According to indications, Google might be planning to launch new Google-banded home entertainment devices to take on rival Apple in the segment.

Google might be planning to take on the rumored Apple iTV. Google's own branded home entertainment devices will mostly be based on the Andiron platform. The device could be controlled through a Android powered smartphone or tablet.

According to some reports, Google is planning to release a new cloud-based locker service for users in the coming weeks or months. A report in the Wall Street Journal said that the internet giant is developing its service that will compete with the likes of Dropbox and SugarSync. It is now known how much Google might be planning to charge for offering storage spaces above the limit to its customers. Dropbox offers users 2GB of storage facility for free to all users and then it charges $9.99 for 50 GB or $19.99 for 100 GB.

Internet giant, Google has updated its Google Earth programme loosing the traces of what was rumored to be the lost city of Atlantis.

The update has ridden the programme of a gridlike pattern that was believed to sunken streets from the mythological underwater city of Atlantis. Google Ocean, which is an extension of Google Earth, merely displays data artifact from the sonar method that was used to map the seafloor.

New Delhi, Feb 7 - The website of a petitioner and Islamic scholar who dragged Facebook, Google, Yahoo and others to court over allegedly objectionable content has been defaced and left with a message "Probably best not to piss the social networking sites off!"

Petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi told IANS that his website www. fatwaonline. in has been defaced for the past one week. He now plans to file a police complaint.

Internet giant, Google has launched the new ‘Google Bouncer’ to protect the Android Market and users from malware infections.

Bouncer is an automated system that scans existing and future apps on in the Android Market for malware links. Experts have been critical of Google for keeping it easy for anyone to enter the android market and choosing a reactionary approach where it acts to remove malware after it is being reported.

Internet giant, Google has been ordered by French Court to compensate by paying thousands of dollars to France-based mapping company for allegedly altering competition in the market by offering its own service for free to the users.

The French firm, Bottin Cartographes offers map services to businesses in the country for a fee. The company had filed an unfair competition complaint against Google France as its parent company Google Inc. It argued that Google is involved in anticompetitive practices by providing free mapping services in the country.

Internet giant, Google has said that it might go on the same route as Twitter and might start country-specific censorship of the content on its services.

This has attracted a lot of criticism of the company from around the world as Google is generally seen as a company supporting free speech and free slow of information. Critics say that the move shows that internet firms are bowing to the demands of authoritarian regimes from around the world.

Internet giant, Google is attempting to explain the changes made to its privacy policy in order to put to rest some concerns over the privacy of the users who use the company's services from around the world.

Internet giant, Google is trying to explain the changes that were recently announced by the company in order to address some of the privacy concerns raised by various sections.

Google Policy Manager Betsy Masiello wrote in a company blog that the users would continue to have control over what information is accessed by the company and that the company is not going to collect any information that it did not collect in the past. The users will still decide upon how much of Google services they want to use.

San Francisco, Jan 26 : Apple overtook Google's Android to become the leading smartphone platform in the US in the fourth quarter of 2011, thanks to strong demand for its latest iPhone model, a study said Wednesday.

In October-December quarter last year, Apple's share of the US smartphone market doubled from a year earlier to 44.9 percent, while Android's share fell from 50 percent to 44.8 percent in the same period, according to market research firm Kantar Worldpanel.

Internet giant, Google is planning to launch a new tablet to take on the likes of Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle. Google chairman, Eric Schmidt announced that the company will launch a Google branded tablet based on its Android platform in the next six months. He said that the tablet would be "of the highest quality". Industry analysts believe that the new tablet could become a serious competitor to the Apple iPad.

Washington, Jan 5 : Yahoo has named Scott Thompson, former president of online payment service PayPal, as its new chief executive officer.Wednesday's announcement ended the internet company's four-month search for the right person to fill the position, Xinhua reported.Thompson's appointment will be effective Jan 9, when he will also formally join the company's board of directors, Yahoo said in a press release.

Internet giant, Google is planning to revamp its flagship search engine homepage, aimed at promoting the company’s other services without cluttering its webpage.

The company will replace the current black horizontal bar on the homepage with a new grey logo and promote, which will reveal seven alternative services. The feature reveals further eight options when clicked on them.

Internet giant, Google has entered into a deal with Mozilla to keep Google as the default search engine for the Firefox browser.

Google will pay $300 million annually to the company for the integration of the search engine into the browser. The two companies have agreed to continue their partnership for another three years, adding to almost $1 billion payment by Google to the browser.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the first true Google tablet will be released in the coming year.

Analysts say that Google will join the competitive tablet market possibility with a tablet under the Nexus brand name. The tablet market is dominated by Apple iPad and includes various Android based tablets including that fro Amazon, Samsung, HTC and others.

"In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Internet giant, Google has released a new update for its social networking platform, Google+ in order to compete with rivals including Facebook and Twitter.

The company released small changes aimed at refining the platform in the area of response and feedback. The new "graphic equalizer" will attach a volume nob on each user so the level of exposure can be controlled by a person.

Experts and industry watchers believe that the new version of Google’s operating system for mobile devices, the Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich will help boost the growth of the popular platform ever further.

Ice Cream Sandwich will be released this month on the Galaxy Nexus smartphone and will include a redesigned user interface offering same experience on tablets and smartphones t its users.

Internet giant, Google has exchanged a public spat with its telecom partner, Verizon over the issue of mobile payments as both the firms aim to expand their presence in the emerging segment of the mobile phone market.

The companies have different opinions on weather Google’s new ‘Google Wallet’ e-commerce app should come in on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which is the flagship model for the Android platform. Google claims that Verizon is against offering the app on the smartphone.

Internet giant, Google has officially said that it has no associations with the controversial, Carrier IQ software that is accused of recording and transferring user information from smartphone devices secretly.

Google clarified that Nexus devices do not included the software. The company said, "We do not have an affiliation with CarrierIQ. Android is an open source effort and we do not control how carriers or OEMs customize their devices."

Internet giant, Google is marking the 176th birth anniversary of American author and humorist Mark Twain with a new doodle on its home page.

The doodle is released ont eh flagship sear engine homepage and shows the scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which is his most famous novel. It shows protagonist, Tom Sawyer whitewashing a fence with his friend Ben as he is being punished for making his cloths dirty in a flight with a boy from St Louis.