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Facebook may have most of the buzz and mindshare these days, but Google Inc. is still home to some of the hottest talent in Silicon Valley, as proved by the performance of one Petr Mitrichev at the inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup. Petr is currently the highest ranked Algorithmic Coder in the world, and just so happens to work at Google.

AUSTIN, Texas – Sometimes loyalty to a brand feels more like a religion than a buying  necessity. Apple Inc. fanboys and girls wait in line for hours before a product launches and …

Amazon.com’s curated Android Appstore has been some time in the making – it opened to developers a few months ago, and we’re assured it will be seeing a public launch “very soon.” In the meantime, Amazon.com has obviously been wining and dining the app royalty of this world, and as a result has scored a pretty hefty coup.

Google Inc. veteran and VP of Consumer Products Marissa Mayer took the stage at SXSW in Austin, Texas, today and provided and interesting snapshot of Google’s mapping products. Google Maps is provided on all major handsets, and functions as the default service on iOS and Android, the two biggest fish in the smartphone pond.

It has been rumoured since essentially the dawn of time that Google Inc. is going to launch a social network. Although many of Google’s products, such as Picasa, YouTube, and Buzz include social elements, the search giant has yet to launch a full-on Facebook competitor.

AUSTIN, Texas-Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products at Google, gave a keynote on Google Maps at South by Southwest (SXSW) on the first day of the Interactive Festival, March 11. …

Remember SXSW 2010, when check-in services such as FourSquare, Gowalla and BrightKite were hitting the big time? Austin was awash with people walking into closed doors as they stared intensely at their handsets, making sure they registered that all-important Starbucks check-in.

CNET | March 9, 2011 | John Chan According to a report by analytics firm comScore, Internet users in Southeast Asia rely more on Google than the rest of the world. …

Since a very public backlash began over the allegedly decreasingly quality of Google’s search results a few months ago, the search giant has made some very public moves to restore confidence in their ubiquitous service.

There’s no need for Symbian developers to go nok, nok nokia-ing on heaven’s door just yet, because Samsung plans to lure them over to a Bada life.

Google Inc. has had something of an uphill battle on its hands with the Android Market. Although it is now comparable to Apple Inc.’s gargantuan App Store in terms of raw number of apps, it has been plagued with issues that wouldn’t crop up in Apple’s heavily-regulated outlet.

Google Inc.’s addition to the browser market, Chrome, just keeps getting better and better. Today the Big G has pushed out another update for the stripped-down browser which puts it at version 10 (10.0.648.172 to be precise), adding in a couple of new features and improving on the already-blistering Javascript performance.

Having your e-mail compromised can be a serious problem – there is a lot of potentially sensitive data sat around in your inbox. For many Gmail users, it is not just e-mail that is at risk if their account is compromised. Nowadays, many of us have documents, calendars, pictures and even some location information associated with our Google Inc. accounts.

When Google Inc. announced it was adding free turn-by-turn navigation to its Maps app on Android, many of us, incorrectly it would appear, predicted a major blow to the paid navigation industry.

Industry analytics outfit ComScore Inc. has released their latest figures for mobile operating system market share, covering the fourth quarter of 2010. The quarter is always the biggest period of the year for any retailer, covering Black Friday and the festive season. So how did the major operating systems do?

Forbes | March 7, 2011 | Agustino Fontevecchia Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is soon to be re-deployed as chairman after founder Larry Page takes the reins in April, gave an interview …