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Google introduces 'Go' programming language

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]

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]

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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]

Bing's mobile site optimised for touchscreen devices

News Microsoft has updated the mobile version of Bing with some features for touchscreen devices [02 Nov 2009]

Google Voice stats revealed through PDF error

News The service has 1.419 million users, a number that was meant to be redacted in documents filed with regulators, according to BusinessWeek [02 Nov 2009]

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News ARM's 32nm processors displayed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona promise cheaper, more powerful smartphones

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