Google recently announced the new Google Chrome Operating System that it plans to develop for small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.

In its official blog, Google said that Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and they are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year.

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Google rolled out new Web search features on Tuesday and an update to its “Sky Map” that can allow users of its mobile phones to figure out which constellations they are looking at in the night sky.

Google’s new “Search Options” lets users “slice and dice” search results, narrowing them down in time to results from the past 24 hours, the past week or the past year, for example.

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Internet search giant Google on Thursday expanded its push into the telephone market, offering a service that provides a single number for home, work and cell phones and turns voicemail into email.

Google Voice automatically transcribes voicemail messages into email or SMS text messages and provides a transcript in a user’s email inbox on their mobile phone or computer.

“When you receive a voicemail Google Voice will automatically transcribe it into text so you can read what the voicemail is about,” Google said in an instructional video on the company blog. Read the rest of this entry »

I am sure you have seen people who are that lazy to lift their fingers and find that simple answers or information via Google.

EDUCATE THEM!!!

It is time to tell them that they can find the info they need by doing a simple Google Search.

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Google began running small text ads on the pages of its Google News service this week, reviving a debate between the company and some struggling newspaper publishers, who have seen their businesses devastated by the shift of advertising to the Internet.

For more than six years, Google refrained from placing ads on Google News, in part to blunt criticism from newspaper publishers who were already unnerved that Google was building a competing news site using headlines and snippets of newspaper articles. Read the rest of this entry »

Accusing Microsoft of unfairly sidelining competitors, Google said on Tuesday that it would apply to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft over the company’s Web browser.

The case, initiated by the E.U. in January, accused Microsoft of illegally tying Internet Explorer to Windows to stifle competition in the browser market, breathing new life into issues that were at the core of the landmark Department of Justice antitrust suit against Microsoft a decade ago. The E.U. acted after it received a complaint from Opera, an Oslo-based maker of a competing browser. Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser, applied to join the case earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »