Google is doing its part to help preserve a piece of computing history. The company has donated £550,000 ($850,000 US) to restore Bletchley Park, the famous World War II-era site where theGerman Enigma code was cracked and most of modern cryptography and computing theory was developed. The donation will...

Google Thursday launched its new Currents App, a newsreader that’s meant to compete with other virtual magazine style newsreaders, most notably Flipboard, a gorgeous iOS app that’s received widespread acclaim for its interface. (Flipboard made the PCWorld Top 100 products list in 2010). Currents...

Now that the initial excitement about Google+ (among those of nerdist disposition, at least) has subsided, one wonders whether real people have come to enjoy its environs. Is there a disaffected Facebook-loathing underclass, ready to riot against the rule of Zuckerberg? Is there a subsection of humanity...

Is the shine beginning to fade for Google+?Google’s social-networking foray saw fewer U.S. visitors last week, and those who did visit spent less time on the site on average, according to new data released today by market researcher Experian Hitwise. Google+ had 1.79 million visits for the week ending...

Google has stopped posting reviews snippets from third party-sites on its Places page. The Web giant made the move late last week after months of complaints from sites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor, which claimed their content was being republished without compensation. “Based on careful thought about...