Google Phone- Nexus One

In the current telecommunications market, smart phones like iPhone, droid.. are selling like hot cakes. There is a huge competition by leading players like Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola to dominate the smart phone industry. Now there is an another major competitor added to the list.It is the web gaint Google.

From past few years Google was involved in the Cellphone industry via its mobile O.S Android. Now after catching everyone's attention and having gained the momentum, Google is all set to sell its own phone, built by HTC and named the Nexus One.

The cell phone will be released in Jan 2010. It will sell the Google Phone online and the good news is it will be unlocked!!, so you’ll need to buy your cellular service separately. The software would be Android 2.1 and hardware will be built by HTC. 

 

Below is the extract from the leading social media site "Mashable" about the possible cell phone and its plan details

"Here are some of the key details you should know:

- Price: $530 unsubsidized and unlocked (ouch!), $180 subsidized on the T-Mobile network with a 2 year contract.
- Rate Plan: $79.99 per month on T-Mobile, which includes unlimited texting/MMS and web data, along with 500 minutes. This seems to be the only plan available, even if you’re already on another plan with T-Mobile
- Purchasing: You can buy up to five Nexus One phones per Google account.
- Cancellation: If you cancel within 120 days, you have to pay the subsidy difference ($350) or return the phone to Google.

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Enjoy the new year gift by Google!!.

Happy holidays from Gmail-Free Gmail Postcards

Nowadays most  people use email for not just conversations, even to send personal invitations for important occasions, greetings.... Email has almost replaced the postcard which was widely used send greetings  just a few years ago. I personally like getting greeting cards rather than emails. If you are one who wish to mail cards this Holiday season and don't have time to mail cards to your dear ones, then think of the option by Google which has come up with Gmail Happy Holiday Cards ,where you just need to fill a simple online form and Google will send one free postcard on behalf of you. Isn't it cool!!.

You can type in your message of maximum 255 characters. This card will only be delivered if the address in is USA. The cards come with are of 6 designs and you can choose one. I like "M-velope in Snow" and "Snowflakes" design. This is a limited till the supply lasts. So Hurry!!

Google Chrome OS Open sourced today

After the much speculation about the release of Google Chrome OS this week, finally Google has announced that from today onwards the Chrome OS project will be open sourced. According to them this measure will help the open source community, developer and their partners to engage themselves to in Chrome OS project before the product will be released to the users which is expected to be done next year.

Chrome OS which is a part of Chromium project, is an open-source project that aims to provide a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.

Chromium project also includes Chromium which is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.

If you are a developer/ open source community member and want to be of this project check the details here.

In brief, if you want to know what Google Chrome  OS is all about and wonder whether it will be secure enough check the videos below

Doodle 4 Google

Google doodle results were announced today on the occasion of Children’s day. Three kids Sriradha Kapoor, Puru Pratap Singh, and Anamika Sonai were announced as winners in their respective age categories for this year. Their doodle’s will be showcased throughout the day on India’s Google homepage. For those of you who are wondering as to what is a doodle, as per wiki definition doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or can be just abstract shapes. Google has had this tradition of creating a doodle to honor famous personalities or celebrate important days around the world. It also conducts a contest every year in different countries with children of different ages taking part to create doodles centered on a particular theme. This year the theme was ‘My India’.

Author: RSB

Google Celebrates Discovery of Water on the Moon

NASA has found water on the Moon. It is really a great moment in the history of mankind. Everyone needs to acknowledge the hard work  done by all the scientist across the world so far to accomplish this. Check the link for more news.

This calls for a celebration. Probably even Google is celebrating this occasion by showing "Discovery of Water on the Moon" logo on their web page(Google search).

Google Chrome OS ready to be launched!!

Are you a Google fan? Thinking of trying a new operating system? Most of you all might know/heard that Google will be releasing its own operating system and you might be excited about its release. Wondering or waiting impatiently for its release. If so just wait for a week more and you probably  might be using Google Chrome OS.

According the article posted by Michael Arrington in Techcrunch website, Google will be releasing Google Chrome OS next week. Read his article where he mentions what we can expect in Google Chrome OS.

Here is an extract from Google's Blog about Google Chrome OS as posted on 77/09

"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

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"Go" A new programming language by Google.

Google has launched its own programming language called Go.

Here is an extract from the Google's Blog describing  about Go.

"Here at Google, we believe programming should be fast, productive, and most importantly, fun. That's why we're excited to open source an experimental new language called Go. Go combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++. Typical builds feel instantaneous; even large binaries compile in just a few seconds. And the compiled code runs close to the speed of C. Go lets you move fast.

Go is a great language for systems programming with support for multi-processing, a fresh and lightweight take on object-oriented design, plus some cool features like true closures and reflection.

Want to write a server with thousands of communicating threads? Want to spend less time reading blogs while waiting for builds? "

For more information about Go visit golang.org also check out the Go tutorial here.

 

 

 

The Go Programming Language Promo

The Go Programming Language