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HP is buying Palm for $1.2 Billion

Hewlett-Packard is going to buy phone maker Palm for $1.2 billion. Even though Palm last year released a new operating system, WebOS, which is running on two phone models, the company is recently straggling to sell the phones. It is mainly because of a strong competition from Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android phones

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Android 2.2 Will Support Flash

That the upcoming version of the Android mobile operating system 2.2 will fully support Flash technology. According to Comscore Android currently has 9 percent smartphones market share in the United States.

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Google TV

Samsung executive announced in The Korea Herald (an English-language newspaper in South Korea) that Samsung is considering Google TVs. The television sets would use Google?s Android operating system. Samsung just after Nokia, is nowadays the world?s second-largest mobile phone maker. Samsung claims to have the world?s slimmest TV set which will be launch in the

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Google Buys Plink

Google has purchased mobile visual search applications – UK-based company Plink. Since now the company’s founders (Mark Cummins and James Philbin) will work on visual search applications Google Goggles. Visual search applications are able to recognize artworks and paintings by analyzing images. Plink Art is an app for mobile phones that lets identify any work

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Google Buys Plink

Google has purchased mobile visual search applications – UK-based company Plink. Since now the company’s founders (Mark Cummins and James Philbin) will work on visual search applications Google Goggles. Visual search applications are able to recognize artworks and paintings by analyzing images. Plink Art is an app for mobile phones that lets identify any work

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Google: site speed effects its search ranking

Important improvement in Google search ranging algorithms – website speed effects its search ranking. We can read on an official Google blog: ” Currently, fewer than 1% of search queries are affected by the site speed signal in our implementation and the signal for site speed only applies for visitors searching in English on Google.com

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Google Grows

Google’s revenue hit $6.77 billion in the quarter which ended March 31, 2010. It is up 23 percent compared to the first quarter of 2009. Important information for all advertisers is that people clicked 15 percent more times on Google search ads in the first quarter of 2010, compared with the first quarter in 2009.

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Topeka

A month ago Topeka (the capital city of the state of Kansas) renamed itself ‘Google, Kansas’. The change was temporary, and Topeka was known for the month of March as “Google, Kansas, the capital city of fiber optics.” Today, in order to honor that moving gesture, Google announced that as of April 1st, the company

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Flash Player in Google Chrome

While HTML5 is killing Flash, Google decided to help this technology to survive. The Flash Player will be included in downloads of Chrome browser. Paul Betlem from Adobe in his blog post said “Moving forward, Google will be including Flash Player in Chrome so users will always have the most current release and a safer

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File Transfer for Gmail Chat – Coming Soon

Google announced a useful update to the chat feature in iGoogle and Orkut. Chat in Gmail already has video and voice chat, so file transfer feature will be a great additional. Right now in order to share files with somebody you either have to email them the file or use a compatible instant messaging client

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