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Explore tsunami-affected Japan with Google Street View
The Street View team announced in July of this year plans to digitally archive the areas most affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11th. Today, they've published over 44,000 kilometres of 360-degree panoramic imagery, available to explore in Google Street View or through a specially dedicated website known as "Building the Memory".
Darren McCarra
13th December 2011
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Chrome on track to become world's dominant browser, overtakes Firefox globally
Google Chrome is well on track to becoming the world's most popular web browser as it eclipsed Mozilla Firefox's global market share during the month of November for the first time. Globally, Chrome is now the second most-used browser behind Internet Explorer as it maintains a strong lead, according to StatCounter aggregated data from more than three million websites.
Darren McCarra
1st December 2011
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Barack Obama joins Google+ ahead of re-election campaign
United States President Barack Obama has joined Google+ ahead of next year's presidential election. The Google+ Page has officially been verified by Google and its first update published Wednesday afternoon.
Darren McCarra
25th November 2011
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Google no longer auto-suggesting The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites in search
Google is taking its own preemptive approach to tackling online piracy by removing certain keywords from its auto-complete and Google Instant search features, reports TorrentFreak.
Darren McCarra
24th November 2011
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Galaxy Nexus outperforms iPhone 4S in some areas, let down by graphics
The Galaxy Nexus, the first Android powered smartphone to run Ice Cream Sandwich and which launched in the UK late last week, outperforms the iPhone 4S in a number of areas, a report finds.
Darren McCarra
22nd November 2011
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Google+ quietly introduces Twitter-like trending topics
Google+ on Thursday night quietly introduced Twitter-like trending topics to its progressing social network. 'Trends' as they are officially known on Google+ appear on Google+ Search pages and function very similar to Twitter's Trending Topics.
Darren McCarra
18th November 2011
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Music Beta evolves into Google Music bringing another major music player to the cloud
Music Beta from Google has just evolved into Google Music, opening up to users in the United States and bringing another major music player to the cloud. Earlier this week, Apple finally introduced iTunes Match, allowing iOS device users to stream music anywhere using iCloud.
Darren McCarra
17th November 2011
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Manage Google+ Pages using third-party clients like HootSuite
Managing Google+ Pages for businesses and organisations just got a lot easier as Google today announced a limited pilot programme granting six companies early access to the Google+ API. These six initial test partners are Buddy Media, Context Optional, Hearsay Social, HootSuite, Involver and Vitrue.
Darren McCarra
15th November 2011
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Google bans promotions and competitions on Google+ Pages for brands
As the dust settles on Google's launch of Google+ Pages for brands and businesses yesterday, we've dug a little deeper into the terms of service that each brand must adhere to on the network and found something very interesting.
Darren McCarra
8th November 2011
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Google+ Pages for brands and businesses have arrived
Google+ brand pages have finally arrived. Google made the announcement earlier today, enabling brands and businesses to legitimately connect with users on Google's 40 million strong social network.
Darren McCarra
7th November 2011