Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Google Phone and Google Mobile OS

Published on August 29th, 2007   Filed Under Google   2 Comments

The Google Phone rumors are continuing to roll but no one seems to know exactly Google plans. Engadget today reported that Google is planning a linux based OS for the mobile platform.
Google’s mobile project started with the acquisition of a mobile software company called Android late in 2005. They have developed this mobile operating [...]

Orkut Redesign

Published on August 24th, 2007   Filed Under Google   5 Comments

Orkut is going to have a face lift, this is the first redesign of the sites as far as i know. My account is still showing the boring old interface, the new design is looking better than the old one.
The one comment we always hear is how orkut’s simplicity keeps long-time users coming back and [...]

Image Version of Google News

Published on June 26th, 2007   Filed Under Google   10 Comments

Google News launched a new image version, to see it in action go to Google News, currently it appears to me that it is only available in US.
The new version adds a text link “Image Version” on the home page when you click this link you will see News Images as square thumbs. Mouse [...]

Group Chat in Google Talk Gadget

Published on June 23rd, 2007   Filed Under Google   6 Comments

The web based Google talk gadget now allows you chat with multi users in a group chat. To open group chat click on the icon Group Chat when you are on a conversation with somebody, you can invite several people to the conversation.
It is a small feature but it is much needed feature, but sadly [...]

Youtube Gadget for iGoogle

Published on June 13th, 2007   Filed Under Gadgets, Google, Web 2.0   2 Comments

YouTube has created an iGoogle Gadget to add it to your Google homepage. It’s the first official youtube gadget for iGoogle.
YouTube gadget enables you to watch videos and search directly in the gadget itself without leaving your home page. Th gadget shows recently featured, top favorites, top rated, most viewed today, most discussed today, [...]

Google Acquired Feedburner

Published on June 1st, 2007   Filed Under Google   0 Comments

Now its official, Google acquired [tag]Feedburner[/tag]. After much rumors the deal is through.
Google Blog Excerpts

As you know, we’re constantly looking for ways to identify and offer new tools for content creators and website publishers. Likewise, we constantly aim to give AdWords advertisers broader distribution to an even wider audience of users. For these reasons, we’re [...]

Google acquires GreenBorder

Published on May 29th, 2007   Filed Under Google   2 Comments

Google’s acquisition spree continues with the latest acquisition of GreenBorder, a company focussed on security software. GreenBorder Pro is designed to protect computers from malware execution through browsers. The software separates browsing session from the computer virtually, so that malware or trojans can not infect the host system and when you close the session all [...]

Gtalk Gadget adds emoticons

Published on May 25th, 2007   Filed Under Google   4 Comments

The Google Talk Gadget now supports emoticons, they just introduced this feature. Now you can IM your freinds with your favorite emoticons, total 15 emoticons to show your emotions. These emoticons comes in 3 different types, rounded, ractangled and naked. [Via Google Talk Blog]