Posts Tagged ‘google’
Google discontinues Nexus One
This week, Google just received their last shipment of Nexus One phones. After selling all of those items included in the last shipment, Nexus One will no longer be sold online from Google. However, the customer support will be available for existing Nexus One customers to address their concerns. More »
Google’s Chrome OS to launch this fall
The much anticipated Google‘s Chrome OS is scheduled to go live on this year’s fall. Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP for product management, made the announcement earlier today during the CompuTex in Taipei. “We are working on bringing the device later this fall”, quoted from Mr. Pichai.
The Chrome operating system, according to earlier reports, will be designed for better internet experience on netbook computers. It will be an open source, lightweight platform that can power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. And most of all, the new operating system is going to be free.
The announcement was made shortly few days after Google announced the company-wide phasing out of the Microsoft operating system from the Google system.
Nexus One in the Philippines
After I learned about the rumors regarding the Google phone, I really got excited. It even grew worse when it was finally announced last January. It was a big disappointment though when Google announced that “the” Nexus One will only be available in United States and a few other first world countries. Hong Kong and Singapore are among the nearest choices but having the phone shipped would be troublesome since I don’t have any relatives or friends from these countries.
Google and Globe hosted Developer Workshop in Manila
Last weekend, July 20, 2009, Google, along with Globe and Ayala Foundation, hosted a developer workshop in Manila. The said developer workshop’s topics revolved primarily on the usage of Globe and Google’s APIs in developing applications for businesses and individuals.
Google Developer Advocate Patrick Chanezon discussed OpenSocial and Friend Connect APIs, Google App Engine and the recent developments and improvements in the browser’s Java Script engine. More »
HTC Magic Android, exclusive from Smart
An official announcement from HTC Country Manager Mark Sergio came in today saying that Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) will be the exclusive provider for HTC Magic™, the soon to be first Android-powered mobile phone in the Philippines.
The new Android phone will be available exclusively under SMART Gold plans by the end of June 2009.
Google Maps deploys batch two of edits
[A press release]
June 4, 2009, Manila, Philippines – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the push of the second round of Google Map Maker edits generated by local users in the Philippines to Google Maps, Google’s dynamic, collaborative geographic search platform. Some of the areas that received a virtual facelift in the latest push to Google Maps are Baguio City and Angeles City in the north; Bacolod City and Iloilo City in the Visayas; and Cagayan de Oro City and Koronadal City in Mindanao. Aside from adding street-level details, users have utilized other useful features of Google Map Maker for plotting landmarks and tourist attractions around the country, including the Merville Access Road.
GMail goes global
[A press release]
Google extends experimental features to international users as Gmail marks its fifth birthday
April 2, 2009, Manila, Philippines , Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Gmail Labs will now be available internationally in 49 languages. Gmail Labs is an experimental feature playground within Google’s free email service, Gmail.
Gmail Labs offers users useful and quirky tools to enhance and personalize their email inboxes. Initially launched in English in June 2008, Gmail Labs has offered 43 features in 43 weeks and most of these features will now be available around the globe in local languages including Filipino. Users can enable and disable Gmail Labs features individually with just a few clicks of the mouse. Some of the Gmail Labs features include:
- Offline Gmail – access your email and compose messages even when you don’t have an internet connection. Changes are synchronized when you reconnect to the internet.
- Undo Send – retract an email for up to five seconds after it has been sent.
- Mail Goggles – within a chosen time window, this tool allows you to send mail only if you can solve a set of simple math problems. Otherwise, get a good night’s sleep and try again in the morning.
- Forgotten Attachment Reminder – prevents you from accidentally sending messages without the relevant attachments by prompting you if you have mentioned an attachment without adding one.
- Tasks – adds a to-do list to your inbox. You can create tasks manually, or directly from an email, and edit your list from your phone while on-the-go.
The announcement coincides with the fifth anniversary of the launch of Gmail on April 1st, 2004.
YouTube EDU, an educational video repository
YouTube, the world’s leader in online video, opens a new section called YouTube EDU. YouTube EDU is a “volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities“.
The new section, launched last March 26, 2009, contains videos on university lectures, seminars, documentaries, video references, lessons, and other videos that are educational by nature. YouTube EDU simply aggregates all the educational videos uploaded to YouTube by different colleges and universities in the world.
This new feature is very promising but it sill needs a lot of polishing in terms of video filtering. There may be a lot of good videos (helpful, relevant and educational) within the section but some useless videos were not filtered out.
The announcement was made in Youtube’s release notes for 3/26/2009.
