In a significant move, Internet giant, Google has decided to close down its Print Ads service.

While commenting on this major move, Google Print Ads director Spencer Spinnell said, “The company would stop selling print ads from 28 February and all previously purchased campaigns would cease by the end of March.”

Spinnell further added that the product did not deliver the kind of results as the company was looking for.

“The product has not created the impact that we or our partners wanted,” pointed Spinnell.

On Friday, Last. fm made the announcement regarding the availability of its internet radio application for the Google Android mobile platform, which is being seen as beneficial addition to the fleet.

The listeners would be able to utilize each and every feature of Last. fm on the T-Mobile G1 and other upcoming phones that run on the platform.

Last. fm co-founder Martin Stiksel, reported, "The app truly is a to-go version of the site, rather than a stripped-down-for-mobile version."

Saying that it is yielding enough money, and it's aimed to cut costs, Google Inc, on Tuesday, announced that it is ceasing its two-year-old service to sell newspaper advertising, and thus gave a big blow to its own efforts to extend its ad program beyond web.

On its blog on Tuesday, the company stated that on Feb. 28 it will shut down its Print Ads program. Launched in November 2006, the program was fabricated to help newspapers make money by attracting Google advertisers to expand into print newspaper sales. About 800 U. S. newspapers were part of the program.

Hamburg  - Germany is to gain its first mobile phone using Google's Android operating system in two weeks' time, wireless company T-Mobile said in Hamburg on Monday.

The G1 phone, which is manufactured by HTC of Taiwan, is a direct competitor to Apple's iPhone, which is sold in Germany exclusively by T-Mobile. Both phones have touch screens. The G1 has the added feature of a tiny fold-inside keyboard.

A novel authorized reseller program for Google Apps is being launched on Thursday by Google that will allow partnered businesses enfold Google Apps with their own services in special bundles that can be resold. Things like localized customer service, hardware installation, file migration, and special hosting for things that fall outside of Google's built-in Sites service would be included in it.

The U.S. based web search giant Google has reportedly approached the internet carriers to create a fast lane for its content, retracting from its earlier stance on equal network access for all content providers.