Google co-founder Sergey Brin envisions Google’s internet glasses hitting the market this year with an eye toward freeing people from unsocial habits engendered by “emasculating” mobile phones.

Ireland has a growing number of ‘silver surfers’ as figures show almost one in five people over the age of 65 now have a Facebook account.

Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama’s Google+ page, apparently taking advantage of a glitch in China’s censorship system to post about human rights and green cards.

New York: Google’s new social networking service may grow to claim 22% of online US adults in a year, passing Twitter and LinkedIn to be the second most used social site after Facebook, a survey found.