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Google announced that it is shutting down a few products that did not impress users, as part of its on-going clean-up acts. The products that get the bump this spring are Google Flu Vaccine Finder, Google Related, One Pass, Picasa for Linux, Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac. There is no shocking product in the [...]
American Public Media’s Market place gets to have inside look at the Foxconn factory that makes the iPad that you fondly hold. The visit by Market Place’s Rob Schmitz to Foxconn had the blessings of Apple. Market Place says that Rob’s visit to Foxconn factory floor in Shenzhen, China, is the first for any public [...]
Today’s Google Doodle is a special movie on horses in motion honoring the 182nd birthday of Muybridge, a motion picture pioneer and a killer. Edward Muybridge was born in England on 9 April 1830 and spent most of his working time in US. The Google Doodle honors his famous work that settled Leland Stanford’s question [...]
If you are interested in the latest on Genomics research (or any other niche topic actually) and want to use Google News, good luck. Google News can be pathetic for following news on Genomics. Google News, a automatic news aggregator that grabs headline from a number of news sources and groups them based on category [...]
On 1st April, Google took YouTube videos out of online and has made it available offline with YouTube Collection DVDs. If you subscribe to YouTube Collections, you will get a truck load of DVDs from Google offering the complete YouTube experience. The complete YouTube Collection costs just close to $2.5 million with about $60,000 for [...]
Google announced Gmail Tap, a better way to type using smartphone using just two keys slash and dot, just like Morse code. The problem is simple we are still using the old keyboard for the tiny smartphones and Google’s solution is ingenious. Use Morse code with just a slash and dot instead of the QWERTY [...]
The biggest question on every April 1st is is what will Google do this year? and Can Google come with a nice prank that will make you laugh. (Who can forget Google renaming itself as Topeka?). Just as when you think Google can not come up with something funny, this year Google announced Google Racing [...]
Google Maps has started its April fool prank little early with a new version of Google Maps, 8 bit Google Maps for the neglected devices like Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Google says that the 8-bit Google Maps is a product of the engineering team in Japan, which understood the importance of maps on retro game systems. [...]
Apple announced that it sold more than three million new iPads, in three days since its launch on Friday, March 16. Apple’s new iPad, simply named iPad to avoid confusion with its 4G LTE capability, features a new Retina display taht boasts more pixels than HDTV and powered by new A5X chip with quad-core graphics [...]