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Today Google started rolling out Google+ functionality to Google Chat, making the company's IM more central to Google's social layer

Slice's iPhone app tracks all your purchases in transit in real-time, and lets you know what's exactly in the box.

AnchorFree's Hotspot app has been designed to protect iPad/iPhone/iPod users’ privacy. The app works by encrypting the iOS’s data connection when users are surfing or using another app.

In a change to its search engine this week Google no longer recognises the + operator included in search terms (and this is a bit of a big deal).

A leaked Gmail preview video shows-off its new cleaner interface and some additional product features that users can expect in the near future. The video features Jason Cornwell, a user experience designer on Gmail, who talks about Gmail's major upcoming changes.

What impact is Google's +1 button having on your search results? Have your early-adopter friends skewing your search results?

Google+ is currently in private beta, with users only able to access the social network after receiving an invite. Take our survey to find if you can access the site faster.

As part of Google’s intensified efforts over the past week to unify user experience across it’s products, as we’ve seen with user interface (UI) updates to Google Search, Google Calendar and the introduction of Google+ this week, Google will roll-out a new unified interface update to Gmail in the coming months.

If you have access to Google+ one of the first things you will want to do is invite some friends; if you don't have an invite button you can use this trick.

Google launches two search updates today, a new search results design which emphasises usability over visual appeal and a site called "What do you love?" which aggregates results from across Google's services.

When Xobni launched for Outlook in 2008 the social email filtering application was quite rightly hailed with glowing reviews from the tech press and quickly developed an avid fanbase, not least within NASA and The U.S Army who are some of its most prominent users.

Yahoo! is rolling out a major a social media upgrade to its Yahoo! Mail web app today, and this spells greater competition for Facebook Messages.

Google social search, an upgrade to Google's search algorithm that includes social media content personalised for each user, is being rolled out to internationally, the company announced today.

You might not know it but Google has been building a personal index of your social networking connections that is so detailed it even knows who your friends are friends with.

Google's long awaited music service, Google Music Beta, was given a limited launch today at Google's I/O conference in San Francisco, but with Amazon's Cloud Player already launched and iTunes poised to begin music streaming it is too little too late?

Google Transparency Report, the search giant's server analysis tool has added realtime analytics and added data about local outages, the company has announced. Google Transparency Report is Google's public service site in which the company shows how it interacts with government bodies and manages user access to the company's services.

According to Google’s Realtime search results the greatest number of tweets about Earth Hour from Irish users came at exactly 8:30pm, just when the event started in Ireland. It then took another hour before the massive spike of #earthhour tweets subsided.

Believe it or not Ireland ranks as 13th in the world for broadband quality speed, ahead of our European friends such as the UK and Germany. But is number correct? More often than the not broadband speeds promised in the telecom’s ads or websites don’t reflect what the average home or business receives. Tell us how fast your internet connection is.

Well, you can't. Not just yet anyway but you can request an early invite to the service from Facebook.

Facebook will launch a revamped email application on Monday, in direct competition to Gmail. TechCrunch reports that the new application, which will automatically be included in user Facebook accounts, will now become a fully fledged webmail client.