Director of Engineering Dave Burke, known as one of Google’s top programmers.
Will join the Internet giant’s Android engineering center in Mountain View, Calif.
Burke came to Google from a Dublin, Ireland speech recognition company and has published numerous academic papers about the topic.
Google is improving voice recognition on Android, by relocating a senior U.K. programmer to [...]

We knew that the next generation of the Android operating system was going to be the platform that came to both phones and tablets, and now Google is telling developers the steps they’ll need to take in order to keep their apps running in the future.
Google has spilled more details over the forthcoming Ice Cream [...]

The United States Department of Justice antitrust division has asked Google for more information about its planned US$12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility.
Potentially slowing the transaction, Google said in a blog post Wednesday.
The companies wish to concur entirely with and  reply quickly aDepartment of Justice underneath a carry out of a Motorola proclamation Mobility.
Google acquired [...]

A new feature rolled out by Google+ lets you share your favorite circles with other people.
you’ll be able to share a list of people you’ve added to a circle quickly and easily to help others find interesting people to circle.
To start sharing your circles, simply click a circle on your Circles page and click the [...]

What you see above is every telecom exec’s nightmare.  Google is stepping up the mobile phone value chain once again and making its own SIMs.
Google may be testing networks in Spain for the possible launch of its own MVNO in the country, based on some photos that have been leaked from an employee working at [...]

The new social networking project by Google, has been in a limited field trial, and only invited guests have been allowed to participate in the project’s development.
Google+ moves from field trial to open beta, and anyone can join and connect with the people they care about.
Google+ was designed to make sharing on the web more [...]

Firefox moved into its accelerated development path, Firefox really didn’t get much better. In fact, it’s been getting less stable. Google’s Chrome Web browser though just keeps getting better with every new release. Chrome 14, is now clearly the best Web browser for any operating system available today.
When it comes to Web standards compatibility, Chrome [...]

Shares of Motorola Mobility, traded on the NYSE, shot up by 60% in pre-market trading, while Google’s shareholders didn’t seem to like the deal, sending its shares down by 3% in pre-market trading in New York.
Google has just closed its biggest acquisition to date, and in the process has declared war on Apple in the [...]

On 21st August 1973, in the Russian capital of Moscow, a boy was born. His name was Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, and he would in his later life help to transform the world of technology. Sergey was born in a time when the Soviet Union was still in existence.
His family emigrated from Russia to the US [...]

Google Inc is introducing a credit card for its advertising customers, offering its clients a credit line to try and drum up business as competition in the online ad market heats up.
Google is offering the card to select U.S. clients with what it calls a competitive interest rate, an ample credit line and no annual [...]