Looks like Google is desperate to get Indians to start using Google+ as their primary social network. Google India has partnered with O-Zone to offer free access to Google+ wherever O-Zone has their hotspots (list includes CCDs, McDonalds, Costa Coffee etc. Complete List).
Although anything free is good for customers, this move sounds more like a desperate attempt by Google. India is one of the top users of Facebook and it looks like Google wants a share of that pie. This is probably the perfect time to refresh the College Humor’s hilarious video on Google Plus:
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With probably the lamest concatenated name ever, Google and Samsung have announced the (duh) Galaxy Nexus, the next pure Google phone from Samsung. With Google’s latest Android version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the Galaxy Nexus features a lot of cool features and an improved UI. Check out the video:
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You can check out the phone on the official Google site here. Here is how the phone looks like:
People have always had wondered whether letting Google read your personal email so they can show ads based on the content is a good idea. If you have had similar doubts Microsoft is hoping to escalate them to new levels using their new Office 365 campaign.
The catch phrase is kinda true, “Your email is your business. Google makes it theirs.”
If you don’t have any clue about what this is all about, you definitely need to see this video.
It looks like the Bangalore Police has some objection to Google’s Street View project in India. Just a few days after starting the ambitious project to enable street view imagery in India, Google had to suspend the project as the Bangalore police has some objections. The project has not been shut down, but will remain suspended until Google and the authorities kiss and make up.
“We can confirm that we received a letter from the Commissioner of Police regarding Street View. We are reviewing it and have stopped our cars until we have a chance to answer any questions or concerns the Police have” – said a Google spokesperson.
Google docs is a pretty powerful online office tool. So powerful that three people namely - Tu+, Namroc, and Metcalf create an awesome animation out of it by making 450 slides in 3 days!
Here is the video:
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Google released the Nexus S smartphone a few weeks back which redefined the android smartphone space and is the first phone to carry pure Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Here are a few tips and tricks from Google for the Android 2.3 Gingerbread mobile OS. Note that many of these tips will also work on Android 2.2, but some of them are specific to 2.3:
Google’s ebookstore lets you buy and read ebooks virtually on any device you want. The service stores your purchases on the cloud (as opposed to downloading locally on your device), so you have access to millions of book anywhere. Your reading status is synced to all the devices, so, say if you were on page 153 of a book when you were reading it on your iPad, you can continue from the same page when you open it up on your iPhone.
While it’s already been the #2 website on Alexa for long, Facebook has finally overtaken Yahoo to become the third most popular destination on the web. As per comScore’s data, in the last month (November 2010) Facebook had an estimated 648 million unique visitors from around the world compared to Yahoo’s 630 million. Google and Microsoft stood at 970 million and 869 million respectively. In the US, Yahoo is still #1 whereas Facebook stands at #4.
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Google and Samsung are all set to launch the successor of Nexus one, the Nexus S in the US. Nexus S is the next Google branded smartphone which is manufactured by Samsung and will be available both unlocked and with a contract with T mobile in the US starting Dec 16, 2010. No word on pricing yet. UPDATE: The Nexus S will go for $199 with a contract and $529 for the unlocked version at Best Buy.
Google India has launched a music search service for India. The service indexes online music sites serving Indian music (yes, that’s Bollywood music) and you can search for any song and listen to it online for free!
The index contains songs from sites like in.com, saavn.com, and saregama.com. The service has been launched under the labs umbrella.
