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Searching Enterprise data - Thanks to Google!

November 5th, 2008 Comments

Google hinted its interest in the Enterprise world through Google Apps. Google Search Appliance (GSA) is one such initiative, to bring what Google does best to the Enterprise world - SEARCH.
Google claims to search upto 10 million documents, through the familiar Google search interface. GSA uses the core Google search technology and can [...]

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Google Visualization API

November 3rd, 2008 Comments

It’s a cherry on top of the Cloud Computing paradigm. In short this is what Google Visualization API does:
Google Visualization API aims to fetch data from any data source connected to the Internet and provide useful visual outputs like Graphs, Charts, Dashboards etc. Earlier, the API worked with Google Spreadsheets and now Google [...]

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HTC Dream - Powered by Android

September 21st, 2008 Comments

With the Android-powered HTC Dream just around the corner, let us take a quick preview about the phone, its features and the “midas-touch” of Google.
Android is the Mobile Operating System developed by Google.  Programming language is Java, so J2ME developers should have little or no trouble embracing it.
Though HTC Dream formal announcement by T-Mobile is [...]

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Google Blog Search

August 9th, 2008 Comments

Google Blog Search is yet another Google Labs product.  This enables you to search for keywords, across the blogging community.

Once a search is performed, results are returned in a new page.  You can filter the search results based on the time of the post – for instance, you can view only those posts, that were [...]

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Microsoft, Yahoo and Google

May 9th, 2008 Comments

Google’s proposed advertising partnership with Yahoo, has made Microsoft withdraw its takeover bid for the latter.
Google’s gain

Microsoft-Yahoo would have been a huge entity to reckon with, for Google. At least for now, Google can breathe easy
By proposing a advertising partnership with Yahoo and making Yahoo think about it, Google has made the world realize [...]

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Google Bookmarks - my new bookmark manager

May 7th, 2008 Comments

I have been using del.icio.us for quite sometime now. But, I felt it’s high time I choose a different bookmark manager, for the following reasons:

I have gathered a huge list of bookmarks over time. Found it a little difficult to manage them using del.icio.us, partly because of my bad habit of using too [...]

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Google Docs Presentation is here!!

September 19th, 2007 Comments

Finally, the much awaited Google Docs Presentation is here! I took the first sip, by creating a sample presentation which can be accessed here.
Presentation templates are limited and that is very much expected in the Beta launch. Nevertheless, it has almost all the basic features that a desktop based Presentation software has. [...]

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