comScore (http://www.comscore.com) has just published data from the Video Metrix service which shows that the number of online videos being viewed here in the UK is up 47 percent on a year ago and...

Over the years there has been plenty of speculation regarding the sanity (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20745/53/) of Steve 'Monkey Dancing' Ballmer, the Microsoft CEO. But what is it with...

Just as British MPs line their pockets with taxpayer cash, just as Hollywood epics re-write history with happy endings, so Google was always going to want to compete with the Wolfram Alpha...

This is interesting, as we are all used to reading about online resources being optimised for mobile devices. Take YouTube which has been successfully shrunk to fit the iPhone and other mobiles, but...

The Google Android OS is coming to the Acer Aspire ONE netbook, and sooner than you might imagine. As a happy ONE owner myself, and a keen observer of all things Android, the news that it could be as...

I have just been reading about the YouTube Porn Day scandal (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4365.html) and it reminded me that I had been meaning to pass this little snippet of information on,...

According to a report (http://www.mk-news.co.uk/mknews/displayarticle.asp?id=405050) in a local UK newspaper, the MK News, it seems that Google Street View is not welcome in the affluent English...

All 43 police forces across England and Wales have now published crime maps on the Internet, according to the UK Home Office. This means that people can access details of crime in the areas they live...

The Android Open Source Project continues to go from strength to strength as the Open Handset Alliance (http://www.openhandsetalliance.com) announces a batch of new members. Amongst the 14 new...

What a difference a year makes. Was it really only in August 2007 that Google added the Sun developed StarOffice suite to the Google Pack software collection? Yes, it was. Back then Google was happy...

T-Mobile has today announced the international launch of the first Android powered cellphone in the world.

It is available 'soon' say T-Mobile, for customers in both the USA and Europe. The...

Some headlines are just too good to pass up, and this is one of them. According to reports (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10036131-93.html) it would appear that an iffy Google News search was...

Anyone remember all the fuss back at the end of 2005 when, in December of that year, it was revealed that Google had managed to beat off the attentions of Microsoft to ensure that its relationship...

Following on from my posting (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2739.html) two days ago, the EFF is reporting (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/viacoms-statement-youtube-user-data-controversy)...

People have been saying that Google is going to buy Digg for the longest time, but now that Digg founder Kevin Rose confirms (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/205647/google-close-to-digg-deal.html) he is...

Google would argue that it does not need to make the privacy policy it has any easier to find, after all you only have to click the 'About Google' link on the homepage and then go and click the...

Pop quiz: which is the most popular website in the US? For years the correct answer would have been Yahoo, despite everyone thinking it is Google. However, the latest comScore rankings, which list...

According to Andrea Frome (http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/street-view-revisits-manhattan.html), a software engineer at Google Maps, the search giant has started to give Manhattan a...

According to the Wall Street Journal today (http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120776803032602423-lMyQjAxMDI4MDA3OTcwNjk4Wj.html) Yahoo could be talking Google about the outsourcing of search...

It would appear that Google is being sued (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hq6FlGb4RaKA8uNU0xIMPsrNOgPAD8VR8Q8G0) by the owners of a house in the Franklin Park suburb of Pittsburgh because the...

Google has opened a new research and development centre, based in Zurich (Switzerland), which is home to more than 300 engineers which makes it Google's largest engineering centre outside the U.S....

Yahoo! has complained to the European Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/index/m94.html#m_4731) that Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of Doubleclick, the online...

comScore Media Metrix (http://www.comscore.com/) has published its monthly analysis of US online consumer activity showing that education related sites spiked during August as schools and...

Google has announced a new feature for users of its Google Earth application, and it goes by the name of Sky. Thankfully Rupert Murdoch has not done some dastardly deal with the search giants, but...

The comScore Media Metrix (http://www.comscore.com/) monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at top online properties for March 2007 has been released, and shows a change at the top of the...