France is the latest country to be drawn in to the Google data row, as officials continue to investigate whether the search engine giant obtained information about its users by contravening privacy laws. Google is accused of gathering and retaining sensitive data including passwords, when it was developing its Street View service. (more…)

Search engine giants Google and football federation Fifa have collaborated on a range of tools that will make it much easier to find the latest World Cup news and scores directly from Google’s Chrome browser.
The brand new Fifa extension provides a live feed of results, news and match statistics, and users will be able to personalise the plug-in to display goal alerts for their favourite team. (more…)

Google plans to release its hotly anticipated Chrome operating system toward the end of the year, they will initially be targeting laptop users, according to the head of the project. (more…)

Google has decided to release a full version of its Moderator service for all YouTube users, this will allow channel owners and viewers to talk about videos and other relevant topics (or completely irrelevant ones as is often the case) on channel pages, as a more structured alternative to the standard video comments. (more…)

After a fairly drawn out affair authorities in the US have approved Google’s controversial $750m acquisition of AdMob, the leading mobile phone advertising company in the world. (more…)

Google have this week unveiled the beta version of their encrypted search engine, SSL, designed for international searches, the new service will give users the option of enhanced security if they are at all suspicious that their internet connection may be being accessed by third parties. (more…)

New figures released by ComScore have revealed that Yahoo! and Bing have had a good month of April as both companies have gained some ground on Google in the search engine war. (more…)

Google have been making steady inroads into the web browser market of last as their rivalry with Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla intensifies. (more…)

After having been locked in a long running court battle in the US regarding their plans to create an online library bigger than any other; Google have finally announced the release of their much anticipated Google Editions e-book store which will go live at the end of June or early in July. (more…)

Recent results for internet browser use read well for competitors of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with Google and their Chrome browser coming off best. (more…)

Google seem to be getting ahead of themselves quite recently as their promise to buy “one new company a month” seems to have had a slight increase as they have now purchased their seventh start-up in five months. (more…)

Apple has announced that they have acquired Siri, a mobile application that acts as a virtual personal assistant. (more…)

Having innovated the way in which we search on the internet, Google are looking to create a different approach to web search query results. (more…)

Yahoo! have scored a major coup in their battle with Google and Microsoft by landing an exclusive deal with the Premier League to feature highlights of the games online in a deal that will run for customary 3 year period until 2013. (more…)