Stephanie Hannon – Product Manager of Google Wave has just sent out an update (tweet) to her followers via twitter confirming that Google has just started sending out invitations for Wave. It will take Google hours before they complete sending out invites to about 100,000 users today.
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration which was first unveiled at Google I/O conference in May. Wave is basically Google’s attempt at how email would look if it were invented today. Google will officially roll out Wave (Preview) to the first 100,000 users who have signed up for the service through Wave site (http://wave.google.com), to developers who are already enrolled in developer preview program of Wave, and selected paying customers of Google Apps.
Google normally changes its logo on the Google.com homepage to mark important events. Today, it mysteriously changed its homepage logo to a UFO with a link to the search terms "unexplained phenomenon" leaving many wondering what event the doodle is intended to represent.
Take Android for a ride on Windows. Test and run the complete emulated mobile Android OS experience on Windows without having to download and install the SDK. You can even install Android compatible apps on it.
We all saw this coming didn't we? Apple has announced that Eric Schmidt of Google has resigned from the Board of Directors at Apple, citing conflict in interests, specially after Google’s Chrome OS announcement and the recently rejected Google Voice app from the App Store.
A group of ingenious hackers have posted an x86 version of Android OS that will run on your desktop computer. However, a few video and network card drivers aren’t compatible at the moment, but the team asks the users to contact them if there is a malfunction, so that they can add support.
An excellent new feature has been added today to Google Image Search!
The feature filters your Image Search results to the ones with licenses. This makes it easier and faster to get licensed images from the web. The main advantage is that one has no fear of using pictures without permission or with unaffordable licensing fees. In short, it makes the task of finding images - that can be used for free and without any disrespect to the will of artists and creators - simpler.
Google today announced an open source, light weight operating system which is specifically designed for the netbook computers (initially). It’s Google's attempt to what operating systems should be in the year 2009. Chrome OS will be designed to work on both x86 and ARM architectures.
Google Chrome looks as good on XP as it does on Vista. I like the blue title bar that shows...
Back in July 2008, Microsoft added background images to Live Search homepage. While it didn’t added much to the overall function of the search engine itself, what it added was a nice touch to the homepage which differentiated it with other competing search engines like Google and Yahoo.
