Human-computer interaction

Google buys Global IP Solutions, adds to VoIP holdings

Google, Inc. has purchased internet VoIP company Global IP Solutions for a cool $68.2 million; a 27.5% premium over the company’s current stock price. While Global IP may not be a household name, you might be familiar with what they provide and to whom they provide it: the back-end VoIP engine used by the Yahoo!, AIM, WebEx, Baidu, and Lotus chat systems.

Student? Then You Have a Google Voice Invite Waiting For You

No word on if your invite will allow you to invite others, but this could be your chance to get some of your friends into the beta that couldn’t get in a while back. This is a great opportunity for students who’ve been looking to take advantage of Google’s (admittedly awesome) visual and transcribed voicemail and SMS features.

Google posts strong Q1 earnings

Yesterday, Google announced strong earnings for the first quarter of 2010, as the search company generated $6.77 billion in revenue — a 23% increase year-over-year. Just under $4.5 billion of that sum came from Google-owned websites, while a staggering $2.04 billion came from Google’s AdSense platform.

Google Street View blamed for burglary

In the week in which Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said his company is now "paranoid" about security (not an advert for Chrome at all), a lone milkman in the UK has expressed a paranoia that seems to have been dismissed by the great search engine in the sky (and on the ground). Gordon Rayner is a 54-year-old man without a mountain bike.

Android 2.1 update for DROID now live

BGC Reports: It looks like Verizon and Motorola took exception with yesterday’s mini-rant because our inboxes are being absolutely hammered by tips that the Android 2.1 update for the DROID is now being pushed out. If you’ve yet to receive a notification of the update you don’t need to worry because this is a gradual rollout and should hit up most people by the week’s end.