Google Buzz Preparing for Real-Time Search, Starts Indexing Buzz Conversations
Everything inside your Gmail account is private and inaccessible without a password right? Well, not anymore. Google has just started indexing your buzz conversations and it’s just a matter of time they start showing those results on the first page as real time information from Twitter does.
Though the information that’s on Google buzz is never, almost never personal and not any different in nature of what’s on Twitter, most of the users are simply not used to of the idea that the content inside their Gmail is accessible by everyone.
There are about 100K conversations cached in Google’s index, however, it just a matter of time before Google starts indexing up to the second information to show it in the real-time search.
Though few of the many cached copies I browsed through dated back to Feb 10, a majority of them were cached starting the first week of March.
Tags: Google Buzz, Google Buzz Index, Google Buzz Real-Time Search, Google Buzz SearchGoogle’s Nexus One now Available for AT&T and Rogers Wireless (Canada)
Google announced a newer version of Nexus One that is compatible with 3G frequencies on AT&T and Rogers Wireless networks. The announcement comes at an interesting time when most of the blogs today are talking about how Nexus One missed the mark by miles!
The new unlocked version is selling for $529. Users are required to buy it from Google’s webstore directly; it is not available through carriers on subsidized rates/contracts.
Though users could use the Nexus One with most 3G networks around the world, however, some users where restricted to using EDGE and 2G as their networks operated on 3G frequencies that were not compatible with Nexus One. The new version aims to change that.
Google or HTC do not offer a handset change for users who want to switch from T-mobile to AT&T, not even for a fee.
Making a new version available might seem like a good move to boost sales, I doubt if it offers enough incentives for carriers to advertise/market or encourage its subscribers to get the new phone. Advertising and Marketing is quoted to be the biggest factor of Nexus One’s poor sales performance.
Besides AT&T already has its hands full with iPhone and now, iPad.
Tags: Buy Nexus One, Buy Nexus One AT&T, Buy Nexus One Rogers Wireless, Google Nexus One, Nexus OneDownload Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview Now! [Demo Video]
Microsoft made Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview available to the public today (Click here to download). As the name itself suggests it’s a “Preview” not the software itself. Offered installation only lets you play around with it and browse through the demos listed on the showcase page.
Showcase page has demos listed to give users a sneak peek into the Speed, HTML5 and Graphics capabilities of the browser. The browser in its current stat does not offer much in terms of features and functionality, it does not have an address bar, navigation buttons, IE Menu, etc.. it only installs the rendering and the javascript engine for developers to experience the enhancements of the upcoming browser.
Microsoft is giving a lot of importance to the standards with IE9. It meets 55 out of 100 standards on Acid test. This is much better when compared to the build that was shown at the PCD which scored about 30 on the Acid test.
I don’t expect Microsoft to hit all 100 as they have a mind of their own and will only follow what they think is the best for IE and its user base.
Watch the following video to see few of the demos on IE 9 in action.
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Diamond Studded iPad Priced At $20000, To Ship In June?
There’s always been a group of highly-logistic people who value (or pretend to value) luxury than the actual substance at hand, and that is one reason why luxury phones and other such luxury gadgets come into existence, time and again.
Just like there were expensive-and-highly-unaffordable Apple devices in the recent past which include an iPhone in a gold-rimmed panel finish, the golden macbook, the made-for-rich-only 20000USD iPod Touch and so on, the iPad too gets to taste the luxury.
Mervis Daimond Importers are offering an unspecified version of a Diamond iPad that comes with 11.43 carats diamonds studded on its panel in “micro-pave styling” and this luxurious iPad is priced at $19,999.
Tags: Diamond iPad, Diamonds Studded iPad, iPad Diamonds, World's First Diamond iPadGoogle Couldn’t Sell as many Nexus One’s in (almost) 3 Months as Apple Sold iPad’s in a Day!
Flurry offers a widely adapted mobile analytics solutions. Company claims 80% of the applications running on Smartphones have Flurry tracking their performance. This puts Flurry in a good position to track and analyze each smartphones popularity and progress in the market.
Nexus One is known to be the most advanced android phone till date (it’s a reasonable argument that HTC Desire is a better handset as it is mostly based on Nexus One’s improvements.) and coming from Google, it had the “iPhone Killer” tag attached to it. Nexus One was expected to do a lot better than all the other Android phones because of its initial hype and the fact that it was Google’s first handset launch.
Flurry recently released data which showed Nexus One sold 135,000 handsets as oppose to 1 million Generation One iPhone’s sold in the same period after its launch, i.e. 74 Days. Why 74 Days you may ask! Flurry picked 74 days as the number because that’s how long it took Apple to sell 1 million iPhones after its first launch which has now become the benchmark.
These numbers also include a few thousand free phones that were given to Googlers around the world as part of the Dog food drive. Though it might not be a significant number, it does have an effect when a company ends up selling 135,000 phones only.
Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone, Flurry, Flurry Reports, Google, Google Nexus One vs Apple iPhone, iPhone, Nexus One, Nexus One vs iPhoneHow-To Win A Free Apple iPad
iPad is buzzing all around the globe and is the latest gadget that most of you’d crave to own, but not for an asking price of $500 or so.
Well, there a plenty lot of ways to get yourself a free Apple iPad. Here are a few ways on how to get a free Apple iPad.
1. iPad-giveaway.com: This website seems to encourage free iPad giveaways and other such gifts long since 2003. The website also claims to have been featured on leading news networks like CNN, BBC and Fox News.
To win a free iPad, you need to register at this site, refer to your friends, enter and utilize offers available at the site which will increase your chances of winning a free Apple iPad.
Tags: Free iPad, Free iPad For Testers, Free iPad Giveaway, iPad Giveaways, iPad Twitter Contests, Win A Free iPad, Win Free iPadsiPad Ebook Reader Can Read Aloud Ebooks, Support ePUB Titles
Apple iPad is not just a tablet PC, it’s an ebook reader as well and reads all the iBooks available through the Apple Store. Besides this Apple claims that the iPad will also support ebook formats foreign to the iPad like ePub titles which are not available on the iBooks store.
The iPad ebook reader can read-out the ebooks aloud to you utilizing a feature called audio dictation, that was initially intended to help visually impaired users while using the iPad.
Optionally, the iPad ebooks can make use of its Voice over functionality – a very utilitarian feature that works with other parts of the iPad’s interface too make things easy, say, in situations when you want to listen to an ebook while lying on the couch, without straining your hands.
Tags: Apple iPad Ebook Reader, iPad Ebook Reader, iPad Ebook Reader Features, iPad EbooksTwitter @Anywhere – If You Don’t Come to Us We Will Come to You!
Everyone who was expecting to hear/see the launch of Twitters revenue model or ad platform was left disappointed. Instead, Ev Williams, announced a new integrated platform which makes Twitter more commonly accessible across the web.
Users can now follow/unfollow, tweet, etc.. from sites that use the @anywhere javascript to offer few of the Twitter features on their sites.
This will not only add to twitters popularity but improve the current state of Twitter which shows a considerable percentage of users who register with Twitter, tweet a few times (in single digits) and don’t come back.
Maybe Twitter is using @anywhere to reach out to users (if you don’t come to us we will come to you) like these and change the numbers a little bit. This platform is still under testing. You will start seeing it in action on sites like Amazon, Youtube, Huffington Post, etc.. in the testing phase.
Sites do not have to work their way through complex API’s to get @anywhere implemented on their site. You can get it up and running by adding a simple JavaScript on the site.
Watch the following video to see the new @anywhere in action.
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Apple iPad Launch In India & Why Shouldn’t Apple Ignore It
Apple’s first tablet PC is just about to hit the market shelves in US and there have been a ton of preorders ever since the “Preorder iPad” link went live on the Apple Store. But, the case is not same in other parts of the globe, particularly in India.
Apple, by all natural means, decided to launch the iPad first in US, just the place where more Apple products have had their launches. Obviously, after the April 3 ipad launch in US, Apple will, as promised, spread the iPad business to other nations.
India is a growing hub of computers and internet technology, and presumably, every 6 out of 10 persons admire an Apple product, particularly an iPod or iPhone touch. India is filled with young masses for whom iPods and Macbooks are something like gadgets of glory, which they’d never like to part with, even accidentally.
Tags: Apple iPad India, Apple iPad Price India, Apple iPad Wifi India Price, Buy iPad India, iPad Launch in IndiaiPhone HD or iPhone 4G? Which One is it? [Video]
As we get closer to Apple’s WWDC in June, the rumors and claims of leaked images and videos will only skyrocket. As a technology blog and iPhone fanatic, I’d like to participate and contribute to “leaked” feature list of the upcoming iPhone.
The following video is claimed to be the new leaked version of the upcoming iPhone 4G which is apparently called iPhone HD. Take a look!
Tags: Apple iPhone 4G, iPhone 4G, iPhone 4G Video, iPhone HD, iPhone HD Commercial
