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Google I/O Google co-founder Sergey Brin has said that only about 20 per cent of Google's employees are still using Microsoft Windows, and that all of those users are on Windows 7. He stressed, however, that he is not sure of the exact percentage. Rumors had indicated that within the...

Google’s Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Link Removed, contains an unexpected $500 million charge for the first quarter that wasn’t reported in the company’s quarterly results. The filing says the charge was taken this month, and applied to the quarter ended...

Last week rumors hit the Internet that the VoIP based telephone company Skype was in talks to either be acquired or join in a huge deal with a major Internet company. Now yet another company has supposedly entered the fray, at least according to a new story at GigOm. Using unnamed sources, the...

So I was doing some searching on Google. Typically when I run a Google search, I get results displayed like so: Aside from the lack of ads (yes, I block ads now) there is nothing special about the search results page: It is the standard search results page I have been seeing since...

Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, just two years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in line with Google Inc., which dominates the...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is gaining market share for its' new Internet Explorer 9 web browser. Whether or not IE9 adoption is enough to stem the tide of IE's overall declining share in the face of competition from Mozilla and Google remains to be seen. "Just six weeks after the launch of...

Does the name Eldar Murtazin ring any bells? Well, it should as Murtazin is the chap who got hands on with the Nokia N8 ages before it hit the shops, foretold that the Motorola Xoom would be the launchpad for Honeycomb and also revealed details of the Microsoft and Nokia partnership days before...

Link Removed Google has been known to pump money into all kinds of high-tech research projects at computer science departments all over the world. In this case, a group of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel are working on technology that will teach computers to feel “regret” for...

Everyone has an app store today after the success Apple had with the App Store for the iPhone. After the massive success of Apple, it was a guarantee that just about all other makers were going to jump in with their own offerings. So far, the massively popular ones are still run by Apple and...

Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser. Still, despite huge technological strides in the last decade or so, visual search has plenty...

You may remember that just a few days ago, the folks over at Google decided to play a little prank on the world. For April Fools Day they created a spoof video about a supposed new feature, Gmail Motion. If you didn't get to see the prank first hand, you can take a look at Link Removed - Invalid...

Microsoft’s new emphasis on ARM architecture in Windows 8 and IE 10 speed may indicate a new strategy for dealing aggressors like Google and Apple. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft’s new emphasis on ARM architecture in Windows 8 and IE 10 speed may indicate a new strategy for dealing aggressors like Google and Apple. Source: Yahoo! News

"A Google A Day," was rolled out by the search-engine giant on Monday. The daily quiz offers up a single question that's supposed to be hard enough that typing a quick set of words into a search query box won't find the solution. Answers to these questions will be posted the next day on the...

Apple has made the app store both a popular way to shop and something users now expect to have access to on a new device. Google has followed by creating the Android Market, and Amazon has its own app store for Android. Even Ubuntu has a Software Center offering up lots of apps in different...

Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- In the technology world, a form of breaking bread can involve sharing hardware schematics. Facebook invited reporters, hardware makers and rival internet companies to its headquarters to debut a new initiative on Thursday for improving website infrastructure...

Android chief Andy Rubin took to the blogs Wednesday evening to combat recent reports of Google clamping down on Android's openness. "We continue to be an open source platform and will continue releasing source code when it is ready," wrote Rubin on the Android Developer Blog. "As I write...

Google Latitude, the search giant's location-sharing mobile app, is launching checkin offers nationwide, giving users the ability to unlock discounts with a handful of launch partners. Much like Foursquare and Facebook, Latitude now reveals different offers if a user checks in to locations...

Android’s open-source approach to mobile operating systems had enabled Google (Link Removed) to spread its platform far and wide, at a relatively rapid pace. But the now-established OS faces another challenge in maintaining security for apps and user access. After dozens of Market apps were...

Microsoft plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday, accusing Google of abusing its position as the region's dominant search engine. The software giant -- once subject to its own landmark antitrust investigation in the United States and Link Removed -- claimed in...