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Google Nest Cam Review: Can Google bring its smarts to home security?
Security cameras used to be the stuff of warehouses and businesses only. Very few homes bothered setting up cameras and recording decks and endless wiring....

Google Nest Hub 2nd Generation Review
Google recently updated the smaller of its two smart displays, the Google Nest Hub, with a 2nd generation model that doesn’t change much visually if...

What are your alternatives if Google drops search in Australia?
The battle between search giant Google and proposed media legislation that would require it to pay major news organisations for linked content – which I’ve...

Google’s year in search says a lot about our 2020 priorities
While it has a lot of products in the tech space, for many people Google is synonymous with the product that made its fortune in...

Google’s latest Chrome update brings serious speed
When you’re browsing the web, the one thing that you don’t want is slow. Nobody likes to be left waiting, but all too often we’re...

Google won’t give up search without a fight
One of the biggest tech news stories of recent months emerged when the US Department of Justice announced that it’s going to take search giant...

Lenovo’s IdeaPad Duet Chromebook sings a different laptop song
Chromebooks are laptops that use Google’s Chrome browser as the basis for their operating system. We’ve discussed them before but to date most of the...

Why is Google saying that its search is at risk?
Google recently started adding something to its search results in Australia. If you’ve searched with Google or watched YouTube in Australia, you’ve probably seen a...

ACCC takes on Google in court, but what can you do to stay private online?
One of the big tech news stories to break recently was the Australian Consumer And Competition Commission’s decision to take search giant Google to court....

Chromebooks: Pros and Cons
Back when Google introduced the concept of a Chromebook – a laptop computer not running Windows 10, Linux or Apple’s macOS, but instead an environment...

Google’s killing Google Play Music (finally!)
Google is well known for its dominance of the online search engine space, and also for launching a lot of software products, or in some...

Google will start telling you when it doesn’t know something
Search giant Google is so dominant in that online discovery space that it’s used by many as a verb. You don’t search online for things...

Google Maps Hits 15 Years As It Looks To Its Future
Google is best known for its dominance of the online search market, but that’s far from the tech giant’s only software offering. Outside of search,...

Google’s Cloud Print runs out of ink
Google is a company most closely related to search and search-based products, which is why it’s nearly always teetering on the edge of becoming a...

Two factor authentication isn’t perfect — but it’s desirable
These days we’re expected to have passwords for just about everything. Our social media accounts need a password. So do our email accounts, our online...

Google’s search is going visual in a big way
Google has just held its annual I/O developer’s conference, where it lets the folks who do the hard programming work into making apps and services...

Google ups its Office game
In the productivity applications space, there are a few standards that have emerged over decades, largely focused around the most popular applications within a given...

Google’s Chrome password checker could improve your security — but there are better options
Generally speaking, people suck at keeping their passwords secure. I know, I know. I’ve said this before many times. But year in, year out, the...

Google’s anti-phishing quiz makes it easier to keep yourself safe online
As we’ve shifted to an online world, we’ve sadly seen a huge increase in the quantity and sophistication of phishing attacks. Just in case mention...

Google’s Chrome browser set to make the web more secure
If you’re a user of Google’s popular Chrome browser — and with anywhere between 60-80% of the web’s traffic delivered to Chrome, the chances are...

Google’s switching up its music streaming apps
In the world of online music streaming, there are a number of big-name players. Spotify is the best known, and Apple has its own play...

Google’s Chromecast could be killing your home Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is nothing new, and for the most part, we just take it for granted, typically with the router supplied by our ISPs doing all...