Gmail chat status tells if you looged in using Android phone

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz

Google is so damn cool (whoever disagrees is paranoid IMHO) and so is its free mail service Gmail. The GMail lab features keep on updating every now and then. There came recently a mail unsend option wherein a sent mail could be unsent. The labs keep evolving.

Google mail or Gmail introduces new feature in the labs. If you are using Android and logged into Gmail, its known first to google and passes the information to your other contacts.

How? Hitherto circular (whatever color) chat status icons are transformed to robot icons.

Now does that make any difference? Yes, it does. Once you know that your contact is logged into Gmail using his Android, there is chance that you will only talk what is important and not that silly or small talk; you know the person is on phone.

All said, google is learning marketing its Android! The icons will be accepted soon!

Google launches SafeSearch which excludes all sexually explicit content

Posted on 15. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz

Google came out with a feature that should give all parents and educators some relief.

SafeSearch is what Google calls it and it intends to exclude all sexually explicit search results in the search queries.

Google SafeSearch enables users to now safely filter lock inappropriate content. One can set filter level to clearly “strict.” So even they want to change the filter level they could do after entering their password.

Furthermore, when Google SafeSearch is locked, there will be colored balls that appear on top right hand side of the screen indicating the searcher that Google SafeSearch still remains locked.

Check out the video that shows how this SafeSearch feature works:

Google eyes mobile ad business and purchases AdMob

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in Business

US Internet leader Google is set to buy AdMob, the mobile advertising business. The deal is set at $750 million.

AdMob has been a leader in the mobile ad business selling ads, especially the banner ads on mobile devices and the ads appear on iPhone or websites that mobile phone devices feature.

Industry experts believe that, Google will focus on becoming a big player in the mobile ad business. And, the acquisition of AdMob will definitely give Google a strong foothold in the mobile advertising business in the coming years.

An independent Kelsey Group gave an estimate of $160 figure which is the revenue generated by the entire mobile advertising sales industry during 2008.

Smartphones that can really bury Apple iPhone

Posted on 08. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in Technology

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Launch of new smartphones over the last half of the deacade marked a shift of paradigm for the mobile phone world.

No doubt Apple’s revolutionary product iPhone paved the way for innovating a common man’s smartphone. Because Apple iPhone was exclusively for the enterprise class users.

Smartphones that could be used to phone, email and browse the web have been a huge hit and eversince Apple iPhone there came a league of smartphones that joined the bandwagon.

The many smarphones that are sweeping the market are acknowledged as much as iPhone killer, and the new kid on the block is the Droid.

Looks like its time to check if iPhone will have its foot grounded in the smartphone market.

Google Android
Google didn’t concentrate on hardware design but designed Android OS (Operating System).

What Google has been doing is to partner with hardware makers to roll down newer smartphones, and the Android OS running smartphone is the Motorola Droid, and it is pitted against the Apple iPhone.

RIM and Blackberry
Then, BlackBerry smartphones simply outsmart Apple iPhone when it comes to sales and the RIM builds its own startegies to beat iPhone in attracting consumers and its recent models; Blackberyy Curve, Blackberry Storm and Blackberyy Pearl are raved by Blackberry consumers. However, Blackberry still needs to evolve to impress the browse-savvy consumers. If only RIM can innovate a better browser interface it can think of kick butting the Apple iPhone.

Palm smartphones
Palm had been ruling the smartphones market for so long and Palm takes credit to release first smartphone in US and with time they only became better.

Palm Treo was the first and then with the touchscreen interface the smartphone Palm Pre hit the market. The Palm Pre features new WebOS. However, Palm Pre didn’t live to the expectations of smartphone lovers. Then Palm Pixi had been the new bet in the smartphones market. It featured same WebOS operating system, but Pixi had been aimed to attract the low end of the smartphone market. Palm Pixi is an affordable smartphone which has some of the Palm Pre features.

If Google evolves its own hardware, it might well kick off the Apple iPhone from the smartphone market, and even RIM and Palm will have to improve hardware. Maybe Palm if improved it can well become iPhone killer.