T-Mobile to release CellPhone with Googles Software "Android"
The software developed by Google for cellphones is called "Android".
Android allows you to access core mobile device functionality through standard API calls.
Combine information from the web with data on the phone -- such as contacts or geographic location -- to create new user experiences.
Android does not differentiate between the phone's basic and third-party applications -- even the dialer or home screen can be replaced.
The SDK contains what you need to build and run Android applications, including a true device emulator and advanced debugging tools.
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Google Web Tool Kit
Faster AJAX than you'd write by hand
Writing web apps today is a tedious and error-prone process. Developers can spend 90% of their time working around browser quirks. In addition, building, reusing, and maintaining large JavaScript code bases and AJAX components can be difficult and fragile. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) eases this burden by allowing developers to quickly build and maintain complex yet highly performant JavaScript front-end applications in the Java programming language.
How do I start?
1. Download the latest version of GWT
2. Use the Getting Started Guide to write your first app
3. Work through the in-depth GWT Tutorial
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Indian American whizkid behind Google Chrome
When search giant Google launched its own Internet browser, Google Chrome, on September 2, it has one Indian American to thank for making it possible.
Sundar Pichai, a technology whiz-kid and an IIT-ian, was responsible for the development of the Google browser as the company's vice president of product development.
"We realised that we needed to completely rethink the browser. The Web gets better with more options and innovation Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the Web even better," Google's Sundar Pichai said in a blog post.
Pichai believes Chrome can capture a sizeable portion of the market. His blog also said that Chrome was designed for newer online content, such as videos, television and music.
Chrome is an open-source Web browser designed to rival Microsoft's new Internet Explorer version 8 and Mozilla Firefox.
The browser can be downloaded for free and since it has an open source code, no rights will have to be paid by those who use it.
With this, the Google strategy to become the category leader in all Internet-related areas is very apparent. Currently, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has over 70 per cent market share, followed by Mozilla Firefox at a distant second spot.
Pichai joined Google in 2004 and now leads product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's search products, including Google Toolbar, Chrome, Desktop Search, Gadgets, Google Pack, Google Gears, Firefox extensions and Mac products.
He has over 12 years of experience developing high-tech consumer and enterprise products. Before joining Google, he held various engineering and product management positions at Applied Materials, and was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company for a variety of software and semiconductor clients.
He holds an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.
"He is responsible for our overall desktop strategy and ensuring access to Google services for our desktop users," said Google spokesperson Jay Nancarrow.
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Google Chrome-New Browser from Google
Google has launched its first ever browser on 02 September 2008.Visit http://www.google.com/chrome to download and start exploring.(For the moment, it's available only for Windows users, but you can sign up on the download page to learn when the Mac and Linux versions are available.)With the release of Google Chrome, JavaScript applications received a much needed performance boost. Google Chrome, the newly released open source web browser, incorporates a high performance JavaScript virtual machine called the V8. Mozilla is also working on including a high speed JavaScript engine called the TraceMonkey in its next release. Test results for Mozilla have shown almost 83% peformance improvement in JavaScript execution. So it seems that web applications that used JavaScript heavily have been breathed new life with the advent of these new breed browsers.
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A Little Piece of Google History: BackRub
As stunning as it might sound, Google is only the second name given to the Stanford students’ project. Philipp Lenssen, of blogoscoped.com, discovered that its precursor back in 1996 was called "BackRub" and that it was a search engine research project that was headed by who else than Larry Page, the last Page to wed, at the computer science department at the university.It was pretty impressive at the time, in August 1996, it had indexed 75 million URLs and its crawler
had downloaded 30 million pages. Given that the Internet was not the huge web it is today, that’s really a lot. BackRub was written in Java and Python based "on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux".Larry had had help from others with the project, on the homepage he thanked Scott Hassan, Akan Steremberg and (guess who!) Sergey Brin for their help, which means that, at that time, he was pretty much the owner of the whole thing. Unlike today when you hardly ever get to see him or see footage of him, back then he gave his mail address and phone number in the FAQ for help with any and all unanswered questions one might have had about the project.
Enlarge pictureThe change to Google came in 1997 and the homepage had two search boxes, one for searching Stanford and the other for searching the web, the number of search results per page was by default set to 10 and the mode of visualization was "clustering on". Philipp Lenssen refers to a cached copy of the BackRub engine from C63.be and gives the second picture on the left that has the Google logo all weird and with nasty colors. He does say that it might not be the real deal, but it’s the best piece of Google history so far. By the way, the hand in the first picture belongs to Larry Page. It was that small of a project.
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Inside Google's Manhattan Office
Google hosted a media day at their new office in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Hare are a few photos from our walk through the building.
Hit on following link to see heaven on earth--
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,a=190145,00.asp
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Google unveils rival to Wikipedia
Search engine has unveiled 'knol', an online, user-generated reference work that will seek to usurp Wikipedia---
As on Wikipedia, content on knol (the name comes from “knowledge”) will be free to access. In a departure from the non-profit Wikipedia model, however, knol's authors will be able to attach advertising to their work and take a share of revenues.
Wait for some more days...
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