Earlier this year Google added a new transit layer to its own mapping application to show transit routes in the 400+ cities where it has data. Now they’ve announced this is available for the New York City transit system including subway maps. The result is an easy way to see nearby bus and train stops [...]

Chrome is the browser from Google and now offers a heap of great themes to customise the interface to suit your personal style. Check out this collection of themes created by noted artists.

Gallery: Google Chrome Artist Themes 
https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html

This collection of artist themes features art and design works from all ends of the spectrum, from Jeff Koons [...]

Google is about to give beleaguered record companies a potentially powerful boost by offering people who search for information about musicians the tools to listen to songs — and buy them.
The new capabilities will be unveiled next week as part of a service tentatively called Google OneBox, according to five executives who have been briefed [...]

Google Wave is the latest buzz to hit the internet shores. Recently, the Web search giant sent out 100,000 select invites for a limited preview for the app that it claims to be the future of all internet conversations. What Wave does is to integrate e-mail, instant messaging (IM), collaboration, Google maps as well as [...]

Google is hitting the online bookstore business.
The search giant announced Thursday at the Frankfurt Book Fair that in the first half of next year it will launch Google Editions, a new service that will deliver e-books to anyone with a Web browser.
Partnering with publishers which whom it already has digital rights deals, Google plans to [...]

Google said yesterday that it had bought GrandCentral Communications, acquiring a service that lets people use a single number for all their phones.
Terms of the purchase were not disclosed.
GrandCentral users can also create a single mailbox, accessible over the Internet, for all their phone messages, Google said on its Web site.
Users register their phones and [...]