As we discussed before in the case of Google Wave, Google’s social networking initiatives seem to be in a complete free–fall. Google's Social Networking trend, Orkut which has always been successful only in the Indian and Brazilian markets, had over the past year or so stagnated in its growth. According to comScore, Facebook has finally surpassed Orkut to become the number 1 networking site in ... Full story

Anything that is associated with web’s most popular search engine Google become a headline of all news media. The latest industry hot buzz is that a movie is going to be made on the popular search engine very shortly. Full story

Google announced that it is shutting down the Google Wave service due to lack of enough users as Google developing team would have liked. Google Wave, the online software application which was described as a new web application for real-time communication and collaboration, was launched by Google in May 2009. But Wave didn't get the user adoption they desired. Full story

Those of you with several Gmail accounts, keep reading this post. Google officially announced multiple sign-in feature to Gmail, which will let users switch back and forth between Gmail accounts without going through the sign-in procedure. Full story

Google just launched a new Image search feature, previously called Image Swirl, an attempts to deliver the user image search results in a different and more visual interface. Google Image Swirl organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface. Full story

The one of the best webmail solutions available today, Gmail has been adding tons of features through Gmail Labs and other means. However, one of the most wanted thing missing in Gmail was Rich Text or HTML Signatures which would allowed users to add HTML text or images to their email signatures. Full story

After banning Chinese telecom equipment, the Government has now put Blackberry devices, Skype services and Gmail under the security scanner. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has offered a time period of 15 days to take appropriate steps for the same. If this does not happen, these services might be banned in India, Report says. Concerns have also been raised about the data services being offered ... Full story

Hackers bought down Google's Most famous video site, Youtube on Sunday by using a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Google has thwarted the attempts to hack You Tube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-sites redirects into it. The company has said the hole that hackers were using to corrupt the video site has been plugged. Full story

Happy 30th anniversary Pac-Man, Now you can give the birthday wishes through the Google Homepage. Beacause Google gets the Pac-Man effect on the eve of its 30th Birthday. If you haven't been to Google's homepage yet today, check it out now before it's gone. Hint: It didn't look this hip when it debuted 30 years ago today. Full story

The search giant, Google Inc. has snatched one of Canada's hottest tech startups, Bump Technologies Inc., better known as the creators of BumpTop--a freeware application that transforms one's generic, two-dimensional desktop into a walled, three-dimensional, navigable display. Full story