Google Chrome OS based products would arrive late next year
Google has stated that they are aiming to launch devices based on Google Chrome OS sometime late next year.
This means you would be able to buy one for yourself next holiday season.
The company displayed an early prototype of the system and it looks [...]
YouTube getting automatic captioning capabilities
Google has announced that they are adding automatic captioning capabilities to YouTube.
It would use speech recognition technologies.
Users would also be able to provide text content in raw form and YouTube would try to match the content to the video automatically.
Google said that since this technology is [...]
Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information
Yahoo has become the latest search engine company to take help from Twitter to stay up to date.
The company has announced that they would start indexing data from Twitter and show it along with search results in the coming days.
Microsoft and [...]
Vevo launch set for December 8
The people behind the upcoming music video web service Vevo have announced that the official launch would take place on December 8.
Vevo would also be accessible through YouTube.
The service has been development for some months now and it aims to become the Hulu of music videos.
We cannot [...]
TechCrunch reports that Google Phone is coming soon
Google Phone is something we have been talking about since ages now.
Google entered the mobile phone market with their Android smartphone platform.
TechCrunch reports that the company is finally preparing to launch their own branded phone in the market.
They are going to sell it directly [...]
Samsung Galaxy Spica powered with Google Android
Samsung has launched another Google Android powered smartphone.
This new model is named Samsung Galaxy Spica.
It comes powered with a 800MHz processor and would feature DivX support.
The company said that this smartphone would also feature their DNSe 2.0 technology for better sound quality.
Unfortunately, Samsung is [...]
Motorola Droid sales touch 250,000 units in the first week
Verizon recently launched their Droid branded Motorola smartphone powered with Google Android platform.
Verizon Droid has been a success considering it sold more than 250,000 units in the first week of availability.
But this number is still nowhere near the sales of Apple iPhone.
Droid [...]
YouTube partners with Univision
Google owned video sharing service YouTube has now partnered with Univision.
YouTube would now host content provided by Univision.
The deal includes shows from Univision, TeleFutura and Galavision.
The two companies would now share the revenues generated from these shows hosted on YouTube service.
Univision is currently the leading Spanish-language program company [...]
Don Dodge joins Google
Don Dodge was one of the high profile individuals who was fired by Microsoft during one of their routine lay-offs.
He has now become the latest Google employee with a long history at Microsoft!
Dodge spoke about his new home in a blog post:
Thanks Microsoft, I’m going to Google! Vic Gundotra at Google [...]
Microsoft Bing market share in USA: 10%
Microsoft has almost gained a 10% market share in the USA with their Bing search engine.
Google had around 65.5% market share while Yahoo had 18% in the month of October as per the reports published by comScore.
Microsoft Bing has done well but it seems to be taking [...]
