Google has revealed Australian support for the Chrome Web Store isn’t far away, with developer support for localisations added on Friday. The Chrome Web Store launched to much fanfare late last year, allowing those who use Google’s web browser, Chrome, to buy and install applications based on web technologies. However, until Friday developers were unable to add support for other countries, with the US the only officially supported nation. In a post on the Chromium [...]

Both the desktop and Android applications for Google Maps has today been updated in Australia, now supporting traffic information in Perth and Adelaide. Previously only available in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, the tool places an overlay on top of many major arterial roads across each city on Google Maps showing how congested the road is, and how fast or slow traffic is moving. Green corresponds to “free sailing”, yellow means there’s “medium congestion”, red equals [...]

Reports today suggest Telstra is looking into moving many of its customers onto Microsoft’s Windows Live service as part of a proposal for the future. As part of its plan to “evolve” the company’s offering to customers in the future, Telstra is understood to be considering moving customers onto a cloud-based offering such as Microsoft’s Hotmail, which would see customers able to use their BigPond accounts for most Windows Live services including SkyDrive for files, [...]

Google has today detailed what it calls a number of “significant” updates to the Android Market which will become available within two weeks. In a post on the Android Developers Blog earlier today, the search giant revealed perhaps one of the biggest re-designs for the Market yet since it launched in 2008, with a number of new cosmetic changes including a new and much more vibrant colour scheme and a carousel to be found at [...]

Google’s YouTube team have announced a new Trends service which shows the most shared and most viewed videos uploaded within the previous 28 days for the past 24 hours. The launch of the Trends dashboard and blog — which went relatively unnoticed until today thanks to one of Google’s biggest launch weeks in a long time (see here, here, here and here “The idea for YouTube Trends started with our desire to find new ways of [...]

Google has revealed the top Australian Google searches for 2010, which this year essentially is a list of many of the popular social networks. As part of what Google calls its “Zeitgeist” festival (German for “the spirit of the times”), each year the search giant reveals the top Australian web searches. Once again this year the overwhelmingly common feature is social networking, with Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Hotmail, Chatroulette and Formspring all rating a mention. Intriguingly there’s not a [...]

By now you’ve probably heard the news that as of this morning Google have opened their Web Store for Google Chrome applications and that a special, limited Chrome OS device will be sent out to lucky testers in the next few weeks in the US. But what about Australia? A Google Australia spokesperson has since confirmed the Web Store won’t be available in Australia (at a .com.au domain) until next year, but suggested those eager [...]

Google has debuted their first Chrome OS netbook to get the OS into the hands of developers and consumers as soon as possible. Samsung and Acer will begin selling Chrome OS netbooks mid 2011, with other OEMs to follow. Google however, will ship a few devices under it’s new “Chrome OS pilot program for early adopters” to use the netbook and give feedback on it. The device, dubbed CR 48, is unbranded, has a 12.1″ [...]

Google says its upcoming Chrome OS is “nothing but the web” and will be available in Q1 2011. In typical Google fashion — a company obsessed by speed — it’s very fast to get going with a brand new Chrome OS netbook. Users first setting up their Chrome OS notebook will be met with a login screen, accept terms and conditions, login with an account, take a picture for the user with the camera and [...]

Google has confirmed it’s Web Store for applications will be available later today with 500 launch apps. Submissions for applications from developers opened earlier this year, with applications available from companies including New York Times, NPR, Sports Illustrated and Amazon, with the search giant citing issues between developers and getting their apps known as the reason behind the store. “From a developers standpoint… it’s very hard to monetize applications”, Sundar Pichai, Google Vice President of [...]