Google has updated their Google library by collaborating with Monotype Imaging to produce a faster font library. Google released MicroType Express compression as part of the Embedded OpenType converter in the open-source sfntly library. One very exciting component is that web designer teams won’t need to update their existing implementations relying on Google web fonts [...]

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Google has begun initial talks to buy Hulu–a pioneer in online video broadcast. Other initial prospects include Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo, as Hulu tries to drum up interest in a sale.  Yahoo made an initial overture, which got the video company excited. Hulu’s financial supporters are Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners, which have set up [...]

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Gmail has a strange, empty default mailbox glitch, which shows the message “no new mail” while the account has plenty of new messages. A user, upon first logging in, is greeted with an empty screen until they click the inbox menu item in the sidebar, which displays the messages waiting for them.

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Google has made strides to move many of the Android users over to the Android 2.0 environment. Google recently released statistics that show that 50.4 percent of all Android devices that connected to the Android marketplace in the past two weeks of early June 2010 were running Android mobile OS 2.0 or higher. There has [...]

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Google is now going to allow third party web developers to build apps that work within their Gmail service. This new plan will allow Google Apps customers add various third-party applications. Yahoo mail already has a few limited third party applications that integrate with it’s web mail application from PayPal and Facebook. The goal in [...]

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A recent settlement over the Google Books program will limit the scope of out-of-print works to English-speaking countries. The settlement will also limit the way Google can make money from digitizing out-of-print works. This forces the registry to actively seek out copyright holders who do not initially come forward to gain permission. This settlement only [...]

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More objections to Google’s street view are forming in the European Union. The Swiss Government is suing Google because its Street View online service is too revealing they claim. The Swiss data protection authority filed a claim with the Federal Administrative Court over the way Google handles personal information–specifically for additional constraints to obscure the [...]

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Barnes & Noble will launch a Google Android powered wireless device that they hope will make them competitive with Amazon.com. The device will have a 6-inch touch screen and virtual keyboard. In July, Barnes & Nobles announced that it would be returning to the e-book market with some type of digital-book store.

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Google Apps, a suite of premium enterprise level applications, will allow corporate BlackBerrys to have some push and sync functionality. This functionality, Google Apps Connector, will allow Gmail messages to be pushed within 60 seconds. It will also allow syncing of in-box actions such as labels and message archiving. Another added functionality will allow users [...]

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Google is currently in the process of building a replacement of its 10 year old file system, Google File System (GFS). GFS was never intended to handle all the kinds of applications that it currently governs–apps like Gmail and Youtube. The system, designed in the 90s, was made for batch-oriented applications such as web crawling [...]

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