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Google wins, loses on April Fool’s Day

It’s that time of the year, when tech firms and news websites decide to leap on the April Fool’s bandwagon. As usual, Google decided…

Google updates its analytics suite for more insight, less data

If you’ve only just gotten your head around what you need and don’t need from your Google Analytics dashboard (OK so maybe it’s just…

Mzansi Experience: Google gives virtual tours of SA’s national parks

South Africa has some of the world’s best, and most diverse, national parks. Thing is, not everyone can get to them and even those…

Google Play Movies officially available on South African screens

Hot on the heels of Google Music’s South African bow, Google has now announced that Google Play Movies is available in the country. The…

Google Translate now supports over 100 languages

Google Translate is turning ten this year and to celebrate coming of age it has added 13 new languages to its translating capabilities. When…

Are Google’s tax chickens coming home to roost?

A couple of years ago, a furore arose across the European Union and Great Britain in particular. The leaders of these countries, you see,…

Google Maps could soon figure out where you’re driving all by itself

This is interesting. Google is reportedly working on a feature that will allow its Maps product to figure out where you’re going without you…

Google’s new One Today app brings social charity to the crowd

Crowdfunding charities has never been this fun. By using transparency and social elements, Google’s new One Today app tries to create a novel way…

For your eyes only: Google will deactivate Glass if you loan or sell it

If you’re one of the lucky members of Google’s Glass Explorer team, who will be among the first members of the public to get…

Now 30% faster, mobile speeds are catching up to desktop

Yes, the internet is speeding up — or at least, Google thinks so. The search giant has published a report on the aggregated site…

Google uses Person Finder to help locate people in wake of Boston bombings

Google has rolled out a special version of its Person Finder service following two explosions which took place near the finish line of the…

Plan for your digital afterlife with Google’s new inactive account manager

With all the news about Google’s product-killing spree and rapidly filling graveyard recently, it’s quite strange to think that Google’s newest feature is designed…

What should we make of Blink, Google’s new rendering engine?

Google has announced that it’s moving from the WebKit rendering engine to its own, named Blink, for Chromium (and thus all Google products based…

Blink and you’re dead: behind Google’s decision to fork WebKit

In what is widely seen as a political move against Apple, Google has forked WebKit into “Blink” which it describes as “an inclusive open…

China needs to stop worrying about Apple, Google’s the real threat

When Google left China’s search market back in 2010, it seemed like an end to the company’s attempts to seriously engage with the China…

Why a streaming TV service should be Google’s next African play

Inspired by the recent successful launch of the Television White Spaces pilot in South Africa, I am once again tempted to engage in providing…

After legal hassles, Sweden’s Language Council kills the word ‘unGoogleable’

When Sweden’s Language Council drew up its latest annual list of new words that have become part of the public’s vocabulary in the previous…

Google Enterprise EMEA VP: Enterprise is Google’s fourth pillar

I recently attended Google’s Enterprise Roundtable Event where I was fortunate enough to hear from the Vice President of EMEA Google Enterprise, Sebastien Marotte….

Google Art Project brings ancient China online

Google Art Project took off in 2011 with the aim to make the world’s great cultural artifacts viewable online. But mainland China has always…

Google’s chairman’s phone of choice? Um, that would be a BlackBerry

We’re well acquainted with the level of devotion BlackBerry fans show towards whatever device is ushered forth from Canada, but this is on another…

Cool new Chrome experiment lets you make your own silent movie

If you’re a tech geek who also happens to have a thing for silent movies, then you’ll love the latest Chrome experiment from Google….

Want proof that Google’s falling foul of its own success? Look at the Galaxy S4

Let’s make a mobile OS that will rival Apple’s iOS, and let’s give it away for free. Clever thinking by Google, at the time….

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