Google react quickly to what was deemed a relatively uninformative product, just in the nick of time  a new version of flu trends specifically catering for Mexico appears. The service now seems to be an accurate form of tracking the spread of Swine Flu. Whilst the service initially lacked in terms of giving advance warning, [...]

Yet another program aimed at bettering a search engine  – Wolfram Alpha appears, this time questions inputted will be answered directly by grabbing  raw data already available from public sources and feeds. I’m just wondering how effective this will be in terms of gathering quality information?   Immediate claims are it will be like having an [...]

According to the UK  information commissioner there is only a small risk of invasion of privacy with Google Street view. Spotting breaches of privacy isn’t always that simple I don’t think, with such a growing entity like street view surely a line needs to be drawn somewhere. The question I ask is what’s acceptable for [...]

Yes it’s that time again Gmail is down. Even the BBC have posted a news item this time on the gmail outage. The service has been down since roughly 9.30 this morning. Personally, I love the Gmail service for the sheer amount of storage space it offers, but it’s only when you can’t access the [...]

The offline support introduced by Google for Gmail is most welcome in my eyes. Google have responded to multiple requests for offline support and you can now test it for yourself after downloading Google Gears. Its thought the ability to use Google Calendar offline will be coming shortly too. The feature enables access to Gmail [...]