Google bids a good bye to its 2007 launched first speech recognition service, 1-800-GOOG-411. It offered voice based search to deliver directory assistance to find business around the US and Canada. The shut down has been scheduled on 12th of November this year. Not much of the world will miss it since the service is currently [...]
Just after a few weeks of the release of Google Instant, the web giant has started testing another revolutionary feature that will greatly affect the surfing habits of web users. Presently, users from some parts of Asia and Europe have been provided the advantage of experiencing the new Full Page preview option of Google search. This [...]
After much wait, Google Goggles has finally been released for iOS platform. Android owners had been enjoying the advantages of beta version of Google’s visual search for a year or so and now iPhone owners have received the much awaited privilege. The app does not come with a separate entity, but as an update to the [...]
After a long wait, Skype has finally released an application for Android smartphones. After this release, Skype , the leading telephony service, has covered the three most popular mobile platforms-Android, iOS and Symbian. The app supports free Skype to Skype calls in the US over Wi-Fi. Outside US, it offers inexpensive rates to call other [...]
A few weeks back we had posted about the launch of Google TV and now just prior to its US launch, Google has put up its official Google TV website and Google TV Blog which clearly portrays the various features and characteristics of the upcoming service. The website provides a stylish interface with sections like [...]
To take advantage of the present trend of video calling, a new app called the Tango Video Calls has arrived in the App Store of Apple and Android. It is free and offers excellent video calls not just over Wi-Fi but 3G cellular network as well. Early video calling apps like ‘Facetime’ worked only over [...]
The acquisition list of Google got incremented with the news of another startup company called BlindType, being acquired by the former. The San Francisco based startup specializes in the domain of on-screen keyboard technology which it vehemently flaunts in its tagline “ Touch typing the way it should be. Accuracy not required “.
The much awaited update for developer version of Chrome 7 has been finally released with a unique set of features. This version with build 7.0.536.2 employs the experimental ‘about : labs ‘ feature to deliver excellence in web surfing. Beside a whole lot of security patches and bug fixes, the update also delivers numerous changes [...]
Google seems to challenge the web dominance of JPEG image format with its own format named WebP. After offering countless services in the fields of video codec, protocol transfer, programming language etc. , Google is aiming to take-over the image field with its new launch. The innovative feature in the new format WebP is the [...]
The inconvenience and annoyance in handling long URL’s have resulted in the development of URL shorteners.Google’s URL Shortener had started its web voyage with a handful of Google services like Feedburner, Google Toolbar, Maps, Picasa and Blogger. Now, Google has launched a new website named Goo.gl, which provides a simple interface to shorten URL’s and [...]
