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Cloud fever: What will it take for a breakout?

News Some of the tech industry's best and brightest gather at a roundtable discussion offering a snapshot of cloud computing's progress--and lack thereof.

Monday, March 02 2009 10:46 AM

Tags: Web services, Marc Benioff, Davos, Cloud Computing, dot-com, World Economic Forum, Switzerland, CTO, TechCrunch, Mountain View

Google to go carbon neutral by 2008

News Search giant has paired up with The Climate Group in a bid to reduce its impact on the environment.

Thursday, June 21 2007 11:15 AM

Tags: Power supplies, surge suppression, Data centers

Google forging ahead with Wi-Fi efforts

News Company says free service in its Silicon Valley hometown will launch this year, and discusses possible ads in San Francisco service.

Thursday, June 08 2006 09:48 AM

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, 802.11/Wi-Fi

Google: We're not making Android hardware

News Rumors of a Google-developed smartphone have been circulating for years, but don't expect to see Google hardware anytime soon, according to the head of its Android project.

Monday, November 02 2009 07:14 PM

Tags: Google Android, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Phone, TheStreet.com Inc., Motorola Inc., software, California, Google Android, Android

Google employs goats

News In order to be more eco-friendly, Google trims some of its fields with hungry goats instead of lawn mowers that pollute the air.

Monday, May 04 2009 10:39 AM

Tags: Green IT, Google Inc., food, Mountain View, blog, California, Green IT

Google adding Java support to App Engine

News The search giant's App Engine is getting an 'early preview' of Java language support, a move that could significantly broaden Google's cloud computing service.

Wednesday, April 08 2009 02:12 PM

Tags: Web sites, Java, Web services, Google Inc., JVM, Tool, software, JavaScript, Java program, Mountain View

Google cuts nearly 200 sales, marketing jobs

News The recession's realities sink in further at Google, with a cut of about 1 percent of its workforce on top of earlier relatively small cuts.

Friday, March 27 2009 08:38 AM

Tags: Human resources, marketing job, print advertising, Google Inc., Sales, Advertisement, job, marketing, Mountain View, blog

Low-cost solar concentrator unwrapped

News A California startup looks to cut the cost of solar power for industrial customers with a concentrator that relies on more sheet metal and less silicon.

Tuesday, May 05 2009 09:15 AM

Tags: Green IT, Department Of Energy, Photovoltaics, Cell, Technology Review, solar cell, solar panel, sustainable development, Silicon, Mountain View

Google to let users test new Gmail features

News Beginning Friday, users can try out 13 new Gmail features the company is considering.

Friday, June 06 2008 08:09 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Feature, Google Inc., font, e-mail, product manager, Mountain View, blog, California

Microsoft's Mac unit gets new boss

News Eric Wilfrid will assume leadership of the group that creates Office for Mac, replacing Craig Eisler.

Monday, November 03 2008 10:19 AM

Tags: Executive recruiting, Mac OS, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, entertainment, Microsoft PowerPoint, job, Microsoft Office, Mountain View, mobile job

Targets for Google's merger machine

News What's next on Google's mergers and acquisitions list? Head of corporate development lists search, advertising and mobile services as "top priorities".

Monday, November 02 2009 10:31 AM

Tags: Search, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., David Lawee, JumpTap, advertisement, CEO, network, mobile, Search Result

Will greentech attract lots of green in the new year?

News Folks with money expect the new regime under U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to encourage, perhaps even subsidize, greentech in the United States.

Thursday, December 25 2008 09:23 AM

Tags: Green IT, Network infrastructure, Infrastructure/architecture management, Dollar, Money, Wyoming, fossil fuel industry, Greece, venture capital, SolFocus