Google testing ultra high-speed broadband networks with speed of 1Gbps
Internet search engine giant, Google, has announced that it is planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in select locations in the USA. Google says that they will be providing fiber-to-home connections with speed of 1 Gigabit per second. The experiment could bring the 1Gbps internet connections to upto half a million users. |
Weekly Roundup [Month 2, Week 1 2010]
This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more. |
Google to stop supporting IE6 in GMail, Google Calendar as well
Last week, Google announced that they will stop the supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps. Now according to a Ars Technica report, Google is also ending support of the Internet Explorer 6 in GMail and Google Calendar as well later in 2010. Google did not reveal this last bit of news in the emails… |
Google Maps 3.4 now available on Android
Google Maps 3.4 for Android is here. An over-the-air software upgrade, released by Google, will be bringing this to Nexus One. It will soon be available at the Android Market for other Android phones. Looks like Google has successfully added another feather on to Android’s crown. Google Maps 3.4 brings some pretty good features which,… |
Google Chrome 5 released for developers
Google has made available Google Chrome 5 developer’s build for Windows and Mac. It is likely to be available for the general public by the end of next month. This developer build is off to a rough start with some features that were working perfectly in earlier builds not working in this build. However as… |
Google to give rewards for finding bugs in Chromium
In an attempt to make Chromium more secure, Google is planning to get security experts to give more attention on Chromium’s security by providing a $500 reward for reporting bugs. They said that some of the most interesting security bugs are reported by experts outside the Chromium Project and so, by providing this incentive Google… |
Google Reader now tracks changes to any website [even without feed]
Google has announced that a new feature in Google Reader which allows you to track any changes in a website even if the website does not have feed. This new feature creates a custom feed for sites which does not have a feed of its own. To get this feature working all that you have to… |
Facebook starts India specific Google ads
In a bid to increase its presence in India, Facebook has started using India specific Google ads. These ads appears when you use www.google.co.in to search for someone from India who is Facebook. The ad appears in the Sponsored Links column in the search result page. This is the ad I got when I searched… |