12.14.07 - 04:32pm
Google’s Picasso is a free download that lets you locate and organize your photos, edit and add effects, and share your photo’s with others. Google has now upgraded Picasso to work perfectly on the iPhone.
Picasso’s mobile interface is now proportioned to fit the iPhone’s screen. The control buttons have been re-made for quick navigation and Google has even created a slideshow feature specifically for the iPhone.
The reason for Google’s quick work on enhancing its iPhone application is most likely due to the fact that iPhone users are three percent more likely to surf the web than other mobile phone users.
The new Picasso is available only in English for the moment. To get the new Picasso simply log into picasa.google.com and you will be automatically switched to the new interface.
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11.05.07 - 01:25pm
Google has announced that it is entering the cell-phone world, not with a phone but with a software platform that will run on as many phones as possible. The platform is named Android.
Andriod will be the first ever “open” mobile phone platform, created to make the internet more accessible to subscribers on the move. “Our vision is that the powerful platform we are unveiling will power thousands of different phone models, ” said Eric Schmidt, Googles chairman and CEO.
So far there are 34 mobile phone companies who have signed on to to the Google alliance called the “Open Handset Alliance”. Unlike Apple’s closed iPhone the Google based phones will be specifically for open sources and open technology with the Android program based on the open-sourced Linux. “This partnership will help unleash the potential of mobile technology for billions of users around the world,” said Schmidt.
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08.07.07 - 02:16pm
Last year there was an estimated 1.5 billion in adverts spent in the mobile phone industry. That number is expected to grow to 14 billion by 2011 and Google, master at making money of adverts, wants a huge piece of that action.
Rumors of a “GPhone” made by Google have been circling for some time now and according to a Wall Street Journal Report, there may be one coming out by the end of 2008.
The “GPhone”, as it is being dubbed, would be a very different deal than the iPhone. Google, it would appear, is not interested in making the coolest device on the market but rather getting their software and access to their search engines and thus to their adverts into as many cell phone devices as they can - this is where Google can make the most money.
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05.14.07 - 11:49am
Graduation! It’s here - finally after four, or in Van Wilder cases, seven or so years of all night study (parties!), pots of coffee, many cans of mountain dew and no-doze. Congratulations you made it!
Now it’s time for the real world, yep that means a job and where is it that most everybody
wants to work? Well, according to the Universum Communications’ 2007 Most Desirable Undergraduate Employers, Apple - makers of our fabulous beloved iPod and soon to be released iPhone - is number three of the most desirable U.S. employers. They are trumped only by Walt Disney (guess Mickey still rules) who came in at number two and of course Google (soon to be rulers of the world!), who hit number one on the list.
Apple beat out rivals Microsoft who hit number nine and Sony who was up the list a little at number 17. The U.S. State Dept. followed behind Apple at number four with the Peace Corps being the fifth most desired employer.
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03.26.07 - 10:15am
In recent months Google has been rumored to be building a phone that would be in direct competition to Apple’s much hyped iPhone. The rumors have abounded in spite of an apparent partnership between the two companies. However, Google on Friday terminated the rumors as Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research stated in an interview, “We’re not doing a mobile phone. I’d like to find something that is broader, rather than do yet another mobile device.”
Google instead is working on software to be used in not one but hopefully in many different mobile phones. They are building friendly mobile phone applications that include e-mail, online maps and search engines for on the move web goers.
Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster wrote yesterday that, “We believe Google is working with, not against Apple in the mobile world. Google is probably building mobile applications that will work with the iPhone and other devices.”
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03.06.07 - 05:16pm
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….And the gloves come off - Microsoft, Apple and Google - the three big bad boys of the computer business, are starting to play dirty and it would seem that Microsoft is starting to have not just Apple, or just Google to battle separately (the no man is an island must have hit home with them), for it would appear that Microsoft will be battling Apple and Google together making a far more indomitable opponent than either one of them could be working alone - Is it possible that the great giant Microsoft will fall?
Microsoft may have been Apple’s savior back in 1997 when instead of not releasing their Mac Office 97 (something that may possibly have met the end of the already foundering Apple), they instead boosted Apple with a 150,000 million dollar investment and went on a full marketing campaign, keeping Apple alive. This may of course have been self motivating as at the time they were in full anti-trust government lawsuits and drowning their only competitor left dog paddling along certainly wouldn’t have helped matters. So in the end they saved Apple, and now like the scorpion riding on the Frogs back, Apple may be paying Microsoft back with a slow death. (the wonderful world of business)
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