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Google Search shows how much SA cares about ‘Donald Trump’

Google News Labs’ US Elections hub is about as interesting as the elections itself. Graphing its slew of data garnered from daily search habits,…

Google purchases eyeball tracking firm Eyefluence

“Eyeball tracking” might sound like the stuff of science fiction horrors, but it’s an essential focus for those in the virtual and augmented reality…

Google Camera’s trigger button is now a voice command

Tapping a screen too energy sapping for you? Google Camera’s latest update adds the ability to snap pictures using a simple voice command. The…

Watch The Simpsons’ latest, greatest couch gag in VR

Fox’s immortal animated show The Simpsons always had a knack for predicting future technology, so it’s only fitting that as a tribute to its…

Google now lets you ‘Fact Check’ News articles

Mountain View’s Google has announced that its News portal will now include “Fact Check” tags to “help readers find fact checking in large news…

Google Sprayscape: spray weird 360 snaps with this app

Another week means another app from Google, but this one, dubbed Sprayscape, comes from its Creative Lab. In other words, expect something less like…

Google buys branded content platform FameBit

Marketing and branded content platform FameBit has this week been acquired by Google. This is in an attempt to bring brands and creators, especially…

How to get your Google back on Windows 8

Google has created a site for Windows 8 users called: “Get Your Google Back”. For those of you that are planning on buying Windows…

Google brings Steve Biko’s life, apartheid, holocaust online

This is very cool. Google is today bringing 42 historical exhibitions online telling the stories behind some of the major events of the last…

Google shutters China-only music service

Google has shuttered its three-year old music China-only music service, admitting that things haven’t worked out quite as well as it hoped. In a…

Android voice search gets support for 13 new languages

Voice search: it’s one of the biggest battles going on in tech today and Google just let off its latest round of ammo. The…

Google now lets you search with handwriting

This is very cool. Google search now recognises search queries via handwriting. The new service, officially announced today, allows you to hand write your…

Google releases first ad for Nexus 7 as stocks run dry [Video]

Demand for Google’s Nexus 7 tablet is so high that the internet giant has had to temporarily stop taking orders for the 16GB version…

Google rolls out email from SMS service, starting with Africa

This is very cool. Millions of people around the world have GMail accounts. But a sizeable number of those people who own “dumb phones”…

Marissa Mayer to take Yahoo! top spot

This is big. Google exec Marissa Mayer is set to take the top seat at Yahoo! According to the New York Times Google employee…

Google Maps gives 44 African countries walking directions

Google Maps is great. Even if you don’t have the app on your smartphone, you can look up your destination on your PC and…

Google turns +1 button into full-on recommendation service

Until now, Google’s +1 button has allowed you to share the fact that a page is to your liking and…that’s about it really. Things…

Online news portal IOL refutes hack claims

Well known South African news portal IOL has not been hacked, says its editor Alastair Otter. People visiting the site were today greeted with…

Google to pay $22.5m for Safari privacy bungle

Google is set to pay a US$22.5-million fine for overriding the privacy settings on Safari and tracking the browsing habits of its users. According…

Google axes more products, Microsoft employee pins them

“More wood behind fewer arrows”. That’s been the operating rationale of Google ever since Larry Page returned as CEO in 2011. Hardly surprising then…

Google’s been looking buy Yahoo’s ad tech for a while now

Google is looking to get its hands on Yahoo’s ad technology. In fact, it’s been looking for some time now, having made its first…

Why Microsoft’s $6.2bn writedown probably isn’t a harbinger of doom

Microsoft’s US$6.2-billion writedown for internet advertising company aQuantive has the press talking about “big oops moments” and “Bing Internet Web Woes“. It also has…

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