Google is planning to provide an own-brand Windows-less PC and sell the low-cost system through a partnership with retail giant Wal-Mart. The machine and/or the sales deal could be announced as early as this coming Friday. So claims the Los Angeles Times, citing unnamed sources. Whether they've seen the text of Google co-founder Larry Page's Consumer Electronics Show keynote, which he'll make in Las Vegas, isn't clear, but it's suggested that the talk will cover the new box.

Google fans hope the Internet search leader’s proposed augmented reality glasses are more reality than hype, even if history shows companies are more often releasing videos touting technology that may take years to actually come to life.

Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, announced the new number last night during the company’s quarterly earnings call. He said: “With Google+, we’ve shipped on average a new feature every day since we launched in June. That’s more than 200 updates in total.

The Google logo changes with the day, whether it be the start of a major sporting event, a country's independence day, an election or a historical figure's birthday. Here are some of the best we saw from the world's top search engine in 2011.

For a long time, well as long as it gets since Google+ is only a little over two weeks old, it was thought as a boys-only club and there have been a couple of rather popular memes about this going around. But that's changing, and fast, already one third of Google+ users, that's 3.3 million people by Google's own metric, are female. And the male to female ratio is changing fast.

Google has begun rolling out an update to the Android Marketplace with a new look and new categories of content for sale such as books and movies.

Got your Google Plus invite yet? When your constant screen stare pays off with an invite you’ll be joining an elite group that is becoming less exclusive by the minute (though admittedly more useful). On Sunday there were 7.5 million users, but that figure has now boomed to 10m and is expected to reach 20m by next week.

Google briefly re-opened the invite process for its new Google+ social network in order to double users during the initial trial period. Following a phenomenal demand to join the new Facebook rival, Google closed invites last week, but late on Wednesday night members were once again allowed to invite their buddies to join.

Google has removed over 11 million .co.cc websites from its search engine results pages on the basis that most of them are far too "spammy".

Google has asked Apple to approve a mobile version of its social networking site + (Plus) for iPhones and iPads. The news that it had submitted an iOS app was revealed by a Google employee, writing on her personal page.

Online search giant Google has launched a new social networking website in its latest attempt to take on Facebook, which now claims more than 500m users.

The data from the GSMA Mobile Media Metrics (MMM) application key measurements report reveals that nearly 8.8 million UK mobile owners used an app that connected to the internet during April 2011, with Google Maps ranking as the most accessed app with 6.4 million unique users.

If Google is unsuccessful in its attempt to defend a patent and trademark lawsuit filed by Oracle, the search giant may end up paying “a billion-dollar figure” to the computing corporation in damages but also to license the patents.

Google unveils its hotly anticipated laptop, running on its own operating system and optimised for the internet.

Google is experimenting with a new look for its search results page, and so far users don't seem impressed. For the past few days, people have been taking to Twitter to largely complain about the new look that Google has been toying with. According to Google, the experiment is part of what the company calls a "bucket test", which is a test with changes made visible only to a small percentage of users.

Google and Apple have both been in the news lately over details of how both companies' mobile operating systems store and transmit geolocation data. Following a class-action suit brought by two Tampa men targeting Apple over alleged user tracking, Google is facing a similar class action lawsuit filed in Detroit on Wednesday.

Google plans to create 20 special channels on its YouTube site, and will spend $100 million to create original programming to populate them, according to sources who talked with the Wall Street Journal.

Google’s Vice President of Engineering and head of Android has hit back at recent press speculation that his Android mobile phone operating system is becoming less open.

On Tuesday, lead counsel Carlo Piana wrote on his blog that the Court of Milan has upheld its earlier decision to order Google to filter out libellous search suggestions. These are the suggestions that pop up in Google's search input bar, proposing what the user might be wanting to search for.

Well it’s that time again, as it’s been more and more often over at the Google Pod, for them to honor another event in their loving “Doodle” way. This time it’s in honor of the 119th anniversary of the first documented ice cream sundae. That’s all well and good – but isn’t that sort of an odd number of years to celebrate? We think so, and Android Community thinks so – so what’s the REAL deal? We’re banking on the next version of Android being called Ice Cream Sundae.