How about reading books from the British Library online? Well seems that you might soon do that. According to a new mission by Google, the company would soon scan around 250,000 books from the British Library for users to read them online.
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Google now introduces two exciting features for home users: the company brings Search by Image and Search by Voice for desktop.
Google revealed the features, Voice Search and Search by Image on Desktop, with other items at their Inside Search event on June 14th, 2011 in San Francisco.
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Google made the announcement recently that its Chromebooks can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com and BestBuy.com. Google wrote on Twitter, saying that Chromebooks from both Acer and Samsung are available.
Amazon notes that it’s taking orders for the Samsung Series 5 3G ($499.99) and the Samsung Series 5 Wi-Fi ($429.99), both come in either black or white. The… Continue reading
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Google revealed a platform and a trial that will let people tap their NFC-capable phones against a reader in a retail store to pay for goods.
Its mobile payment system, dubbed as “Google Wallet,” allows users to make credit card transactions with retailers simply by swiping their cellphones in front of sensors.
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Angry Birds finally lands on the Web, thanks to Google. The folks have launched a Web version, so just enter the Chrome-branded Angry Birds, and have fun.
A special edition for Google’s Chrome OS has been launched. “This is only a beta release of the game, and so far we have 63 levels of the original game available… Continue reading
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Just got hands on a few screenshots of the new Honeycomb UI that will arrive on Google TV this summer. Find out what’s new:
Few things were noticed when Google, at the I/O, revealed a couple of screenshots of the new Honeycomb UI we’ll see this Summer in Google TV. They are:
- A departure from the
Today Google has revealed two of its commercial notebooks using Chrome OS, one from Samsung and the other from the Acer family. The “Chromebooks” would arrive U.S. and six other countries starting June 15.
Google announced at the annual Google I/O developer conference that the Samsung’s Chromebook will be based on a 12.1-inch display while Acer’s model… Continue reading
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Top 5 recent updates from Google given at the I/O:
- The thin Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet will be launching in a month’s time, said Google. A white-backed version of the device was shown off, described as a limited edition, with Honeycomb 3.0 on board, but an update to 3.1 will be forthcoming over the next
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Google Inc is all set to launch an online music locker service to allow users to store and access their songs wherever they are.
The ‘Music Beta by Google’ service will be launched on Tuesday at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. The service is expected to stream about 20,000 songs free of cost… Continue reading
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What you can see above is a courtesy image of GizmoFusion, which suggest that Gingerbread might get Google music sync. Remember Google Music first came to our ears way back at Google I/O 2010, and since then, no major development happened with it. But now it seems it might actually go live before Google I/O 2011.
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