http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/ en-us http://www.searchengineworld.com/gfx/wmwbutton.gif http://www.searchengineworld.com 109 33 /google/3459267.htm Mountain, View, California-based Internet giant Google has launched a new framework for developers using early versions of its latest application programming interfaces, or APIs, and a support system for the services that graduate from the program, with Tuesday's release of Google Code Labs. /google/3459213.htm Google has begun testing a program that makes some videos on its popular YouTube property available for saving as downloads for offline viewing at fees set by the owners of the videos or in some cases for free, the Mountain View, California-based firm announced Thursday. /google/3459189.htm Google has launched a free service to synchronize calendar and e-mail contact information between its popular online applications and Apple iPhone and Microsoft Windows Mobile-equipped smartphones automatically by using cellphone signals, with the Monday announcement of its new Google Sync offering. /google/3459174.htm Google has asked Time Warner Inc. to either buy back the 5 percent stake in Time Warner's AOL that Google bought for $1 billion in 2006, or to spin off the ailing property and take it public, Time Warner executives said Wednesday. /google/3459159.htm Google has updated its virtual world mapping software, Google Earth, to include vast amounts of new imagery of the earth's underwater regions along with new features to observe changes in satellite imagery over time and additional images of the planet Mars, the Internet giant announced Monday. /google/3459135.htm Google has launched an effort called Measurement Lab that is aimed at making it easier to measure how ISPs manipulate subscriber Internet connections, Google chief evangelist Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol that underlies the Internet, announced Wednesday. /google/3459123.htm Google has reported a 156 percent increase in the amount of unwanted e-mail spam targeting users of its Postini enterprise system between November 2008 and data from earlier this month, a rapid increase from the 25 percent annual 2008 rise the Internet giant announced Monday. /google/3459108.htm Google had its profits fall for the first time during the fourth quarter, with a 68 percent tumble in the three months ending December 31, 2008, yet still performed better than analysts expected, the Internet search leader announced Thursday. /google/3459069.htm In a move aimed at mounting a significant challenge to Microsoft's Office suite of computer desktop software applications, Google has announced a global incentive-based program that will allow resellers to offer its premium Google Apps suite to business clients. /google/3459045.htm During 2007 the number of advertisers doing business with Google reached 1 million, in the first official disclosure of what had been a tightly held secret to come from the company, according to a December 2008 application filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.