GOOGLE'S LATEST PATENT COULD STOP YOU SEEING SPOILERS..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Sometimes you only need be a single episode behind or a few hours late to the final score for it to feel like the whole internet is against you. You avoid messages from friends at the match and make sure not to look at Twitter when you're stuck on the bus during Bake Off, only to squint at your computer screen through a chink in your fingers to discover some "friend" has made a still from the Breaking Bad finale their Facebook cover photo (yes, this actually happened to us). Social media has ruined many a sports game, Netflix series and Apprentice finale. But what if it didn't have to be this way? Google may be on the verge of a solution. It has just been awarded a patent that outlines a syst
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Android turning to be a tough business for Google...................................................Google's stock price has been flat for 14 months now. We've been asking Google sources and experts why. One argument we've heard a lot is that the rise of mobile has been bad for Google's business. According to this theory, Google's search ads aren't as effective on mobile because people don't like to shop on their phones — and when people do shop on their phones, they'd rather use an app than the web. But this Google-is-bad-at-mobile argument always seems so strange. How can the rise of mobile be bad for Google when Google's mobile operating system, Android, is the world's most popular mobile operating system? Here's how: Google doesn't actually make very much money from Android. For starters, remember that Google gives Android away free. Unlike Microsoft, which charges PC-makers when they put Windows on a laptop or deskt
