Mountain View, California — Directly targeting at Apple’s iPhone, Google on Tuesday unveiled its HTC-built “Nexus One” smartphone, displaying many of its features during a press event, saying the name connotes convergence with its partners, as well as opened an online store to sell the device unlocked to consumers who wish to purchase it for […]

Mountain View, California — Google PageRank toolbar updates typically takes place four times a year, the last Google update that occurred during October created a kerfuffle in the search engine optimization industry, as not many people were sure if it would actually happen. But for those who admire Google’s often delayed toolbar PageRank, Google is […]

New York — RealNetworks has scooped up Seattle startup Varia Mobile, hinting at top-secret cloud computing project that the Varia engineering team will be working on at Real, according to TechFlash. Although, spokesman Bill Hankes confirmed the purchase today, though he refused to offer more details as to the mysterious venture that it is rumored […]

San Francisco — The physicist whose most significant breakthrough was portrayed in the original Apple logo, is the latest event being celebrated today by a “Google Doodle” that depicts an apple falling from a tree: an event that inspired him to formulate his theory of gravity, and established him as one of the world’s greatest […]

Beijing, China — The Chinese government is famous for its hard-and-fast Internet regulation policies. Chinese authorities says that it has arrested thousands of people over the course of 2009 in an attempt to purge the Internet of pornography and other “harmful information,” vowing tougher online policing in the new year as a key element of […]

San Francisco — RockYou, the popular provider of third-party widgets and applications for Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking services, is being slammed with a class-action alleging the company of employing such poor data security that enabled at least one hacker to gain access to 32 million e-mails and their passwords. An Indiana man, the lawsuit’s […]

White River Junction, Vermont — Global search leader Google Inc.’s “Matt Dunne,” the man who oversees its worldwide community affairs efforts to polish its image in the places where it has offices, running his candidacy for governor of Vermont is drawing attention, because of his other job — as an executive with the Internet search […]

Beijing, China — Google has for long been engaged in a legal skirmishes with authors and publishers over its book scanning project. Recently, the global search titan has locked horns with Mian Mian, a popular Chinese author, who shot to fame with sensational tales of sex, drugs and alcohol in the underworld, is filing a […]

New York — Traditionally, there are many New Years customs enjoyed throughout the ages, but for a passionate Internet nerds, there is nothing more exciting and entertaining than celebrating the first day of the year with a special Google doodle. Just roll your mouse over this year’s doodle and you will receive the message “Happy […]

San Francisco — The team at Google Labs last summer introduced a new service dubbed as Google City Tours, one of the ongoing projects by Google Labs team that has tweaked the interface that generated a tour of various attractions near a location including real walking directions and My Maps integration within walking distance of […]