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YouTube Says HTML5 Not Ready for Prime Time
Jul 5th
YouTube fired off another shot in the battle for the future of online video this week by underscoring its support of Adobe Flash over HTML5. John Harding, a YouTube software engineer, said that currently Flash offers many useful features not found in HTML5. “There’s a lot more to it than More >
Gmail ‘geolocation’ aims to stop scams
Mar 25th
Google has added an additional security measure to Gmail that can help alert you to hackers potentially hijacking your e-mail account and using it for nefarious ends.
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Augmenting a previous enhancement that allows you to track your logins from various IP addresses, Gmail will attempt to resolve the IP address to More >
Google mum on YouTube outage
Mar 25th
Google Inc., owner of YouTube, wasn’t commenting Thursday morning on why the popular video-sharing site was down for about an hour.
“YouTube is up again following a technical issue which has now been resolved,” a spokeswoman for Google said in a written statement. “We know how important YouTube is for people and More >
Google Voice Application Blocked By Apple
Nov 25th
The new Google Voice service, a service based off GrandCentral, was recently blocked by Apple in an apparent attempt to protect AT&T’s voice services.
Google Voice is currently in a closed beta, allowing a limited number of users to test it, however it is accepting new applications that typically get approved More >
Google Chrome OS: The User Interface
Nov 20th
Google has just revealed its most ambitious undertaking to date, Chrome OS, a new operating system which intends to push the concept in a new direction by moving everything to the cloud. While this game-changing approach is very exciting and raises a lot of questions about the future of operating systems, More >
Google offers its users 16 terabytes of “storage clouds” at discounted prices
Nov 11th
It is not Google’s legendary drive, but it’s something close to that, and you’ll get in return for fixed price, and assuming you only need to store pictures and e-mail messages.
Has announced the “Google” Google had significantly reduced the prices of storage space for its users, providing at the More >
Google launches a service to “dashboard” to maintain the privacy of users
Nov 7th
Google unveiled a service to “dashboard” that allows the user to access the company database and delete the information that wish to block them from the rest of users.
And Google came under heavy pressure from consumer associations and human rights organizations, for breach of confidentiality through the collection of data More >
How to Get a Google API Key
Oct 29th
To fully take advantage of Google maps and to integrate it into a blog or website, you’ll have to sign up to receive a Google API Key. This allows you to insert Google maps into your own web pages on your own domains. The only requirement is that you must have More >
