Have you visitedGoogle.comtoday? Now thatGoogle+ is available to everyone in the world, the company is making it crystal clear in reminding its users it’s now open to the masses. Check out the shot below of the enormous arrow, or you should be able to see the animation first hand onGoogle.com. It’s worth noting that Google rarely clutters up its homepage, clearly this little project of theirs is rather important. With approximately99 Million peoplevisiting Google....

If you’re using Google Drive, you probably received an email earlier this week about a new security update to the file storage and sharing platform. According to the email, “Drive will apply a security update to make file sharing more secure.” True to the promise, the change is a security upgrade for some of the Google Drive files you might have shared in the past. It will make it harder for malicious actors to find shared files that you didn’t want to expose to the public....

Google has released a preview of its upcoming tablet-centric Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) SDK, providing developers with a chance to get to grips with the non-final APIs and the system image, allowing them to test existing applications for tablet devices. The ‘holographic’ UI theme gets a mention, as well as being demonstrated in numerous screenshots. The experience builds upon the existing multitasking, notifications and widgets but provides a whole host of new features....

Google’s interactive app for exploring the planet,Google Earthhas been downloaded over 1 Billion times, the company hasannouncedtoday. The 1 Billion figure includes all versions: the desktop client, mobile apps and the Google Earth browser plug-in. The app was launched in its first iteration back in 2005, following Google’s acquisition of geospacial technology company Keyhole the previous year. To mark today’s occasion, Google has produced the video below and launched a website calledOne World Many Stories, which is designed to share tales of how people have used Google Earth....

In another of those odd situations that arise in Internet culture, US-based Google had been blocked since 2009 from providing software downloads to Iran. Today, according to theGoogle Blog, those restrictions have been lifted and with the lift comes the first chance for Iranian citizens to download Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome. We’re committed to full compliance with U.S. export controls and sanctions programs and, as a condition of our export licenses from the Treasury Department, we will continue to block IP addresses associated with the Iranian government....