GOOGLE CHROME Disappoints

Googles latest offering, GOOGLE CHROME (internet browser) fails to meet the expectations. The interface is not very attractive when compared with Mozilla firefox and Internet Explorer 7. The installation takes more time. It took almost 7 minutes on my Notebook which runs windows vista home edition. Initially the installation showed errors like initialization error (Oxc0000135) and then application error.

My third attempt finally forced GOOGLES CHROME to get installed. I expected more from google when they announced the release of CHROME since they already have master players like Mozilla Firefox, Internet explorer, Safari, Opera to compare and compete. Many of the important features were missing (hope they will have more patches ). Lets wait and hope that google will soon bring out an extended version of the present GOOGLE CHROME and why not - Its Google, they will definitely bring out the best - take gtalk instant messenger as an example.

Yahoo hires Google for Boosting Profit

Yahoo has hired Google to sell some online ads in hopes of boosting its profit. The Sunnyvale-based company announced the plans late Thursday after its stock plunged 10 percent on news that its efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft had hit a dead end.

Yahoo Inc. is now counting on Google Inc.'s superior moneymaking system to appease its angry shareholders. By using Google's superior advertising technology, Yahoo believes it can boost its annual cash flow by $250 million to $450 million in the first year of the deal.

The partnership could last up to 10 years if it can win antitrust approval.

Internets Big Fight

Every major player in technology wants to create the next great platform, of course. What's new here is that it's possible for any number of them to succeed. The Internet is a much larger playing field than PC operating systems. Who will win the rally is impossible to answer.

Apple, Google and Facebook are 3 innovative companies of the silicon valley representing the fundamental phase of information epoch by their current entry into the social networking domain.

Google advocates open web standards where as Facebook with 70 million users have a different approach. They offer more controlled experience and keeps its users safe within its walls. Apple is entirely different from both - they concentrate on their hardware section. They do have a web services like iTunes music store. Apple comes from the old world. Its elegant products cocoon customers from the chaos of the information age, but the Apple experience tends to be highly controlled, with Apple hardware at the end points and Apple software and services, like the iTunes Music Store, in between.

All the players are in for making Big money. With all these one can conclude that the future of Internet is at stake.

A New Theme For Gmail

Take a look at my newly designed theme for Gmail by Gdesigns. Shoot me a comment incase anyone of you require this tweak. Click on the screenshot for a larger image. I think it looks good. Some might agree to this. The startup screen also looks cool.

My Funky Gmail screenshot

Google groups banned in Turkey

Internet users of Turkey finds it difficult now. Google groups services are now blocked for them. Google groups has a big database of discussion forums.

The order was brought out by the court of western Turkey. Whenever a user tries to login to this page.. It gets redirected to a turkish page and also gives out a message like - "Action Suspended" !. The ban was on the basis of no instance.

They had earlier blocked Youtube which is now a part of google.

iGoogle now with new themes

Google has launched a new collection of themes for iGoogle, their personalized homepage site. Sources say that they took the help of some world leading artists. It almost took 70 artists to design the theme sketch for the users to choose from.

Since Google looks to find new and unique themes for their brand, all the artist were from various backgrounds. Oscar de la Renta, Anne Geddes, Marc Ecko, Coldplay, Jeff Koons and Diane von Furstenberg, among many others. On this special occasion, Pop artist Koons made a special Google DooDLe.

Google working on offline Gmail client?

There are lots of rumors floating around at the moment about Google possibly working on a client-side version of their super-popular Gmail e-mail service. The standalone program would allow users to store their emails on their own computer and work on email offline, even when not connected to the web.

While I wouldn't put this past Google, it doesn't really make a ton of sense to me. Sure, it's convenient to be able to write your emails offline, I suppose, but you can use plenty of standalone clients with Gmail already. Google probably wouldn't bring much new to the marketplace, and I don't see a huge benefit to them investing the man-hours into creating a piece of software that they'd then have to support on many different computers. It seems to me that they should just stick with the online client, but I know better than to question the wisdom of the great G.

Google Adds Satellite and 54 New Countries

Google added 54 new countries to Google Maps ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen and has plans to add even more countries in the coming months. Along with the Google Maps addition, DigitalGlobe, provider of Google's satellite images, is launching a new satellite on Tuesday. For fans of Google Earth, the WorldView-1's launch will be broadcasted live.

Check Local Times with Google

Make Google your personal scheduling assistant with the search phrase what time is it. I know, I know, your computer has a clock—so why do you need Google? To find the local time in any city. For example, searching for what time is it London will return the time in London. If you don't insert any city after the search phrase, Google will return the time in your local city and the big 7: Washington D.C., Denver, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Chicago, Phoenix and Anchorage. While you're using Google to check the time around the world.

The Google Master Plan

I’ve come across this interesting movie clip called The Google Master Plan in Youtube quite some time ago. It’s a movie directed and produced by Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer for their Bachelors’s Thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany.

The movie basically talks about how Google can use their free services like Google Search and Gmail with their gigantic database for some known, and possibly unknown, purposes. Well, it talks about our privacy as users of Google free services as well. Needless to say, it got me ponder how powerful Google is nowadays.

I’m sure you don’t want to miss this awesome video clip :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKXCQpUnMg