leveson Inquiry on press standards has heard. But the internet giant said it dealt with requests for material to be excluded on a country-by-country basis, meaning articles and videos might remain accessible [...]
Google deal set to ‘supercharge’ Android
Google has struck its biggest ever deal – to buy Motorola’s smartphone and tablet business for $12.5 billion in cash. Both companies say the move will give a ‘supercharge’ to Google’s Android platform.Android-based devices, which include Motorola’s smartphones and tablets – are the major rivals to Apple’s iPhone and iPad.As such, the acquisition appears to [...]
Google+ social network adds games
Google+ added games, including the hugely popular Angry Birds, to the fast-growing social network vying with Facebook to be the hub for people’s online lives.‘We want to make playing games online just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life,’ Google senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said in a blog [...]
Harry Potter website adds Google magic
Author JK Rowling’s website devoted to fictional wizard Harry Potter will feature a bit of Google magic when it debuts later this year in the United States, according to the internet titan.Rowling’s beloved Potter titles will be available on Google eBooks platform at Pottermore.com and Google Checkout will be the preferred payment system, according to [...]
Google goes social with Facebook rival
Google, the king of internet search but not on the social front, has launched its rival to Facebook, a social networking service called Google+.“Online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it,” Google’s senior vice president for engineering Vic Gundotra on Tuesday said in a blog post about the long-awaited social networking [...]
