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Google Energy – Google Applies to Become Electricity Marketer in the US

January 9, 2010

Google’s subsidiary, Google Energy, has applied to become an electricity marketer, and to identify and develop opportunities to contain and manage the cost of energy for Google. Google Energy wants to act as a power marketer, purchasing electricity and reselling it to wholesale customers. Google Energy will engage in wholesale electric power and energy transactions as a marketer; the granting of certain blanket approvals, including the authority to sell electricity at market-based rates. […]

France to Tax Google Ad Revenue, Google Opposes

January 8, 2010

A report commissioned by France’s culture ministry has proposed a plan on taxing online advertising as well as Internet providers, and using the revenue to aid creative sectors, such as the music industry, which are struggling to adapt to the age of downloads. The “Google tax” plan could also target other big Internet players such as Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and Facebook. […]

Google Super Phone Nexus One – Price, Features, Specifications

January 6, 2010

Google announced the much awaited Nexus One phone today. Google Nexus One has a 3.7-inch AMOLED display and runs on Android 2.1 on 1GHz Snapdragon Qualcomm processor. The display is 3.7 inch OLED, HVGA (480 x 800 resolution). Nexus One has a trackball with multi-color notification LED, light and proximity sensors, compass and GPS. The camera is 5 megapixel with LED flash. Nexus One has a Stereo Bluetooth and 3.5mm headphone jack. Android 2.1 has now voice-enabled every text field in the device, which would enable every single text field in the phone with voice. Android 2.1 platform has a new 3D framework. You now have a mini-computer in your pocket with 3D capabilities. The app launcher is also now 3D, kind of a vertical ribbon or scroll wheel. […]

Google Chrome – The Third Most Popular Browser

January 4, 2010

Google Chrome browser is now the world’s third-most popular browser, pushing Apple’s Safari to the fourth position, according to a Browser Market Share report. At the end of December 2009, Google Chrome posted a browser share of 4.63%, while Apple’s Safari posted a share of 4.46%. Mozilla Firefox with 24.6% and Internet Explorer with 62.7%. Computerworld estimates that IE will fall under the 50% share mark as early as mid-May if the dramatic negative trend of the last three months holds true. […]

Google Keyboard for Indian Languages (Google Transliteration IME)

January 4, 2010

Google Transliteration Input Method Editor (IME) allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages into any input window using a roman keyboard, without needing any internet connection. The IME is currently available for 14 different languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. The IME assists you with dictionary based word completions for prefixes. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script Unicode. […]

Google Wave – Get Started, How To Use Tips

December 26, 2009

Google Wave is a communication device all its own, which allows you to communicate online as if the team is in the same room, and it makes your communication with large groups of people more powerful and useful. Google Wave is really good for collaborative things such as project planning, document editing, or just a small chat. […]

How to Kiss, How to Hack, How to Meditate?- Top Google India “How to” Queries

December 21, 2009

According to the 2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist India, it seems more people looked for ways to kiss, hack and meditate! The most popular “How to” search queries in Google India were, “how to kiss”, “how to hack”, “how to meditate” and “how to study”, followed by “how to swim”, “how to draw”. “how to flirt”, “how to chat”, “how to concentrate” and “how to download”. Interesting! […]

goo.gl & fb.me URL shortener From Google and Facebook

December 15, 2009

Facebook and Google has come up with their own URL shortener services namely fb.me and goo.gl respectively. fb.me is now rolled out on a limited basis – to be used within facebook for sharing links within facebook and facebook mobile interface. You cannot use Google URL shortener to shorten links directly, because it is currently not provided as a stand-alone service. Currently it is only available from the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner. Google may eventually make it available for a wider audience in the future. […]

“Nexus One” Google Phone – An Android Phone with a New Desgn

December 13, 2009

According to Google Mobile Blog, Google has recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and Google shared this device with Google employees across the globe to test out the new technology and help improve it. The Google Phone is called the Nexus One and is being manufactured for Google by HTC Corp. Unlike other Android smart phones currently on the market, Google rewrote most of the operating system to deliver a unique user interface. […]

Hindi Essay Contest by Google India

December 9, 2009

Google has announced the ‘Hai Baaton Main Dum?’ contest in association with Livehindustan.com. The Hain Baaton Mein Dum? is a skill contest where participants must submit an essay on any one of the five topics – Entertainment, Travel, Sports, Health and Social, Economic and Political issues – in Hindi. The Contest begins ends on January 31st, 2010. Visit the Contest website (http://google.co.in/meribaat) and submit an essay on any of the five topic. […]