Google turns 14!

Google turns 14! To all the maps, androids, gmails, you tube, 

picasas, docs, drive, chromes, latitudes and so much more – 

Cheers for making our lives easier! Happy birthday.

This doodle shall be up in the GOOGLE homepage 

throughout the day. Google is popular and well known when 

it comes to doodles. The doodles are designed based on 

events ranging from news events, civic milestones, 

birthdays, death anniversaries and important dates in 

history. The recent ones of its hot stuff were the Olympic 

doodles which lets user to play their own animated Olympic 

game.

It was in the year 1998 when two Stanford university 

students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, got together to form 

this company which has now become an integrated part of 

our daily lives. Interestingly, the story behind ‘how it all 

began’ was as simple as a Library Management Project at 

Stanford.

Google History

Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry 

Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford working 

on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP’s 

goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, 

integrated and universal digital library.”

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The much awaited Google Nexus 7 tablet launching in India in November.

Asus India stated on Tuesday at press event in Bangalore that Nexus 7 is likely to be released 

in the country in November. Company however did not announce the pricing of the Jelly Bean tablet, but did say that pricing might be revealed at the end of next month.

Asus India today confirmed at the PadFone and Transformer Pad launch event that the 

Google Nexus 7 is expected to launch in India in November according from reports for 

CIOL. It might come with a different name and few changes in the specification says Asus, 

the hardware partner. Google announced the Nexus 7, their first Android tablet to come 

with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) in June at Google I/O for $199. There are rumors floating 

around for the Nexus 7 tablet with 3G support which is expected mid-October.

The Nexus 7 version currently available does not features 3G connectivity, but a recent rumour has suggested that Asus has already started the production of 3G Nexus 7.

Considering that India is not such great market for launching a Wi-Fi only product because of the lack of public Wi-Fi hotspots, Asus might bring the rumoured 3G version to India. There is no confirmation on the 3G connectivity as of now, but it seems very likely.

FEATURES:

It has 7-inch (1280×800 pixels) IPS display and is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Nvidia 

Tegra 3 processor and a 12 core GPU. It has a 1.2MP front-facing camera and has 1 GB 

RAM, 8 / 16GB of internal memory, NFC, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth and 4325 mAh.

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Google Chrome is now World’s Most Popular Browser

Google Chrome is now World’s Most Popular Browser

Google Chrome is considered by many to be the essential tool driving their daily work. Despite its popularity, Chrome has always been overshadowed by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which comes pre-installed on all Windows computers shipped. However, times are changing.

According to Stat Counter, Chrome passed Internet Explorer during the week of May 14 to May 20 to become the most popular browser in the world.

To celebrate, Google posted a video on YouTube that illustrates Chrome’s journey since its launch in September 2008.

According to StatCounter’s latest monthly statistics report [ for the month of July] shows that Chrome is gaining on its lead as the dominate browser on the market as IE and Firefox continue to decline.

The browser marketplace is quite competitive these days but we will have to wait until Net Applications publishes its results to see how these two services compare when it comes to browser market share.

THE CHROME STORY

It will also be interesting to see how Windows 8 changes the landscape as the platform has two iterations of IE10 that could help IE gain back some turf. Seeing as many have abandoned IE, with Windows 8, they will get a fresh look at IE10 but will it be enough to keep them from downloading a new browser? Only time will tell.

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GOOGLE NOW [Android]

GOOGLE NOW

[Android]

Google Now can be launched in a couple of ways. You may swipe up from the bottom edge of your Android’s screen, unlock directly to Google Now screen (on JB only), tap the Google Search bar/widget, or hit the microphone icon on the search widget to initiate a voice-based search. When on the Google Now home screen, you can automatically trigger voice search by speaking the wakeup word ‘Google’ in to your microphone.

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