Remember Google+? After Google's social networking site started with a bang, it has become somewhat quiet around the new kid on the block. Partly, that was because Google had restricted users numbers to grow slowly while they tweaked the code. By now it's open, boasts some 85 million users and it turns out the service is growing fast. Very fast, indeed - at a rate of 625.000 new users per day, projected to hit 100 million in late February and 400 million by the end of 2012.

“In the next six months, we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality", says Google chairman Eric Schmidt. So far, real alternatives to the iPad have been rare, or rather non-existent. Let's see if Google can pull it off.

A strong and diverse group of influencers, politicians, entrepreneurs and activists has signed this open letter to Google, demanding that Google abandon their Common Name policy for Google+.

Nach dem großen Gmail-Ausfall vor einigen Tagen kann man jetzt immer sehen, ob gMail funktioniert.

The "Vanity Ring" project by Markus Kison is an interesting take on social status. The wearer inputs their name into the software which uploads the amount of mentions their name gets on a Google search onto the ring.

Google and Multiverse to announce virtual worlds built on Google Earth

Privacy International has poked Google in the eye with the stick. In an interim report on the privacy ranking of the major Internet services, Google was the only company found among those surveyed to receive a failing grade, which Privacy International de