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Google announced that Dylan Hoffman, second grader from Caledonia, Wisc. is 2012 U.S. Doodle 4 Google National Winner. Hoffman, from the Prairie School in Racine, Wisc., came up with his Google Doodle named “Pirate Times” featuring a pirate ship on treasure hunting trip in an island. Dylan’s submission was under this year’s theme “If I [...]
Google announced that it has selected 70 young women students for Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for the year 2012. The winners mainly comprise of undergraduate and graduate students attending universities in United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East or Africa. The winners of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship recipients will receive $10,000 award for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google announced that it is acquiring TxVia, a payment technology company, for boosting its Google Wallet. The highly anticipated Google Wallet- Google’s effort to replace the whole wallet with smartphone- has not taken off as expected. In addition, Google Wallet team seem to have been in the flux. Just earlier this week, Gigaom reported that [...]
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. [...]
Google is celebrating Valentine’s day with a special Google Doodle for Valentine’s day that spreads love in the air. In the special Google Doodle, the second “o” is a clickable animated YouTube video that plays the song “Cold, Cold Heart” by Tony Bennett (Courtesy of Columbia Records and Sony/ATV). In the funny video, a skipping [...]