Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) has got in the way of Google (http://www.google.com) and acquired Friendfeed (http://www.friendfeed.com).

This is not great news for Google. The search giant...

An interesting story on the BBC site says there's yet another search facility starting up, following the launch of Bing (http://www.bing.com), Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com) and Google...

Google is making it much simpler to work out which photos you're allowed to use for what, and which you aren't. The company is allowing people to search for pictures and you can filter by what's...

There's a lot to be said about MJ's death, although speaking as someone who lost his father at 49 from a heart attack I have to say the timing of his sad demise is the least remarkable thing about...

I hate bloggers and Twitter users that bandwagon something like the tragically early demise of Michael Jackson. This isn't the right platform for tributes even if I were his biggest fan anyway....

Here we go again. It seems like only last month I mentioned the legal efforts to restrain Google's Street View system in the UK (probably because it was).

Now we're starting to see active...

There is now more about people complaining and getting pics removed on the Guardian's website here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/20/google-street-view-privacy-complaints

This has started earlier than I expected. American readers will be quite used to the idea that in many areas if you go to Google Maps you'll find pictures of the street as well as maps. Personally I...

So Google is going to compete with Skype. If you weren't signed up to the GrandCentral service the company acquired, forget it - as per the info on this link (http://www.google.com/voice/about), the...

...I didn't get any email outage at all through my Google Apps (http://www.google.com/a) account. Call me old-fashined but when you sign up for something like that you deserve to be included if...

Well, thank goodness for that. A couple has failed to sue Google for infringing their privacy by - wait for it - including their house in its Street View function on Maps.

It is of course (in my...

Great news - not. Google, the great way to search for just about anything, has a major downside according to new research. Thanks to the amount of data centers it utilises and searches, a Google...

Sometimes someone has something that's just a grand idea and everyone should have one. Take Google Goggles. The idea is that when you send an e-mail at certain times of day, particularly from home,...

Of all the most cloying and over-rated virtues, for me self-deprecation is the worst. You know the sort of thing: people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I write a bit, only when they...

Here we go again. The hypemeisters are in full swing, the prediction market is growing again - glory be, Android is coming to a phone near you tomorrow, or at least it's going to do so if you live in...

One of my favourite things about Microsoft is that whatever its critics say, it popularised computers as easy to use items. Windows, on its third run, brought the graphical user interface to the fore...

It looks like the browser wars may be hotting up as Microsoft has fired its salvo - it seems that by storing our previous search behaviors (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10020157-93.html?hhTest=1)...

Latest on this is that I tried searching 'Guardian Newspaper', a leading newspaper in the UK. It found me a history of the paper, an archive of the paper but not the newspaper's homepage.

Needs...

A few minutes later it's back and I tried Googling my name. My website doesn't come up (which it does on Google) but a short story I wrote in 1996 does, while a book for which I was commissioned and...

I just got it on the computer, wrote my own post on it then navigated back - to find it was unavailable.com at 14.10 UK time. - Guy Clapperton

P. S. I got so carried away writing that piece that I forgot to link it in with the title. The loser is, in this case, common sense.

First, a bit of confirmation - the iPhone does indeed seem to be in short supply over here, many thanks to 'staff writer' for the story here (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2755.html). I had a...

Here's a belter of a link from Nicholas Carr at TheAtlantic.com (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google). When I first read it I felt like laughing out loud because it was so improbable. Google...

I've just had a press release from Salesforce.com about the next iteration of its software. It's all going to be based on cloud computing - you log onto it from a browser more or less anywhere and...

Ah, a case of humour, the Internet, transatlantic giggles, stuff like that.

I always think if I'm slow enough to fail to spot jokes in this way the best thing to do is just not draw attention to...

Not really, although I do find some of the dislike baffling. I remember a time when people would walk into an office and find themselves incapable of working a computr without training; most of that...

Google Gears are now available for the Firefox 3 Browser, or so it says on CNET - understandably there's some reluctance to confirm in advance of the formal release of the browser itself (although...