Google introduces 'Go' programming language
News A Unix co-creator is among those behind a new, open-source programming language project which Google hopes will boost computing power and programmers' abilities [11 Nov 2009]
Draft standard aimed at improving website interfaces
News The Files interface, now a draft at the World Wide Web Consortium, could lead to better uploading and other chores [25 Nov 2009]
Chrome extensions site now open for uploads
News Google is asking programmers to start adding their Chrome extensions to the new gallery, but browser users can't download them yet [25 Nov 2009]
Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue of $79m
News The revenue growth rate tapered off to five percent from 12 percent the previous year, while a search deal with Google still supplies the bulk of the Firefox backer's money [20 Nov 2009]
Google, Bing gain search share at Yahoo's expense
News In recent months, fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits [18 Nov 2009]
Facebook adopts revised privacy policy
News The social-networking site hopes the policy revision will make it more accessible and easier to understand [18 Nov 2009]
Microsoft sets January date for Azure
News On day one of PDC 2009, executives Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia filled in details about the launch of its Azure cloud platform [18 Nov 2009]
Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal
News Opponents of the revised Google Books settlement say the search giant will still have exclusive rights to digitise out-of-print works [17 Nov 2009]
Egypt bids for first Arabic top-level domain
News Six countries have now applied for internationalised top-level domains, including Egypt, Russia and Saudi Arabia [17 Nov 2009]
- Egypt uses MISR as top level domain - Adrian Bridgwater
Google Books revised settlement adds limitations
News The settlement allows the scanning of out-of-print works from only English-speaking countries, restricts future business for Google and gives copyright holders more rights [16 Nov 2009]
Microsoft declares Bing UK ready for action
News The company's search engine, which has a UK market share of just below three percent, is now out of beta [13 Nov 2009]
Google Voice acquires VoIP client Gizmo5
News Terms of the deal for the VoIP software company were undisclosed, but the acquisition will be used to help Google Voice [13 Nov 2009]
Verizon to trial campaign of 'copyright notices'
News The US company, known for its reluctance to intervene in anti-piracy cases, will forward copyright notices on behalf of the music industry to those suspected of illegal downloading [13 Nov 2009]
Google SPDY protocol could boost web speeds
News Researchers are playing with a new web protocol that could theoretically decrease the time it takes to load a web page by a significant amount [13 Nov 2009]
Google plans first-ever share buyback
News If the company's $750m acquisition of AdMob is allowed to go through, Google will offset the impact of issuing $750m in stock by buying back an equal amount [12 Nov 2009]
Apple issues security update for Safari
News Available for Windows and Mac, the Safari 4.0.4 update addresses multiple security holes in the browser [12 Nov 2009]
Chrome Mac beta due in December
News Google plans to release the first Mac beta version of its browser in early December, according to a Chrome product manager [12 Nov 2009]
Google hints at impending Caffeine launch
News The search giant says its next search engine, code-named Caffeine, will soon be activated for wider public use [11 Nov 2009]
Twitter, LinkedIn announce tie-up
News The new partnership means status messages can be interchangeable between Twitter and LinkedIn [10 Nov 2009]
Google Books: More time needed to revise deal
News After a meeting last week with the US Justice Department, the parties have realised they need more time to revise their settlement over the rights to scan digital books [10 Nov 2009]
Google delivers search tool for online stores
News Commerce Search, hosted in Google's cloud, is designed for online retail sites and provides features such as customisable results and display [06 Nov 2009]
Google releases Dashboard stored data service
News Service that lets users maintain their personal data stored across all Google products is launched [05 Nov 2009]
Open University prepares to embrace the cloud
News The university is in talks with Microsoft and Google about cloud-computing services for students and staff [04 Nov 2009]
Yahoo open-sources app for speeding up websites
News The company has released the source code underlying its Traffic Server software, which helps boost the speed of website operations [03 Nov 2009]
Google opens up Wave federation
News Wave servers created by outside developers can now communicate with each other through Google's servers, opening up new interoperability possibilities for Wave [03 Nov 2009]
