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• Share your site with Google Sites

  Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

  Official Google Blog announced the launch of the Google Sites for anyone to share information – team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, etc. Google Sites was previously used exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations, on their own domains. Now it is possible to embed documents, calendars, photos, [...]

• Google Health and Search Factory Tour

  Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

  Google shows the latest research in various search-related fields and announced the official debut of Google Health. R.J. Pittman, Director of Search Properties, showed some of the amazing advances Google made in image search, as well as how ads might work to enhance the user experience on image search. “There are over 300 million digital [...]

• New Google’s version of Android SDK m5-rc14

  Thursday, February 14th, 2008

  Android SDK m5-rc14 is now available for download, with new and improved features: New user interface Layout animations Geo-coding New media codecs Updated Eclipse plug-in (Source: Android Developers Blog) The developers say that they are still missing the change of the telephony package. “We still cannot detect the ingoing/outgoing call number or send DTMF tones [...]

• Sarkozy likes pens

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  Nothing wrong. During his visit in Romania, Nicolas Sarkozy liked a lot the pen with which he signed the documents that he wanted it for himself. I like myself to collect pens and lighters. Sarkozy has the chance to work with more pens than me.

• Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market. Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile communications, centered around a socially-connected address book. It [...]

• Xperia X1, a rival for iPhone

  Monday, February 11th, 2008

  Sony Ericcson decided to join forces with Microsoft in order to realize a smart phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Xperia X1. Xperia X1 will have a 3 inch touch screen and will include a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body, with a stylus and a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus. “They’ve really [...]

• Mass of Media: Steve Jobs

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  Violet Blue: Steve Jobs snubbed me CNET News.com, CA If you want to look at how the personalities of Apple’s two co-founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, differ, perhaps one way would be to measure their … Investors Boo Steve Jobs Red Herring, CA As has become tradition, Apple CEO Steve Jobs sought to excite [...]

• Google, iPhone, and mobile market

  Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

  It’s done! After iPhone was the most searched keyword in Google search for the last year 2007, now, the iPhone become the best user of the Google search engine. Never said in this blog so big words, but in my opinion this partnership is the beginning of a new revolution in Internet as well as [...]