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Take a digital walk in the park with Google Street View The Street View team over at Google have been busy over the past year recording imagery in hundreds of parks across 22 countries. Now, starting today, armchair explorers can tour some of the world's "most beautiful and unique parks" using Google's dedicated Maps gallery. Darren McCarra One response 2nd November 2011
Google launches Person Finder in Turkey following 7.2 magnitude earthquake As rescuers continue to search for survivors following a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey's eastern Van region yesterday, Google has launched Person Finder there to aid the search for survivors. Darren McCarra No responses 24th October 2011
Leaked video gives us a sneak-peak of what to expect from the new Gmail A leaked Gmail preview video shows-off its new cleaner interface and some additional product features that users can expect in the near future. The video features Jason Cornwell, a user experience designer on Gmail, who talks about Gmail's major upcoming changes. Darren McCarra No responses 23rd October 2011
Today's events in Libya show potential of Google+ real-time search Events of historical significance like the killing of Osama bin Laden in May, and most recently the murder of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, show the importance of real-time search and retrieval of news. Darren McCarra 5 responses 20th October 2011
Google+ to support Google Apps accounts in "coming days", relaxing real name policy Google+ Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra and Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed on stage yesterday at The Web 2.0 Summit in California that Google's new social network will begin to support Google Apps accounts in the "coming days". Darren McCarra No responses 20th October 2011
Google and Samsung unveil first Android 4.0 smartphone – the Galaxy Nexus Google and Samsung teamed-up early this morning in Hong Kong to unveil the first smartphone designed for Android 4.0 - the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich is the ninth release of Android and marks the third anniversary of the HTC Dream, the first ever Android phone. Darren McCarra No responses 19th October 2011
Google proves the secret to success is failure, 36% of the time The secret to Google's success is in its failures. According to some nice research undertaken by The Next Web, 36% of all Google products since 1998 have failed. Out of a total of 251 independent Google products launched since then, 90 have subsequently been shelved, while the rest remain operational. Darren McCarra 2 responses 17th October 2011
YouTube to begin selling merchandise, music and concert tickets YouTube has announced plans to allow artists to begin selling merchandise, music and concert tickets directly within their own YouTube channel. The video sharing site also revealed that they receive a massive 800 million visits per month. Darren McCarra No responses 17th October 2011
Less than 2% of Android devices are tablets In the latest platform versions report from Android Developers, Honeycomb, the tablet-only version of Android has scored disappointingly, accounting for only 1.8% of all Android devices. Compare this to Apple's 250 million iOS devices, substantially more than 1.8% of those are iPads. Darren McCarra One response 5th October 2011
Chrome set to overtake Firefox in two months, Internet Explorer by June 2012 Chrome, Google's three-year old web browser, is set to overtake Firefox in terms of global browser market share by the end of November, according to projections made by this author and based on data from StatCounter. Darren McCarra No responses 1st October 2011