Jul 20, 2011

  Google has announced that it has joined hands with J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore to distribute Harry Potter ebooks through its array of literary products. The Inside Google Books blog said: Pottermore and Google are teaming up to integrate Pottermore with a number of Google products and APIs. So when the series of Harry Potter ebooks launches on...

Jul 4, 2011

The age of Google has also come to be known as the age of information overload: you get thousands of search results for a simple look up. But how to find the most relevant content? That is the key question.   Thankfully, there are some specialized websites that help us narrow down our search to find relevant and good content, using expert reviews and votes...

Google’s blogging service blogger.com has gone into a long maintenance mode due to technical glitches even as engineers are working overtime to get things working. Blogger is attributing the issue to a problem that occurred during regular maintenance on Wednesday. A post on the Blogger Help Forum explains: We have rolled back the maintenance release from...

May 10, 2011

Google will soon be launching the “Ice Cream Sandwich” – a new version of its Android operating system that packages the best of Honeycomb (Android software for tablets) into Android for mobile devices. Google announced plans to release Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of the year at its developer conference in San Francisco, and promised that it...

All fools’s day happened to be yesterday and cerain individuals and organisations made it their mission to befool as many of us as possible. Let’s see some of the follery that was done: Search engine giant Google played its annual April Fools prank on its users. Millions of search customers woke up to see that Google had changed its name to...