Cloud Computing: An Overview and the Future Direction

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Recession Takes a Toll on Google and Executives Step Down

googleThe recession officially takes a toll on Google. The Mountain View company was predicting that the current economic downturn may hit them. The cost cutting measures were on the chart especially like by making a heck of lay off and terminating some services in recent times. But as the results come out, Google's revenue, almost all of which comes from advertisements placed next to related search results, rose 6% from a year earlier but slipped 3% from the fourth quarter. Something around $ 4 Billion was take home profit for Google. Though Google's slowdown in the advertising sector is looking good considering other companines in average are going to have a 5-5.5% downfall, another thing that concerns Google is the top executives have started stepping down. Full article (309 words) »

Google to Acquire Twitter: Sources

Washingtonpost today has just brought in a heck of a rumor that Google may be in the last stage of acquiring Twitter. No one knows the price or exact transactional details yet, nor there is any official source to that, but its said that the deal may be well over $250 Million. If you remember, Facebook tried buying Twitter for half a billion dollars, although that was based partially on overvalued Facebook stock and so Twitter promptly ignored that. But, if this deal gets finalized, then Google may pay in cash or public valued stocks which is almost synonymous to that. The question is, is it on the cards? Is there a reason why Google will want Twitter? Yes. an emphatic Yes. Full article (227 words) »

Enjoy Google Brain Search on Your Mobile Phone

googleimplantDo you wanna brainstorm the logical Google to think of something more human? Have you ever thought what if you could ask the Google search to find the name of that kid across your room, just from your mobile? May be you never thought of it in the first place. But, now that you have Google Brain Search (BETA) on the Google Mobile App available for your iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry or the Android-powered phones, you can try it out. Google Brain Search is equipped with a CADIE technology that tries to index your brain in order to make your thoughts and memories searchable. To expose more of it, I would share it's key features with you.

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Google Docs Adds Drawing Feature

new_docsdrawingsGoogle refuses to stop these days. After upgrading GMail and Google search, its now time for an amazing and yet simple feature for Google Docs, insert drawing. With it you can now create and insert drawings directly into your Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The tool, just like Google's other products, is very easy to use with less clumsy options and good enough to do draw and express. It's easy to create drawings using lines, free hand scribbles, text labels and a large choice of shapes that you can move, resize, rotate and adjust. Group, order, align and distribute and other features are available when you select objects you've drawn.

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Top 20 Gmail hacks

gmail-hackedThere can be no two opinions that Google reigns supreme when it comes to searches and Gmail does the same in email arena. With the Gmail rolling out new features almost every week, things are getting better and better. Regarding this, we had come across an awesome formula: Gmail+labs =endless possibilities, that inspired us to compose the Top 10 Gmail Labs Applications. Well, those of you using Gmail as your main email are always in search of hacks that could turn you into a super-user. That took us an extensive  groundwork to present Top 20 Gmail hacks.
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Google Search adds ‘Related Search’ and Precision for Longer Queries

googleGoogle search has been tweaked and as you have already guessed it, its gone better. According to a recent post from the official google blog, Google search is now able to target more queries, more languages, and make our suggestions more relevant to what you actually need to know. The long queries are given a look too with a noticeable change in the results. Let's see what are the new things Google has in store this time.

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Google Releases FriendConnect Plugin for Wordpress, Drupal and PHPBB

googleSocial connection through online world is becoming more and more relevant these days. Even Google isn't ignoring it. While Google's Friend Connect was a success of some kind, it was still suffering from seamless integration with major CMS sources. But not anymore. Finally Google has come out with three Friend Connect plugins for Wordpress, Drupal and phpBB. webhole.net observes that anyone who is interested in your forum and blog will not need to make two accounts for your blog (wordpress) and forum (PhpBB) to participate. This will let less problems to occur when you switch between the two using the same account. Again you will not have to re-log each time you interchange and the annoying cookie management process will be out of the window.

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Google Voice: Internet Telephony on a New Height

googleGoogle was in text, it has started to intrude into our electricity and now It is in our telephones. Google Inc. introduced Google Voice the other day.  The new service weaves traditional phone features with Google's Gmail email product, allowing a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email inbox and to find a specific nugget of information within a phone message as if trawling through a sea of emails - as Reuters reports. If you do not remember, Google Voice is based on the technology of Grand Central Communications, a company that Google acquired in July 2007.

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Wolfram Alpha: Google’s Replacement for Factual Questions?

Years ago when computers becoming apart of our life, people thought one day this electronic brain would be able answer almost anything asked to it. Computers  can do miracles, but never answer a factual question. Although the web seems like a sea of knowledge, it's the search engine that decides the access to knowledge. At present, Google is far ahead of the rest of the pack when it comes to searching keywords and phrases. But, what about the factual questions? There is an answer awaiting a release this May - Wolfram Alpha. This new engine has been designed by the creator of Mathematica(powerful software for mathematical investigation and visualization), Ed Tech's scientist Stephen Wolfarm. Full article (402 words) »

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