A few months ago Google started quite an intensive ad campaign for their Chrome browser. First, all free newspapers in London were full of Chrome ads, and now I recently noticed huge billboards telling us why we all should use Chrome. One of those billboards is at Victoria Station, right where trains enter and exit the station.
I have used Chrome and it’s a good browser.

The next version of Google’s Nexus One mobile phone will be designed with enterprise users in mind and might have a physical keyboard,the Daily Telegraph reports.
The Nexus One, which went on sale in the US last week, is seen as a direct competitor to Apple’s iPhone. The device, made by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, boasts high-speed web browsing and speech recognition for dictating emails and text messages, and runs Google’s Android operating system.
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Google said that they are ready to close down their business and quit China because of the country’s increasing censorship, the Daily Telegraph reports.
In a head-to-head confrontation with the Chinese Government, the company said that they will pull out of the country unless they are allowed to provide a totally uncensored service.
After the announcement, Google’s China website immediately began to offer reports and images of the Tiananmen Square massacre and other highly sensitive events that …

Google are being inundated with complaints about their Nexus One phone, the BBC reports.
Many people are unhappy with Google only responding to questions by e-mail and are calling for them to set up phone-based support.
The top query, with more than 500 responses, is about how much people should pay for the phone and whether existing customers of T-Mobile can get the device at a reduced rate. Only new customers of T-Mobile will be able to …

The family of the late Philip K. Dick, the author whose book inspired the Blade Runner film, are to sue Google for infringement of intellectual property rights as Nexus One shares a model name with the cyborgs used in the film.
Thephone is called Nexus One, whereas the cyborgs were called Nexus 6. This, believes Isa Dick Hackett, the author’s daughter, is no coincidence and has been lifted straight from her father’s seminal text …

Google’s new smartphone, Nexus One, is so far officially sold only in the United States, and will arrive in Europe soon. Google’s website says that it will be sold through Vodafone in spring 2010, but if you can’t wait that long, there is a way to get it quicker.
As the Daily Telegraph reports, you can order the Nexus One through that same Google’s website linked earlier. You have to pay $519 (£324) plus $29.65 (£18) …

Already before Google’s Nexus One was unveiled yesterday, media outlets dubbed it an “iPhone killer”. The media love to do it – call new smartphones “iPhone killers”, new search engines “Google killers” etc. However, the truth is, even when a new gadget is, by specifications, better than the most popular product, it hasn’t killed anything yet.
But now that there’s a new Google smartphone called Nexus One, things might be different. Like Apple, Google is an …

Google finally revealed their first smartphone, Nexus One, today after months of frenzied speculation about its arrival, the Daily Mail reports.
The phone will be sold through a Google hosted web store. Users can buy an unlocked version in the US for $529 (£331) or with a T Mobile contract for $179 (£112).
The smartphone has a 3.7in-long OLED screen and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, which means users will be able to use multiple apps without losing …

Google will finally reveal their first smartphone, Nexus One, tomorrow after months of frenzied speculation about its arrival, the phone will be sold online and cost £300, the Daily Mail reports.
Full details of the Google-branded touchscreen device – manufactured by Taiwanese company HTC – have mostly been kept under wraps despite occasional leaks, but tomorrow Google’s founders Sergey Brin…

A video clip purporting to show Google’s new Android phone, the Nexus One, being removed from its packaging, has appeared online, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The video, shot on an iPhone 3GS, shows the Nexus One in action, and has been posted online by a Twitter user with the username DJRobRob.
In one shot, the screen shows large menu icons arranged in a diagonal curve. In another, the screen shows icons for maps and email programs, with …

Google’s new mobile phone, code named Nexus One, could be available already as early as 5th January, Reuters reports.
According to a source familiar with the matter, Google plan to sell two versions of the phone: one with a service contract with T-Mobile in US, and another that is unlocked.
The phone is manufactured by HTC. Pricing details are not available.

Google announced that real-time news from Twitter and other information from the internet will start appearing in search results, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Under the new Google system, real-time information will feature directly in regular search results pages. The freshest tweets on any online search topic will scroll past in real-time, without any need to refresh the page.
The announcement follows Microsoft’s deal with Twitter and Facebook two months ago after they became the first to reach …

Some of the biggest names on the web have written to Business Secretary Peter Mandelson to express “grave concerns” about elements of the Digital Economy Bill, the BBC reports.
Four firms including Facebook and Google object to clause 17 of the bill, which could give Government the power to amend copyright law in the future. “We urge you to remove Clause 17 from the bill,” the letter read.
The consortium, which also includes Yahoo and eBay, believe …

Internet giant Google have lifted the lid on their operating system, known as Chrome OS, the BBC reports.
The free and open source system is initially aimed at low-cost netbooks and does away with many of the features of a traditional program. All applications are designed to run in a web browser and all the user’s data is stored on Google’s servers.
Engineers from the firm said the first computers running the system would be available before …

Internet giant Google have entered the online music market with a new service for finding and buying music online, the BBC reports.
OneBox is an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike. The US-only service allows people to search using song titles, artists or using snippets of lyrics and will also stream sought-after tracks.
According to Google, the words “music” and “lyrics” are among the top 10 search terms of all time.

Google introduced today a free navigation system for mobile phones that offers turn-by-turn directions, the New York Times reports.
Analysts said that Google’s free service, if successful, could erode the sales of satnavs made by companies like Garmin and TomTom and of navigation services offered by mobile phone carriers.
Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said he didn’t think of the new service as disrupting an industry. Instead, he said it is a windfall for consumers that …