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We all know that everybody is jumping into the bandwagon of using the internet all over the globe, be it for fun on social sites like Facebook which by the way grew more than 400million users, or be it for “Googling” information they need.   Below is a remarkable video by Jesse Thomas portraying the state of the internet how sites grew up and where are we headed… JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on READ MORE...

Watch out! here comes the Google with superior Nexus One.. a fantabulous start of 2010   You can call the design the antithesis of the Droid: smooth, curved, and light, instead of hard, square and pointy. It feels long and silky and natural in hand. There are also three gold contacts on the bottom designed for future docking (possibly charging?) use. The package comes with the phone, a removable battery, 4 GB Micro SD storage card (expandable READ MORE...

Google has sparked mystery by launching an unexplained new year wish ..   If you go to Google, make sure the search box is empty and click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, you will see the blooming Happy New Year wishes all over the search box.     Google has released no statement explaining the hidden new year wish, but initial speculation that the search giant had advance warning of the end of the world appears wide of the READ MORE...

Today, Google Chrome for Mac is available in beta. Many MAC users have been looking for a more speedy, much reliable browser for along time. Similar to the windows version users can apply new themes for their pleasure, and just like in teh windows version you can view latest site that you opened in a thumbnail form. The Google chrome for MAC can now be downloaded by Mac OS X 10.5 or later users. Google has also released Chrome for Linux as well READ MORE...

While many of us might be inspired by how Pranav Mistry’s Sixth Sense technology might change the world, but Google is already a step ahead. Today at their Search Event in Mountain View, Google launched a new Google Labs project dubbed as: “Google Goggles”. So what is it? It is as simple as this, you point at a thing, take a snap, you can search instantaneously on the web using Google using image recognition. Currently an android app is READ MORE...

The wave of Google CEO Eric Schmidt joining Twitter with the username @eschmidt0, became a phenomena overnight. Clearly @ericschmidt0 was something very strange for guy like Schmidt. But just an hour ago the username @ericschmidt has been verified as the account of the mountain view chocolate factory’s CEO. The wonderful fact is  the account has over 5,400 followers already, thus brining into context how social media has changed our lives, how READ MORE...

Well today, when I saw that the likes of Google, buying premium text links on its primal rival, Microsoft Bing, I was astonished. The fact of the matter was when I searched for U2 songs on Bing, the first result within sponsored links that came up was, www.Google.com/Music New expanded search results when you search for musicians on Google! Look at the top link in the above image. You can search for any music band and add the term songs to it. READ MORE...

We covered an exciting story day before yesterday of Google selling bathroom napkins, but today we saw that Google is so famous, that people of many countries are now using the terminology, marginally changing it to their own sense for selling their products. The above picture, is of a IE page, with the title saying “ The world’s creamiest Gola”. for those of you not knowing the term “GOLA”, it is a ice popsicle made with fresh ice covered READ MORE...

In a very insightful week about Google, where is has released into the Public it’s Google Chrome OS and other innovations, we see something very humorous, extravagant and yet astonishing. Before we say anything here is what we meant via the Title. The image was posted by a Vietnamese blogger who highlighted an image named exactly on our favorite search engine, but with and indication of some sort of "2 ply bathroom paper" made from READ MORE...

  Since yesterday we have been covering non-stop about the newly announced open source OS from Google (Google Chrome OS). We told you about it being based on Ubuntu, but the latest update is that it’s also based upon the popular debian Linux as well.   Many of our readers are curious how to download the OS itself and how to go about it. While many looking for more insights. So for all of you out there, we present to you videos and READ MORE...

Last March, at TED, when I saw for the first time how India’s own Pranav Mistry came up with his design gadget called the SixthSense that augmented reality, turning every day objects of life into usable controls such as your hands, Tshirts, or even your PaperPad.   We at The Technology Cafe, are pretty much excited how this could not only change how we interact with objects but how education could leverage such technology, especially in READ MORE...

Earlier today we covered about the Google Chrome being demoed by Google with it being announced as an open source project for the rest of the world to build upon. Now that Google has announced and released the source code we bring you exclusive pictures of the Google Chrome OS. So without further ado…                                       And yes READ MORE...

Lets face it, Captions are great. They not only help us to understand stuff said or being portrayed in a video but also turn out be useful especially for the deaf and hearing impaired. Now with the power of machine translation, they also enable people around the world to access video content in any of 51 languages. Captions can also improve search and even enable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for. Today READ MORE...

The event of the day is all about Google Chrome OS, the highly speculated OS is said to be previewed in its early form today. Google is hosting an event today at its Mountain View, CA headquarters to showcase its progress, provide an overview of the platform, and give information on its “launch plans for next year.” Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management and Matthew Papakipos, Google engineering director for READ MORE...

It is quite remarkable about the Office space. Just a few day’s ago Google claimed people ca get rid of Office by next year via using its Google Apps. And today Microsoft just released it’s beta version for public testing at the Microsoft PDC. We told you about the Office beta being released in November. I have personally being using the Office 2010 (Limited Preview Edition) for months and simply the new office rocks. Below is the email I READ MORE...

Just yesterday we talked about Microsoft Bing gaining 10% market share in the US, after it’s release five months ago. Today we see again that bing is constantly trying to update its features which might help users to find relevant data quicker and easily with the launch of  ”latest posts from news sites” feature. As you can see, whenever you put a query related to a news site in the bing search bar, those sites, or feeds which READ MORE...

According to ComScore and qSearch, Microsoft’s retaliation against Google search, Bing has gained significant market share reaching out close to 10% market share of U.S. searches, thats 2 large points in five months. Clearly Microsoft must be doing something right. The good part coming from it’s recent deals with twitter and Facebook and then going on towards nutritional data search integration with Wolfram Alpha. The loser here is of READ MORE...

Now that’s a pretty big claim by Google.   From hiring Don Dodge to this, Google is doing everything to show Microsoft what’s it’s power is. In a year, most users including enterprises will have the choice to “get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to”, said Girouard, Google’s 3rd president along with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. That said, he expects Google Docs, to overthrow Microsoft Office in terms READ MORE...

As part of a global workforce cut down strategy, Microsoft recently fired Don Dodge, Microsoft’s “ambassador to startups” and a renowned industry specialists in assisting Startups to grow out of scratch. He was one of the pioneers of the Microsoft BizSpark program as well. Today, as TechCrunch’s Micheal Arrington, posts that, he learnt from “reliable sources” that Dodge was hired by Google for the position of developer READ MORE...

Is this really the Google we know? Gmail having problems since the past 7 months, then Google Apps, and now recently the newly announced Google social search to compete with the Microsoft Bing/Facebook/Twitter search deal is also down. Google gave a response with an email to Tech Social news publisher, Mashable: The Google Social Search experiment is temporarily down. We are working on it and expect to restore access sometime Monday or Tuesday I READ MORE...

This is good news, finally after long years after Google acquired FeedBurner, its users can use Google Analytics for tracking their feeds easily. The Google promises to bring features like how many Subscribers are there to your feed and also there you can view how much traffic came to your site from FeedBurner etc. If you use either AdSense for feeds or Google FeedBurner to track item clicks and also use Google Analytics, as of today, you will READ MORE...

I must say one thing about Google, despite being a tech giant they still celebrate the joys of life and humanity as whole with the whole world. We must have noticed that Google, is on the spree of changing it’s home page images recently. From Sesame Street’s 40 year celebration to discovery of the bar code. Today just after NASA announced that water on the moon was discovered, Google has updated its home page. NASA made the stunning READ MORE...