News: Google helps you find open businesses

Google has been optimizing the Search results constantly and have pushed the mobile search with lot of useful features. They have used location based Places, to let you search for businesses that are open now.

News: Google brings Recipe and more, to make cooking easier

Google is synonymous with search, so anytime there a need for Recipe or to know what to do with an ingredient, then I have used Google for that. This process was definitely not focussed on my purpose of search and Google has made the process of searching for recipe easier.

News: Connect Google Docs and Microsoft Office, with Google Cloud Connect

Microsoft Office is one of the widely used and well known software for authoring Documents, Spreadsheets and PowerPoint. There have been other competitors in this space like Open Office, but the functionality offered and wide usage of the software remains unbeaten. Google has been ramping up its Google Docs offering and announces Google Cloud Connect officially in its blog and is trying to take some part of this market share from Microsoft

News: Google announces One Pass, Digital Content Manager for Publishers

Google announced One Pass service for publishers and it could not have selected a better time. Apple had recently announced its Subscription model and changed its policy for content providers and Apps that offer subscription service. Apple has been received a lot of push back on this new policy and some are even consider legal course of action, so the announcement from Google and the approach taken seems to be a perfectly timed announcement.

News: Improve the relevance of your Google search results, with Chrome Extension

Google page ranking approach to prioritize the search results and indexing mechanism has been known for a while and some Companies have manipulated the Google search with content farms and false sites. The relevance of Google search results have been questioned lately and if you think you don't like the results from Google, then you have a way to fix it now.

News: Google introduces 2-Step Verification for Google Accounts

Spam and Hacks are very much part of online activity these days. We need to be very careful with our online presence and have strong password algorithms to prevent the common mail hacks that sends weird messages from your Email to everyone in your contact list. Luckily my Google account has been spared of this nasty stuff and they be getting some additional protection for opt-in users.

News: Google Translate comes to iPhone / iPod Touch

Google Translate has been available for mobile platform from the web interface, but Android had the benefit of an exclusive Google Translate app for a while now. The version of translate available in Android and its ability to do conversation mode has been really impressive. Looks like part of this is coming to iOS starting today and the initial impression of the app is definitely impressive.

News: New Android Market ignoring Custom ROMS?

Google announced the Android Market during its Honeycomb launch last week. Android Market is a streamlined interface to browse, search and download applications to Android devices.

News: Google Chrome 9 moves from Beta to Stable version

Google has multiple ways for getting the latest updates that it constantly makes for its Chrome browser. The Stable version of the browser has been updated to Version 9, with significant updates.

News: Mobile GMail gets Priority Inbox partially

Google introduced Priority Inbox feature for its GMail service few months back. It is a system in which GMail automatically prioritizes the mail that comes to your Inbox based on the sender, frequency of communication, replies and many other parameters. It categorizes the mail as Important, Starred and Everything else. 

News: TouchType Keyboard, takes Google Scribe further

Ever had the feeling that you are searching for words while writing something? Then you should definitely try Google Scribe. It is a fun way to attempt writing, as it integrates the predictive text to each alphabet that you type and constant suggests the sentence construct for you.

News: Honeycomb introduces Data Encrption, gets Enterprise ready

When Smartphone was introduced, the adoption from Enterprise was considered a serious concern. There have been talks to integrate virtualization  and data encryption on these devices. Looks like Google has taken the first steps towards that with Honeycomb

News: Google Android Market goes the web way

Google Android platform has been criticized a lot for the way the Market is organized. Users had raised lot of concerns for this and Google made some enhancements recently, but not have completely revamped the Market interface and released and online (web) version of the Market.

News: Honeycomb is officially revealed and launched today

After long of teasing around, Google finally announced Honeycomb (Android 3.0) today and gives way for other manufacturers to make their announcement on the release state for Android tablets. The announcement from Google was mostly around the expected lines and highlighted all of the enhancements that have been showcased already from the preview SDK.

Apps: Google Shopper: A free shopping consultant

Google Mobile has been constantly enhanced to include voice search and visual search and it has proved useful number of times, especially when I want to make a quick lookup on a product or item that I want to buy. Now Google has released Google Shopper an iOS application which is a must have.

News: Google goes live with its Art Project

In recent times there has been numerous Google Doodles with art works and the source of all those inspirations finally got revealed today. Google has gone live with its art project, which looks more like Google Earth and Street View coming together for museums and art works in them

Article: Google Docs getting ready to challenge Microsoft Office

I started trying out Google Docs when they launched it way back. Google Docs did not have any significant change for a while, but since the announcement of Chrome OS and the push for cloud based storage Google has enhanced Google Docs significantly.

News: Android vulnerability still exists in Gingerbread (2.3)

Android has been steaming ahead in terms of its popularity and adoption. The platform is good, open and customizable, but definitely has some flaws too. Researcher from North Carolina State University claims that the security vulnerability that was thought to be fixed in Android Gingerbread (2.3) still is existing in the latest version

News: Nook Color gets loaded with preview version of Honeycomb

Google released the preview version of Honeycomb to developers recently and it was only a matter of time, when we heard some interesting use of it. Nook Color the cheapest and decent platform of the Android tablet is the easiest target and it has stepped up for the Honeycomb challenge

News: Google may announce Honeycomb on February 2nd

Google has announced an Android event for February 2nd and all trends and news prior to this announcement hints that this event is for Honeycomb official launch.