At last, Google launched its AV chat feature. After having used enough with Yahoo messenger, it has been a long time we had started looking for video conferencing feature with Google. Of late, hope you have started the beta testing of GVideo chat inside your gmail account. But still, it is undeniable that Google makes a difference over others. And their products are different because it works through the Web browser, said Keith Coleman, product manager for Gmail. “This is one of those things that is very subtle and very …

Google introduced a new voice activated business search service - Goog411. Goog411 is a voice based business search service for which the users has to dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-4664-411) from any phone and say City, State and Zipcode followed by the business category they are interested. Automated voice response will reply the contact details of the business information. Users can also get the details as a text message and get the location details as a map to their mobile phone and more importantly for free of cost. The service …

After increasing the capacity of storage in its free GMail service, Google surprises all its GMail users  by introducing IMAP support this week. IMAP is an acronym for Internet Message Access Protocol, by which GMail users can sync GMail with their email clients. Synching, EMail clients - if these terms looks too much techinical for you, here is the simplified version. GMail and most free web mail service providers offers POP3 access by which you can access your mail in your mobile phones, Blackberry, iPhones and email clients like …

Acquisition news are now-a-days becomes very common, as every one and day, Some internet giants is acquiring some startups. Google in its turn today acquired Finnish based Jaiku, a twitter like microblogging service. Jaiku which describes itself as activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones was launched only July 2006. Jaiku allows users to share their activities thro’ short messages called Jaikus from Web, IM and Mobile phones.  The term and details of deal is not disclosed.
Google’s acquistion of Jaiku is little bit …

Google today launched a new service ‘Google SMS’ in India. No No ….  dont suddenly come to a conclusion that it is a service for the prolongly rumoured GPhone or a online service from Google for sending free SMS to Indian mobile phones. ‘Google SMS’ is an attempt from the global internet search giant to expand its search service to Mobile phones, which not necessarily an internet enabled.
Google SMS  service enables users to get local business listings, movie showtimes, weather, facts, dictionary definitions etc via text messages. User has to …

With Twenty20 worldcup , Cricket fever is very high and all the manufacturers and service providers ar trying hard to capitalize the market.  Search giant Google has introduced a simple but very much useful hack in its search engine - Cricket scores from Google search.
You need to just type ‘cricket’ in the Google search box and a brief scorecard of the current cricket match will be listed as the first result. A click on the result will give you the complete scorecard. To get the latest score of a particular …

Though there are hundreds of News aggregators available on net, Google News is quite distinct due to the number of articles it linked and its powerful algorithm in ranking and clubbing the News articles. Now what experts called as a landmark move, Google News has signed agreements with four major news agencies by which the leading search engine can display full articles and photos owned by the news agencies in their News site. The agencies includes Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian Press. The …

Highly expected Orkut’s redesigning is out but unfortunately there seems no big changes except some rounded corners, lighter shaded pages and new icons. Currently only few profiles has been updated to the new design and the new change will be reflected to all users in a couple of days.

Bottomline: Disappointing redesign

For those who heard about Google labs for the first time, Google labs is the place to checkout and test Google’s new ideas (Beta stage). Google labs, now has an Indian version and at present it has two localized product including Indic On-Screen Keyboard iGoogle Gadgets and Google Indic Transliteration. Indian online market is quite hot in the recent times and by moving local , all the players are trying to acquire the large stake of regional language market. An Indian centric Google labs is a good indicator for how …