Archive for 'Google'
Google to review and possibly close operations in China
Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by admin.
Google has posted on its official blog this afternoon and decided to share a difficult decision it is having to make about the company’s presence in China. Apparently Google and a host of other large companies have recently been targeted by a highly sophisticated attack on their corporate infrastructures. To begin with it was thought [...]
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Michelle Obama Picture in Google Image Results Creates Controversy
Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Search for Michelle Obama’s name via Google’s image search and you’ll likely find an image that has been characterized as a racist caricature of the first lady of the US in the top results. The image is offensive to many and while some are demanding it be removed, Google (Google) is holding firm and yet [...]
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Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn’t Tried Google Wave.
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by admin.
“Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” – Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook. Today, at our RealTime CrunchUp event in San Francisco, Buchheit and Threadsy founder Rob Goldman sat down for a chat with our own Steve Gillmor [...]
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Live Blog: Google Chrome OS Event
Posted on 21. Nov, 2009 by admin.
We’re here today in Mountain View, CA at the Googleplex for an event during which Google is promising to give a lot of details about Chrome OS. This includes a full product rundown and details about the formal launch, which is expected to occur early next year. Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product Management and [...]
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Water on the Moon: Even Google’s Celebrating!
Posted on 14. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Google’s been on a homepage logo changing spree: they’ve celebrated H.G. Wells, the bar code, Confucious, Gandhi, and Sesame Street over the last few months alone. If you check Google.com now though, you’ll see that the search giant is celebrating something different: the discovery of water on the moon! NASA made the stunning announcement earlier [...]
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Say Goodbye to Voicemail, Hello To Ribbit Mobile (500 Invites)
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
First, there was Google Voice. And all was good, and not so good. But it showed that there is a better way to manage voicemails than to listen to 15 in a row just to get to the one you care about. Now, there is an alternative to Google Voice called Ribbit Mobile. And it [...]
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Google offers Commerce Search solution
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Google, who tends to always be timely with new products, has released a new search product for commerce sites just in time for the holiday shopping season. Google Commerce Search allows websites to offer product search without having to host the feature themselves. Since the service is hosted in the cloud, commerce sites do not [...]