Google has announced that it has added a new content source to its real-time search feature: Facebook Pages.
Google launched real-time search in December, providing a real-time feed of information from Yahoo Answers, Twitter, blogs, news websites, and other sources for hot or trending search results.
After the first released for iPhone on mobile, Google Earth is now available on Android platform. In this release, Google is also introducing Roads layer in the new mobile version, you can add a road labels layer on top of the satellite imagery. Grab a copy of the software from Android Market if you are on Android OS 2.1.
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So, it’s not DOCOMO or Rogers that becomes the first operator in the world to launch the first Sony Ericsson’s Android handset, Xperia X10. It’s Indonesia’s operator Indosat that will be the first to offer X10 on March 3-7 during Indosat Android Expo.
continue reading…Google buzz for mobile allows you to see what’s going on nearby, post a message tagged with your location, and follow your friends on the go.
All Gmail users should be able to see this new feature, a social networking like feature added to Gmail. Currently Google is still rolling out Buzz to everyone, so if you don’t see it in your Gmail account, you can check back soon.
Get Buzz on your phone by visiting buzz.google.com in your phone browser.
You might be asked by your boss to do translation some documents from or to a foreign language. Conventionally you can translate some sentences or paragraphs by using some web tools currently available on internet such us Google Translate, Yahoo! Babelfish and others. You need to copy the sentences or paragraphs and then paste them to the translation text area to translate instantly. continue reading…
Bing, the Microsoft’s search engine to fight with Google, was bringing twitter search to you since October 21, 2009 to provide real-time search Twitter status update. It’s still in beta version.
To try out Bing’s beta version of Twitter search you have to go to Bing.com/twitter. At the top of the page is a tag cloud with the top keywords on Twitter, and below that are sample tweets from those hot topics as well as links to see further results. continue reading…
What is Google Wave? Below is the detail descriptions taken from Wikipedia.
Google Wave is a self-described “personal communication and collaboration tool” announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009.[1][2] It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.[3] It has a strong collaborative and real-time[4] focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example,spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages,[2] and numerous other extensions.[4] Initially released only to developers, a “preview release” of Google Wave was extended to 100,000 users in September 2009, each allowed to invite twenty to thirty additional users. On the 29th of November 2009, Google accepted most requests submitted soon after the extended release of the technical preview in September 2009; these users have around 25 invitations to give. continue reading…
(Taken from Blog.Zdnet.Com)
Google is reportedly in talks to buy Yelp for $500 million. Sure, buyouts are a fine exit strategy for startups, but does Google (insert any other Web giant here too) have to buy everything that someday could be a threat?
TechCrunch first reported the Google-Yelp talks and the New York Times is confirming them. continue reading…
Chrome OS, the operating system that Google released to open source yesterday, has been compiled and posted for download on several file-sharing sites, Internet searches showed today.
The ready-to-run Chrome OS has appeared on several peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracking sites, including Mininova.org and Pirate Bay. The Gdgt Web site has also posted a free download of the Chrome OS disk image. Users must create an account with the site to access the download. continue reading…
You want to install Google Plugin (e.g Google Web Toolkit aka GWT and Google App Engine Java SDK) in Eclipse.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Google Plugin for Eclipse on Eclipse 3.4 aka Ganymede.
Here are the steps:
Run Eclipse and go to Help > Software Updates… continue reading…
