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Articles about Google
Google slashes cloud storage to $0.026 per GB. Your move, Amazon
Google has dramatically lowered its cloud prices far below those of its rivals – as the search kingpin seeks to eradicate the fat profit margins of the cloud industry.
The web giant announced today at its Google Cloud Platform event in San Francisco a 68 per cent price drop across the board for Google Cloud Storage – as El Reg …
EU gives Google JUST WEEKS to submit stronger search biz concessions
Google is being strong-armed by the competition wing of the European Commission to quickly come up with a revised and more palatable offer to fix for its alleged abuse of dominance in the search market.
It has weeks to respond, antitrust commissioner Joaquin Almunia told reporters today, according to Reuters.
Google's most …
Google goes looking for more GLASSHOLES
Google's “Glass” tech specs may have been written off by Steve Wozniak as a promising-but-impractical technology, but that hasn't stopped The Chocolate Factory from lengthening the queue to obtain them.
That queue starts here, at the “Glass Explorer Program”, which Google kindly says it is “expanding … little by little”.
How …
Google's SWOLLEN WINDBAGS circle PLANET, dispensing INTERWEBS
With a name like Project Loon, you would expect Google's scheme to be a bit bonkers, but the Chocolate Factory's madcap plan to bring internet connectivity to remote areas using balloons appears to have paid off after one of the devices circumnavigated the globe in just 22 days.
Project Loon is the name for Mountain View's drive …
Citrix, Google kick XP's still-twitching corpse
Citrix and Google have announced a cut-price deal to pipe legacy apps into Chromebooks.
The pair chose April 8th, Windows XP death day, to announce the deal.
There's not a whole lot that's truly new in the announcement, which explains how the XenApp HTML 5 viewer can now pipe legacy Windows apps in to Chromebooks and that …
'F*** off, Google!' Protest blockades Google staff bus AGAIN – and Apple's
Buses operated by Google and Apple to ferry their staff to and from work were blockaded today by Bay Area anti-gentrification protestors.
The coaches were held up in San Francisco and over the bay in Oakland – the latter a port city with a high-crime rate and relatively cheap rents, which has caused it to become a new home for …
Google's App Engine architect defects to Snapchat
One of Google's top cloud product managers has left the gold-plated confines of Page and Brin's search palace to work for one of his former top customers – the obscenely popular SnapChat app.
Peter Magnusson, the man who spent the past three years running engineering for Google's 'Google App Engine' (GAE) platform cloud, …
BT befriends Google's lonely TV dongle – and saves YouView
BT is to make Premier League football available on Google's Chromecast TV platform, in a huge filip for the platform.
Google started selling Chromecast in the UK last month - here's our review. While Chromecast bundles the usual OTTs (Over The Top) services including Netflix and YouTube, the only UK broadcaster support so far …
Connecting Gmail to Google+ is SENSELESS, says Digg founder
Google's latest hardheaded strategy to link its "network thingy" Google+ to Gmail accounts makes zero sense.
That's the verdict of Digg founder Kevin Rose, who might be a more reliable source than most when it comes to slinging criticism at Mountain View, given that he was temporarily drafted in as a part of the Google+ …
Google facing $5 BEEELLION antitrust fine in India
Google may be in the midst of securing a deal on its long-running search dispute with the European Union, but it’s still facing a possible $US5bn (£3bn) fine from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) over allegations it has abused its market leading position in the internet search space.
Local laws state that the CCI can …
'Catastrophic' server disk-destroying glitch menaced Google cloud
Google has squashed a bug in its public cloud that threatened to accidentally delete users' virtual disks – an error so serious that one security researcher termed it potentially "catastrophic".
The web king today admitted that one of its server migration commands could have "erroneously and permanently" deleted persistent disks …
Google kicks 'bucket-list' service
Google Schemer users – both of you – have a new activity to add to your recommendation list: “download and save my data before it's deleted”.
The Chocolate Factory has decided that the service, which since December 2011 has allowed users to create what amounts to a shared “bucket-list”, is to be discontinued on February 7.
It …
Google, Microsoft tackle climate change as IBM seeks cancer cure
Three of the technology industry's largest companies today harnessed their resources to some Big Problems.
Google and Microsoft have both signed up to US president Barack Obama's new Climate Data Initiative, an effort aimed at “bringing together extensive open government data and design competitions with commitments from the …
Meet Microsoft's latest Windows Server reseller – come on down, Google
Google is going to serve up Microsoft Windows in virtual machines on its Compute Engine service as the web giant hopes to dethrone Amazon as the king of the cloud.
Support for the operating system was announced by Google on Tuesday at its Cloud Platform event in San Francisco: the search king will make Windows Server 2008 R2 …
Google to open up Glass program to anyone with $1,500 to spare
Google has announced that anyone will soon be able to buy one of its Glass headsets for a limited time, provided they live in the US and have $1,500 (plus tax) to pay for them.
Up until now, access to the Glass Explorer program has been restricted. Around 2,000 units were sold to developers who paid up at Google's 2012 I/O …
Schmidt gets $100m in Google stock on top of his $6m bonus
Google chair Eric Schmidt has gotten his second $100m dose of restricted stock units in less than three years.
The Chocolate Factory said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Schmidt was getting the stock award along with a $6m cash bonus for the year next week.
The firm said the sizeable package was "in …
Zucker punched: Google gobbles Facebook-wooed Titan Aerospace
Web giant Google is buying Titan Aerospace, presumably to help it blanket the world in internet connectivity beamed from drones and balloons.
The acquisition was reported by the WSJ on Monday, and will see the Titan Aerospace team work with Google's "Project Loon" group which makes high-altitude balloons for dispensing cheap …
Google and Cisco sheath swords in patent-war deal
Google has signed another patent-licensing deal, this time with Cisco, signaling that it has had enough of the Great Patent War litigation frenzy – for the moment, at least.
"Our agreement with Cisco will reduce the potential for litigation, letting us focus instead on building great new products," said Allen Lo, Google's deputy …
Insight warns Google embracers of hidden costs in Apps for Biz
A number of Microsoft's top table resellers may have wrapped their arms around Google's Apps for Business but one that did so half a decade ago - Insight Enterprises - says it hasn't seen the benefit.
CDW and SHI International, both among MS Licensing Solutions Partners, made very public statements in February and March …
Google, Foxconn team to build ROBOT ARMY
Contract manufacturer and long time Apple-assembler-extraordinaire Foxconn is now helping Google achieve its ambitious plans in the robotics space, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The two firms have apparently been working on something since last year.
People familiar with the matter told the paper that Google’s new robot …
Do you wear specs? Google Glass offers YOU amazing live HD video
Many critics believe Google Glass is a threatening technology which could enable film piracy, erode personal privacy and bring about an era where we spend all our time plugged into the matrix.
But all of those valid concerns miss one basic point about the Chocolate Factory's wearable computer: it looks bloody ridiculous.
Now …
Video thrills the Google ad star: Susan Wojcicki becomes YouTube chief
Google's chief ad slinger Susan Wojcicki is the new boss of its video-sharing website YouTube.
The company's senior veep confirmed on her Google+ page on Wednesday that she had changed lanes within Mountain View.
She said she would be spending the next few weeks elbow-deep in YouTube's "ecosystem".
Wojcicki will no doubt be …
Google offers up its own flesh to the world's braying cloud hordes
Google is sending its cloud cultists out into the recesses of the real world to preach the gospel of its technology.
The "Cloud Platform Developer Roadshow" was announced by Google on Tuesday as the search company tried to broaden revenues away from its main advertising offerings.
"In the roadshow, we will be talking about new …
Billionaire Google founder splits with wife, allegedly beds Google Glass minx
Google Glass marketing manager and "real woman" Amanda Rosenberg, 26, is reportedly Google co-founder Sergey Brin's new squeeze.
The billionaire super-geek has split from his wife of six years - and is now apparently enjoying a cosy relationship with his techno-goggles-touting colleague.
All Things Digital revealed that Brin …
Google search biz offer BINNED by EU competition chief
Google's latest attempt to wiggle away from allegations that it abuses its dominant position in Europe's search market suffered a significant blow today - its revised offer to Brussels' competition chief has been rejected.
Antitrust commissioner Joaquin Almunia said during an interview on Spanish radio this morning that Google's …
Brussels' antitrust boss not budging on planned Google competition deal
Brussels' antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia is refusing to reverse the planned settlement deal he has agreed with Google over the company's alleged abuse of its dominant market position on search.
His seemingly stubborn refusal to change direction on the proposed agreement was highlighted this week during secret, two-hour-long …
Google's Drive SLASH, secret 'big upgrade': Coincidence? HARDLY
Google has slashed its online Drive storage prices so fast, it undercuts all of its rivals – and its own products. The Reg suspects the web king will dramatically lower its infrastructure-as-a-service storage prices as well in two weeks.
The dramatic price cut for Google Drive was announced on Thursday: storing 100GB of data in …
Cloudera bags $160m from Google Ventures and Mike Dell
Cloudy startup Cloudera has raised $160m from top investors including T Rowe Price and Google Ventures in its latest funding round to expand further into the big data market.
"Cloudera will use the funding to further drive the enterprise adoption of and innovation in Hadoop and promote the enterprise data hub (EDH) market, …
ANYONE on Google+ can now email you, with or without your Gmail addy
Your wishes have been granted: Google has quietly added a new "feature" to Gmail that allows anyone with a Google+ account to send you email even if they don't know your actual webmail address.
Over the next few days, Gmail users with Google+ accounts will start seeing names from their Google+ circles suggested as potential …
Google views, reviews YouTube viewers' views with view to killing off spam shams
Google is attempting to stamp out fake views on its video-sharing website YouTube - which is reportedly about to get a new boss in the shape of the company's ad honcho Susan Wojcicki.
The ad giant claimed that YouTube was "a place for meaningful human interaction" and as such shouldn't be tainted by spam.
Google said in a blog …
YouTube co-founder either HATES Google+ or his vid account just got HACKED
One of the original creators of YouTube, Jawed Karim - whose face has been viewed millions of times on the video-sharing website - has apparently complained about having to sign in to Google+ to leave a comment below clips.
Karim, who is best known for appearing in the first vid ever to be uploaded to YouTube back in 2005, has …
Google sticks its servers behind genomics alliance
Google is throwing its considerable weight, and cloud servers, behind a global genomics alliance with the aim of advancing medical research for future generations.
The Chocolate Factory announced today that it is joining the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, which it describes as an “international effort to develop …
Amazon reveals its Google-killing 'R3' server instances
Amazon has released a new class of virtualized, rentable servers that make more RAM available than systems from rivals like Google and Microsoft.
The "R3" memory-optimized servers became available on Thursday following their announcement at the Amazon Web Services summit in late March.
"R3 instances are recommended for …
Microsoft hires Pawn Stars to shaft Google
Microsoft has turned its guns on the Google Chromebook as the "Scroogled" campaign enters its nastiest phase yet.
Redmond has hired the stars of a reality television show called Pawn Stars to help with its anti-Google Scroogled campaign.
In an imitation of an episode of the show, a reality programme about the colourful …
Google to banish mobe-makers using old Androids: report
Google is reportedly embarking on a quixotic quest to unify the versions of Android circulating in the wild, by trying to bar access to Google Play if a device ships with a too-old revision.
Android Police is claiming to have received a copy of a Google memo, stating that Google Mobile Services certification will no longer be …
Ray-Ban to produce Google Glass data-goggs: Cool - or Tool?
Luxottica, the holding company for pricey eyeware brands Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol and even Burberry, has inked a deal that will see it design stylish versions of Google's “glass” tech specs.
The eyewear company's canned statement says it will work with Google“ on the creation of innovative iconic wearable devices”. To do so the …
Google hefts MySQL service into cloud
Google has pushed its MySQL-based cloud database service into general availability, months after beginning a wholesale shift of internal production servers to MariaDB.
The new service encrypts customer data, supports databases up to 500GB in size, and has a 99.95 percent uptime service-level agreement, the company announced on …
Devs write 'film my shag' sex app for Google Glass
It's difficult to imagine anyone wanting to get down and dirty with a partner who would willingly wear Google Glass.
Yet one group of app developers is betting that Glassholes not only manage to get lucky, but also have a partner willing to film the whole sordid affair.
The Sex With Glass app was created at a Wearable Tech …
Google's Page drops the A-bomb: Google Glass runs Android
Google chief exec Larry Page has confirmed his company's techno-spectacles Google Glass will run some form of Android.
During an earnings call yesterday for Google's first-quarter 2013 financial numbers, Page revealed the choice of operating system when asked about the new product and how it would fit in the existing Google …
Google gearing up for 4K video frenzy at CES
Google is gearing up to push its 4K VP9 video codec into the mainstream through YouTube and hardware partners.
The company has confirmed reports that at next week's CES conference in Las Vegas it will showcase the streaming video platform with multiple hardware vendors as part of an effort to bring the high-definition format to …
Google's SECRET contracts: Android lock-in REVEALED!
Details of secret contracts that Google signs with phone manufacturers have become public for the first time, revealing the extent of the restrictions Google puts on Android smartphones.
In an email in 2011, a Google Android program manager injudiciously described the OS as a "club" to make phone makers "do what we want". But …
Now we're cookin' on gas: Google crafts sugar-alert contact lens for diabetics
Google's skunkworks "X" lab is building a contact lens that can monitor glucose levels in the tears of diabetics, and warn them when it drops too low.
The wireless-communicating device was unveiled by Google in a blogpost on Thursday, and may also one day contain tiny LEDs that'll light up if the wearer becomes hypoglycemic.
" …
Google to deliver MOOC for Australian teachers
Google has revealed just what it plans to to do help drive uptake of Australia's imminent digital technologies curriculum: an online course for teachers.
Announced in the inevitable blog post the course will “provide resources and example learning activities for the Digital Technologies section of the new national curriculum, …
Pesky protesters FORCE GOOGLE STAFF INTO THE SEA
Just weeks after Google Buses carrying staff to work were held up and embroiled in anti-gentrification protests by furious Californians, Google has announced a solution.
A shiny new boat service to ferry its employees across the Bay from San Francisco to Redwood City.
There's tone deaf, and then there's corporate tone deaf. …
Break out the scatter cushions: Google rents out NASA blimp hangar
Google is set to rent out NASA's historic Hangar One as well as two runways at an airfield near its Mountain View headquarters.
The space agency announced a deal that would see Planetary Ventures LLC, a Google subsidiary, "rehabilitate" the historic hangar and manage Moffett Federal Airfield. We hope that doesn't mean too many …
FTC chilled about Google's buyout of map app Waze - report
The US Federal Trade Commission has reportedly given the go-ahead for Google's purchase of mapping app Waze, deciding that the acquisition won't hurt competition.
People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that Google "won’t be challenged" by the commission over the deal, which will give Google yet more tech to use in …
Not just for Glasswipes: Google to drop SDK for all Android wearables
Google is preparing to release a new SDK for makers of wearable devices in the hope of running Android into a myriad of accessories.
Top exec Sundar Pichai told the South by Southwest conference yesterday that the company is prepping the software development kit for release in the next two weeks, the Wall Street Journal and …
Google makes Gmail EVEN NOISIER, or should that be nosier?
Google has added more intrusive buttons to its email service as it continues to try to spread its ad goo across its vast online estate.
Mountain View débuted its so-called quick action buttons in May this year to allow Gmail users to respond to certain types of messages without having to open them first.
It meant that Gmailers …
Google helps out utterly underexposed Lego brand with Chrome toy
Obscure Danish toymaker Lego and advertising kingpin Google have together created a block-building distraction for Chrome browser users.
The Build With Chrome plugin lets fans to construct and share their creations online, and uses WebGL to render the board and a simulation of fully functional Lego bricks in hardware-accelerated …
Google and Apple in DRAG RACE: It's fanboi Mercs VS fandroid Audis
Apple and Google are preparing to compete on yet another front. They reportedly plan to race each other to design the world's most powerful smart car dashboard.
At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show next week, Google isexpected to announce a new tie-up with Audi, which will see Mountain View help to design an in car computer …
