Google Tests TV Search Service

Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a fast-moving race to combine Internet content with conventional TV.

Chrome Browser Beta Adds Translation, Improves Privacy

Automatic translation is the newest feature added to Google's Chrome browser. A beta version of Chrome 4 recognizes pages not in the user's -preferred language and offers to translate.
The new beta, released late Monday, works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, despite some confusion because Google did not list Windows 7 as a supported operating system on an early version of the download page. (The new beta is Chrome version 4.1.249.1021.)

Google bosses convicted in Italy

Google spokesman on the conviction of three executives An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied.
The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online.

Google to Move Out of China?

This piece of news comes to us in an odd form. It originated from cyber attacks which were assaulted against Google’s GMail product, among other companies within the Chinese borders
There is no doubt in my mind that it was a difficult decision to make. As of Google’s 2008 numbers, China had a popular of 1,325,639,982, which has no doubt grown beyond that today.
That’s a huge population to suddenly not be serving anymore, if the Chinese government does decide to block Google from being access.

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Google And NSA

The Washington Post is reporting that internet search giant Google, and America’s electronic security agency, the NSA, will be teaming up to analyze data from the recent cyber attack that is believed to have originated from China. Neither the NSA nor Google is commenting on the partnership, however the Post has an anonymous source who claims, “the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google’s policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans’ online communications.” The Post went on to say, “the deal does not mean the NSA will be viewing users’ searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data.” What do you think? Does the thought of the NSA working with Google make you feel more secure?

Google to open app store for business software

Google may open as early as March an online store to sell third-party software that complements its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Google would let customers purchase the software from its store and charge the third-party developers a commission, according to the Journal, whose article was based on anonymous sources.

Google Announces Fourth Quartar And Fiscal Year 2009 Results

Google reported revenues of $6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, an increase of 17% compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs (TAC). In the fourth quarter of 2009, TAC totaled $1.72 billion, or 27% of advertising revenues.

Google Voice Iphone

Google Voice Iphone, What’s the solution to Apple’s stinginess about Google getting an official Google Voice app on the iPhone App Store? A webapp that has about all the functionality, but usable on any HTML5-capable smartphone.The webapp mimics the functionality of hitting up Google Voice on your desktop. You can make calls, send texts, listen to voicemails.

Google Dashboard, more privacy and control

Google Inc, the search giant has announced that it will provide a window called Google Dashboard to its users so that they can view what data Google is capturing from their services like YouTube, Gmail, Google Reader etc.
The company had been criticized often for accumulating large data about its users and providing easy access to others. With the new application, users can now adjust privacy settings directly via Google Dashboard for their different Google products. The service has launched in first week of November, 2009.

Google Squared

In case you’re wondering what ever happened to that Google Labs feature called Google Squared, well it’s still on and just got some enhancements. What Google Squared is, It’s an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection similar to a spreadsheet -or squared format.