I've had my HTC Hero Android phone for about 8 months now and it's by far the best smartphone I've used. This, of course, is all down to the apps I use, so here are my 5 top recommendations - oh, and they're ...

... out spam. Google has acquired reCaptcha, the captcha system that not only prevents spam but at the same time uses the text you type as the digital substitute for that word - basically the words you see ...

The HTC Hero smartphone running Google's Android OS is looking really good in this review on The Register's Hardware web site, getting a rating of 80%. Check it out the review here and the official HTC ...

If you develop apps for Android you'll appreciate this freebie on the Smashing Magazine web site - a vector graphic kit for the Android GUI in psd (photoshop) format for creating mock-ups. Grab it here... ...

Watch this video from Google on how to share gameplay and other gadgets, like a to-do list, with your friends, right on your iGoogle home page... (p.s. if you have a blog or web site with a rss feed, this ...

Optimizing your web site for a search appliance like Google Mini can be tricky work; one of the gotchas I recently ran across was when a site I'm working on was indexed using Google Mini and the index ...

There's an exciting new feature Google rolled out for its GMail users this past week: Themes. At last count there were 31 themes to choose frm, though 16 of these are just colour variations of the same ...

If you have a Google account and you've logged into it today then you may have noticed a change to the search results page interface. If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet check out the short ...

There is a great need for a reliable, easy-to-configure and easy-to-use on-line payment system for small traders and Amazon has stepped into this arena with it's own on-line payment system called Checkout ...

Google is pushing its 'cloud' products for business use by announcing a promise of 99.9% uptime for GMail, Google Docs and Calendar for Premier Edition customers. Service uptime is a serious consideration ...

Today T-Mobile launched the first Android powered mobile phone in the UK, the G1. Hundreds of customers began lining up outside T-Mobile's Oxford Street store at 5am to be amongst the first to own it. ...