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.
Recently, Google’s new doodle with its theme of "unexplained phenomenon" caused a big buzz on the web world. Everyone came up with their own versions of stories on their sites, Facebook and Twitter pages explaining why Google has chosen a UFO to display upon their search engine website depicting a flying saucer sucking away the second "O" in Google with its tracking beam.
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.
PushMail is an alternative app to GPush which was recently pulled by Apple from the App Store due to server issues. PushMail simply requires you to register a free username at dopushmail.com which basically sends you Push Notifications upon the arrival of a new email message at your Gmail, Hotmail or any other email account.
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.
At Wordwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft announced the technical preview of Microsoft Office 2010. Concurrently, Microsoft also revealed more details about Office Web Apps. The apps are lightweight, browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
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.
The forthcoming awesome HTC Sense UI from HTC Hero has been hacked to run on the older Android powered phones like HTC Dream (aka Android G1). The Italian Android HD Blog has got complete instructions on how to get Sense UI up and running on G1. The complete translated version of the instructions are as follows.
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.
The era of PCs which we have so used to grown up on is vanishing fast. Mobile phones today have become more personal devices than they ever have been in the past. Its amazing to see how in the last few years mobile phones evolved with great strides.
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