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Key Facts about Google Glass

- Monday, 16 September 2013 No Comments

Have you heard of the latest Google glass? If not, it’s the coolest and a must have gadget for 2013. Google glass which is wearable contains a head mounted display and is controlled by a microcomputer. The Google glass is lighter than ordinary pair of glasses and is equipped with a camera, a button for photo-taking, a touch pad, a compass, a micro USB charger, a bone conducing speaker, gyroscope and accelerometers.

Here are some of the key facts about Google glass:

1. Slick Interface

· Google glass has incorporated a simple & easy to use interface. This simple interface includes basic graphics and simple texts which are displayed at the corner of the glass.

· The interface does not cover the whole eye.

2. Google glass is an extension of the Smartphone

· Google glass has Wi-Fi & GPS applications that interact with the Smartphone.

· Google glass can transfer photos and videos to the phone.

3. Google glass run Androids 

· There was a speculation that Google glass was going to use a new OS or a variation of the Android OS.

· Google confirmed that it would embrace Android OS hence stopping the speculation.

4. Google can listen to you

· It is largely voice controlled.

· To activate it, lift your head or tap the side of the glass frame.

· Say, “OK Glass” then followed by a voice command like, “Take Picture” or “Get Direction.”

5. Camera can record what you see

· The Glass camera has been designed to record what you see either by taking photos or video.

· The videos and photos taken can either be stored locally or broadcasted via hangout.

6. Google glass can speak multiple languages

· Google glass has an inbuilt language translator.

· The translator technology is very powerful and detailed since it has been used in web browsers and phones for several years.

7. Google glass looks cool

· Google glass has tinted lens attachment which turns glass into Oakley-esque frameless shades from Sci-Fi prop.

· The device will in future be compatible with 3rd party frames like Warby Parker and Nouveau Vintage Brand. 

· The glass comes in different colors from white, black, grey, orange and blue.

8. Able to run 3rd party Apps

· The glass has the ability to read emails and maps.

· The glass can display headlines of applications into your eye line.

· The glass can read a story displayed on the lens after tapping the frame.

9. Product still not the final product

· The glass is still on its development stages.

· The glass that is in the market is the Explorer Edition’ designed for developers and early adopters.

· You have to pre-order the glass for it to be made for you.

· Final product is to be released before 2013 ends.

· Google glass is costing $1500 current price.

10. The final product might be cheaper

· The final product is hoped to be cheaper than the explore edition that’s costing $1500. 

· The cheap price will be attributed by large volumes and large sales.

11. Others

· Photos and videos from the glass are not shared publicly to the web but through a private Auto-Backup. Then from here it can be shared publicly.

· The glass quickly goes into stand still mode.

· The camera is not very powerful and does not have a zoom.

Contact sky numberfor latest developments. 

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Google Glass – The Most Incredible Product By Google

- Tuesday, 14 May 2013 No Comments

When it comes to innovation we can't forget about Google. Google has just changed our lifestyle completely it's changed the way we think. One of the most important factor which makes Google stand out of the crowd is its culture of doing different and innovation. Ever since with the inception of Google it comes year by year with its more and more innovative product and now Google has come up with its most innovative most incredible and of course we can say it is one of the most remarkable invention of the decade, which is Google Glass.

Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project, with the mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer.  Google Glass displays information in a Smartphone-like hands-free format, that can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands. While the frames do not currently have lenses fitted to them, Google is considering partnering with sunglass retailers such as Ray-Ban or Warby Parker, and may also open retail stores to allow customers to try on the device. The Explorer Edition cannot be used by people who wear prescription glasses, but Google has confirmed that Glass will eventually work with frames and lenses that match the wearer's prescription; the glasses will be modular and therefore possibly attachable to normal prescription glasses.

Glass is being developed by Google X Lab, which has worked on other futuristic technologies such as driverless cars. The project was announced on Google+ by Project Glass lead Babak Parviz, an electrical engineer who has also worked on putting displays into contact lenses; Steve Lee, a product manager and "geolocation specialist"; and Sebastian Thrun, who developed Udacity as well as worked on the self-driving car project.[13] Google has patented the design of Project Glass. Thad Starner, an augmented reality expert, is a technical lead/manager on the project.

Technical specifications


Android 4.0.4 and higher
No official information about display resolution, 640×360 suggested, as it is recommended for app developers
5-megapixel camera, capable of 720p video recording
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth
16GB storage (12 GB available)
Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 SoC 1.2Ghz Dual(ARMv7)
682MB RAM "proc".
3 axis gyroscope 
3 axis accelerometer 
3 axis Magnetometer (compass)
Ambient Light sensing and Proximity sensor

Take a look a world through Glass.

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Google I/O 2013- The Biggest Developer conference of The Year

- Monday, 13 May 2013 No Comments

“Be inspired by the tech world's latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs to create simple, life-improving technologies and viable businesses among a rich and diverse community of cutting edge developers.”

Google I/O is an annual developer-focused conference held by Google in San Francisco, California. Google I/O features highly technical, in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

Google I/O was started in 2008. The "I" and "O" stand for input/output, and "Innovation in the Open". The format of the event is similar to that of the Google Developer Day.

This year Google has announced that the Google I/O event for 2013 would be held at Moscone Center, San Francisco and will begin on 15 May 2013 and will conclude on 17 May 2013.

Many people are expecting to see the next big release of Android shown off at the event as well as some key upgrades regarding Chrome OS, Google Chrome and other services from Google. The registration opened on March 13, 2013.

Google Developers Live at I/O

Want to be part of the Google I/O 2013 magic? Tune in to the Google I/O site at Showtime to watch the keynote and technical sessions. If you are unable to tune in live, you can watch all of the recorded talks on Google Developers Live (GDL) shortly after I/O.

For more information visit Google I/O oficial website.

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Sometime Even Great Companies Fail - Top Google Failure Products Ever

- Monday, 4 March 2013 No Comments

Google is no doubt a global search engine giant, not only search engine there are lots of innovative products out there which is introduced by Google. They just changed our lifestyle. It’s true that every time Google try to experiment, they want to come up with more innovative products. But there is an old saying that “one can’t be empire in every field.” That’s what something happened with Google. Here are the top products by Google that failed, and finally Google had to shut down all those products.

Google Notebook

Google Notebook was a free online application offered by Google that allowed users to save and organize clips of information while conducting research online. The browser-based tool permitted a user to write notes, clip text and images, and save links from pages during a browser session. The information was saved to an online "notebook" with sharing and collaboration features. Notebooks could be made "public", or visible to others, and also could be used to collaborate with a list of users (either publicly or privately). As of July 2012, all Notebook data had been exported and Google Notebook was shut down.

Google Buzz

Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated into their web-based email program, Gmail.  Users could share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox. On October 14, 2011, Google announced that it would be discontinuing the service and that the existing content would be available in read-only mode

Google Answers

Google Answers was an online knowledge market offered by Google that allowed users to post bounties for well researched answers to their queries. Asker-accepted answers cost $2 to $200. Google retained 25% of the researcher's reward and a 50 cent fee per question. In addition to the researcher's fees, a client who was satisfied with the answer could also leave a tip of up to $100. In late November 2006, Google reported that it planned to permanently shut down the service, and it was fully closed to new activity by late December 2006, although its archives remain available

Google Lively

Google Lively was a web-based virtual environment produced by Google. It was discontinued on December 31, 2008. It featured three-dimensional atmospheres where users could interact with each other in a room and create avatars and cartoons to communicate with each other.

       Jaiku

Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and life streaming service comparable to Twitter.  Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year. It was purchased by Google on October 9, 2007.

      Google Video

Google Videos was a video search engine, and formerly a free video sharing website, from Google Inc. Before removing user-uploaded content, the service allowed selected videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provided the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube. This allowed for websites to host large amounts of video remotely without running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues. Google Videos was shut on August 20, 2012. The remaining Google Videos content was moved to YouTube.

Google Labs

Google Labs was a page created by Google to demonstrate and test new projects. Google described Google Labs as "a playground where our more adventurous users can play around with prototypes of some of our wild and crazy ideas and offer feedback directly to the engineers who developed them.

Google X

Google X was a project released by Google Labs on March 15, 2005 and rescinded a day later. It consisted of the traditional Google search bar, but it was made to look like the Dock user interface feature of Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Google did not release any official statement as to why the project was shut down. 

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The story of send - Ever wondered where an email travels after you send it?

- Monday, 1 October 2012 No Comments

Ever wondered what happens when you send an email?  How Does the email system Work? Google’s Story of Send Site Explains. Take a journey with Gmail and find out. The site itself is beautifully designed, in a very interactive fashion. It explains in pictures, animation, and video. What happens to your message, here’s a brief description : the message goes through your Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) pipes, over to Google, then to one of Google’s data centers, then to a server floor (where it is scanned for viruses, etc.), and then out to the

recipient.

And that message goes through those steps incredibly fast; Google says that more than 50 percent of e-mails sent through Gmail are delivered in less than a second. Along the way, discover Google data centers through videos, photos and more. It all begins when you click send. Click here to Follow an email on its journey

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Its 14th Birthday of The Search Giant - Happy Birthday Google !!

- Wednesday, 26 September 2012 No Comments

                  

Happy birthday Google !! Today (27th Sep)The Search Giant turns 14 In keeping with tradition. On this same day the Google was launched. But in terms of human age it is still in its teenager stage. Which also means that there are high school kids who have grown up with Google their entire lives. Today it is hard for many of us to imagine our life without the company not existing. Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.

The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in a friend's (Susan Wojcicki) garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee. In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed 1 billion for the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from May 2010 (931 million). Today when thinking of Google it isn’t just a search engine anymore but also one of the biggest advertising platform world wide , a software distributor and a mobile phone manufacturer.

Click here to travel through interactive timeline of Google history!

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The Truth - What Facebook and Google are Hiding from world.

- Tuesday, 13 December 2011 No Comments

Eli Pariser of the progressive organization MoveOn says the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don't even know it. In this TED Talk he calls out Facebook, Goggle and other corporations who are transforming the Internet to suit their corporate interests.

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Google Chrome on track to overtake Firefox in 2011

- Saturday, 1 October 2011 No Comments

According to data provided by StatCounter, Google Chrome is currently in position to rise above Mozilla’s Firefox and become the second most popular Web browser by December 2011. Google’s aggressive advertising for the speedy browser has helped growth over 2011. Starting with 15 percent of the market share in January 2011, Google’s current market share has risen to 23.6 percent as of September 2011. Google’s rapid gain in market share is likely attributed to users defecting from Internet Explorer and Firefox. Microsoft’s user share has dropped from about 46 percent at the start of the year down to 42 percent and Mozilla’s user share has dropped a little over five percent in the same time period.

Other browsers such as Apple’s Safari and Opera have experienced very little growth over the last year. In order to compete with Google’s rapid release cycle for Chrome, Mozilla has shifted from long development cycles for each version of the browser to a similar pattern of quicker releases. Google’s six week turnaround on new versions of the browser has helped the search company gain fans within the tech community and automatic updating of the software has also been helpful for people lacking technical skills with computers. Google has also been successful with a national advertising campaign around adoption of the browser, the most popular being a commercial playing to the nostalgia of growing up.
While StatCounter foresees a more rapid adoption of Google Chrome, competing firm NetApplication sees a wider gap between the various browsers and predicts that Chrome will overtake Firefox sometime next year. They also predict that Internet Explorer’s market share will drop below 50 percent of all users. Regarding mobile browser market share, Apple is currently in the lead with Safari on the iPhone and iPod Touch with over 50 percent of all mobile users. Google is in second place with about 16 percent market share through the Google Android OS.

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Google Launches iPad App for Browsing Catalogs

- Tuesday, 16 August 2011 No Comments

The iPad's popularity has prompted Google to revive a program that aggregated catalogs from major retailers.
The new app, called Google Catalogs, is designed for "all major tablet devices" though it is just available in an iPad version now. The app displays the catalogs in rich media. Dozens of retailers, including L.L. Bean, Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue are providing content for the app.
[More from Mashable: The 10 Most Expensive Google Acquisitions]
Google Catalogs includes features familiar with other tablet apps, like zooming and the ability to share content. But the app also lets you buy content via online stores. It also directs you to nearby brick-and-mortar locations.
Google shuttered a similar program, called Google Catalog Search, in 2009 because of a lack of consumer interest.

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Google buys about 1,000 IBM patents

- Monday, 1 August 2011 No Comments

Google Inc. has bought about 1,000 pending and issued patents from IBM Corp. in its quest to shore up its defenses against suits by other technology companies, according to documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Google and IBM spokesmen wouldn't comment Friday on the purchase.
The patent transfers were recorded two weeks ago and cover a range of technologies, many of which have little to do with Google's Internet search and advertising business. One covers ways of automatically adjusting a clock, another deals with surface treatments for electrical contacts.

But even patents that have little do with Google's business can be useful ammunition in the hyper-litigious technology world.
If it's sued over patents by a company whose business relies on technologies covered by Google's patents, Google can file a retaliatory lawsuit.
Phone makers that use Google Inc.'s Android software are being sued by Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. As a young company, Google has few patents of its own to counter with.
Kent Walker, Google's general counsel, wrote in a blog post in April that the explosion in patent litigation threatens to stifle innovation.
"But as things stand today, one of a company's best defenses against this kind of litigation is (ironically) to have a formidable patent portfolio, as this helps maintain your freedom to develop new products and services," Walker wrote.
Earlier this month, Google participated in an auction for a collection of 6,000 patents from Nortel, a bankrupt Canadian maker of telecommunications equipment. It was outbid by a consortium including Apple that paid $4.5 billion.
In the past year, Google has also bought patents from Verizon Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc.
The patent sale was first reported by the blog SEO by the Sea, which follows Google.

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While Google Plus Waits, Facebook Launches "Facebook for Business" Portal

- Saturday, 30 July 2011 No Comments

The latest cat-and-mouse battle between Facebook and Google is being fought in the business world – specifically, the world of business as it appears on each company's social network. And Facebook's newest salvo, a guide to "Facebook for Business," is a direct thumb of the nose against its scrambling competitor.
The company unveiled Facebook for Business earlier this week, but don't be alarmed by the title – it's not a new feature or page setup on the site for businesses. Rather, Facebook for Business is a small portal that Facebook created to show companies how they can maximize their social presence on the site.
"Businesses can learn how to find new customers before they search for them using
Facebook's targeted Ads, and bring customers from the Web into their stores. And we want to inspire small businesses by seeing how other businesses have found success on Facebook by sharing their stories," said a Facebook spokesman in an emailed interview with InformationWeek.
The five-page guide covers everything from a general overview of the relationship between businesses and Facebook pages to categorical, step-by-step instructions for helping neophyte companies navigate the world of Facebook (and its many features) for the first time. It's quick, powerful, and easy to digest for businesses that just need a quick hit of information in order to start using the service.
And the creation of Facebook for Business is undoubtedly tied (or at least, timed well) against the recent struggles of Facebook's new competitor, Google Plus. With businesses snapping at the door to join the service, Google Plus' inability to cope with the demand – and, indeed, doing much to prevent it by banning most branded pages from its network – has become a growing criticism of the upstart social network.
"The platform at the moment is not built for the business use case, and we want to help you build long-term relationships with your customers. Doing it right is worth the wait. We will continue to disable business profiles using regular profiles. We recommend you find a real person who is willing to represent your organization on Google+ using a real profile as him-or-herself," said Google product manager Christian Oestlien in a post on Google Plus.
Oestlien does note, however, that Google's planning to have its full-featured business profiles up and running within a few months. But with Google failing to realize the large corporate potential of its social service upon its release, Facebook appears more than happy to pick up the pieces during Google's downtime.

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Facebook beats Google as the most commonly typed domain in the address bar

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People are typing "facebook.com" almost three times more often than "google.com."

"Facebook.com" is by far the most common URL that people type into the address bar of their internet browser.

The URL statistics were published on July 25 by Christopher Finke, a software engineer and the creator of URL Fixer, a browser add-on that fixes human errors that are typed in the address bar on your internet browser.
Facebook.com is the most popular domain and accounts for 9 percent of all typed domains. Google.com is the second most typed address and accounts for 3.3 percent of all typed domains.
Youtube.com, gmail.com, twitter.com, mail.google.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, amazon.com and reddit.com also feature in the top ten most typed domains according to Finke.
According to website traffic monitoring company Alexa, the top 10 sites on the web by the amount of traffic they receive are, in order: Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, Live, Baidu, Wikipedia, Blogger, MSN and Tencent.

Finke notes in the comments on his blog that while "All of Facebook's properties (*.facebook.com) combine [to make up] 9.4% [of all typed domains]; all of Google's (*.google.com, YouTube, Blogspot, etc.) combine for at least 9.7%."
"The only locales where neither Google nor Facebook control the most popular domain are ru-RU (Russia - vkontakte.ru), fi-FI (Finland - aapeli.com, a gaming website), ko-KR (Korea - fomos.kr, an e-sports website), and zh-CN (China - baidu.com)," reveals Finke.

Not surprisingly, people often make mistakes when entering addresses into their URL bar and end up with all kinds of typos. Frequent variations on the top level domain ".com" include .com\, .ocm, .con, .cmo, .copm, .xom, ".com,", .vom, .comn, .com', ".co,", .comj, .coim, .cpm, .colm, .conm, and .coom.
"The website that appears to benefit the most from users mistyping a legitimate URL is faceboook.com (count the o's)," says Finke.
Scammers have taken advantage of the common typing error (which is typed once for every 7,930 times that facebook.com is correctly typed), setting up a website that makes visitors think they have been chosen as a "Facebook Winner."

http://www.chrisfinke.com/2011/07/25/what-do-people-type-in-the-address-bar/

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Google coming soon with new Android version 3.2

- Friday, 22 July 2011 No Comments

Google has finally announced the Honeycomb 3.2 operating system. It was announced in a blog post on the Android developer forum. This new version is dubbed as Android 3.2. This was in news since a long time but now it is finally there. This new version is better equipped than the earlier version.
What’s new with Android 3.2
It will support Qualcomm processors too; this is an added advantage and will improve its compatibility greatly. The apps of fixed size which are specifically designed for small devices will perform better. You are also provided with an option to manually choose whether you wish the application to be stretched to fit the screen or you would prefer a tad bit zoom. The new Android 3.2 also allows for media sync. Media sync is now possible straight from the SD card unlike the earlier version where it was possible only from the system memory.
Interesting Features

Google has made the new version more interesting by providing the control to the developers to use the system resources such as display resolution with relation to the application and its display. This will result in a much better view. Google is working really hard on the new Android version, so we need to be ready for more news about the release of update patches for tablets and gadgets. It is very likely, that the update will hit the tablets in the next few months. Some companies have already announced that they will release their tablets with the new Android Honeycomb 3.2.

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Google Labs is Closing - Is that Acceptable ?

- Wednesday, 20 July 2011 No Comments

Google Inc will shut down a website that offered public access to experimental products, the latest step by the company to refocus resources under Chief Executive Larry Page.
Google said it will "wind down" Google Labs, ending many of the projects offered on the site, in a move to "prioritize its product efforts," the company said on its corporate blog on Wednesday.
Google said that many of the products and technology from Google Labs would be incorporated into some of the company's other products, which range from the world's No. 1 search engine to its popular Android smartphone operating system.
Google Labs functions as a central hub for the various projects created by Google employees, who are allowed to spend up to 20 percent of their time working on side-projects. Google Labs products were available as prototypes that users could try out and provide feedback on, while Google made ongoing changes and adjustments.

Among the products listed as "alumni" of Google Labs on the Labs website are Google Maps, Google Alerts and Google Transit.
A Google spokesman said the closure of Google Labs was unrelated to the company's 20 percent time policy 
"We don't have any changes to announce regarding 20 percent time. We'll continue to devote a subset of our time to newer and experimental projects. In fact, we'll be focusing this same creative energy on bigger bets, with bigger potential long-term payoffs," the Google spokesman said in an emailed statement.
The closure of Google Labs comes a few months after Google co-founder Page took the CEO reins in April.
Last month Google said it was pulling the plug on a pair of products that let consumers monitor their home energy consumption and keep track of their personal health records.
On Google's second-quarter earnings conference call last week, Page said the company was moving to put "more wood behind fewer arrows."
The Google spokesperson said the company did not have any specific timing for the end of Google Labs, but said it would provide updates on the Google Labs website.

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Google to Open Research University in Germany

- Monday, 11 July 2011 No Comments

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin's oldest university says it is partnering with Google and three German institutions to start a research institute.

Humboldt University announced Monday that the institute would open in the fall and examine theevolution of the Internet and its impact on society, science, politics and the economy.

The institute will focus on innovation, Internet and media policy, philosophy and constitutional rights.

Google will fund the institute to the tune of euro4.5 million ($6.41 million) for the first three years. After that, the group is looking for other sponsors.

The Berlin University of Arts, the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the Hamburg Hans-Bredow-Institute are also involved in the project.