Google’s Chrome Tablet Concept Revealed

After last week’s iPad announcement by Apple, Google has been playing around with a similar web-tablet concept for Chrome OS. It went up on Google’s development site Chromium last Monday, two days before Apple unveiled iPad. Google’s User interface designer for Chrome OS, Glen Murphy, blogged about the tablet concept on his personal blog yesterday. [...]

Google Rolls Out Its Realtime Search for the Realtime Web.

Google on Monday, 7th of December rolled out realtime search for the realtime web. After announcing partnerships with Twitter and and Facebook over a month ago, Google has finally launched a realtime search for the web.
At Google’s Search Event, Google Fellow Amit Singhal described it as “It’s Google’s relevance technology meeting the realtime web”.

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Sneak Peak: Google Chrome’s Forthcoming Extensions Gallery

Browser extensions are to some extent the reason why I’m glued to Firefox. I’m so habituated to several extensions that I can’t fully switch to Chrome, even though I love Chrome. But that’s going to change and change real soon! Lee Mathews observed a small change in the latest build of Google Chrome. The lower [...]

Google Unveils Android 2.0 Source, Already Ported to G1 by Hackers

Motorola Droid has been selling for well over one week now, but Android 2.0 OS which powers the Droid was never truly released by Google. Handset manufactures, apart from Motorola and HTC, couldn’t play with Android 2.0 until yesterday, but now they can! Google just raised the curtains over Android 2.0’s source code.
As I’m [...]

Google Latitude: Now With Location History.

Google Latitude has released a new feature; Location History. It now allows for detailed self-tracking. The mobile application lets you broadcast your location to your friends.
This new feature in Google Latitude records your location as you travel around whenever Google Latitude is turned on, and you can go back to see where you’ve been before.
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Google Dashboard – Manage Your Google Services from One Single Page

Google provides innumerable products and services nowadays. If you are somebody like me, you might have tried nearly all Google products. Managing such a long list of products and services was an agony for the user as well as Google. Keeping that in mind, Google has launched a “new product” which manages all other products. [...]

Google Commerce Search – New Search Tool for Shopping Sites

Google has just unveiled their new Commerce Search tool for retailers. It’s an enterprise tool for retail shopping sites aimed to make shopping experience more worthwhile as the holiday season is approaching.
“Search quality is a big factor in changing visitors to buyers online, and in making customers happy too. Visitors spend an average of [...]

Google Fading Homepage: Google.com’s Vanishing Act

Google’s homepage design has always been simplistic, and most likely it will always remain so. But this time around Google has something new in store for everyone. Google.com has been experimenting with a new “fade-in” effect on Google.com which hides everything on the homepage excluding the Google Logo and the Search Box. It reveals the [...]

Google’s Android OS is One Year Old!

Android – Google’s open source mobile operating system turned one yesterday!
It all started way back in July 2005, when Google acquired Android Inc. Rumors started building up that Google was trying to move into mobile marketplace, but it was not clear whether they were developing mobile software for their existing products or get into [...]

Google Plans to Integrate Music Search

According to sources: TechCrunch and CNet, Google has plans to add some tunes to its search engine. This means in a week’s time when you search for any song using Google it will lead you to song previews, artist information and biographies, images and videos. It is something similar to Onebox results that Google has [...]

Google’s Twitter Search Engine Challenges Bing’s Twitter Search Engine!

Within hours of being launched, Bing’s new Twitter Search Engine, faces competition as Google announces their own Twitter Search Engine.
Microsoft at Web 2.0 summit announced that their Bing Twitter Search Engine will henceforth begin indexing tweets from popular micro blogging service, Twitter.com. Bing’s Twitter Search Engine now allows users to search for popular tweets across [...]

Google Street View Trike – Reaching the Unreachable

Did you happen to see a cyclist passing by with something that looks like a hotdog or icecream cart and turned out something alienatic? Well, stop cracking your head on it. It’s not anything harmful or destructive, and its not some guy practicing for the next Tour De France, but they are actually guys hired [...]

Google Chrome Frame: Clever Way to Fix and Kill Internet Explorer

From the web developer’s point of view, Internet Explorer is pure agony. Majority of web users are still stuck up with IE6, which eludes them from experiencing JavaScript performance improvements and HTML5. Google has a clever fix to this problem – Google Chrome Frame.
Essentially, Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 [...]

Meebo unveils its new API for Meebo Rooms and Meebo Network

Drawing inspiration from Facebook and Google playbook, Meebo, the popular online instant messenger aggregating service, has just unveiled its new Application Program Interface (API) for chat-based Meebo Rooms and Meebo Network, a partnership with “premium community, media and entertainment partners,” with whom the company will share half the ad revenue generated by Rooms.
Aimed specifically towards social [...]

Yahoo! unveils Modular Go 3.0 Beta at the 2008 International CES in a bid to counter Google

A few months ago Google unveiled its Android open operating system for cellular phones. There were speculations back then that it was Google’s way to show a measure of disparity between the company and Yahoo!, one of its biggest rivals to date. And many were expecting a similar move from Yahoo!, whose reformation strategy till [...]