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G Phone

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

G-Phone is Finally here!

Another great leap to mobile technology is the historical launched of the newest phone – Samsung Reclaim.

Launched in August 6, 2009 by Sprint, Samsung Reclaim is the green phone that all environmentalists in the world have been waiting for. The new eco-friendly phones comes in two colors – green and Ocean Blue – both environmental colors.

What made this phone more eco-friendly is that the green phone is made up of 80% recycled materials while the packing is made of 70% recycled stuff.

Compared to regular handsets, the outer casing is in 40% bio-plastics. Also, its charger consumes 12 times less power.

With the phones features, it has direct button in the phone to instantly connect the users to Discovery Channel. The $50 Reclaim has a Qwerty keyboard, 2-megapixel camera, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0.

According to reports, aside from the Samsung Reclaim, Spring will start showcasing and promoting other green-oriented products. The carrier is committed to reduce their own greenhouse emissions by 15% at the same time increase renewable energy usage by 10% on 2017.

With the launched of this newest product and the advent of the great competition in the industry, for sure, there will be more eco-friendly products that will be introduced sooner. Who knows, a GreenBerry is about to come?

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Google to build community with iGoogle’s ‘social gadgets’

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Google creates a community within its iGoogle through the recently launched ‘social gadgets’ in Australia. This service will be available next in the US and then to other markets where social networking is a hit. The release on other countries is still undetermined but will surely follow. The service is said to be built on the Open Social platform.

Google somewhat copied the power of Facebook and Twitter as the new IGoogle ‘social gadgets’ have similar applications with the two hit social networks in the world.

Today, there are 12 social gadgets available. Third party developers made eight of these social gadgets. We all know that casual games became a huge hit in Facebook. This maybe practically the reason why there are more casual gadgets developed for iGoogle. Picasa and Flickr are also part of the gadgets as the photo sharing apps while a to-dos gadget is now included in the first set of the social gadgets available. A Twitter-like app, which is tagged as ‘Timeline’, will provide iGoogle’s users the environment of being in a social site.

According to Google, their personalized homepage has millions of users making it the fastest growing product of Google. The additional feature added to iGoogle, making it socially attractive, will make this product more popular.

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Facebook connects with Android

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Good news to all Facebook addicts and Android users! Now, it has come to the tech world news that the two companies – Facebook and Google – are joining together to bring the first Facebook page running in Android!

Yes, you read it right! Though the two companies are yet to confirm in their separate official statements, there are series of leaked screenshots of experiments conducted for Android for its Facebook page availability.

Perhaps, Facebook’s decision to integrate their own Android app is due to the ever growing number of Android phones and the users that are hooked to it. If ever that this will push through and will be officially launched, this will make both companies’s users more comfortable in using the platform rather than exchanging handsets due to incompatibility.

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Google Maps launches new Features

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Google is in the process of developing more its Google Map. With its recent improvement, users can now have easier access to a certain neighbourhood to know what are the nearest establishments.

Google LatLong Blog announced on August 4, 2009 that they have added ‘icons and labels of prominent business and places of interest’ on the map itself aside from the new dedicated Street View site. Without using the search box, users can find the establishments that they are looking for on nearer places. This service is also available to mobile users of Google Maps.

Google Maps use different kinds of icons to correspond specific types of establishments. With this, it will not be a surprise if Google Map will come up with a list of categories available in the future which can be easily used to reveal businesses under these certain categories.

Google also introduced ‘Places Directory’, an Android-application available for mobile users. This application is similar to other mobile applications used in finding categories of businesses but it with this, browsing is important compared to searching. This feature is the same with the improved icons on Google Maps.

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Twitter, Facebook encounter ‘Attacks’

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

If you happen to experience a down time from Twitter and Facebook last Thursday, August 6, 2009, then this is the primary cause – DDoS attack!

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeted Twitter to make it unavailable to certain users or customers. DDoS is a malicious effort commonly used to disrupt services in online banks, credit card payment gateways and other money-oriented online sites.

Twitter has grown a lot in years and is now currently used for marketing purposes. The DDoS attack may have certain purpose that reports say that are still in investigation for the real intention. Its Facebook attack also says that the intention merely wanted to stop the current service for particular users of the site.

Up to now, both Twitter and Facebook were able to normalize the sites after hours of being down but were continuously in search for the intention of the DDoS attack for it not to happen again.

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Facebook allows Username Change

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

With Facebook’s announcement on June this year that they are allowing its users to get vanity URLs for their accounts instead of that birth numbers, they also added that it will be permanent and will never be altered.

The policy back then was strict not until July 23, 2009, Thursday, when Facebook included on its site an option on its account setting giving its users the second chance to change their usernames. The option can only be used once, so it’s just a second chance for all who’ve tried the vanity URLs but failed to get the right name.

There are a lot of factors affected Facebook’s decision to soften the policy regarding vanity URLs including those who have mistakenly misspelled their names during registration. Also, there are reports saying that users jokingly provide names on their accounts therefore getting some negative feedbacks on job prospects and other important stuff.

With this new policy, everybody gets to enjoy Facebook’s services while getting the right name for your account.

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Yahoo! redesigns Delicious.com

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Delicious.com, the oldest social bookmarking alive today, has just gotten better!

Yahoo! recently announced its series of upgrades conducted to Delicious giving it new features that users will surely love! Today, Delicious’s service is more relevant and useful!

From now on, all online marketers and those involved in SEOs will appreciate more being bookmarked with Delicious ‘Popular’ page. Even regular users will surely appreciate the new upgrades on Delicious.

Today, Delicious provides a new take on bookmarks with new sharing features and improved functions on searching. It has the Twitter-based Fresh Bookmarks where you can find the number related Tweets on a particular bookmarked page. This replaces the older version of the ‘Popular Bookmarks’ which is the default page of Delicious.

Though the new home page is much more effective, this could also be the reason why some users may opt to use the older version since they are used in using the service. But this is not possible. Hopefully, Delicious will take this into consideration. They could put additional option to users to choose between the new homepage and the older one.

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Expanded ‘Search Options’ now available on Google

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Google is creating more developments on its ‘Search Options’ to give its users the best service ever. It will not definitely stop there as the competition gets tougher and tougher. Google will continue to give us services that will certainly give us the advantage of using their platform.

With Google Operating System, it has now two new search options – web search using custom date ranges and the advanced image searches all on the left side navigation.

On July 31, 2009, Google announced these two features on Google Images.

This is really the good effect of being in the competition. Best services await its users! For now, Google users will surely enjoy their new service!

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Google Chrome OS to be on millions of PCs

Friday, August 7th, 2009

The recently released Google-based operating system – Chrome OS made a promising start in the industry. Though Google has a lot of struggles in promoting the Chrome OS, they are all optimistic that Chrome OS will be popular to users.

Google Chrome OS came to finalized some marketing strategies including plans of installing the operating system on smaller versions of laptops – the netbooks. This idea is set to be done next year to popularized the newest Google product.

Though Google experienced the gradual slow down of revenues coming from online advertising, Chrome OS is surely a burden to the company if they haven’t got the lead on other aspects of their business. But one thing is for sure, Google is still in the business.

Forming the best strategies to still grab the lead in the market, Google is acquiring other assets where they could directly move forward and gain something. Since it’s harder for them to gain more from the recent released operating system, they would be getting more money from the recently acquired assets including Double-Click, a display-ad company. Google is still forecasting that the revenue will be coming from advertising.

YouTube, one of Google-acquired assets, is also making money that’s the company is still positive that they could still maintain the lead in the market.

The initial strategy of providing Chrome OS to netbooks will surely be a hit in the coming year, making it a popular OS even to millions of PC users.

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Google and Facebook tie up for Android FB app

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Though Google and Facebook are competing against internet domination, both signed contracts for their partnership on mobile application.

Facebook, the leading social networking site in the world, is currently available in mobile applications thru iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Palm devices. With the release of Google’s Android mobile operating system and Facebook’s more than 50 million subscribers using mobile devices, there’s really a need to tie up to bring both services available to their consumers.

The Facebook Android application will also be available on forthcoming Android-powered phones from T-mobile and Sony Ericsson. The said application is more limited with its iPhone counterpart but will still have all the same services users can get from Facebook. According to reports, Facebook features such as ability to RSVP to events, creating photo albums and redesigning home page screen will be available on this new mobile partnership.

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