Google has announced a test runner for Sputnik, the JavaScript conformance test suite that it launched last June. The test runner makes it easier to run the complete Sputnik test suite from within a browser. Sputnik covers testing all aspects of JavaScript as defined in the 3rd edition of ECMA-262 specification and is made up [...]

Google does a lot of things well, maybe too well, and it’s adding to its portfolio of tools on a weekly basis. At some point you have to look at the number of pies in which Google has its fingers and start to get a little frightened of this company. I came across this video [...]

Search engine maker Google is again providing scholarships in 2010 for student open source works. Information is now first hand this week in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe.
Wednesday, March 10, Dirk Haun, maintainer of the PHP-based Geeklog open source portal, will speak about Google’s Summer of Code. The talk will take place at 7:00 PM at the [...]

Although Google’s take-over of On2 Technologies has only just been completed, already the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is calling on the company to release On2’s video codec technology as a patent free standard. In an open letter, it asks Google to release the VP8 video codec under a royalty-free licence and to promote that free [...]

The Wikimedia Foundation has received another major donation. Today Google announced that it is donating two million dollars to the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia.
“Wikipedia is one of the greatest triumphs of the internet,” explained Google co-founder Sergey Brin, “This vast repository of community-generated content is an invaluable resource to anyone who is online.” Wikipedia co-founder [...]

Theodore “Ted” T’so has moved to Google, leaving his position as Linux Foundation’s Chief Technology Officer. The news came in a blog posting from T’so entitled “Proud to be a Googler” where T’so said “Although I obviously had nothing to do with Google’s decision vis-a-vis China, having only started working there for a week, I [...]

Facing criticism is part of the cost of doing business for large companies, and Google is no exception. Among the chief sources of criticism for the search giant is its accession to the censorship demands of the People’s Republic of China. The outcry may soon see a change of tense, however, as the company has [...]

Google’s Chrome overtook Apple’s Safari to become the world’s third-most popular browser just 16 months after its debut, a Web metrics company said Friday.
Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, lost almost a full percentage point in December, the latest slip in a decline that accelerated during the second half of 2009.
Chrome ended December with a share of [...]

Very little is done quietly in a giant multi-national corporation. Exceptionally high-profile firms like Google undergo even more scrutiny, making it somewhat unusual to discover they’ve been developing numerous projects — in the open, and Open Source-licensed — that are all but unknown.
As odd as it may be, that is exactly the case at Google. [...]

A couple of years ago, I made one of the hardest calls I have ever had to make as a CEO. Was it around a RIF? Nope. Was it around a new strategic direction? Nah.
Much scarier.
I asked my employees to pull the Microsoft feeding tube out of their noses and move to The Google.
For some [...]

According to AndroLib, Google’s Android Market has just crossed the 20,000 application milestone. The new milestone comes just over three months after reaching the 10,000 mark and shows strong application growth for the open source mobile operating system.
In September when the market passed the 10,000 mark, 64.2 per cent of the applications were free. [...]

Google has launched Google Public DNS as an alternative domain name service for any Internet user. Designed to replace the DNS services provided by ISPs or companies, Google says that its DNS will be faster and more secure than many other DNSs, and won’t filter content.
An amazing similar alternative is OpenDNS but it appears most [...]

Google’s Chrome OS has been surrounded in misconceptions and misinformation. Here we’ve rounded up the top five Chrome myths, and explain the truth behind them.
When it comes to Google’s Chrome OS – it has been surrounded in misconceptions and misinformation.
The full picture of the Chrome OS will become clearer as time rolls on.
For now, if [...]

We’re here today to talk about Google Chrome OS. We aren’t launching it today and not beta today. But we’ve made progress. As of today the code will be completely open. We’re excited to announce this.
What is Chrome OS?
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Google kicked off the launch of its Chromium OS project today with a presentation on Chrome OS. The first thing you’ll notice is that the name of Google’s consumer product will be Chrome OS, while the open source project is named Chromium OS. My guess: Google will bless the usage of the Chrome OS name [...]