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Google Picasa 3.0 Beta Review

Tue, Oct 19, 2010

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With a name that puts Picasa in the middle of the Google family, this release gives Linux users a lot of expectations, even before this is released. In case I am going to fast, this program is nothing more but Google’s very own Photo Manager and Editing program, which of course, has a Linux version [...]

About the curious case of the Ipad and the feedback from Intel and Microsoft

Tue, Oct 19, 2010

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“That tablet thing? Yeah, we’ll get back to you on that.” That’s the general and yet very precise mentality of Microsoft, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices  on the matter. Why did they adopt this attitude towards the tablet? If any it should be the other way around, right? Wrong. Here’s one somewhat obvious reason I’ll [...]

AOL to buy Yahoo ?!

Thu, Oct 14, 2010

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This has got to be one of the most surprising rumours I’ve ever heard in quite a while; and it’s even better: just as the rumour got started that AOL may buy Yahoo, shares for Yahoo went up more than 12% in pre-market trading Thursday. The shares were estimated at $17.09 early Thursday. But this [...]

Google’s Driverless Car on California Highway [VIDEO]

Mon, Oct 11, 2010

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The much hyped Google Car, which is actually a tuned up Toyota Prius, could be seen driving across California, especially San Francisco roads, these past few months. It was unveiled to the public recently, proving one of the most shocking experiments the Mountainview giant has ever undertaken – a driverless car. A number of seven [...]

PayPal and Google in talks for Android apps payment method

Wed, Aug 18, 2010

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Rumors about a deal between  Google’s Android and eBay’s PayPal in the near future. It appears that smartphone users will be able to buy Android applications using PayPal, also developers would be receiving payments for the apps developed via the e-mail-based payment system, PayPal. This is one  important step for Google in the pursuit of smartphone application [...]

Oracle sues Google over Android

Fri, Aug 13, 2010

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Oracle sued Google for allegedly infringing on seven patents as well as copyrights relating to Java. Oracle claims that before Sun being bought by Oracle last year, Google ignored Sun’s patent portfolio and had also ex-members of Sun’s Java team. This means that Google produced lots of damage creating Android, which is a competitor with [...]

Google Voice Actions for Android

Thu, Aug 12, 2010

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Google just announced  that voice commands will be featured by Android on smartphones . Google voice actions include 13 useful voice commands. Speak any of these commands to perform a Voice Action on your phone: send text to [contact] [message] listen to [artist/song/album] call [business] call [contact] send email to [contact] [message] go to [website] [...]

YouTube increases upload video length to 15 minutes from 10 minutes

Tue, Aug 10, 2010

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YouTube’s latest upgrade implemented a new kind of technology into its system, the namely the new new YouTube ContentID, VideoID and AudioID systems that automatically filter and deletes duplicate content. As you can imagine, terabytes and terabytes of free space was now freed, so to make good use of this, the Google owned company decided [...]

Google reports 200.000 Android phones sold everyday

Fri, Aug 6, 2010

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There is still a lot of fuss and questions regarding Google’s involvement in the smartphone industry, but the latest reports should help settle this once and for all. Just two months ago, the sale rate was at about 100.000 Android phones per day; now, it’s double. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told attendees at the Techonomy [...]

U.S. Broadband policy leads to a Google-Verizon aliance

Thu, Aug 5, 2010

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Broadband regulations was top subject for the last few days news because of it’s impact not only in the IT and technology area , but also having a strong social and economical importance.  FCC’s plans to regulate internet service providers so affecting more or less population’s access to an free-flowing web traffic and an open [...]

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