TechCrunch has reported that they have received information that Google has finally decided to acquire Like.com service.
The search engine giant came close to acquiring this company back in 2005 but they decided against it at the last moment.
Like.com is managed by the same company that once ran Riya. Both the services are based on visual recognition technologies.
Google has been working on similar technologies in their search services and Picasa application. So, this acquisition would be a good technical boost for them.
Google’s celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man last week flooded Mozilla’s Firefox support forum with complaints about siren sounds and offbeat music. Most users assumed to be infected by an virus and posted posts for help. On Friday, Google posted a JavaScript-based version of Pac-Man on its main search page as an homage to the 1980 video game.
James Socol, a Web development engineer at Mozilla said “unfortunately, in the initial release [of the game], [the Pac-Man] sounds started playing automatically — an oversight or an homage to , I guess”.
Google added an option of using encrypted algorithm called SSL to daily search, that we do on Google’s search engine. The following feature is not available on regular search engine’s page that we know by address “http://www.google.com”, its available on a new launched site “https://www.google.com“. The new page takes care of privacy concerns that we share during search.
Google in its press-release stated
This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network [...] Google will still maintain search data to improve your search quality and to provide better service. Searching over SSL doesn’t reduce the data sent to Google — it only hides that data from third parties who seek it. Continue reading “Google introduces encrypted search with Secure Sockets Layer” »
Google announced Froyo with lots of new exiting features, but users have to wait to get it officially via OTA update. Nexus One is probably the only handset which is reporting all working functionalities with no crashes, while running Froyo. Now, for all those who just simply can’t wait for official availability can go for manual download of ROM. Continue reading “Download Link of Android 2.2 Froyo Rom for Nexus One” »
Google announced Android 2.2 tagged as Froyo with huge set of improvements forcing users upgrade their firmware unofficially, as manufacturers will take sometime to release Froyo. Here, we don’t want to go into that story, instead would like to highlight all the set of newly updated features in Froyo.
Google is releasing updates for Chrome at great pace and soon in future, it is destined to reach version 6. You may thing what’s the catch in receiving a version number, it’s the way in which the browser will be programmed to read your clicking habits and thus will automatically forward to a site. This feature is to be known as ‘predictive pre-connections’.
According to Trusted Reviews. Enter a search term and it’ll automatically pre-load in the background the pages you’re most likely to visit, reducing the amount of time it takes to display that Web site should you decide you actually want to go there.
Though it’s not been confirmed, we’re assuming the browser will base its predictions on data gathered from all Chrome users, and not just data harvested from an individual’s browsing habits.
Chrome web app store and Google M video format were yesterday’s two biggest announcement from Google I/O 2010.
Froyo as expected – the next Android update tagged version v2.2 was officially announced to the world. Google introduced a new compiler, which brings a 2-5x speed boost to the system. There are also 20 new enterprise features, including better Exchange integration and device administration APIs, a new backup application that will allow you to exchange data between devices. Android 2.2 also features a new cloud-to-device messaging API, over the air update and iTunes streaming of music to Android device . Google also introduced a new browser which they tagged it as “the world’s fastest mobile browser”. The browser is based on V8 engine – the same Java script engine which powers Google Chrome on desktop, more about it later when we get it to run. The voice command feature too got updated by adding voice triggers. It is basically the ability to distinguish different commands from a sentence and execute them.
Google TV was the next big announcement of the day. It will be an open platform as expected and will be heavily sourced for viewing video content with search integrated. When someone asked Google in comparison with Apple TV, they called it totally different refereeing it to as being completely open. The other aspect which is the hardware which will drive these TV’S were not shared, Continue reading “2nd day round up – Google’s I/O 2010” »
Google made a hit hard sort of statement during the official unveiling of Fryo – the next Android update dubbed version v2.2. Google claimed to have made the World’s fastest Internet browser available on mobile devices. Google has implemented the V8 JavaScript engine (which you may have heard of from Google Chrome fame) and JS in Froyo appears to be running somewhere in the region of 100% – 200% faster than JS in previous incarnations of Android, which is pretty impressive if we go by Google’s mouth.
Android popularity has been on the rise constantly and it shouldn’t be of any surprise that Google’s Android smartphone operating system took fourth place for the first time in the January-March quarter, beating Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday. The Android operating system, which was in 10 per cent of smartphones sold in the quarter, still lags Nokia’s Symbian, Research in Motion and Apple.
A 49 per cent jump in smartphone sales in January-March helped the global cellphone market grow 17 per cent year-on-year, Gartner said. ”Smartphone sales to end users saw their strongest year-on-year increase since 2006,” Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement. Continue reading “Google’s Android Beats Microsoft’s Windows Mobile for the first time” »
Google has announced that it has officially lifted up the use of invitations to use Google Wave. Instead of waiting for an invite, users can now access the service straight from the Google homepage. Google had said back in 2009, that it wanted to make the service available to all by the end of 2010 so it looks like it is ahead of schedule.
Speaking about the news, Google said: “We began previewing Google Wave with individuals and a handful of Google Apps customers six months ago. Since then, Wave has been used in a great many interesting ways. “It’s clear from the invaluable feedback we’ve received that Wave is a great place to get work done, in particular for teams working together on projects that involve lots of discussion and close coordination.”
. Both the services are based on visual recognition technologies.
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