Tag: Google

Google+, Google’s latest venture into social networking arena  recently went public, and before that happened, it already roped in as many as 10 million users. Recently, Google+ signup was made public, entirely, and reports reveal there’s been some good activity with regard to the stats. Google is now said to have about 43 million Google+ [...]

Blogger and Picasa, two of the most popular Google brands will soon have to shed their oh-so-popular online identities and adopt a new name as a Google-named product, a report says. In simpler terms, Google Picasa, Google’s tool for photo editing and maintaining albums online and Blogger, a very popular Blogging service by Google will [...]

Google just announced new improvements to Google Images. The announcement looks back at the early days of Images and how it evolved over the years. The post discusses various technologies and features that are unique to the product. The latest features and improvements make it easier for the user to find what they are looking [...]

Google launches FiberForCommunities site to keep users up to date with  the Google Fiber project. The site currently has information about the project and call-for-action items for users to read and take action in their local  communities. Names of the communities which will have Google Fiber have not been announced yet as the company is [...]

After acquisition of Grandcentral, Google closed the registrations and later made it invite-only service. Now more than a year later after introducing quite a few new features and a lot of testing, company is opening the service to everyone. You don’t require a invite code to register with the service anymore. Initially users had no [...]

That’s a good selling point isn’t it! Android phone is for pron… Android phone is for porrrrnn! Download as PDF

How many of you have used any flavor of Linux as your default Operating system? Raise your hands, hmm, not many! How many of you have tried Linux but went back to Windows because it wasn’t as user friendly? Raise your hands, hmm, quite a few as expected! I fall under the latter category of [...]

Acer CEO, Lanci, surprised the reporters with a nice looking 7-inch Android based tablet (Picture below the fold). Yes, a tablet! We’ve seen several Killer-seasons in the past couple of years, iPod-Killer, iPhone-Killer and currently we are living in the iPad-killer age, unless Apple comes up with a bigger version of iPad and calls it [...]

Google Mobile team just announced the update of Buzz.Google.com site that is compatible with a variety of other phones which was initially compatible with Android 2.0+ and iPhone. The list of new compatible platforms and devices include Blackberry, WebOS, Nokia S60 and Android pre-2.0. Make no mistake, it’s not an application, it’s a compatible XHTML [...]

Google comes up with creative ways of doing things while most of them are productive; some are just fun and not so productive. The recent Pac-Man doodle is one such example. According to RescueTime blog, Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 man hours which converts to $120,483,800 in loss of productivity assuming an average Google user has [...]