Google last week revealed Takeout to allow users to transfer Circles from one Google+ account to another.
Posted in the Google+ page of the company’s product manager Ronald Ho is an update of the new tool’s capability to transfer spontaneously all of a user’s followers straight into his/her new, desired profile by simply clicking the option “Transfer your Google connections to another account” found on the site. The firm guarantees that even the user’s most ambiguous follower will …

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Google News and Google Reader are by far the most popular news aggregators on the internet today. Google News delivers content from over 4,500 websites including online magazines, blogs, citizen journalism sites, news organizations and newspapers. The process which Google News uses to aggregate the content is 100% automatic and is excellent in bringing users the latest trends from various sources, whilst updating by the minute.
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A new study reveals that Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites can make people more insecure and anxious.
More than fifty percent of users of social networking sites confessed that they have experienced a change in behavior for using these sites, with fifty percent saying their lives have become worse.
In particular, users lose confidence when they read about the achievements of their friends on social sites, resulting in a negative impact in their own lives.

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An appeals court on Friday overturned a preliminary injunction which resulted in a Samsung Galaxy Nexus ban in the U.S. making the flagship “Pure Android” from Samsung and Google available again in the country.
On June 29, Judge Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose granted Apple’s request for a Galaxy Nexus ban in the U.S. a day after she granted another preliminary injunction – also at the request of Apple – against the Samsung …

Telefónica, O2 in the UK, has declared its partnership with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) to improve its billing services.
With O2’s new Direct to Bill system, purchases on digital goods such as an Android application, a Windows or Blackberry smartphone, or even a Farmville shed on Facebook, will all reflect as additional costs to the O2 phone bills, providing more convenience to subscribers.
“Enabling direct-to-bill with Telefónica Digital is yet another …

Google Spring-cleaning sweeps iGoogle away. (Image: Yusuke Kawasaki, via Flickr / CC)

Google is on to a late spring-cleaning scheme to screen out and get rid of some services.
Five products are soon to be cast out from Google’s roster of products, including the iGoogle personalized homepage display, Google Video that runs alongside YouTube, and the Google Mini that have already been replaced by other products such as Site Search and Google Talk Chatback.
“Technology creates tremendous …

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The Android OS maker and the world’s top smartphone company have decided to team up and sort things out for the Galaxy Nexus handset. They intend to create a software patch that will see the current Google flagship phone landing on U.S. store shelves.
According to AllThingsD, Google made up its mind to go hands on with the Galaxy Nexus, pulling the phone from the Google Play Store. A federal court gave the go-ahead signal to ban the sales and importation …

How to Get a Job at Google

Not a few people want to work in multinational companies, such as Google, Apple or Microsoft, but these companies only pick out the best.
Google is popular not just for being one of the most admired companies in the world, but also as an excellent job provider, where employees enjoy a flexible work schedule, breaks and time for recreational activities.
However, it seems that in order to obtain a job at Google is not enough to have knowledge. Ingenuity also …

Google Transparency report reveals youtube videos were requested to be removed by government agencies because they promote violence. (Image: diTii (CC) via Flickr)

Google removed six hundred forty YouTube videos for advocating terrorism during the last 6 months of 2011. The Association of Police Officers requested the removal of the videos. In addition, the Google Transparency Report revealed five YouTube users had their accounts terminated for violating the site’s Community …

Google has now decided to deal with the problem of copyright infringement and piracy. These two issues are augmenting exponentially. Seeing how the company has received up to 1.2 million pleas for URL removal every month, with the company highlighted the most – Microsoft.
The internet search giant has come up with its Transparency Report that puts out the requests in a very organized manner. The report consists of all the victimized domains, copyright owners and the URLs to be taken down …