Google promises Chrome hackers $1m in rewards
Google’s offering $1 million in bounty payments to hackers managing to come up with a fully-functional exploit of Chrome. The company may not be expecting to pay out. Over the last six years, Pwn2Own contestants More...
Google tricks IE privacy settings too, says Microsoft
Following last week’s revelation that Google was bypassing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser, Microsoft’s accused it of doing the same thing with Internet Explorer. In a blog post, Dean More...
Google consolidates user data with new privacy policy
Google’s launching a new privacy policy, bringing together all the information it holds on individual users into a single place. The company currently has more than 70 different privacy policies for its various More...
Google search changes ‘warp the internet’
Google’s introduced one of its biggest-ever changes to search, tapping Google+ results to give more personal results in a move that some observers suggest may contravene US anti-trust legislation. Titled Search More...
Google eyes $200 price point for new tablet
When Amazon’s Kindle Fire was announced, most knew right away the tablet was one of the few that actually had a chance of challenging the iPad’s dominance. The Fire is certainly not close to dethroning the More...
Google bolsters patent stockpile with IBM buy
Google’s boosted its growing patent portfolio by buying hundreds more from IBM, which it hopes will help it in its battle to fight off litigation. It’s taken over 187 patents and 36 patent applications, More...
Mozilla renews search deal with Google
Google will be the default search engine for Mozilla’s Firefox for a further three years, following the extension of the deal between the two. It’s good news for Mozilla, which gets the overwhelming More...
Alternative social networks fall from favor in 2011
Google released its annual Zeitgeist report tracking what the world was searching for in 2011. In addition to the winners, including Rebecca Black and Battlefield 3, Google also tracked the losers — the fastest-falling More...
$300 Galaxy Nexus goes on sale
There is yet another $300 phone on sale from Verizon, and this one carries Google’s prestigious “Nexus” name. The Galaxy Nexus is the latest in the line of phones specifically designed by Google More...
Google axes Street View FPS
Google has pulled down a Street View modification that allowed people to turn the real-life imagery from around the world into a first-person shooter game. The user-generated modification, called Google Shot View, More...