- How mobile-friendly is your website? How mobile-friendly is your website? Test your website for mobile-friendliness and benefit from Google's algorithm update in favour of mobile this April.
- Google pilots One Today, a new app that makes charitable donations simple Google has begun to pilot a new mobile app called One Today. The app highlights a new charity each day and facilitates the donation of $1 to a particular nonprofit should the user choose to contribute.
- Google reportedly developing a unified chat service, Babble, to rival all others We don’t post rumours too often around here but this one, if true, is worthy of mention. This evening’s babble would see Google unify its various chat services (yes, all of them) into a single product, Babble.
- European data protection authorities "coordinating their enforcement actions" against Google European data protection authorities are "coordinating their enforcement actions" against Google after the company has apparently failed to take specific action on alleged "deficiencies" in its new privacy policy that came into effect one year ago.
- Meet Google's new flagship, and very expensive, touch-friendly Chromebook Google today unveiled its new flagship, and very expensive, Chromebook - known simply as Pixel - for "power users who have fully embraced the cloud".
- More and more spam now comes from people you know, Google says Each day, more and more "illegal, fraudulent or spammy" email messages originate, or at least appear to, from those you know, says Google.
- Opera Web browser reaches 300 million users, adopts WebKit layout engine Big changes are afoot at Opera - the alternative Internet browser software developer - as the Norwegian company announced its "fastest acceleration in user growth" in recent times to 300 million monthly users, and the beginning of a transition to the WebKit layout engine.
- Facebook finishes 2012 as number one smartphone app Despite trailing Google Maps for most of 2012, Facebook catapulted in popularity through the final quarter to become the number one mobile app in terms of monthly unique users.
- As tablet market matures, the iPad's share falls sharply This may sound a little shocking at first but in the days immediately after Christmas Apple's share of the tablet market actually fell by 7.1%. This is, however, a sign that the tablet market is maturing rather than any beginning of the end predictions for Apple.
- Twitter reaches 200 million active users, grows 42.9% in nine months Twitter has reached 200 million monthly active users - the company announced by tweet earlier today - representing a 42.9% increase in monthly active users since March of this year.