Google is hoping that when you go on your next vacation, you'll be relying not only on Google search and Maps but on Google's own content to go with you. Less than a year after Google bought the restaurant review guide publisher Zagat, ...
Tags: Google, Google search, Maps, New Strategy
Google is trialling an expansion of its search service to include Gmail messages, the company has announced. The limited trial was announced by Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, who described the move as the latest step the firm ...
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Google's new €75m Dublin datacentre facility, which houses computers that provide critical cloud-based services such as the Google search engine, Gmail and Google Maps, is now operational. The datacentre, at Profile Park in ...
Tags: Google, cloud-based services, air-cooling system, IT facility
Hey, Siri, you better look behind you. Google on Tuesday upgraded its Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad, giving the feature a voice search functionality that poses a challenge to Apple's Siri. The app, which is available for free ...
Tags: iPhone, iPad, Google, Google Search app, voice search, Apple, Siri
Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
Computerworld - Google is upgrading its Search Appliance for the enterprise in an effort to help workers find information stored anywhere in their organizations. Google Search Appliance 7.0 was unveiled today and will be available Oct. 16 ...
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A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers say. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a ...
Tags: USSD, SIM Cards, Samsung, Android Devices
Microsoft and Google are each taking steps to extend the social networking capabilities in their search services, with the goal of making it easier to find or share useful results. Bing search results will now include tips and ...
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After carefully working with China for the past two years, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt bluntly predicted the fall of the Great Firewall of China. "I believe that ultimately censorship fails," Schmidt said in an interview last week with ...
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An Italian startup backed by the Vatican Thursday launched a global portal for Catholic websites intended to provide reliable information for people seeking the truth about the Christian religion. The website, www.aleteia.org, takes its ...
Tags: Desktop Apps, Vatican, Europe, Catholic website
Fishbowl Solutions, an Oracle WebCenter Content and Portal Specialized Gold Partner and a Google Enterprise Partner, has announced the release of their Google Search Appliance (GSA) Connector Version 2.5 for Oracle WebCenter Content. This ...
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Google will discontinue its Mini enterprise search appliance, as part of the latest batch of product closures the company announced on Tuesday. After co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO in April last year, Google began eliminating ...
Tags: Google, Mini enterprise search appliance, search softwar, iGoogle
Cloud storage provider Livedrive introduced an app for Google's Chromebook on Thursday that is designed to give Livedrive customers access to their files stored online, which can total as much as 5TB. The Chromebook is designed for online ...
Tags: cloud storage, Livedrive, app, Google, Chromebook
China has blocking access to Google in what’s likely a move to squelch any controversial content on the nation’s Internet as its government prepares to change leadership. The blocking was reported by GreatFire.org, which ...
Google has added a feature to its Webmaster Tools search engine optimization (SEO) service that will alert publishers about sudden changes in their site's Google results and click-throughs. In this way, publishers will be notified ...
Tags: Google, Webmaster Tools, SEO service, search traffic alerts