Google may create a stand-alone version of Google Buzz social networking tool and will continue to keep Buzz in Gmail too. Buzz is a Facebook + Friendfeed like service launched earlier this week. Bloggers and social media experts have raised privacy concerns on the Buzz contact network being publicly viewable by default which could could expose people’s private contacts. To overcome these concerns Google announced a couple of changes including making it easier for Buzz users to keep their contacts list private and option to select followers from the recommended list. Read full story »
Google Buzz is a Facebook + Friendfeed like service introduced by Google. Google Buzz is built into Gmail Inbox. You can simply go beyond usual status messages and share updates, photos, videos, and more. The Buzz tab is right below the Inbox tab in Gmail. To access Google Buzz, logon to your Gmail account and click on Buzz. You automatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail. Buzz provides a rich and fast sharing experience, within your friendly Gmail UI and supports Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Buzz supports public and private sharing. If you need to, you can block users too. Your public messages are are instantly indexed by Google. Read full story »
In an effort to offer improved access to the Internet, Google plans to create fast, cheap and ubiquitous fiber-to-the-home Internet broadband networks with one-gigabit-per-second (1Gbps) speed. The broadband connections will be as much as 100 times faster than most cable and DSL services. Google hopes to offer the service to at least 50,000 people and as many as 500,000. It will announce which communities will get the service later this year. Google said it will sell access to customers directly “at a competitive price” and team with telecommunications companies that want to package services with its fiber network. Read full story »
The Iranian government plans to permanently suspend Google email service in Iran. Iran’s telecommunications agency announced the suspension. They agency is planning to roll out a national email service for Iranian citizens. Google confirmed that, they experienced a sharp drop in email traffic in Iran and that some users in Iran were having trouble accessing Gmail. Read full story »
Google is developing “speech-to-speech translation” software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly. The basic system is expected to be ready within a couple of years. The new technology combines machine translation technology and voice recognition technology to produce software capable of understanding a caller’s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language. Read full story »
