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I was extremely excited to hear Google had a cloud music platform in the pipeworks. This means you can upload your music to their servers and have access wherever you are in the world with just an internet connection, device and Google account. Unfortunately, it was only available to US residents. Fiddlesticks. A year later [...]

Many of us will have heard about the latest offering from Facebook being graph search. It may not be the snappiest of titles for a revolutionary change to the way Facebook can be used, but it is an interesting idea. It was made clear at the launch of the beta that this is a very [...]

Last Friday saw a major shot fired at overly-abstract tech patents as Google, Facebook, Zynga, and several other companies filed an amicus brief with the US Court of Appeals on the case CLS v Alice. One of the traditional problems plaguing the tech sector has been the ease with which patents can be acquired for fairly basic [...]

Love Google Doodles? Then you’ll love this video taking a look behind the Doodle. It first started when the founders of Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) left the office to attend the Burning Man Festival. They simply inserted the infamous Burning Man logo into their logo and the rest is history. The idea behind [...]

YouTube may have a bit of a rep online for attracting the worst of the internet commenters, but Google’s out to take a proverbial bar of soap to the video uploading service’s filthy mouth. Since internet denizens are apparently more likely to be racist, misogynistic and generally terrible when hidden behind a pseudonym (though Facebook-based [...]

We’ve been hearing a lot of hype about Google Glass, a new project that’s purporting to be the next step of mobile computer devices. If you’re not part of the back-to-basics movement in internet culture, it actually sounds like a pretty fascinating idea: a computer headset that brings all the functionality of a smartphone right [...]

Smart TV is a new concept to TV, were the TV and online worlds collide… Smart TV, also known as Hybrid TV because it brings your laptop and TV together, and allows you to stream films, surf Google and have a video chat via Skype. How do I get it? To get Smart TV you [...]

If you’ve read any of my posts before you’ll be aware that I have a healthy distrust of machines that are too smart for their own good (or should that be our good?) So as you can imagine the old spider-sense immediately started tingling as soon as I heard that Google were developing a self-driving [...]

Google’s X Lab hase been working on a mind-blowing new product that may have the potential to change the smartphone market as much as the original iPhone did. The concept is to produce a set of glasses (maybe headset would be a better description) with an augmented reality heads-up display. Speculation about the prototype product [...]

UK MPs are proposing that an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy is made mandatory. This following ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley’s complaint about not being able to get a video off the Internet.  Mosley is pushing for the new technology to be initiated in the UK which result [...]