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Google Docs Editing On iPad & Android Soon

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Google announced today that it’ll soon be rolling out the facility to edit Google Documents on iPads and Android. The option will let users collaborate and co-edit documents from a whole range of devices. The announcement was made on Google’s official blog. In the next few weeks, co-workers around the world will soon be able […]

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Google Voice Returns To Apple’s App Store

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Apple famously banned all Google Voice apps from its App Store fourteen months ago and even faced an inquiry from FCC regarding the move. The ban led to the creation of an HTML 5-specific web app for iPhone users who were upset over losing popular GV Mobile and VoiceCentral apps. In a recent change of […]

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Google Instant Comes to Chrome Labs In Chromium For Windows

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Google Instant is the new craze in web searching and has led to the creation of YouTube and iTunes Instant recently. It’s still not rolled out to users worldwide and certainly not to browsers. Google promised to bring it to Chrome in the next few months but they’ve delivered somewhat on the promise in just […]

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YouTube Starts Testing Live Streaming

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YouTube has just started testing its new live streaming platform with a few chosen partners including Next New Networks, Howcast, Young Hollywood, and Rocketboom. The testing period began Monday morning and will go on for two days. YouTube released the list of events that will be streaming live through these partners and also announced a […]

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Android Gets Google Walking Navigation & Street View

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Google has just made its Walking Navigation (beta) and Street View smart navigation software available for Android 1.6 and above. This is a major development and a feature that deserves to be on top among the must download items on your Android phones. Walking Navigation is bundled into Google Maps for Mobile 4.5 and it […]

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Apple Relaxes Restrictions For iOS Apps, Adobe & Google Respond

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Along with issuing clear guideline for iOS app developers regarding what exactly will get their apps rejected, Apple delivered some completely unexpected and rare good news too which is causing a flurry of excitement all around. Apple states in the official document that it is relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create […]

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‘Google Instant’ Is Here To Change Internet Search Forever

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As predicted, Google launched their whole new real time search technology at the company’s San Francisco press event yesterday. Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience at Google, conducted the event and introduced the new way to search on the internet with ‘Google Instant’. The new feature is all about speeding up the […]

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What’s Google Bringing In Today’s Search Event

Google is holding its “can’t miss” search event today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to unveil its latest offerings and users are already guessing what it could be. If you go to Google’s home page, you’ll notice that the page and Google’s famous colourful logo is currently grey. As you start typing […]

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iPhone Game ‘Angry Birds’ Now Available On Android

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‘Angry birds’ is the most popular game on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch platform even though it’s not free. It was developed exclusively for the above Apple devices by Rovio Mobile and it’s been a success story ever since. Now, Rovio has released the game for Android users probably realising that limiting the game […]

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Gmail’s New ‘Priority Inbox’

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Google is rolling out yet another new revolutionary Gmail feature today which aims to make email sorting and managing easier and much more productive. If you rely heavily on emails for your work, Gmail’s ‘Priority Inbox’ is a God send for your inbox woes. The new feature is basically an algorithm which picks up hints […]

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Google Bringing A Movie Renting Site

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Online entertainment (Music, TV, Movies) viewing is already reported to be going almost parallel to conventional viewing and experts predict that it won’t be long before majority of entertainment consumption will be done online. The popularity of services like YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, Netflix , Amazon video rental and a number of others is a proof […]

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Gmail Phone Feature Goes International & Crosses 1 Million Calls

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According to official figures from ComScore in December 2009, Gmail has 176 million users worldwide and counting. Google very smartly decided to make use of the huge dedicated customer base and launched Google Call Phone service 2 days ago which integrates the Google Voice calling technology with Gmail and turns users’ inboxes in to a […]

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New Google Realtime Search Gets A Separate Page

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Google launched its real-time search results in December 2009 and now it has revamped the service with conversation view via Twitter, location refinements, Google Alerts for updates and a whole new separate page at google.com/realtime. The conversation view feature shows organised conversations from Twitter on a specific topic which keep updating and also shows retweets. […]

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Your Gmail Inbox Is Now A Phone Line

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Google announced at its press event yesterday that it has integrated Google Voice technology with Gmail and now users can make voice calls to any traditional phone number (landline) from their computers and also receive incoming calls through their Google Voice number. If you’re a Gmail user and have a Google Voice account, you can […]

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How To: Gmail Lets You ‘Undo’ Send

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There are countless times when we wish we had not hit the ‘send’ button after writing a quick email and somehow could stop the message from going through or call it back. Sometimes you forget to attach files to an important message and look foolish in front of the receiver who could be a client […]

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Linux Finally Gets Gmail Voice & Video Chat

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It’s taken almost 2 years of patience and seemingly false hopes, but Linux users are finally getting the much requested Gmail features: Voice and video chat. It sure seems a bit odd that they weren’t available up till now but better late than never. Google has just released the feature which provides support for Ubuntu […]

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Google & Verizon To Launch A New Tablet For Christmas

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Looks like it’ll be raining tablets this year during the Christmas holiday season. First the new smaller iPad and now another tablet that Google and Verizon have been working on for a while, is rumoured to be arriving for the holiday shopping season. In fact, this time a date has also been announced: November 26 […]

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Google Aiming Big With The Chrome Web Store

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Google first announced its Chrome Web Store at its I/O earlier this year and new details about the feature reveal the company’s big plans to influence and reach everything from TV to gaming and the web. The Chrome Web Store is a marketplace for HTML 5 apps and will allow users to purchase web applications […]

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Google Rubishes Oracle’s Lawsuit

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Google has released its first response to the lawsuit filed by Oracle yesterday demanding money from the search giants for infringing on Oracle’s java-related intellectual property. The response is as expected with Google defending its use of java as an open source software. Google’s official statement to the press says: We are disappointed Oracle has […]

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Oracle Sues Google Over Android

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Android is among the fastest growing operating systems in the world and needless to say it brings in big revenues to Google. Now, we’ve seen this happen before with successful companies and their products and it’s happening again. Oracle has just filed a suit against Google claiming egregious IP infringement. Oracle released an official statement […]

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