According to a report by Wired's Meghan Keane, YouTube is testing stereo sound as a default option for videos and is also offering very high quality HD versions of a small selection of clips. We weren ....... Read more 1 day ago
Inventor of the Wiki Responds to google Search Wiki
google put on a full court media push tonight for a major change the company is making to its search experience. According to the Official google Blog and a very unusual email the company sent out to ....... Read more 19 hours ago
Gmail Gets Themes
Gmail's interface was revolutionary when it was first released, but the design was a bit too plain for a lot of users. After a short while, users started to develop Greasemonkey scripts and Firefox pl ....... Read more 1 day ago
google Lively Is Dead-ly
In an economic environment where a number of companies are stumbling, it's important to remember that sometimes even google makes bad decisions. Such would be the case with Lively, a browser-based vir ....... Read more 1 day ago
google, 10 Years Ago
Do you remember when you were first introduced to google.com? It's almost hard to imagine a life before them, isn't it? (B.G. - Before google?) Their impact on the internet cannot be understated. As G ....... Read more 4 days ago
google Mobile App Update With Voice Recognition Finally Available - And it Works
google's highly anticipated update of its google Mobile App for the iPhone (iTunes link) finally arrived in the App Store this afternoon. The app now uses voice recognition to translate voice commands ....... Read more 3 days ago
Weekly Wrapup: MySpace Profiles, IBM Blue Spruce, Windows Live, And More...
It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we analyzed the significance of MySpace's new profiles, looked at how google is tracking flu trends, e ....... Read more 6 days ago
Compete: google Docs & Spreadsheets Keeps Growing, But User Engagment is Flat
It's been a little bit more than two years now since google merged google Spreadsheets with Writely, and while there has been a lot of talk about online office suites, the latest data from Compete ind ....... Read more 7 days ago
Microsoft Could Pay More to Be on More Phones
Deals are in the works to make Microsoft the default search and advertising provider for Verizon mobile phones, one of the biggest carrier networks in the US. That would mean Redmond replacing google, ....... Read more 9 days ago
Romanes Eunt Domus: Ancient Rome Comes to google Earth
For a lot of students, the history of ancient Rome is not exactly a gripping subject. google, together with the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) is t ....... Read more 9 days ago
google Launches Video and Voice Chat for Gmail
google today announced a major update for Gmail: video and voice chat. To make this work, users only have to install a small browser plugin. google will start enabling these new features for all Gmail ....... Read more 10 days ago
google Maps Now Available For Blackberry Enterprise Server Distribution
The iPhone may have outsold RIM's Blackberry devices here in the U.S., but google knows that getting their software in the hands of business execs still means building Blackberry apps. The company's r ....... Read more 10 days ago
google Flu Trends: A Glimpse into the Future of google Health
It stands to reason that people who are "starting to come down with something" often take the opportunity to search for information on what ails them, even before they discuss their symptoms with a he ....... Read more 9 days ago
Say What? google Reader Translates Any Feed into Your Native Tongue
If you're like most folks interested in technology, you likely have a feed reader full of hundreds of RSS feeds on your favorite topics. No doubt, they all have one thing in common: they're in a langu ....... Read more 10 days ago
Coming Soon To Chrome: google Bookmarks?
Is google finally going to do something with their bookmarking tool, google Bookmarks? It's possible. In the latest builds of the Chromium project, the open source implementation of the google Chrome ....... Read more 11 days ago
StarOffice No Longer Part of google Pack
While google Docs has been ramping up recently, it seems the google Pack has been cutting back. Sun's $70 productivity suite StarOffice, which was added to the free google Pack just over a year ago, i ....... Read more 13 days ago