Google+ here, Google+ there. Google’s social networking service is still going strong despite the falling momentum. We have seen lots of tools, mostly browser extensions, released in the last couple weeks. Helpful for Google Plus users who need more control over the service. The one that I like most is the Google Tweaks userscript as [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

URL shorteners are so yesterday, well that is my opinion. Regardless of it, it seems that companies still like the idea of turning a web address into an often smaller alternative. It makes sense on Twitter where users are limited to 140 chars, and maybe for mobile use, but beyond that? Google seems to believe [...]

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I have to admit that I’m spending more time on Google Plus than I’m spending on Facebook. Not a big amount of time though, usually anywhere between 5 to 10 minutes per day. While I like Google’s new messaging service, I have spotted a few annoyances that I wanted fixed. One of the main ones [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Belgian newspapers have sued Google because of the company’s incorporation of news articles and images in Google News. The newspapers claim that the search giant has no rights to post contents and links on their Google News service without payment or permission. A Belgian court decided that the newspapers were right. That meant for Google [...]

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Google Plus has been released in a bare bones version. While tech savvy users flock to it like crazy, it is in its current stage nothing more than a site to follow, be followed and exchange messages. Well, that’s not entirely correct as you get chat and a few other things as well. Still, essential [...]

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For months now I’ve been writing about the security problems with Google’s Android operating system.  Now yet more malware has been found in the Android marketplace, this time by security researchers. The news, which was reported by ComputerWorld, said that four new malware apps were discovered on Friday by Lookout Security that were infected by [...]

Categories: Google, Security

Google+ is probably the most hyped service on the Internet these days. This stems from the fact that many of the early adopters are first movers that run their own blogs, websites or are very vocal on social networking sites. It still remains to the be seen how the general public will perceive Google’s social [...]

Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Google, Google Chrome, Twitter

A YouTube redesign is something that could backfire tremendously. We have seen it happen before with slight design changes that Google has been heavily criticized for. That’s probably the main reason why the new Cosmic Panda design is offered as an alternative to the default YouTube design and layout. Users who would like to switch [...]

Categories: Google, Music and Video

Facebook’s presentation yesterday could not put a serious dent into the Google+ hype machine. But not everything is golden and first restrictions and unpleasant surprises have come to light as well. Google’s putting the focus in private websites at the moment, which some businesses, like the German mag GPlusOne had to experience first hand. Google [...]

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