We want TV-sized audiences for our original programming, and we’re prepared to promote big like TV. That was the essential message from top Google executives at the company’s star-studded “NewFront” presentation to advertisers at New York’s Beacon Theatre Wednesday night, as they unveiled yet more original programming channels for their YouTube platform, as well as [...]

Ready to cut through that packing tape and see which smartphone Samsung has in store for 2012? The next Galaxy will make its debut on this very page, so click on through to our liveblog for the play-by-play at Earls Court in London… Tweet This Post

Berlitz may be the best way to learn a foreign language, but most of us have neither the time nor the ability to fully immerse ourselves in the vocabulary of another country. Hot on the heels of Gmail’s automatic translation feature hitting the big time, Google’s Translate team has crafted a Chrome extension to make [...]

When Google launched its Google+ social network, the company made it clear that it wasn’t just another Buzz-style experiment — director of product Bradley Horowitz said Google+ would become “part of everything” the company did… Tweet This Post

It was only about 14 months ago that Google made headlines for targeting Demand Media with algorithmic pesticides, classifying the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company’s freelancer-produced content as farmed material created specifically to game its search engines… Tweet This Post

Google today announced that it is bringing web fonts to Google Docs. Thanks to this update, you can now use 450 new fonts in your Google documents. These are the same 450 fonts Google already features on its Web Fonts site for web designers… Tweet This Post

Is that Galaxy S II feeling a bit stale? It’s just about time for Samsung to name a successor to the massively popular smartphone, live at the company’s Mobile Unpacked event at the Earls Court Olympic venue… Tweet This Post

Google has announced the 50 state winners of its 2012 U.S. Doodle 4 Google contest, which awards the best kids’ artwork on a particular theme. This year’s theme was If I could travel in time, I’d visit… and it yielded 114,000 submissions – a new record for the contest, Google says… Tweet This Post

Motorola is pushing out an update for the MOTOACTV that’ll improve the dinky machine’s calibration with heart rate monitors and improved media selection. Golfers who plumped for the tailored edition of the unit will find links-friendly features like better score tallies and longer-distance club suggestions… Tweet This Post

While Google keeps cramming its search results pages full of tools and social content, today Bing confirmed with me the full roll out a redesigned search results page that completely clears the left sidebar, and replaces the tabbed header with a cleaner set of links… Tweet This Post

Gmail‘s automated message translation is no longer an experiment. Now Google’s popular email platform can automatically translate emails from one language to another. So, for example, you can get an email in Japanese and have it translated instantly into English, or communicate with a friend in French without ever knowing the language… Tweet This Post

Hoping to spark both the suddenly sagging U.S. TV market and Google’s struggling Android-based TV platform at the same time, consumer electronics maker LG has confirmed that it will release in the U… Tweet This Post