It’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature. Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you …
How Can You Find Out Who Is Googling You?
Have you ever Googled a coworker or yourself? Wouldn’t you love to know who is Googling you? Or be notified as it happens? Unfortunately, Google doesn’t reveal this type of information. To obtain this information, you have to set up …
Google Apps for Education FAQs Answered
As funding becomes tighter and schools are looking for ways to save, switching to Google Apps for Education makes sense for many school districts. The decision is one that is often preceded by a lot of questions from school boards …
Google Books Adds Shelving Options
Google recently announced two new enhancement to Google Books. You can now browse through many of the Google Books categories using a horizontally scrolling interface. This same horizontally scrolling interface is also applied to the collections of books that you …
With Google Reader You Can Now Follow Updates To Any Website, Feed Or No Feed
Is there a site that you check often for updates or changes, that just does not offer a feed for their website? Well, if so, Google has a new tool for you.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/01/26/follow-updates-website-feed-feed/…
OU adopts Google Apps for Education
The Open University (UK) will be using Google tools to support student internet services. “In our first foray into cloud computing, Google will be hosting for our students email (gmail), contacts, instant messaging and presence, calendar, document creation, storage and …
The Ultimate Google Wave Guide for Students: 100 Tips, Tools, and Tricks
Students are always on the hunt for tools that save their time and trouble, especially on homework. That’s why we’ve generated this list of tips and tricks for using Google Wave, a powerful collaboration tool that lets students manage projects, …
Get Organized This Semester With Google Calendar
One of the best things you can do to start your semester off right is to leverage free online tools to help you manage your classes. In this article, you will learn how to manage your schedule and get organized …
Google Docs Becomes Google ‘Any File’ as Cloud Wars Heat Up
Google is now offering a small virtual hard drive in the cloud so you can access all sorts of files anywhere — the latest salvo in an arms race to become the dominant player in cloud services.
Google’s Nexus One Smartphone Revealed
The Google Phone has been officially revealed. After weeks of leaks and revelations, the search giant is finally telling the story behind its self-branded smartphone, which Google calls a “Superphone.” The cellphone is not available in Canada yet.
http://mashable.com/2010/01/05/its-official-googles-nexus-one-phone-revealed/
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Google Adds New Features to Help You Search Faster
Google is officially obsessed with speed. If real-time search didn’t convince you of that fact, then take note of two new features with speed also at their core: universal search features in Google Suggest and Quick Scroll for Chrome.
http://mashable.com/2009/12/11/google-suggest-quick-scroll/…
Google Phone’s Existence Confirmed; It’s Unlocked, Thinner Than iPhone
At last, the Googlephone has appeared. Forget the Droid, the G1 and all those other Android wannabees: Google is testing its own handset, the search giant confirmed over the weekend.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/google-phone-in-january-unlocked-thinner-than-iphone/…
Why Google doesn’t want your money
Do you love Google? Would you pay to use their services? They wouldn’t let you, even if you forced the money into Eric Schmidt’s clammy hands.
Google Launches Real-Time Search
We knew it was inevitable, and now it’s here: Google has just launched real-time search integrated into search results pages. Google real-time search updates as stuff is happening around the Web — for example, live tweets, Yahoo Answers, news articles …
Google Zeitgeist 2009
Another year has come and gone, and as always, we’re taking a moment to look back at the happenings of 2009—the people, events and memories that made this year unique. Each year, Google examines the billions of queries that people …