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This section contains the information and news about the Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies provided by the Internet Giant Google.

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How to Unsubscribe from Google SMS Channel 9870807070?

June 30, 2009

To unsubscribe from a Google SMS channel, go to the My Channels tab on the web front end. For the channel you’d like to unsubscribe from, simply click the ‘Unsubscribe’ button. Logon with your Google account and password.

To unsubscribe using your phone, SMS ‘OFF channelname’, to 9870807070
If you do not wish to receive any SMS from 9870807070, then send one of the following commands dndon OR donotdisturb OR nodisturb to 9870807070. […]

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Gmail Maximum File Attachment Size Increased to 25MB

June 29, 2009

Gmail has increased the maximum file attachment size that Gmail can send and receive to 25 megabytes (MB). Even though Google has increased the size limit, many other free email providers keep the bar low. So it is not advisable to send heavy attachments over 20MB to non-gmail accounts. You may also use the attachments to backup your files in your draft. […]

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Wolfram Alpha

May 20, 2009

Last week, a brilliant web service has been released which has found its niche by redefining the rules a bit and hence maybe able to thrive as a much needed complement to Google. Wolfram Alpha is not quite a search engine, at least in the way that we have come to understand the term and in that may lie the roots to its success in the realm which has eluded others.

Wolframalfa calls itself a computational search engine and the first thing to understand about it is that it does not do phrase searches of weighed and huge database like search engines. So keying in a phrase hoping to find a document hit for it somewhere on the net would not succeed in it. The best parallel is what was attempted to do by one of the oldest ‘search engines’ in the web, Ask Jeeves (same as today’s ask?) which attempted to do natural language processing on the questions which were put into it. […]

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Compose Gmail in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu

April 1, 2009

Google launched Indic Transliteration feature in Gmail compose window, which enables you to select Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada or Telugu. When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you will see an icon with an Indic character. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go the “Settings” -> “Language” and enable this option.
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Amazon Kindle 2 Arrived and Google Books on Cell Phones

February 10, 2009

Kindle 2, the latest wireless e-book reading device from Amazon holds over 1,500 books and pried at USD 359, weighing about 290 grams.

Google also announced that 1.5 million books titles available from Google Book Search service can now be read on Apple iPhone and the phones running Google’s Android operating system. […]

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Multiple Inboxes in Gmail – New Feature

February 6, 2009

Gmail Labs has launched a new feature to view multiple panes in the same Gmail window to view Gmail labels or searches as a new pane. If you have setup multiple email accounts with Gmail, and have associated a label for each of those email accounts, this new pane feature helps you view each of the accounts new emails separately in the new panes. I really like this new feature, very useful. […]

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YouTube High Definition Videos

December 6, 2008

YouTube videos available in High Definition, at least those videos that have been uploaded in that quality, suitable for fast and broadband connections.

While playing a YouTube video, you can see the link “watch in high quality” to the bottom right corner of the widescreen video. currently the HD option only appears on videos on YouTube itself, not in embedded videos.

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Google Rescues Alcoholic Workaholics From Sending Late Night Emails

October 10, 2008

Mail Goggles will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night email. It makes you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind.

By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it’s active in the General settings.
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Google SMS Channel on 9870807070 – Free Group SMS for India

October 3, 2008

Google SMS Channels is Google’s solution to SMS groups message broadcasting and subscription. This service enables you to get content from Google, Google partners, and all other websites and blogs with RSS support. You can create your own channel and publish content that other users can subscribe to. You can also create groups over SMS to communicate with your friends, family, and co-workers, just like the SMS GupShup service. […]