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Back in July, Apple stealthily acquired Placebase, a mapping company that provides a service similar to Google Maps, but with more robust customizations and set of APIs, called Pushpin, for layering data sets over maps.

Google and Apple have been steadily moving from friends to frenemies of late, with the advent of Android and CloudOS, the whole Google Voice and Google Latitude rejection brouhaha, and Google’s CEO leaving Apple’s board. Continue reading…

As open-source proponents will tell you, there are several advantages to running Linux, and the open-source camp is about to have another bragging point, at least if you’re a Chrome user. Google Chrome will soon be available in 64-bit form, but only for Linux.

“The V8 team did some amazing work this quarter building a working 64-bit port. After a handful of changes on the Chromium side, I’ve had Chromium Linux building on 64-bit for the last few weeks,” said Chrome engineer Dean McNamee. Continue reading…

Last month iPhone rejected Google Voice app from its App Store which forced the FCC to intervene. Now according to reports from New york times, Google is working on an iPhone web app version of Google Voice which will not have to go through the iPhone approval process.

According to New York Times:

“Google says it is readying a replacement for the Google Voice app that will offer exactly the same features as the rejected app—except that it will take the form of a specialized, iPhone-shaped Web page. For all intents and purposes, it will behave exactly the same as the app would have; you can even install it as an icon on your Home screen.” Continue reading…

Gmail, known for its faster access & reliability, is one of the best free email provider that offers unlimited (or ever increasing?) mailbox space (Currently 7356 MB) with user friendly internet mail client. Apart from the basic mail settings available on other free email services, Gmail also has other settings that you might never use before , but may be useful for you in the near future. All of these settings are available from the Gmail “Settings” page.  How to Use Gmail in Offline Mode? Google Gears makes it so explains its extented ability to be accessed in the offline mode(when your network is not connented to Internet). Continue reading…

Google Chrome developers have announced that it’s working on a feature to sync your internet bookmarks to your Google account. 

The feature will launch for developers later this month but will come to consumer versions of Chrome soon. It’s just for bookmarks at the moment but Google Chrome OS will do the same with your data. 

Bookmark synching in Google Chrome will be push so anything you do in one browser will pop up straight away in any other windows you have open on other PCs. Continue reading…

If there are multiple Google AdSense ad units on a web page, it is generally assumed that the top ad unit (the one which appears first in the HTML source code) will serve the highest paying CPC ads. Well, that may be true most of the times but not always. Let’s understand why.

But before you dive into the example below, please watch this excellent video by Dr Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, as he explains how an ad auction works and what factors determine the position of AdSense ads on a web page for a given keyword.

The Google AdWords system assigns a “Quality Score” to every advertiser who is participating in the ad auction and this score is determined by the quality of the advertiser’s website, the historical CTR of his ads on Google and a couple of other factors. Continue reading…

On a trip to India where he received the Indira Gandhi peace prize, Bill Gates gave a surprising number of candid interviews.

The first big question, obviously, was about Google and the Chrome OS. Gates reiterated his earlier stand of how Google’s build-up and secrecy are a lot more exciting than the product itself.

“Everything Google hasn’t shipped yet is exciting. It’s after they ship it that it becomes not exciting,” he told The Economic Times.

While acknowledging that Bing won’t become the dominant search engine anytime soon, he quickly added: “But there are people within Microsoft who dream of such glory. After all, Google needs some competition and who the heck is going to do it but Microsoft?”

Gates also said that Microsoft was keen to work with former Infosys head Nandan Nilekani, who is now in charge of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI), which is set to roll out identity cards for all Indians from 2011. Continue reading…

If you are using Google Chrome browser and forgot login password details of any specific website then don’t worry because we have a tool which is capable to decrypt or recover the login secrets stored by Google Chrome . ChromePasswordDecryptor can automatically recover the login secrets by detecting the default chrome profile path for the current user and displays all the stored login credentials in clear text after decrypting them . This program can also display all the blacklisted website entries for which user has prompted Chrome to not to remember the passwords .

Other features of ChromePasswordDecryptor tool :-

1. With this program to take backup of the login secrets for the stored websites .

2. You can transfer the secrets from one system to another .

3. Helps you to store the website passwords at more secured centralized location .

4. It helps you to recover the passwords in case Chrome becomes not accessible or non functional .

If you want to know more about it that check this main website - Download Chrome Password Decryptor

Chip giant Intel told today that it was in cahoots with Google on the Chrome OS project.

A representative confirmed this in this morning.

He said: “We have been privy to the project for some  time and we have worked with Google on a  variety of projects, including this one. We welcome Google’s move here.”

The statement is likely to throw Microsoft into total panic. Intel and Microsoft were always “friends”, but some have speculated they’ve always been enemies.

Intel put its weight behind a light weight operating system for netbooks, based on a Linux kernel, and called Moblin. Some had speculated that the Google move would throw Intel, as well as Microsoft, into disarray.

It seems not.

Now Intel has put its cards on the table, and it must be up to Microsoft to respond to the direct challenge.

Microsoft was unavailable for comment at press time. And could not be contacted for comment.

Google will open its Google Wave service up to the public beginning on on Sept. 30, the company said this week.

Google launched Google Wave at its Google IO conference at the end of May, but so far the Web giant has restricted the service to 6,000 or so developers, Dan Peterson, a product manager for Google Wave, wrote on the company’s blog. Now, 100,000 members of the public will be invited to try out the service.

Google Wave is a unique hybrid of email, chat, and a blog, and some expect it to eventually replace some of Google’s other applications.

“In other news: this morning we announced that we plan to start extending the Google Wave preview beyond developers on September 30th. This will take place on wave.google.com rather than the separate “sandbox” instance we are currently using, and we plan to involve about 100,000 users,” Peterson wrote. “In addition to the developers already using Wave, we will invite groups of users from the hundreds of thousands who offered to help report bugs when they signed up on wave.google.com.”

Google did not say how invitations would be handled.

Google is currently working on the “speed, stability, and usability of Google Wave,” Peterson wrote.

Is Google stealing our content? That, anyway, seemed to be the suggestion when a European publishing group announced last week that it had garnered a number of supporters for its Hamburg Declaration, which calls for “urgent improvements in the protection of intellectual property on the Internet.”

This week, Google had a reply, which basically boils down to: Put up or shut up.

In a post written by Josh Cohen, senior business product manager, on the company’s public policy blog Wednesday afternoon, Google said publishers can easily tell search engines to take a hike. All it takes is a two-line piece of code, which he helpfully included in his post. Tuck that on your website, and no search engine will crawl it; the stories won’t show up when people look for content using search engines.

It’s unlikely that newspapers will call Google’s bluff. Here’s why: Google’s search engine and its Google News site sends 1 billion visits to newspaper websites each month. Those visitors drive up the traffic numbers that website ad rates are partially based on. More readers = higher ad rates, which is why few publishers will say no to Google’s traffic referrals. Continue reading…

Google Chrome has put the web in turbo mode. Native Client enables browser plug-ins to harvest immense CPU power for games, HD films and computing-intensive applications.

If everything goes according to Google’s plans, you will need only a browser on your system in the future. Without any additional tools, you will be able to do everything that you usually use your PC for: editing images, writing mails, burning discs, or playing action games with complex graphics. This all is enabled by a simple browser plug-in: The Native Client (NaCl). It runs programming code downloaded by the  browser from the internet. Its main attraction is that such code can be  written in C or C++, typically the former, which would enable even standalone applications like Nero or Photoshop.

More complex format like H264 can be viewed on Native Client

Take a first look

Google’s plugin executes web applications on the PC in order for these applications to work as fast as local programs, Native Client must have direct access to the CPU and RAM without putting the system at risk. The client isolates the programing code with two safety rings so as to protect the operating system. The inner sandbox scans the .EXE for corrupt code, while the outer sandbox checks the system commands which are to be executed. The Inter Module Communication layer allocates memory to be shared between the browser and NaCl.

More Power: Direct access to the CPU and main memory

NaCl converts code into machine language, stores it in the RAM, and allows it to be processed by the CPU. It therefore achieves high performance while making it appear as if the applications are being executed by the operating system. Furthermore,  as compared to the browser, it also features multithreading and can use the processor instruction sets such as MMX and SSE. As proof, Google compiled the Quake game engine for its client and compared the performance against the standalone version. The result: both versions achieve the same frame rate. According to Google’s calculations, even a worst-case scenario will show only a five percent loss in performance. These are values which other environments for Web code like Java, Silverlight, and AIR cannot even come close to. Additionally, the programs will have to be written freshly since the C languages do not cope well with them. Even languages like ActionScript are not powerful enough to be able to convert such sophisticated applications. But the Native Client has to overcome a different problem because of this: security. As a micro-kernel, NaCl assumes the role of the operating system for running its applications, allowing it to directly access the hardware resources. The code must be strictly checked so that it does not overwrite areas of the RAM where the operating system stores its data. This security aspect is critical and should be transparent to the user when the Native Client becomes active. It starts in the background as soon as it is required, without requiring user intervention. Continue reading…

BlackBerry and Android phone users can now take advantage of all the cool features included in Google Voice — a single phone number to control all of your phones, free SMS messages and also low-cost phone calls.

Thursday, July 16, 2009:  Google Voice has now arrived on mobile phones! Google Voice (previously called GrandCentral) is a free Google-owned Internet service that uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to link customers’ phone numbers together. Google Voice offers many great features, including a single number to ring your home, work and mobile phones, a central voicemail inbox that you could access on the Web, and the ability to screen calls by listening in live as callers leave a voicemail. The Google Voice mobile app is now only available for BlackBerrys and Android phones. But an iPhone version is reportedly in the works too.

“Previously, to place a call using Google Voice, you had to dial your own Google Voice number from your cell phone or use the Quick Call button online. With this new mobile app, you can make calls and send SMS messages with your Google Voice number directly from your mobile phone. The app is fully integrated with each phone’s contacts, so you can call via Google Voice straight from your address book,” Google explains in a blog post. Continue reading…

When you are searching for something or logging into your account error messages like ‘session time out’ or ‘unable to reach destination’ are quiet common. But Gmail displays you some interesting, funny and unique error messages such as:

Dear valued user,

You have reached the error page for the error page…

You win!!

The ‘You win’ line could help frustrate users to calm down as they have reached an unreachable error page and therefore regarded as the ultimate winners by the Google team .

Gmail’s meta-error page displays an effective and simple message:

‘Google can’t always win’.

So, you cannot blame Google as anything wrong could happened with anyone on this earth:). According to Google System this message sounds like the one from Google Reader:

“Oops! That wasn’t supposed to happen”.

Sometimes, Gmail neither display an error message nor an error page but a neat and clean blank page appears on your browser that lets you think for a while what actually is happening at the back end.

Google has announced a new application it hopes will make internet searches more relevent. The Google search options will let users to sort their results in several new ways to narrow their search result down. These include showing only pages with a certain type of content, those organized by date or time and graphical searches. There is also a ‘related searches’ option. This feature suggests other possibilities that could aid searches. A ‘Wonder Wheel’ uses graphics to show people how related topics are clustered together. Google Search options could prove particularly helpful for searches that are hard to express with keywords (such as ‘Show me discussions about the Oscars in forums’) or when you want to explore topics more broadly or refine them.

The tool will be available immediately so that when a user inputs search terms into the search box, there will be a ’show options’ link. Despite being the most popular search engine throughout the world, Continue reading…