Gmail Calling
Google announced a new feature today which includes making phone calls directly from within Gmail. This is a huge stab against Skype and all of the other VoIP competitors out there. With this release, Google is offering free calling anywhere within the United States and Canada for the rest of 2010. What kind of implications [...]
Oracle Sues Google Over Android Technology
Oracle is suing Google for its use of Java technology in the Android mobile phone software. Oracle is demanding that Google cease making and distributing Android phones. Oracle also noted the interlocking history between Google and Java in its complaint, noting that “Google has been aware of Sun’s patent portfolio, including the patents at issue, [...]
AdSense Ad Format Updates
There’s a new AdSense format in town! The updates will roll out over the next few weeks. Here is what AdSense Product Manager Amy Wu has to say about the updates. We’re excited to announce a revamped design of three of our AdSense for content ad units! After analyzing publisher site layouts and reviewing requests [...]
Maryland Education “Goes Google”
A quick snippet from the Google Corporate Blog, Today we’re happy to announce that The Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC) will make Google Apps for Education available to 1.4 million students in the state. MEEC is comprised of the University System of Maryland, Maryland Higher Education Commission and Maryland Department of Education, and provides software [...]
YouTube Now Allows 15min Uploads
In recent YouTube news, the previous cap of 10 minutes per upload has been raised to 15 minutes per upload. A little excerpt from the announcement, We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. [...]
[VIDEO] Stop Motion Super Mario Bros
Just couldn’t pass this one up :) BONUS VIDEO! (thx Kim!)
Google Celebrates Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Today, Google is celebrating the birth of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. According to Wikipedia, Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997)[1] was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, [...]
Matt Cutts on Targeting Multiple Countries with Google Webmaster Tools
Having the ability to target multiple countries in Google Webmaster Tools would be a great feature. Matt Cutts talks a bit about why the feature is not available [yet]. I haven’t had a need for this particular feature yet, but I do envision having this need in the future and would love to have it [...]
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Google Chrome vs. Apple Safari [Beta4]
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Google Testing New Search Layout
As we have seen Google test, test, and test again, with innovative and unique navigation systems, Google is at it again. Huge thanks for tipster Jared for sending in these screenshots he was able to capture. Here is what looks like a new potential layout for Google search. The first screenshot is of normal search. [...]
