Google Inc. is an American corporation founded in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and is best known for its search engine, as well as features like Google Maps and Google Earth. Stay up to date on...
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Google Inc. is an American corporation founded in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and is best known for its search engine, as well as features like Google Maps and Google Earth. Stay up to date on news and information about Google here.
Google Picasa offers online photo hosting capabilities in the form of Picasa Web Albums. Picasa users can upload photos from their local computer systems to the photo hosting servers that can then be shared with friends, family or even everyone by setting the viewing rights to public. Even guests are then able to view and download these photos from Picasa Web Albums to their computers.
Downloading photos manually from Picasa takes time and users who would like to download complete Picasa... Read Full Story
AppJet’s EtherPad collaborative browser-based word processor is, many people say, much easier to figure out and use than Google Docs , with a much more intuitive, attractive user interface. Talk is cheap, but Y Combinator-funded AppJet has proven itself by getting asmall number of customers to pay $8 a month for its Professional Edition, which adds features aimed at small-company office workers.
AppJet announced this morning on their company blog that they’ve been acquired by Google for an... Read Full Story
Google had launched its Google Chrome Browser just before 9 months and now, it is introducing the OS of Google Chrome! This is quite interesting and challenging too. Google Chrome has been designed to help the people who intensely use the Web live for certain purposes viz., email checking, shopping, watching the news online, catching up with pals online and information searching. The attempt of redesigning the OS has been done by Google now.
This Google Chrome OS is primarily beleaguered on... Read Full Story
Google had launched its Google Chrome Browser just before 9 months and now, it is introducing the OS of Google Chrome! This is quite interesting and challenging too. Google Chrome has been designed to help the people who intensely use the Web live for certain purposes viz., email checking, shopping, watching the news online, catching up with pals online and information searching. The attempt of redesigning the OS has been done by Google now.
This Google Chrome OS is primarily beleaguered on... Read Full Story
Google just wrapped up the second coming of its festive Android Developer Challenge , an invitation to all comers to submit awesome apps in exchange for cash prizes (a whopping $100,000 for winners in each category, plus $150,000 for the overall champion). What made ADC 2 an especially exciting event was the fact that Google turned voting over to the public with a special ADC app giving users access to nominees’ binaries, so the winners that you see here weren’t selected by a hand-picked... Read Full Story
We’ve seen a couple of heavy-hitting matchups in our Faceoff series in the last couple of weeks, with Google Android smashing Apple’s iPhone and Verizon trouncing AT&T recently.
This week we have another clash of the titans, with Microsoft’s relatively new search contender Bing going head-to-head against incumbent Google for Mashable readers’ search supremacy.
Who will be the winner in this week’s faceoff? You’ll have to cast your vote below and tune in on Friday for the results. Be sure... Read Full Story
Google’s Android platform which was once backed only by HTC has come a long way since then. Many cell phone manufacturers are releasing Android based cell phones at the moment including Samsung, Motorola and Acer with its Acer Liquid A1 . Google created an Android Developer Challenge last year to give an incentive to software developers to create software for the Android platform. Since then a lot has changed and the Android Market place is hosting thousands of applications for Android cell... Read Full Story
This year marked the second annual Android Developer Challenge , in which third-party developers competed for up to a $250,000 purse for the overall winner, as well as sizeable $100k, $50k and $25k 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in each of 10 app categories. Throughout September and October, participating official judges as well as thousands of Android user judges tested out and voted on submitted entries — and now the final winners are in.
Google posted not only the 30 winners in each of the 10... Read Full Story
Sweet Dreams Android
Google named the winners today in its second annual mobile apps contest.
The top prizes for this year’s Android Developer Challenge went to:
* Sweet Dreams, which lets you avoid late-night phone calls and save battery power
* What is the Doodle?!, a multiplayer drawing game
* WaveSecure, a security and privacy app.
First place winners in any of the categories gets $100,000, second place earns $50,000, and third place wins $25,000.
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Google has just annouced the winners of its second Android Developer Challenge, a competition that looks to spur development on the Android platform by offering large cash grants to the winners. Thirty prizes were given out in total, with the top 3 winners from each of ten categories taking home $100,000, $50,000, or $25,000 respectively, with 3 overall winners walking away an additional $150,000, $50,000, or $25,000.
The top winner overall was SweetDreams, an app that helps you send late... Read Full Story
