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Google unveils its first mobile phone

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San Francisco, Jan 6 (DPA) Internet search giant Google unveiled its first mobile phone on Tuesday as it increased the pressure on Apple’s iPhone in a mobile market that many analysts predict will come to dominate the internet in the coming years.

Google previously released its Android operating system for phones, which has been adopted by [...]

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Chinese author Mian Mian sues Google over copyright issues

London, Dec 30 (ANI): Chinese novelist Mian Mian has sued Google over its plan to create an online library.

And now a Beijing judge has told the author to hold settlement talks with the search giant.

After a two-hour hearing, the court ordered both sides to talk but did not [...]

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Google removes racist image of Michelle Obama

London, Nov 25 (IANS) Google removed a racially offensive image of US First Lady Michelle Obama from its search engine Wednesday while the blog hosting it apologised in Chinese.

The image of Michelle with monkey features, which appeared at the top of Google’s search results, was posted on a blog called Hot Girls, which is hosted [...]

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Google apologises for offensive Michelle Obama image

London, November 25 (ANI): Google has issued an apology for a racially offensive image of Michelle Obama that pops up on its search engine when users hunt for snaps of the US First Lady.

The California-based Internet giant posted a text ad above the rude photo that ended up as the number-one result for Mrs Obama [...]

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THE THINGS THEY SAY:

“Who is this Perez Hilton, really? The whole blog thing is kind of a mystery to me. How does Google actually work?” WINONA RYDER is clueless about social networking and the Internet as a whole.

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Babies born from 2010, Gen A, to be history’s most educated generation

Melbourne, November 15 (ANI): Babies born from 2010 will form new Generation Alpha, the most formally educated generation in history, experts believe.

Researcher Mark McCrindle, the author of a new book about global generations, The ABC Of XYZ, explained Gen A babies would begin school earlier and study for longer as compared to those from previous [...]

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Google unveils social search function

Hamburg, Nov 15 (DPA) Google is testing a new social search function to make it easier for people find their friends’ blogs and twitter feeds.

The only catch is that users of the service need to have an open profile with Google that includes personal contact data.

Once those conditions are met, the user can access the [...]

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YouTube says hi to high-definition

San Francisco, Nov 14 (DPA) Online video site YouTube is to introduce high definition video capabilities next week in a move that marks another milestone in the transformation of the internet into a full-fledged video viewing platform.

The Google-owned company said Friday that users will be able to upload and view 1080p video rather than the [...]

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De Niro’s kids don’t care about his star status

London, Nov 8 (IANS) Hollywood star Robert De Niro says his children don’t care that their father is famous.

The 66-year-old said his children ‘aren’t too impressed’ with their Oscar-winning father and don’t talk about his work, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

‘My kids aren’t too impressed with me. They don’t say very much about my career. Sometimes they Google [...]

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Google’s Android cell phone becomes tool for global development

Washington, October 30 (ANI): Computer scientists at the University of Washington (UW) have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device, thus making it a handheld tool [...]

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Google comes up with ‘Got The Wrong Bob?’ to avoid e-mail slip-ups

London, October 24 (ANI): Google has introduced a new application to prevent users from making mistakes and sending their e-mails to the wrong recipient.

The company has added “Got The Wrong Bob?” to its e-mail service Gmail, warning people to double-check the e-mail address before sending.

Google engineer Yossi Matias is the mastermind behind the new feature [...]

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Year after launch, Google’s phone ambitions ring true

San Francisco, Oct 19 (DPA) Ever since its stunning success in revolutionising the internet search market eight years ago, Google has been searching for a second act that would help the company diversify.

After failed attempts at entering the newspaper, television and radio ad markets, the online-search behemoth finally seems to be gaining traction in what [...]

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YouTube gets billion hits per day

San Francisco, Oct 10 (DPA) Google’s online video site YouTube now gets a billion hits a day, the site’s founder Chad Hurley said in a video posted Friday.

‘Three years ago today (YouTube co-founder) Steve (Chen) and I stood in front of our offices and jokingly crowned ourselves the ‘burger kings’ of media,’ read the post, [...]

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Log on to IJustMadeLove.com to tell the world where you had sex!

London, Oct 8 (ANI): If you have just had great sex and want to tell the world about it, here’s your chance – a new website, IJustMadeLove.com, allows internet users to share when and where they made love.

The site uses Google maps to show countries around the world, where people have just had sexual [...]

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Megan Fox can’t cope with criticism

Los Angeles, Sep 29 (IANS) American actress Megan Fox says she can’t handle criticism and lives like a recluse to avoid reading negative comments.

‘I’d be a complete lunatic, drug-addled and out of my mind. Instead I stay in and ignore it all,’ femalefirst.co.uk quoted Megan Fox as saying.

‘There are those who have a Google Alert [...]

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Google confirms: Beatles are ‘bigger than Jesus’

London, September 22 (ANI): The Beatles have surpassed Jesus in terms of popularity on the Google search engine.

An analysis of search terms showed more people searched for the band on Google than the son of God during September.

The group’s popularity maybe linked to the re-release of all of their digitally-remastered albums, along with the release [...]

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New Google tool seeks to convert Net into newsstand

San Jose (California), Sep 16 (IANS) So far, you have been spending time browsing to read news on Internet. But now, top search engine and content giant Google will help you read news, as if you were actually flipping newspapers or magazines.

The new tool is ‘Google Fast Flip’ that allows you to swiftly flip through [...]

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Music videos return to UK YouTube after new multi-million pound deal

London, Sept 3 (ANI): Music lovers all over Britain have a reason to celebrate, as premium videos of the world’s most famous artists are all set to return to YouTube.

Fans around the UK could not access several videos for almost half-a-year following a royalty dispute with PRS for Music, a society collecting royalties for British [...]

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Facebookers, Twitterers more prone to attack by burglars

London, Aug 27 (ANI): People who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are more prone to getting robbed, as burglars might be stealing their personal details from such websites, says a research.

The research said that these sites could face higher [...]

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YouTube videos, sex, porn top children’s Internet searches

Melbourne, Aug 12 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that watching YouTube videos, looking up “sex”, socialising and searching for search engines are the popular activities children perform on the Internet.

The survey conducted by computer security firm Symantec listed the Top 100 searches using the company’s tracking service OnlineFamily.Norton, which monitor’s children’s and teenager’s internet [...]

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Google unveils speedier search engine

London, August 11 (ANI): Google Inc. is working on a new test version of its search engine, which the company claims will be faster and more relevant than ever before.

The company has dubbed the new search engine “caffeine”.

Look-wise, the new engine doesn’t appear different, [...]

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Depicting Arunachal’s areas in China was a mistake: Google

New Delhi, Aug.8 (ANI): Google, the popular search engine, on Saturday conceded to have erroneously depicted some areas of Arunachal Pradesh as being parts of China following a processing of routine update of new map data on the Google Earth. It stated the mistake would [...]

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