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Crave Podcast 10: Google on trial

Crave Google is watching you. In the latest episode of the Crave podcast we put Google on trial, with Chris Stevens arguing that it's the Hannibal Lecter of the digital world, while Rory Reid acts in its defence, asking us to embrace Google for its...

25 July 2006, 10:06

Planet CNET Episode 11: Google's new View and a bigger Eye

Crave Diving right in is Louise Ghegan from CNET France with her report on Google Street View coming to Europe. We're tanned, rested and ready to go with another episode of Planet CNET, travelling around the world for the latest in tech and gadget news...

23 July 2008, 13:25

Crave Live: Google Android hands-on video

Crave If there was one thing we were really keen to check out at the Mobile World Congress, it was Google Android, the search behemoth's mobile operating system. At the moment no-one has made a commercial phone running Android, but there are prototype...

28 February 2008, 16:52

Crave Podcast 25: Is there a Google phone?

Crave We'll treat your listening-nipples to the robust laptop, or 'pupil device', a computer for kids designed to withstand rough handling, and we get all Sherlock on the rumoured Google phone. Hell, we just popped our hearts!

9 March 2007, 16:02

Google Docs goes mobile

Crave Crave US: Google yesterday unveiled Google Docs mobile. It's a smaller, lightweight version of Google Docs and Spreadsheets, which lets you browse any stored documents, spreadsheets or presentations on your mobile phone.

Tags: google, presentations, form, spreadsheets

18 October 2007, 10:26

Photos: T-Mobile G1, Google's mobile darling hits the UK

Crave Today we finally got our hands on the T-Mobile G1, the first commercially available phone to run Google's Android platform. If you want to add extra apps, you visit the Android Market, Google's version of the iPhone app store, which features both...

23 September 2008, 16:40

Google Chrome: Hands-on with the polished new browser

Crave In its comic-book preannouncement of its new browser, Chrome, Google stated correctly that watching videos, chatting and even playing Web-based games didn't exist when browsers were first invented. Google wants the browser to help users focus on...

Tags: tabs, javascript, beta, tab

3 September 2008, 10:04

Google Chrome browser out today

Crave Google is today set to launch its long-rumoured open-source Web browser, Chrome. Google is using its search index to prioritise testing of the browser -- the pages that are linked to the most from Google Search are getting the most automated hits...

Tags: operating system, tab, open source, accessing

2 September 2008, 14:26

Exclusive: Google Translate comes to the iPhone

Crave Step forward Google, which has created a mobile version of its Translation service for iPhone users. The Google Translate mobile service works almost exactly like the desktop version. But unlike those electronic dictionaries you can buy at airports...

Tags: google, phrases, iphone, translate

8 August 2008, 5:00

Google patent could spark network bidding war

Crave Google has filed a patent for mobile phones that could make various network operators bid against one another for each call or data session initiated by the user. The application was published the day after Google launched its first major play in...

Tags: published, session, locked, portable

30 September 2008, 9:14

Google adds voice search to its iPhone app

Crave If you're too lazy, too tired or just too annoyed to use the iPhone's text interface to search for something on Google, you'll be pleased to know you can now just say what you're looking for. All you need to do is download the Google search app or...

Tags: google, icon, movie, voice

18 November 2008, 10:34

Google dumps Yahoo ad deal

Crave Google has pulled the plug on a search-ad partnership with Yahoo that would have given Yahoo major new revenue but that raised monopoly concerns. David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer said in a blog post on Wednesday: "After four months of...

Tags: yahoo, deal, ads, ad

6 November 2008, 9:34

Google Android: Beyond the mobile phone

Crave The first phone using Google's Android operating system will debut today, a model from T-Mobile, and more are set come. But Wind River is a notable member of the 34-company Open Handset Alliance that Google gathered to build, support, and use Android.

Tags: computing, embedded, river, operating system

23 September 2008, 9:59

Crave Talk: Google snoops on your TV

Crave You've got to worry about Google. The idea's simple, say researchers Michele Covell and Shumeet Baluja on the Google research blog. These people want to Google our entire lives, and dress us like Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

Tags: google, talking, watching, advertising

20 June 2006, 11:39

T-Mobile G1: Google Android phone to launch tomorrow

Crave As if it wasn't enough to be the world's largest search engine, Google is set to take over the mobile phone market with its mobile operating system, called Android. Andrew LimUpdate: We've had our hands-on the T-Mobile G1 with Google Android.

Tags: google, iphone, keypad, htc

22 September 2008, 16:08