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Soon Google To Hit Theatres

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A movie on Google creators Larry Page and Sergei Brin will soon hit Theatre screens.

Internet search giant Google is all set to tower the box office with a movie on its creators Larry Page and Sergie Brin. Based on the book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta. The book chronicles the rise of Google into the company it is today. The movie will focus on the Google’s founding principles “don’t be evil”.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Michael London’s Groundswell Productions teamed with the producer John Morris to acquire rights to the book. When further quizzed about the movie producer Michael London said “It’s about these two young guys who created a company that changed the world, and how the world in turn changed them. The heart of the movie is their wonderful edict, don’t be evil. At a certain point in the evolution of a company so big and powerful, there are a million challenges to that mandate. Can you stay true to principles like that as you become as rich and powerful as that company has become?,”

The announcement of the movie comes close to the heels of another online based  movie “The Social Network” based on the Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, which stars Justin Timberlake and will hit theatres by the end of this year.

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Aug
30

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Oxford To Stop Printing Dictionaries

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The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary may not be printed because of fall in book sales due to Internet.

Oxford University Press (OUP), publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary may not print the next edition of their dictionaries due to fall in sales and may be available only on print. The Dictionary is losing out its readers to online alternatives. The latest dictionary though will be available in its online version (OED) like the previous edition, which receives two million hits a month from subscribers who pay an annual fee of £240.
Oxford University press also gets royalty payments from Google, which uses an unbranded Oxford dictionary in its search engine.

According to Nigel Portwood, the chief executive of Oxford University Press “The print dictionary market is just disappearing, it is falling away by tens of percent a year,”

The latest edition of the dictionary prepared by a team of 80 lexicographers, which will contain words like vuvuzela- made famous in the recent football world cup- will only go to print if there is enough demand for the printed volume when it becomes ready.

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Aug
28

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Google Launches Site Based On Real Time Search Engine

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Google has launched a real-time search website that will feature comments and postings from Twitter and Facebook.

Google has unveiled a new website that allows users to surf through news, comments and other information on the Internet in real time, letting them follow conversations on social network hubs such as Facebook and Twitter in one place. Users can even narrow the search to find out what people are saying on various subjects in different locations or languages.

The Google Realtime Search’ which can be accessed here at www.google.com/realtime. According to Google, with its new “full conversation” feature, users will now be able browse the entire conversation in a single glance. The tweets are even organized from the oldest to newest, so as to allow users to know how the conversation developed. Google has also worked on its Google Alerts to provide users with an E-mail alerting them the moment the topic appears on Twitter and Facebook.

Google has tied up with Facebook and Twitter to provide “Real-time Search” service.

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Aug
25

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Google Revamps Its Social Networking Site

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Orkut a social networking site has revamped its site in a bid to attract new users.

Facebook is on a all time high with a 500 million strong user base which includes celebrity users, the site seems to be improving day-by-day bringing in a host of new applications and software’s. Orkut on the other hand is losing its users but refuses to go down without a good fight.

Orkut has brought in brand new settings to attract its losing fan base and to cater to a new set of users. The new settings introduced are -

  • Now Orkut users can send multiple similar scraps to people from their account
  • Users can select a set of friends and form a private group, where scraps sent to these members can be viewed only by them.
  • Orkut will now suggest friend groups based on past interactions by the user so that the entire process of making individual groups is made easier

Orkut is also planning to revamp its existing services like updates, improved birthday display, more games and applications from the homepage?

Aug
12

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Google Launches Google stories

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Google Stories is a new platform for people to share their stories on how the search engine has impacted their lives.


A marketing strategy or blowing one own trumpet is the question on is prompted to ask after Google launches its new feature Google stories. The concept “Your Google stories: the right answer in the nick of time.” seems to be the site was inspired by the social networking site Facebook which launched “Facebook stories’ last month as part of its marketing campaign to allow people to tell their stories on the impact of Facebook on their lives.

According to official sources, the Google stories will feature stories from people who have used the search engine and how the site has influenced their actions and thoughts. The stories include experiences on how people found right information to escape fire accidents, Heart attacks and even give birth to a child.

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Aug
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G-Mail Reach Out To Its Users In A New Avatar

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Google has worked on revamping its Gmail web mail service and have added significant changes to its contacts section.

Google users who log into their account will find their account layout designed differently thanks to its engineers who have worked hard to include new features in its web mail service.

The new Google feature that users will now notice is :-

  • Mail, Contacts and Tasks are clubbed together on the top left corner.
  • Users can hide the Contacts and Tasks option by clicking on the right edge of the Mail option.
  • Compose Mail now appears as a button
  • The Select All, None, Read, Unread, and Starred links that used to be above your messages are now options in a drop-down menu, next to the Archive button.
  • Contacts can now be sorted by First or Last name.
  • While editing contact details, Gmail will now auto-save the changes made and you can also hit Undo for reversing the changes saved.
  • Keyboard shortcuts now work in Contacts too, and Google has made selecting and grouping contacts more like selecting and labeling email.
  • Users can now merge contacts from the More actions menu. All they need to do is select the contacts they would like to merge and select Merge contacts from under the More actions menu.
  • If you own Android based smartphone then the Group option will show you the contacts that have been starred in Android.
  • The individual Contact box is now more structured and you can add more information about the contact.
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