Just another Google update for Android? Not really, Gingerbread or Android 2.3, has been expected for quite sometime now and is frequently thought of as the interim between the current face of the Android OS and the tablet friendly 3.0 (which is expected sometime next year). While not a complete overhaul of Froyo, Gingerbread does [...]
It’s a good year for Twitter as, several industry industry claims that Google played with an idea of buying Twitter as whole, offering to put upto $4 Billion up front. Google’s initial bid of $2.5 billion was shot down by Twitter, even characterizing the amount as “insulting”, hence the 4 billion top. Twitter refused the [...]
The search giant has filed twenty separate defenses against Oracle‘s claim that the Android platform infringes on intellectual property that Oracle obtained when they purchased Sun. In their defense, Google contends that the patents at the center of the dispute are invalid, unenforceable, and not applicable to Android. The mobile OS contains a homespun clean-room [...]
Google has launched it’s very own URL shortening service, the Google URL Shortener or goo.gl for short. To access it, just type goo.gl on your browser and you’re good to go. If you’re an avid user of Google’s products (Google Toolbar, Feedburner, News, Blogger, Maps, Picasa Web Albums, Moderator), you’ll likely have encountered a goo.gl [...]
Today Google celebrates it’s 12th birthday as a company and what better way to celebrate it than a cake logo. The image you see here is a special doodle made by Wayne Thiebaud. It’s not as nifty as the other celebratory stuff that Google has been doing for the past few years but Thiebaud’s creation [...]
Google just launched a new feature Google Instant to help people using their service into doing their searches faster. Aside for this interesting addition to search, there’s an achievement hidden within the announcement. Google is now serving one billion people per week.
In an effort to help save users time, Google has unveiled the “Instant Search” feature for it’s search engine. The idea is pretty simple. Instead of having to completely type your search terms into the textbox and hit search to see the results, Google will show you the results instantly (hence the moniker Instant Search), [...]
Oracle has announced that it was suing Google for patent and copyright infringement. The cause? For Google’s use of the Java programming language for Android development. “In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly, and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property” an Oracle spokesperson said in a statement. ”This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement.” The suit [...]
Google aimed big with the preview and subsequent release of the beta for Google Wave. It was supposed to be THE BOMB and will revolutionize how we do communication by offering a real-time, all-in-one tool that does it all (email, web conferencing, chat, collaboration, etc) right in the confines of one’s desktop. The decision to [...]
New Delhi, India – The Department of Telecom (DoT) is contemplating a ban of BlackBerry devices as well as Skype and Gmail. According to officials, this is due to the mentioned entity’s refusal to ensure that data from their services will be made available to security agencies in a readable format. Concerns about security have [...]
