The prototype glasses appear to be of a minimalist design, with a partly-transparent video screen that streams data in front of the right eye. Although Mountain View declined to name a possible price point or launch date, The New York Times previously reported that the first set of Google glasses are likely to hit the streets for somewhere between $250-$600 before the end of the year. "We think technology ...

An Australian court has ruled for the first time that Google's responsible for advertisers' content. Three federal judges overturned a ruling from last year that Google couldn't be brought to account over its advertisers' breaches of Australia's Trade Practices Act. The case hinged on AdWords, and four advertisers that used the names of competitors as keywords to trigger their own ads to appear. The court r ...

Google has revamped its official Google Maps app for Android. As part of the new update, which takes the app to version 6.5, Google has optimized the interface for the lucky few people who manage to be running the new Ice Cream Sandwich edition of Android, but there are enhancements for other users as well. For example, the app now fully integrates all of Google's public transportation options that it offer ...

Google's offering $1 million in bounty payments to hackers managing to come up with a fully-functional exploit of Chrome. The company may not be expecting to pay out. Over the last six years, Pwn2Own contestants at the CanSecWest conference have cracked both Internet Explorer and Safari, while Chrome has remained intact. This year, however, Google's going it alone with its hacking prize, having decided to p ...

Following last week's revelation that Google was bypassing privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser, Microsoft's accused it of doing the same thing with Internet Explorer. In a blog post, Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for Internet Explorer, says Google's using the same technique to dish up tracking cookies to its users. "We’ve found that Google bypasses the P3P Privacy Protection feature in ...

Google's launching a new privacy policy, bringing together all the information it holds on individual users into a single place. The company currently has more than 70 different privacy policies for its various product offerings - 'somewhat complicated', as Alma Whitten, the company's director of privacy, product and engineering concedes on the company blog. "While we’ve had to keep a handful of separate pr ...

Google's introduced one of its biggest-ever changes to search, tapping Google+ results to give more personal results in a move that some observers suggest may contravene US anti-trust legislation. Titled Search plus Your World, the new service, being rolled out over the next few days to English speakers, builds on Social Search to highlight personal content from users and their friends. It also makes it eas ...

When Amazon's Kindle Fire was announced, most knew right away the tablet was one of the few that actually had a chance of challenging the iPad’s dominance. The Fire is certainly not close to dethroning the iPad as the most popular tablet on the market today, but the tablet has put itself firmly in second place. Rumor: Google eyes $200 price point for new tabletNow the tablet wars are set to get another cont ...

Google's boosted its growing patent portfolio by buying hundreds more from IBM, which it hopes will help it in its battle to fight off litigation. It's taken over 187 patents and 36 patent applications, on top of the many others it bought from IBM last summer. The patents, first spotted by blog SEO by the Sea, cover aspects of email management, e-commerce, network performance and blade servers. There are al ...

Google will be the default search engine for Mozilla's Firefox for a further three years, following the extension of the deal between the two. It's good news for Mozilla, which gets the overwhelming majority of its income from the search deal - as much as 84 percent, or around $103 million. "Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millio ...