Mysterious “Horse Boy” on Google Stree Maps creates buzz on internet.

According to the BBC, Horse Boy  who was captured on film standing by a wall in Aberdeen, Scotland — has become a phenomenon among denizens in the country.

BBC news claims Horse boy website story has had more than 800,000 hits.

Mysterious “Horse Boy” on Google Stree Maps creates buzz on internet.

Google 'activating 160,000 Android phones a day'.

Google is now activating 160,000 mobile phones using its Android software a day, equivalent to 4.8m a month, according to the company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt.

The number is also accelerating, having been put at 100,000 a day in the third week of May during Google's annual I/O conference, Schmidt said – indicating sales growth of 60% per month.

"We have seen a tremendous increase in adoption," Schmidt said in an interview exclusive to the Guardian in the UK. "We've also seen a growth in the number of apps available for Android – there are now approximately 65,000 compared to only 50,000 a month ago." He believes that that means Android could have reached the volume necessary to become an essential mobile operating system – and perhaps the equivalent of Windows on PCs.

Google 'activating 160,000 Android phones a day'.

Pak court bans Google, Yahoo, Hotmail.

A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material though officials today said they had not received any instruction to block the sites.

Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material.

Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named Muhammad Sidiq who claimed these websites were publishing sacrilegious material.

Pak court bans Google, Yahoo, Hotmail.

Google plans to build up Music Serive with Serchable.

According to Wall Street Journal, google is planing to formally enter into the Music Business and is said to be in talk with Music Industry Giants.

Google Music store might be made for Android driven phone and for the Web and later be expanded to other medium. But it might take few months to come out.

The discussions come as the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company has been ramping up on entertainment content. Google is also moving to add professional content on its YouTube video site, and is planning to roll out a digital bookstore this year.

Google plans to build up Music Serive with Serchable.

Apple, Google more trusted than Facebook, Twitter.

Americans trust technology heavyweights such as Apple, Google and Microsoft more than social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll.

Nearly half of 2,100 adults questioned in a Zogby Interactive survey said they trusted the big three technology firms "completely" or "a lot," compared to eight percent for Twitter and 13 percent for Facebook.

But all of the companies rated higher than traditional media.

John Zogby, the president and CEO of Zogby International, said big companies have had the time to build brand equity, while Facebook and Twitter do not have the corporate identity.

Apple, Google more trusted than Facebook, Twitter.

Paid-content system for publishers by Google may be coming by year-end

Google which had hinted for nearly a year now that it was working on building some sort of paid content system for publishers, is reportedly set to launch such a system by year-end. According to a report in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Google is now reaching out to publishers to get them to sign up for the system, which it is calling Newspass.

Google wouldn't confirm the La Repubblica report, saying "we don't pre-announce products and don't have anything to announce at this time." But the Newspass system - at least from the translation of the La Repubblica article - appears to have many elements of a paid content proposal Google made to the Newspaper Association of America last fall. Back then, Google said it was "uniquely positioned to help publishers create a scalable e-commerce system via our Checkout product and also enable users to find this content via search - even if it's behind a paywall."

Paid-content system for publishers by Google may be coming by year-end

Wi-Fi Data Captured By Google Street View Cars Included Passwords.

Is Google going the evil way??

Google told us that its Street View cars accidentally collected some data from our Wi-Fi networks. This saga even face wrath from many European countries and led to investigation. Investigators discovered that Google even recorded unencrypted passwords of the recorded Wi-Fi Region.

What CNIL said?

"It's still too early to say what will happen as a result of this investigation,"

"However, we can already state that [...] Google did indeed record email access passwords [and] extracts of the content of email messages,"

Wi-Fi Data Captured By Google Street View Cars Included Passwords.

Trivia about Google which might not know to you.

• The First Google Doodle was Burning Man doodle for Burning Man festival in Nevada.

• Initial Google storage made up of a whopping 40 GB (less than a modern iPod) and it’s made from, as fans of the building bricks.
• Google’s first ever Twitter post was as satisfyingly geeky as you could hope for. The message, sent in February 2009, reads “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.”
• Google rents out goats. Yes you read that right. It rents goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ.
• “Swedish Fish” became the first ever company snack (not counting beverages) that was ordered into the Google office.
• Google Has a gigantic T-Rex skeleton — nicknamed “Stan” after a “real” dino found nearby.

Trivia about Google which might not know to you.

Google Releases Command-Line Tool for YouTube, Docs, and More

Google has launched a simple but very useful app for computer nerds everywhere: GoogleCL, a command-line tool that allows users to do everything from upload folders to Picasa to adding appointments to a Google Calendar.

Google CL is a Python (Python) application that makes Google Data API calls through the command line. A command-line interface (CLI) is an interface where the user can tell the computer to perform specific tasks by typing commands. You’ve probably seen them before, most likely via the MS-DOS command-line interface. The CLI is in contrast to the mouse-based interface that we all use today, known as the graphical user interface (GUI).

Googlers from the Street View team created the application for their own use, but have now turned GoogleCL over to the general public. It accepts commands to Google Calendar, Google Docs , Google Contacts, Picasa, YouTube , and Blogger . Here’s an example command:

             $ google calendar add “Social Media Day SF Party at 7pm”


Google has provide a list of sample scripts to get started, but we bet that page will expand with more commands and more supported Google services over time. It’s a great combination of the command line and the cloud. If you want to get started, you can download GoogleCL and the necessary Python library client here and here.

Src & Text: [mashable]

Google Releases Command-Line Tool for YouTube, Docs, and More

Google TV Explained in Less Than 2.5 Minutes [VIDEO]

Google has a released a handy video that illustrates just how it works.

The platform  which integrates TV and web content to create one, smooth experience — is said to be a possible foil to the Boxee Box. Boxee’s release date has been pushed back to November 2010 (Google TV will also be available in the fall).

Google TV Explained in Less Than 2.5 Minutes [VIDEO]

Google’s 3-D Images of the World Cup Stadiums [VIDEO].

Internet giant Google introduced some of the fruits of its labor, including 360-degree pictures from the country’s soccer stadiums and maps with information on some of South Africa’s most important sights.

To get shots from inside the buildings, Google used what it calls the Street View Trike — a bulky tricycle with cameras mounted on it. The video of the tricycle in use shows a sometimes-tired looking employee pedaling through the stadiums; he’s not moving quickly, but he makes sure to wear a helmet.

Google’s 3-D Images of the World Cup Stadiums [VIDEO].

Private data from Austria, Denmark, Ireland deleted: Google

Google has deleted private wireless data mistakenly collected by its "Street View" cars in Austria, Denmark and Ireland, the Internet giant said in a letter to US lawmakers.

Google, in the letter posted online Friday on the website of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives, also reiterated that the data was never used in any Google product or service.

Google also repeated an apology for the gathering of personal information sent over unsecured wireless networks by the Street View cars used to create the panoramic pictures featured in Google Maps

The letter from Pablo Chavez, Google's director of public policy, was in response to questions posed by US Congressmen Henry Waxman, Joe Barton and Edward Markey to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.

Private data from Austria, Denmark, Ireland deleted: Google

Google ends background image experiment.

It looked horrible, and users hated it. Even so, Google persisted with it for hours - and only stopped it because of a 'bug'

Google ended its experiment to put a picture on its front page – whether you wanted on or not – only 14 hours into its 24-hour experiment, blaming the decision on a bug which meant that an explanatory link wasn't included.

The problem was caused when it added a World Cup doodle - which of course would look like a mess of pottage if you had chosen a picture for your background.

Google ends background image experiment.

Apple faces antitrust scrutiny: report

The regulators have already started scanning Apple's actions, the paper said, citing people familiar with the move.

But it is not yet clear whether the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice would take up an investigation, the Times said.

Apple could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters outside regular U.S. business hours.

On Wednesday, Google said recent changes to Apple's developers agreement would effectively cripple Google's advertising tools for the iPhone, creating "artificial" barriers to competition.

Apple changed the language of the agreement on Monday, which now appears to prohibit certain third-party ad agencies from collecting critical usage data from iPhone applications.

Apple faces antitrust scrutiny: report

Google helps build trade case over Web censorship.

Google Inc is working with U.S. and European officials to build a case that would argue Internet censorship acts as a trade barrier, a top company executive said on Friday.

Robert Boorstin, Google's director of corporate and policy communications, said the company is working with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the State Department, Commerce Department and European officials to build a case to take to the World Trade Organization.

Such a case could help U.S. tech companies seeking greater access to Chinese consumers while furthering the U.S. government's human rights agenda.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her technology advisers have promoted Internet freedom as a basic human right.

Google helps build trade case over Web censorship.

Android Phones Selling Faster Than They Can Be Built.

According to Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, company’s Android-powered mobile devices are selling faster than they can be manufactured. Verizon has had similar experiences with the Droid Incredible from HTC, an Android phone whose biggest problem has been that demand outstrips current supply, said to Reuters.

More Motorola devices, including several with front-facing cameras for video conferencing, are slated for release later this year. Sprint’s EVO, another video conferencing-capable Android handset, has been on sale for just a few days and is already sold out and breaking Sprint sales records, too.

Additionally LG, a company that had previously committed to releasing Windows Mobile handsets, has stated it will release 20 Android handsets this year alone.

Ever since the Droid’s launch last November, its sales figures have rocked the mobile industry.

Android Phones Selling Faster Than They Can Be Built.

Google asks US, EU to press China on censorship

Google Inc's top lawyer has said that the world's leading search engine is asking the US and European governments to press China to lift Internet censorship, describing it as an unfair barrier to free trade.

David Drummond on Wednesday told reporters that western states should defend the free trade in information with the same kind of rules that they use to complain of China's below-cost sale of products.

He said government talks are "the only way that it's going to change, that this tide of censorship or this rising censorship is going to be arrested."

The company sparred with Chinese leaders earlier this year when it stopped self-censoring its search results in line with Chinese rules after it said Chinese hackers had tried to plunder its software coding and hijack the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.

Google asks US, EU to press China on censorship

Gmail Gets a New and Improved Chat Window.

Finding video, group and voice chat was previously a bit harder to find, but now Google has solved that, adding one-click buttons for these three functions right into the Gmail chat window.

Even if you don’t have the plugins required for video chat, you’ll see an icon that will install the required plugin, after which you can carry on with the chat.

Google says it expects the number of people using the video, group and voice chat features to rise dramatically after this improvement.

Gmail Gets a New and Improved Chat Window.

Hack Enables 720p Video Recording on Nexus One.

Nexus One is still alive and pretty much kicking, especially thanks to the community. Since Google won’t push new features to it, the community has to.

First Cyanogen added support for 802.11n WiFi in CyanogenMod, and now about half an hour ago, an xda-developers forum member by the name of charnsingh_online announced that he made a patch for CyanogenMod which enabled 720p video recording in the Nexus One.

The only requirement – CyanogenMod version of at least CM5.0.8test3, which means – yes, you need a rooted N1 running CM and not the stock OS.

Hack Enables 720p Video Recording on Nexus One.

Google has unveiles a new search method called Caffeine[VIDEO].

World's most popular search engine has unveiled a new search method called "Caffeine," which claims to index new information 50 percent faster than Google's old search.

"Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for Web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of Web content we've offered," the company says in a news release on its official blog. "Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before."

Google has unveiles a new search method called Caffeine[VIDEO].