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Google 'fesses up: Yup, we're KILLING OFF IE9 support for Gmail, Apps
Google has finally revealed its plans for Gmail and Google Apps to stop working with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9.
The internet ads and search giant said it has stopped all testing and engineering work to make Gmail and Apps work with IE9.
Microsoft’s customers will start receiving notifications in the next few weeks that …
Google adds 'Differential Snapshots' to cloud storage
There are only so many ways you can build a gigantic infrastructure cloud, so it is with little surprise that Google has introduced a snapshot feature already found in Amazon Web Services.
The "Differential Snapshots" feature was announced by Google in a post to the Google Compute Engine Google group on Monday, and the Chocolate …
Just who is Apple's most frustrated fanboi? Surprise – it's GOOGLE
Major Apple customer Google says it has been forced to go it alone when supporting a large-scale deployment of Macs.
The advertising giant claims it has to develop much of its own tools for managing Macs at scale due to Apple's neglect of enterprise management platforms.
"We don't use any of Apple's tools to manage the Macs," …
Google shows off scanned-in Gettysburg Address drafts
Google has decided to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address by "showcasing" digital copies of all five versions of Abraham Lincoln's iconic speech.
The company said that the Google Cultural Institute exhibit showcases not only the address itself, but the history leading up to and after Lincoln delivered the …
Google: The Man RUMMAGED all your data (and a load MORE that's SECRET)
Google says it is handing twice as much user data to governments as it was three years ago.
The advertising giant said it has seen data requests rocket by more than 100 per cent since 2010. The admission came as Google published its eighth Transparency Report, which reveals which governments have asked it for information. …
'Fatal flaws' in Google's revised search antitrust overhaul, says Foundem
Google calls web search engine results to its own services "triggers".
If you ask Google to define the word "trigger", it speedily returns the following result at the top of the page: "noun a small device that releases a spring or catch and so sets off a mechanism, especially in order to fire a gun."
The ad giant's rivals may …
Feedly gets Greedly: Users suddenly HAVE TO create a Google+ account
Feedly has done an evil thing: it is now demanding anyone who uses the service to log in via a Google+ account - thereby helping the Chocolate Factory to scrape yet more data from netizens.
The Register noticed that dunderhead journalists who rely on Feedly were weeping into their cornflakes and beer this morning* on discovering …
The Schmidt hits the Man: NSA spying on Google servers? 'OUTRAGEOUS!'
Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has branded the NSA's alleged surveillance of web giants' data centers "outrageous".
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Schmidt lashed out at American spooks after documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden suggested Google and Yahoo! data center links were being snooped on.
"It's …
Google's MYSTERY barges floating off US shores: The TRUTH
Google has shed more light on just what it plans to do with a pair of floating barges off either coast of the US.
The advertising giant told The Register that its two vessels, officially known as Google Barges, will in fact be designed to serve as nautical showrooms for the company's latest and greatest products.
"A floating …
Google spaffs $80m on Sun-powered kit: Calm down, Oracle. It's SOLAR
Google will invest $80m in solar-powered plants as it keeps in mind exactly what may end up powering its data centers in future.
The ad giant and investment firm KKR will work together to bankroll the construction of six new solar farms in the American Southwest. The facilities are slated to be built in the desert regions of …
Google's latest PRIVACY MELTDOWN: Web chats sent to WRONG people
Stunned Google Talk users have discovered their messages are going to the WRONG recipients on the web chat system.
Conversations appear to be funnelled to anyone on your contacts list rather than just the intended receiver. The advertising giant is aware of the cock-up, but has yet to fix the glitch.
It means that netizens …
French court: Google, Microsoft en ami must say 'au revoir' to pirates
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! have been told by France's High Court to prevent netizens from using their portals to search for 16 video-streaming websites.
A number of French ISPs were also told to block access to sites such as allostreaming and Fifostream over their networks.
As ever, such action will not outright stop users …
Google brazenly strokes its mobile cloud tools just before Amazon shindig
Google has released two mobile development tools to coax app writers into storing data in the ad giant's cloud services.
The unveiling comes a day before the kickoff of cloud-rival Amazon's AWS:Reinvent, a love-in held in Las Vegas. Google's utilities give developers two ways to tie applications into cloud storage and compute …
Keyboard fatigue? Now you can SCRAWL in Gmail and Google Docs
In an effort to make it easier to enter multilingual text into its online services, Google has added handwriting input support to Gmail and Google Docs.
The idea is not so much that you'll ditch your keyboard and use your best mouse-based penmanship to compose emails and documents. Rather, the tools are aimed at letting Gmail …
Google FAILS in attempt to nix Gmail data-mining lawsuit
Google faces a torrid court battle in the US after a judge ruled that a class action lawsuit brought against the company that challenges its practice of scanning emails for ad-targeting can proceed.
Mountain View had protested against plaintiffs in the case, who claimed that Google had breached several stateside laws including …
Don't use Google+? Tough, Google Glass will inject it INTO YOUR EYES
Google's techno-specs Google Glass can now deliver Google+ notifications direct to the eyeball - while consuming less power and also reporting back to the Chocolate Factory when things go pear-shaped.
The firmware update is being sent out to those selected by the advertising giant for early access to Glass, which still lacks a …
Google to web: SHUT YOUR MOUTH or Chrome 32 beta will do it for you
We're all been there. You fire up a web browser, open loads of tabs for further perusal and suddenly the office is full of noise from an advert proclaiming that in 15 minutes or less you can save on your car insurance – and you've no clue which tab it's in.
Now the boys and girls on Google's Chrome browser team have finished …
Google adds Large Hadron Collider tunnel to Street View
Google has dragged is Street View imaging kit to Switzerland, then lugged it beneath the earth to capture images of the tunnel containing CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Sadly the images don't quite let you be the atom, instead offering the chance to trundle through the LHC's long and monotonous tunnel.
CERN's head of …
Google's latest ad push gives LONE LAWMAKER the creeps
Google faces little opposition to its plans to plaster ads with user profile names and photos since it announced the move late last week.
A lone lawmaker in the US has expressed concern about Google's upcoming changes to its terms of service, which will be implemented on 11 November.
Senator Ed Markey penned a letter to the …
Google's new Glass: Now with audio connection INSIDE the SKULL
Google has posted two images of the next generation of its much-mocked Glass wearable tech, revealing for the first time the direction it plans to go for future versions of the product.
Photo of Google Glass version 2 Meet the new Glass ... mostly very similar to the old Glass
The photos appeared on the Glass team's Google+ …
Is it barge? Is it a data center? Mystery FLOATING 'Google thing'
Google may be constructing a floating data center on a large barge in the San Francisco bay.
The multistory structure was spotted on a vessel moored off the city's Treasure Island, and some shoe-leather reporting by Cnet suggests the web advertising giant is behind the project.
Google patented a design for a floating data …
Google thrusts cash at developers in emerging countries
Google is preparing to dispense a couple of hundred thousand dollars in prizes for developers in emerging countries who are willing to take its cloudy platform for a spin.
The Google Cloud Developer Challenge was announced by the Chocolate Factory on Thursday, and sees the ad-backed search behemoth offer developers from around …
Hey! You! Get outta my cloud says Google with balloon broadband patent
Google has filed a patent application to make sure nobody else crowds the skies with high-altitude balloons carrying wireless broadband kit.
Its filing published November 14, Balloon Clumping to Provide Bandwidth Requested in Advance, covers projecting a change in bandwidth demand; repositioning a Project Loon balloon or …
Google rolls out fibre to 3 million Ugandans: Ni marungi*, nyan cat
Ad kingpin Google is flashing its talons in Kampala, Uganda, where it has built - in its own words - "a super-fast, high-capacity fibre network to enable any local mobile operator or ISP to connect more people" in the African city.
It makes altruistic claims about supporting a "new crop of entrepreneurs and innovators", as well …
Want to code for Google Glass in C#? Xamarin's got you covered
Cross-platform development tools vendor Xamarin has rolled out new components that allow coders to use its products to build apps for Google Glass.
Xamarin, which was founded by Mono project creators Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman, offers tools based on the open source .Net clone that allow developers to more easily build apps …
Google grants cloud servers IMMORTALITY (during maintenance)
Google has taken a lead on cloud rivals by granting its virtual machines immortality via a new live migration feature.
This means that when Google shuts down cloud data centers for scheduled maintenance in the future, client VMs will stay up while being migrated to another online bit barn.
The announcement was made in a post to …
LG's 'Chromestation' trademark grab sparks Google tie-up speculation
South Korea electronics giant LG could be set to launch new devices based on Google’s Chrome operating system after eagled-eyed industry watchers spotted the firm has begun registering several new trademarks in Australia.
Filings for “Chromedesk”, “Chromestation” and “Chromeone” have all been made by LG Electronics’ Korean HQ …
Apple's Siri 'hurls insults' at Google Glass
Apple's oft-ridiculed virtual assistant Siri is saying apparently saying nasty things about Google's Glass tech specs.
Twitter user @seambrage noted the response depicted below when he invoked Siri and said “Okay Glass”, the phrase used to ready the tech specs for action.
Siri trash talking Google Glass. Love it. pic.twitter. …
Google's new broadband offer: 20-days of WiFi for a quid
Google is trying another tactic to get more of the developing world online, this time with a WiFi Passport service allowing Android users in the Indonesian capital Jakarta to bypass busy 3G networks.
To access the service, dubbed WiFi Passport, users will need to be running Android 2.2 and above.
After downloading an app from …
Google decides Chromecast TV-stick apps are a whole NEW THING
Google is making it simpler to find media apps for Chromecast: just as another startup seeks to confront the ad giant in the TV dongle market with its own crowd-sourced option.
Google has added a section to its Play Store that appears designed to group media streaming apps, suitable for its Chromecast HDMI-n-USB dongle, for …
Microsoft to Google: Please remove us from internet
Microsoft appears to have asked Google to remove some microsoft.com pages from Google's search engine.
TorrentFreak reportsthat LeakID, an organisation that provides services such as “Monitoring illegal links and sources” and “Send automated takedown notices to ISPs hosting infringing links and websites”, has sent Google a …
Google: YouTube fights off HUGE ASCII PHALLUS MENACE
The integration of YouTube comments with Google Plus has led to a new wave of obscene comment spam and more junk, Google has admitted.
The search engine giant has pledged to stick by the new comment system, introduced earlier this month, while fighting, er, harder to eradicate new nuisances such as ASCII penis art and link …
Google fires fresh salvo in war on FILTH: Chrome Supervised Users
In the never-ending quest to shield impressionable minds from some of the internet's less family-friendly content, Google has unveiled "supervised users" for Chrome on Windows, OS X, Linux, and Chrome OS.
A supervised user is a special class of Chrome user account that's created and controlled by another user who acts as its " …
Google fluffs DEATH DEFEATING startup Calico
Google has helped found a company that will focus on life extension technologies, presumably because if you die, then you can't click on ads.
The death-defeating company "Calico" was announced by Google chief Larry Page in an insubstantial blog post on Wednesday, along with a PR-puffed article in Time magazine.
Calico's chief …
Web ad giant (Google) pops Adwords into Maps for iOS and Android
Google has finally woken up and integrated Adwords into its mobile mapping app, pushing paid results onto the top of the heap along with directions guiding customers to your door.
The ad addition came with the last update to Google Maps for Android and iOS. It switches on this week with ads popping up at the bottom when one …
MEDIC! Google, Oracle, Red Hat docs race to save crippled Healthcare.gov
Techies from Google, Red Hat, Oracle and other unnamed firms have parachuted in to fix the disastrous rollout of the United States' healthcare.gov website.
Google and Oracle confirmed on Thursday that staff have been deployed to help fix the healthcare marketplace's ongoing mega-bork, although Google stressed this is not a …
Verizon, BT, Vodafone, Level 3 'let NSA jack into Google, Yahoo! fiber'
In October, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden claimed Uncle Sam's spies tapped into the optic-fiber cables linking the data centers of Google and Yahoo!
By intercepting this flow of information, agents were able to spy on folks' online activities on a massive scale. Google and Yahoo! insisted they did not hand over the keys to …
French data cops to Google: RIGHT, you had your chance. PUNISHMENT time
Google has declined to make required changes to its privacy policy, France's privacy watchdog said today. The French data cops added that they will slap the ad giant with sanctions.
The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) - on behalf of the European Union's Article 29 Working Party - headed up an …
Google: Now your mom will try to sell you toilet paper
Google has changed its privacy policy so it can scrape user data and turn it into "social" adverts.
The change was announced by the company on Friday and sees Google follow Facebook in trying to make money out of the social relationships between its hundreds of millions of users by having them advertise to one another.
The new …
Google's secret search offer to EU antitrust chief LEAKED by rivals
Google may have struck a deal with Brussels' competition chief to keep details of the ad giant's revised package of concessions over its search biz secret, but - perhaps inevitably - a copy of the offer has been leaked to The Register and other publications.
An unnamed party sent El Reg a document containing 15 questions that …
Google claims MOOCs SOLVE code-for-kids teacher training problem
Google's latest contribution to the global movement that advocates teaching kids to code as the solution for every problem has discovered something revolutionary: if you put good content online, lots of people will read it and some of them may even engage with it.
The revelation comes from Google Research, which has run its eye …
Twitter hires Google ad exec: Microblogging? We've heard of it
Twitter has poached a Google ad exec to be its head of retail, as it expands its business in preparation for its IPO.
JJ Hirschle used to direct media and entertainment advertising for the Chocolate Factory, but will now sell ads to retail companies for Twitter, Bloomberg reported.
As is typical of a company about to go public …
We go joyriding in the Google Maps-killer's ROBO-CAR
Nokia's HERE wants to leapfrog Google's Street View with an ambitious street scanning based on 3D and "big data".
While Google enjoyed a monopoly on street level images for years, having a first move advantage isn't always a blessing. The latest technology allows for much richer and more interactive maps. HERE is deploying …
Hugs all round as Google relaunches Groups service
Google has ditched the old version of its Groups service after revamping the tool to allow users to share an inbox with others.
Mountain View explained:
Imagine you and a few friends are organizing an event for your school and want a single email address to coordinate with vendors, parents, and volunteers.
Members of the …
Microsoft's Nokia plan: WHACK APPLE AND GOOGLE
Microsoft has posted the presentation it's used to explain its decision to acquire Nokia's mobile phone business and it reveals the key reason for the acquisition: hitting back at Apple and Google.
The presentation is available as a PDF or a slow HTML slideshow here and gets interesting at slide 15, depicted below.
Slide 15 in …
Google's leaky ship spills new Nexus 5 photos, $349 price tags all over web
Google's next smartphone, the Nexus 5, will apparently be priced $349 just like its predecessor – but it will come with a bigger screen and more pixels to show off the much-heralded KitKat version of Android.
The Nexus 5 has been comprehensively leaked all over the web, with purported photographs popping up on network operator …
Uh-oh Google Glassholes: Sugar daddy Intel strokes HUD goggles upstart
Intel has joined an industry-wide drive to make hopeless geeks look totally ridiculous - by ploughing cash into wearable-computing startup Recon Instruments.
Chipzilla has made a "significant investment" into Recon, which makes head-mounted displays for sporty types. Intel could end up squaring off with Google, the maker of …
Steve Wozniak: 'I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners'
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has called upon Samsung, Google and Apple to abandon their differences and start working together for the good of the tech world.
In an interview with the BBC, Woz said that squabbling between tech firms was strangling innovation.
He said: "I believe you should have a world where you've got to …
Students, rejoice ... and squint! Google rents out textbooks to mobes
Google is offering fanbois and fandroids the chance to borrow academic textbooks on their smartphones.
The update to the Chocolate Factory's Google Play app to allow the lending of textbooks, which often prove prohibitively expensive for students.
Its iOS update adds the ability to borrow rental books, something that fandroids …
Google chucks code into MOOCs mix
Google has decided it will join the Open edX project, an effort to create a platform on which to host massively online open courses (MOOCs).
MOOCs took off a couple of years back when some universities started offering free courses online. While the courses did not lead to a degree, the mere fact that institutions of the calibre …
