Tag: Google
Posted by
Duane 1 month 6 days ago
Yahoo and AOL are close on finalizing a deal that would combine parts of both companies. The deal would bridge Timer Warner's Internet operations with Yahoo by folding the AOL unit into Yahoo. In return, Time Warner would make a cash investment of about 20% of the combined entity, valuing AOL at about $10 billion.
The possible Yahoo-AOL tie-up is part of a threefold plan by Yahoo to present shareholders with an alternative to Microsoft's unsolicited offer. Yahoo would also propose repurchasing billions of dollars of its own shares and is...
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Posted by
Kevom 1 month 21 days ago
Yahoo said on Tuesday that it supports OpenSocial; a protocol to develop applications for social networks and will help create a joint foundation to keep it alive.
Google launched its OpenSocial network in November to lure developers already creating popular Web applications on social networks like Facebook.
Yahoo, Google and News Corp-owned MySpace said on Tuesday they will create the OpenSocial Foundation to maintain a neutral, community-governed forum for developing applications. It will be set up as a non-profit entity, with assets...
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Posted by
Fangio 1 month 28 days ago
We know that Google is a big company and we also know how their offices are, the quality that Google offers to their employees is very impressive, it’s amazing how they created different environment for each sections, so, if you haven’t seen pictures about their offices, well, you are a lucky guy, because I have for you the Google office in Zurich, now you can have an idea how are the others offices that they have...
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Jerry Knoblach wants to bring wireless service to millions of rural Americans. His plan: Beam it down from balloons hovering at the edge of space.
This isn't just hot air. His company, Space Data Corp., already launches 10 balloons a day across the Southern U.S., providing specialized telecom services to truckers and oil companies. His balloons soar 20 miles into the stratosphere, each carrying a shoebox-size payload of electronics that acts like a mini cellphone "tower" covering thousands of square miles below.
Cheap, disposable...
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Posted by
Kevom 5 months 1 day ago
Google’s free gift to Adsense publishers this year is a sleek ultra thin USB flash memory drive with 2GB of storage in a carefully designed cardboard packing.
Last year I received a digital picture frame:
http://web2.commongate....hoto_Frame
In 2005, they gave out memory sticks plus USB devices, mini mouse, flash flight and ear phones.
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Google has announced the release of a new online storage facility within the next few months. Rumours of this service - dubbed as the GDrive - began at the end of 2006, where information leaks revealed that an in-house storage system used by Google's employees to upload and share data will be offered as a new publicly available service.
Google's new GDrive will try to tighten the gap between online storage and local hard disk storage. Along with offering a simple and efficient web interface, Google's GDrive will come with a desktop...
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Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt just finished fronting a conference call with five other companies to announce the rumored Open Handset Alliance, a program under which 34 partners have built an open-source mobile operating system codenamed Android. A software developer kit will be available on November 12 and the first devices powered by the OS will appear through 2008.
Schmidt: “It’s incredibly important to say this is not an announcement of the Gphone” ... “We’re not pre-announcing anything (but) if you were to build a...
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The long-awaited announcement of Google's phone plans will occur earlier than expected, and not in the form previously laid out, says the Wall Street Journal. While it had been suggested that an announcement would come November 13th at the earliest, the Journal's sources say that it will mostly likely happen Monday, November 5th, and with different carriers. T-Mobile is still involved, but the other main party is said to be Sprint. Foreign carriers may be included, but have not been mentioned.
Google is again said to be working with...
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GMail has gained IMAP support, one of the most requested features for Google's web-based e-mail service. More than storage space or other features, free web-based IMAP access pushes GMail over the top when compared to offerings from Yahoo, Microsoft and most other web-based e-mail services.
With IMAP, users can now access their email via a desktop application like Outlook or Thunderbird, read emails, make changes, delete, and have the changes made across platforms. So if you now log into your Gmail account, the message which you read in...
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Arizona State University's students have the opportunity to test a new product "that will be publicly launched later this year". The invitation page mentions that the product is developed by "a major Internet company" and there are hints that the application is related to social networking, 3D modeling and video games. To complete the questionnaire and get the opportunity to test the product, you need to be a student at ASU.
So where's Google in this picture? One of the questions from the form asks you if you have a Gmail account and if you...
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