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Mountain View, California -- As our lives increasingly move to the cloud, hardly a day goes by that some high-tech nerd coolly breaks into our digital lives and is getting easier by day, hence, the need for stronger passwords is more important than ever. In its quest to counter this malicious act, tech juggernaut Google seems to be preparing to move away from passwords, which have long been a weak point of digital security, in favor of dedicated devices. But side from avoiding easy-to-guess passwords, first it just has to convince the rest of the Internet to go along with their scheme.

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London - In a surprising turn of events taking place over the weekend, search and technology giant Google has finalized a new site for its British headquarters at King Cross Central, a multi-billion pound mixed-use property development located in the heart of London and move into new 2.4 acre complex by 2016. (more…)

Mountain View, California - In a fresh move to provide its users a safe browser platform, search engine giant Google last week announced yet another security improvement for Chrome 25. Disclosing the news on its blog, the company asserts that it is now supporting Secure Sockets Layer or SSL for omnibox searches on Chrome without the need to sign into Google. (more…)

 

San Francisco - In an attempt to outsmart the social media juggernaut that is Facebook - especially after the latter's latest efforts in the search arena - The Mountain View company, over the weekend has made a small but important step in that direction by making available its Google+ iOS apps to 48 more countries and territories, according to a Google+ post by engineer Frank Petterson.

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San Francisco - Much to the delight of many users who utilize Google+ Hangouts on Air live streams, as the search company has unfurled a minor update that will offer a far improved viewing experience when watching a video stream with just one presenter. Hangouts on Air will now show in a fullscreen mode by default when there is only one camera. (more…)

Mountain View, California - With the rise of Siri, the future of Web browsing has finally dawned! Barely days after releasing Chrome 24 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google surprised the tech industry on Monday by announcing the release of Chrome 25 beta. With the latest release, the company is giving developers some big new voice-centered tools among the new features, which consists of voice support via the newly added Web Speech API, a new tab page with a search box, and the blocking of silent extension installation.

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Mountain View, California -- Relentlessly striving to capitalize on its e-commerce solutions, search giant Google over the weekend introduced a real-time new digital coupon offering called Zavers by Google, a service that empower retailers and manufacturers to reward their loyal customers with relevant coupons. The company, however, said that it would be demonstrating the product first-hand to visitors of Google's booth at the annual National Retail Federation (NFR) Convention & Expo in New York, which runs through Tuesday. (more…)

Mountain View, California - Being able to dive into photo details is a great feature for making photography more engaging as viewing photos on Google Plus just got better. The search engine behemoth has just enhanced the photos experience on Google+ by adding the pan and zoom features that will enable users to focus small areas of high-resolution images that they have uploaded on the site. (more…)

Mountain View, California -- In another neighborly gesture toward becoming a national Internet service provider, Google has partnered with The Chelsea Improvement Company, on Tuesday lifted the curtain on the New York City's biggest contiguous free public Wi-Fi network in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Mountain View, California -- Over the weekend, an unethical controversy erupted after users reported that attempts to access Google Maps on Windows Phone devices led to redirects to the Google homepage. Google confirmed the redirect on Friday, and said it will be “soon” removing the block on its Maps service for Windows Phone handsets using the Internet Explorer browser.

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