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Google is phasing out support for older browsers from 1 August. Those using IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors to view Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites will then lose some functions. Eventually, it warned, these web services will stop working for those sticking with older browsers. The move is part of [...]
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Almost 250,000 Germans have told Google to blur pictures of their homes on the Street View service. The German government insisted that people get the chance to make the request as a condition of letting Google operate Street View. It said personal privacy would be violated if people did not have an option to opt [...]
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Search giant Google has entered the online music market with a new service for finding and buying music online. OneBox is an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike. The US-only service allows people to search using song titles, artists or using snippets of lyrics and will also stream sought-after tracks. Mark Mulligan, an [...]
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A service that gave many people their first taste of building and owning a web page is set to close. Yahoo-owned GeoCities once boasted millions of users and was the third most popular destination on the web. The free site has since fallen out of fashion with users, who have switched to social networks. [...]
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out at critics of the company’s plans to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library. Writing in the New York Times, Mr Brin said he wanted to “dispel some myths” surrounding the project. He said the plan would make millions of “out-of-print” books available to the public [...]
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Google Wave, which combines e-mail, instant messaging and wiki-style editing will go on public trial today. The search giant hopes the tool, described as “how e-mail would look if it were invented today”, will transform how people communicate online. It will be open to 100,000 invitees from 1600BST, each of whom can nominate five further [...]
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Google has unveiled a service called Fast Flip to let users consume news more quickly and to boost the flagging fortunes of the news industry. The product is designed to mirror the way readers flick through magazines and newspapers. Google has teamed up with more than 30 providers such as the BBC to provide what [...]
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