Analysis: Why did Google add voice capability to Gmail — and what’s next? These five facts put the new Google Voice in perspective. Google made a news splash when it introduced a new VoIP functionality to Gmail last week. Gmail users based in the United States can now dial other Gmail users and...

Google News, your software-driven source of news and entertainment, has unveiled a series of personalization features designed to let users take greater control of what they read and how they share it. From a Google News blog post announcing the changes: There’s an old saying that all news is local....

Google’s officially opened the gates and invited all of America into Google Voice, its customizable phone management service. Google Voice, previously available only by personal invitation, provides you with a single number to centralize all the phones in your life. Your Google Voice number can ring...

U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton, overseeing the longtime copyright fight between Viacom and Google over YouTube, on Wednesday granted summary judgment for the search company. “The court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) against...

Will Google ever be too big to trust with our secrets? The search giant’s business portfolio now spans health care, wireless, business Web apps, and social networks. If you have a Google e-mail account, use Google search, and see online ads that are served by Google’s DoubleClick, the chances are...