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It’s Monday morning, so we’re figuring you’ll be glad of a time-wasting distraction or amusement, so the more techie minded among you might appreciate mulling over the the relatively brief …
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell Read MoreMicrosoft’s daftly named rival to Google has now officially launched in the UK after five months in beta. Featuring a simple, photo-dominated homepage, the page shows a rather pleasing photo …
Microsoft’s Bing search engine launches in the UK Read MoreLaunched on November 9, 2004, the web browser Firefox is now five years old. Starting life as an experimental arm of the Mozilla project, whose hefty suite of apps included …
Firefox is five years old Read MoreIf, like us, you use a lot of Google services every day, you may be a tad concerned about what data Big Brother Google has on record about your activities. …
Google Dashboard lets you check your Google-wide privacy settings Read MoreLast night we reported on a major outage that saw the entire BBC website – news, radio, features, sport – the whole caboodle – going down for several hours. Some …
BBC website outage – why the silence? Read MoreEntire BBC website suffers catastrophic crash starting at 1.40am onwards, crashing completely at 2am, and remaining offline for over an hour with the service still unusable at 03.15am. It’s such …
BBC website suffers major outage in the UK Read MoreTo celebrate Wallace and Gromit’s 20th birthday, a Google ‘doodle’ has appeared featuring the much loved plasticine characters. The animated stars of the superb ‘The Wrong Trousers’ and ‘A Grand …
Google celebrates Wallace and Gromit Read MoreIf you’re feeling like you could be excited by Google Wave if you just could work out what the thing actually does, help may be at hand. In case you’re …
Befuddled by Google Wave? Online manual released Read MoreWe’re aware that almost all our news stories in the 24 hours have been about ruddy Google, but if the search engine giant keeps on innovating, we’re duty bound to …
Google PowerMeter debuts in UK Read MoreSearch engine behemoths Google have elbowed their way into the online music market with the launch of Onebox, their new service for finding music videos, previews and images and buying …
Google launches OneBox music service Read MoreWe like this. Rather a lot in fact, although we’re not quite sure why. Go to ‘Mystery Google’, type in any search terms you fancy and whatever you write will …
Mystery Google serves up mystery searches Read MoreThis snappy YouTube video documents Google’s rise and rise from their beginnings in Stanford, USA, eleven years ago. Originally named ‘Backrub,’ the company was helped by some funding from Yahoo …
Eleven years of Google in two minutes Read MoreStar Wars fans. To be honest, they scare us a bit with their weird obsession with a series of children’s films that were cheesy to start off with and certainly …
Star Wars Uncut: fans to recreate entire movie online Read MoreIt’s certainly subtle, but Google’s recent tweaking of their Google Maps application reflects their commitment to keeping punters happy (and perhaps warding off Apple’s possible incursion into their territory). We …
Google Maps gets a tweaking Read MoreGoogle has revealed early details of a new product called “Social Search.” Speaking at the Web 2.0 Conference, Google’s Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, said that the …
Google Launches Social Search, mixing search with social networks Read More