I don’t know why but i was kinda’ expecting this from our engineers. Google’s April Fool trick Gmail Motion was stupid. Obviously, you cannot use motion sensing without a device to actually sense it. They didn’t mention any device for it.
Anyway, check out the video after break. You’ll be not-so-stunned when Gmail’s spoof was turned into reality by ICT’s MxR using a laptop, some code and a Microsoft Kinect.
And here’s actual Gmail Motion Spoof Video.
Google Nexus S
Samsung has launched Google Nexus S in India. Pricing counter is set at Rs 30,400. Online retailers have a relaxed pricing at Rs 27,999.
The Google Nexus S in India is Nexus S i9023, and not the Nexus i9020 and thats why it has it rocks a 4 inch LCD screen and not a AMOLED touch screen. It has introduced many new technologies like the NFC’s.
Other gingerbread phones from Sony, Neo, Arc and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.
Via ThinkDigit.
For those of you searching for a new Job Google’s got one. It’s innovative and something you’ve never heard of. It’s the job of a Autocompleter!
Google is quite picky for hiring Autocompleters. Conditions are as follows :-
The Job Listing is out here. BTW [Sanad (Graduate Degree) is not required].
Good Luck for it. Oh I Forgot, Happy April Fools Day!
Quite a few years back, we were stuck at 56kbps dial-up modems, then we slowly picked up with broadband and triband coming and speedometers touching 256kbps and 512kbps. The battle then began between telecom companies which brought in 2mbps and 4 mbps at cheaper rates. Of course consumers thought it was a bliss, till they see this.
For those of you really eager to know what’s the speed at Google’s Campus, GooglePlex at Mountain View, California is then here you go.
523.96 Mbps and 147.20 Mbps is what they’ve got. Wondering how we got hands on it? Recent Question and Answer session by the Google Chrome team at Reddit let us into these facts. This is freakin’ awesome. Thanks TNW.
iPhone 5
All Possible Rumors for the upcoming iPhone 5, the successor to the current iPhone 4.
Inspired by NoWhereElse.
Father Of Java
Guess who’s the new kid at Googleplex? It’s James Gosling, the developer of Java. The reason he migrated to Google from Oracle (Oracle had acquired Sun where James developed Java in 1991) was “openness” he found at Google. He has carefully considered his decision before making a move.
At Google, Gosling proudly said “I don’t know what I’ll be working on. I expect it’ll be a bit of everything, seasoned with a large dose of grumpy curmudgeon.”
The principles of Gosling and Oracle’s CEO did not go well together, to that extent that he went on to call Oracle Chief Executive, Larry Ellison “Larry The Prince Of Darkness.” He further said, “During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer’s eyes sparkle.”
Apparently, we’ve observed the battles between Oracle and Google over the Java code used in Android. Gosling joined Google to give a blow to Larry Ellison. Gosling strongly believes in Open Source and finds Google more of his cup of tea than Oracle. Whatever be it, Larry Ellison in some dark corner would be surely grinning as he gulps the news.
Google is indeed the no. 1 contributor for JAVA and Open source standards. With Gosling, the internet giant is bound to make things better, much better.
For all of you, Facebook freaks we’re breaking some real great news. Back in February, we reported Facebook could possible working on a WebMail service to replace its existing Inbox System or possibly redesign it.
From what we are hearing now, Facebook is all geared up and set to release the service this Monday. Media invites are out and reports suggest that this event being held, is purely about inbox. UI change, some tweaks, POP access and of course, @facebook.com email address. Brilliant.
Facebooks has got 500 million users and this makes it incredibly easy to implement the service unlike Gmail’s other competitors. Oh, yeah you did hear about Google Vs. Facebook fight about importing contact data. Now, slowly all things are falling in their places.
In short, you could possible sending a mail to your pals from @facebook.com account this monday!
Via TC.
Google’s foray into the smartphone market, the Nexus One is all set to be succeeded by the next smartphone, most probably called Nexus Two.
London’s Newspaper Daily has reported that Google is in talks with Carphone Warehouse in the UK as an exclusive partner for Nexus Two’s release there. It’s quite obvious for two reasons. First, they gave up the online sales and second that they really are desperate to tap the handheld arena especially when their competitors are breaking their heads by rolling out innovations and entering the advertising arena too (Apple’s iAd) where Google seems to lead.
Google’s next Android version is supposedly codenamed Gingerbread which is also speculated to be released this holiday season. A new Google phone and a new Android version, perfect mix?
I woke up this afternoon and was accessing my Gmail Inbox, i was curious to find a new link (in highlighted RED letters) next to my email ID saying “New! Priority Inbox BETA”, so i decided to checkout this new feature.
Priority Inbox is a new (BETA) feature offered by Google within their email based product Gmail, once this new feature is activated, it will find out the important mails and sort it out accordingly then put it into a new section called “Priority Inbox” which appears above your normal Inbox link in left side navigation menu
If any of your important email is left behind by the automatic detection of this new feature, then you can mark emails as important or not important manually and get it on the Priority Inbox
Google has released the new Priority Inbox feature to limited set of people and is currently in BETA mode
Also a new interactive video has also been launched by Google explaining what exactly Priority Inbox feature is all about
We hope this new feature will be rolled out to all Gmail users during next week in their inboxes
Gmail Priority Inbox (Beta) Page
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/priority-inbox.html
More information regarding this new feature can be obtained from the official Google Blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.htm
Official Gmail Priority Inbox Video by Google
It won’t be right to call Google just “lucky”, because wherever they step in they rule the market. This is functional with the browsers too, and now Google Chrome has a market share 6.73%. It’s not a huge number but the dazzling part stays that Chrome is the youngest browser of all and it’s also ahead of Safari, Apple’s Native browser for Mac’s with 3% more.
The adoption rate has been rapid, in about 18 months they had some millions of users. Thanks to Google and it’s delicious marketing campaigns and also, the product itself. Chrome is indeed the fastest browsers on earth and if you’ve seen those speed test ads, you probably know Chrome loads about 2700 frames a second.
I’ve shifted to Chrome few months back, and ever since and I never looked back or needed any other browser. It’s fast, fun and looks great. That’s not just me but a large number of Chrome user base that says and numbers are going to add up to the base soon as Firefox and IE users are migrating to Chrome at a perplexing rate.
[Via RWW]