You can now talk to your computer, kind of like you would a person — that is, if you're running Google's Chrome browser . The conversational search abilities that Google showed off last week at its I/O developer conference are now live. Although Chrome's voice search , which allows users to search for things just by speaking, has been around for a while, the update now lets your computer speak ...

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's tax affairs came under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labour party accused the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying tax. In comments designed to politically outflank Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of next month's G8 summit on what has become a high-profile ...

As Google Glass continues to be a unique sort of hardware / software platform in the industry, so too do the creators of the wearable computer stay hot commodities for question and answer sessions. In the feature you’re about to see, two members of the main Glass creation and development team discuss the social etiquette Read The Full Story

Ask someone to describe Google and they’ll most likely end up talking about a search engine that saved the web. If they’re a little more interested in tech, they might talk about its funky campus, its Android mobile operating system, or its “don’t be evil” corporate ethos. Few would describe it as a highly-efficient, profit-driven business machine.The company is coming increasingly under fire ...

An upgrade to Google Hangouts has killed a number of features from Google Talk within Gmail, including the ability to set your availability status and make Google Voice calls.Essentially if you upgrade to Google Hangouts, you will no longer have the option to host a Google Voice call on your computer, something that’s become an important part of a lot of people’s work days. ...