Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google has discontinued the sale of the Nexus One smartphone in the US. After disappointing online sales Google indicated earlier in the week that it plans to end its direct sales pitch for good. Visitors to the Nexus One website are now greeted with the message "Sorry, folks... The Nexus One is [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google announced that it has acquired open database company Metaweb Technologies to help improve the quality of its search results. The San Francisco based company has developed Freebase, a collaborative knowledge base of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual wiki contributions. Instead of using tables and keys as in conventional [...]
San Bruno (ip-192.com): Google's YouTube service hits 2 billion views per day. After 5 years in existence, the service is available in over 200 countries. YouTube now supports High Definition and 3D. With 2 billion pageviews per day, the service reaches almost twice as many viewers as all three major U.S. television networks combined. While [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): A new tool on a Google website shows how often governments request private user data or demand that content is removed. In the six months ending December 31, 2009, Google and YouTube received more than 10,000 requests from courts and government agencies around the world. Topping the list of data requests is [...]
San Bruno (ip-192.com): YouTube has a new look and feel: The user interface is more streamlined and tries to make navigating the site easier. Clips appear in categories from Entertainment to Science & Technology to Most Viewed. The old five-star rating system is replaced by a simple "like" or "dislike" feature. After a year of [...]
Hanoi (ip-192.com): A new malware attack in Vietnam was discovered by Google. Critics of a controversial bauxite mining project backed by China have been the target of the attack, several newspapers report. Malicious software was used to infect potentially tens of thousands computers around the world, mainly owned or operated by Vietnamese speaking people. "These [...]
