Tagged: Google

Android Market gets a Bouncer
Google has added a new service - code-named Bouncer - to help scan the Android Market for malicious apps.

Major tech companies join forces to stop phishing
Some of the world's biggest tech companies and financial institutions have announced a broad new alliance to combat email phishing.

The growing Android challenge to iPad supremacy
The iPad continues to dominate the tablet computer market, but Android is rapidly increasing its market share.

Google launches Public Alerts
Google has launched its new Public Alerts feature for Maps, alerting users to potential disaster warnings in their area and around the world.

Google merges privacy settings
Google has announced that from 1 March it will be moving to one single privacy policy, giving the search giant the ability to 'combine personal information' across the majority of its products and services.

Social networks Focus on the User
Engineers from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have joined forces to bite back at Google and bring search results from social networks with Focus on the User.

Google+ averts identity crisis
Google+ has updated its policy to allow the use of established pseudonyms on the social network.

Google+ phases out incoming stream
Google+ quietly announced it will phase out its 'incoming' stream in favour of other, more simplified features that do the same thing.

Twitter throws the first stone at Search plus Your World
Twitter reacts to Mountain View's Search plus Your World update, arguing it will negatively impact the microblogging site.

Google brings Your World to your search results
Google's ever-expanding social remit now includes Your World, a further initiative by Mountain View to break down search results by personal recommendations and search history.