7 Google Updates for the Week Ending June 26, 2009

7 Google Updates for the Week Ending June 26, 2009
pIt's been another week of mega Google updates. Several have been noteworthy-enough to get their own post. The leftovers are included below:/p pstrongGoogle Android/strong has a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-android-15-ndk-release-1.html"launched 1.5 NDK, Release 1/a./p pMeanwhile, strongGoogle Android/strong phones are a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124568278404137309.html"being announced and rumored for multiple carriers/a./p pstrongGoogle Maps/strong now a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-find-out-whats-here.html"offers a "What's Here?" feature/a if you right-click on a map. However, it only provides light tourism information in the left sidebar. It would be a much better feature if it showed restaurants, shopping, hotels, etc in the area you click on./p pstrongGoogle News/strong is a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/technology/internet/22wiki.html?_r=2partner=rssemc=rss"using Wikipedia as a source/a, according to the New York Times./p pstrongGoogle search/strong a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-22-n50.html"added friends to individual Facebook results/a, according to Google Blogoscoped./p pstrongKevin Marks/strong a href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/06/farewell-to-google.html"leaves Google/a./p pstrongMobile Gmail/strong gets a a href="http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/06/iterative-web-app-swipe-to-archive-and.html"swipe-to-archive feature and expanded English language support/a./pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~ff/sewblog?a=-VML7aRQ-V4:fnRrNejn1N0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/sewblog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~ff/sewblog?a=-VML7aRQ-V4:fnRrNejn1N0:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/sewblog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sewblog/~4/-VML7aRQ-V4" height="1" width="1"/