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George R http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163063.html#id163063 its Gr8 day for Android . "Photoshop is hands down the most popular professional image editing tool. In fact, the brand has reached the pinnacle of success where the actual brand name becomes a verb like Google, Kleenex, and Xerox. When a picture is obviously edited you say it was “photoshopped” regardless of what picture editing tool was actually used. Guess what? Adobe is bringing a mobile version of their award winning software to Android Phones with Photoshop.com Mobile When Android is compared to Apple the main place the iPhone wins out is the App Store – in terms of quantity and quality of apps. I’ll admit it – but I still think the advantage will eventually swing in favor of android as more and more momentum is built. This Photoshop Mobile App is a great example of prime time developers/company’s recognizing the value of Android. More will follow. You’ll definitely want to check out their Official Video Demo for which, unfortunately, I can’t find embed code." Source:http://phandroid.com/2009/11/06/adobe-launches-photoshop-android-application/ BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163060.html#id163060 <<The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona. Yeah, I had never heard of them either.>> http://www.youtube.com/experiencere http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/youtube-is-falling-apart-again/ WebSonic.nl http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163057.html#id163057 "KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated today with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. The Federal Cross of Merit is both the most prestigious as well as the only general decoration awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is awarded by the Federal President for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, cultural, and other fields. Matthias was awarded the medal in recognition of his work spurring innovation and spreading knowledge for the common good." Source:http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/014245/KDE-Founder-Receives-Highest-German-Honor?from=rss BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163055.html#id163055 MOST GOOD Looking & Cutest Googler Marissa Mayer <<Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the exec’s lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine’s 2009 Women of the Year. Mayer has been frequently profiled in business and technology publications over the years, but it’s also nice to see her achievements highlighted in magazines like Vogue and Glamour. The brainy Stanford-grad has been able to set an example for young women everywhere. As one of Google’s early hires, she’s now helping to lead product design for one of the world’s most innovative companies. And she’s only 34. What’s not to love about a successful and geeky coder who also loves to wear Oscar de la Renta, Chanel and Armani? >> <<She tells Farhad Manjoo: “When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night,” Mayer jokes. “I do code all night! I am the stereotype, but I also break the stereotype.” Among her goals: to bring more women into technology and teach them to take chances. “Get in a bit over your head,” she says. “That’s how you grow and learn and stretch yourself.” >> i am truly impressed with this enlightened pick for “woman of the year” Congrats Ma'm , u represents the very ideal of silicon valley: a truly entrepreneurial spirit, who by sheer force of will has surmounted huge obstacles to reach the pinnacle of tech success. Source:http://www.businessinsider.com/woman-of-the-year-2009-11 BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163054.html#id163054 "The Nokia N900 will be available Nov 14th in the US of A and Nov 16th in the UK. Are you guys ready? " Source: http://n900blog.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/n900-release-dates-finally/ BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163052.html#id163052 starting at around 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm IE, Flock, Mozzila firefox, all hang when loading google or affiliated websites, please not that maintainence only occurs on google starting at 8:00 PM Central (from what i know) and normally is not as heavy as to disable navigation to google... i wander what this wierd phenomenon is. Super-heavy server farm maintenance. Roby718 http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163044.html#id163044 Kevin C. Tofel of JK on the Run Blog writes : So is anyone else besides me using the new bookmark sync feature in Google Chrome? I’m using it with the beta version of Chrome for Windows and also on my Mac. On OS X, the latest version Chrome itself doesn’t support the bookmark sync feature, but the latest build of Chromium does, so that’s what I’m using. But what if you’re using a computer that doesn’t have Chrome and you can’t install it? How then can you get your precious bookmarks from the cloud? It’s actually quite easy when you notice that your Chrome bookmarks also get synchronized over to Google Docs. I noticed the Google Docs function when the sync feature launched, but it didn’t hit me that it might be useful. And it is useful when you need to get at your bookmarks in the sky — as long as you can get to your Google Docs, you can grab your favorite bookmarks and import them to nearly any browser. Here’s how: http://jkontherun.com/2009/11/06/how-to-use-google-docs-to-transfer-chrome-bookmarks-to-other-browsers/ (Source) BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163039.html#id163039 http://juberti.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-hints-at-whats-in-store-for-google.html <<Google Apps users can expect to see significant improvements in the suite's voice- and video-chat capabilities, as the company builds on Gmail's current features in that area. Gmail's voice and video chats are now limited to one-to-one communications, but Google wants to broaden that capability to more than two participants and make it more robust all around for Apps.>> DPic http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163038.html#id163038 "Larry Page is now the co-creator of something other than the most important internet site in the world: A tipster whispers he is a father, as of Thursday and its a boy" Source:http://www.businessinsider.com/import/another-google-heir-is-born-2009-11 Very Welcome to the world Larry Jr :) BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163035.html#id163035 http://www.google.com/mobile/partners/verizon/search.html beussery http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163033.html#id163033 Article at http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181575/postini_technology_to_spread_across_google_apps.html "The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their e-mail environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite. That way, Apps Premier administrators will gain tighter control over how employees use not only Gmail but also the other suite components, like the word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. When completed, this extension of the Postini security and management capabilities could go a long way toward calming concerns from CIOs and IT managers about using Web-hosted software like Google Apps. ...." Juha-Matti Laurio http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163019.html#id163019 Two former NASA specialists give tips for making the most of Google's 3-D space offerings—and offer hints for finding some little-known gems. Michael Weiss-Malik, Product Manager, Mars in Google Earth So, Moon and Mars in Google Earth are a lot like a video game. You know, it's pretty popular right now to have these 3-D virtual reality games where you can walk around or sometimes fly around. And in Mars and Moon it's just like that except that you can actually explore another planet and they're based on real data, so instead of exploring you know, a fake world and shooting aliens you can actually explore a real alien world, and dive in and see craters and explore and, and also read some of the human stories on those planetary bodies where you can find out how humans have explored those places. Michael So, we did Mars first because, prior to joining Google we actually both, Noel and I, wrote software for NASA Mars missions and, we actually started the original Google Mars which is a, a Web site before we came to Google. We called Google up and asked them if we could make it, basically. more here (Source): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091102-google-mars-video.html sorry i dont know how embeded NatGeo's Videos plz correct the code <object width="undefined" height="NaN"><param name="movie" value="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/flash/syndicatedVideoPlayer.swf?vid=google-mars-vin"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param></param><embed src="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/flash/syndicatedVideoPlayer.swf?vid=google-mars-vin" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="undefined" height="NaN"></embed></object> BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/163012.html#id163012 If you do a search for H1N1 vaccine side effects (or something like that), all results are pro-vaccine. I remember that before there was some anti-vaccine sites, but now they all disappeared. lailai http://blogoscoped.com/forum/162998.html#id162998 there is a very interesting theory presented by UnwiredView.com why there r no Android 2.0 Phone out there yet ( beside Motorola Droid) . summery: With much more advanced and visually appealing Android 2.0 available, and already running on one phone, one would expect other vendors to jump on the bandwagon, and announce Eclair running handsets as soon as they can. But no, all others, announcing their Android smartphones, for some mysterious reason, are using the old 1.6 Donut version of the OS. Even for the high end models, that will ship only next year, like Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, or other Verizon Droid series handsets, like HTC Eris. And I think, I know what this reason is. There simply is no 2.0 version of Android operating system yet. At least in a way, we usually consider a software package to be ready for a version X.0 number. What we do have as an OS, Google, Motorola and Verizon call Android 2.0 for marketing purposes, is a pre-release/beta version of the software, optimized to run on a single device by a single vendor. If you think it’s unlikely that Google will give one vendor such a strong preference, to launch a competing device, with a more advanced version of OS, think again. This is exactly the same thing Google did last year, when they really wanted to get their OS into the market, before the year/holiday season was over. Google worked directly with HTC, optimizing the unfinished operating system to run on a single handset. Then they called it Android 1.0, and launched HTC G1/Dream handset running on it. With tons of unfinished/absent features, bugs and all. Even Andy Rubin himself admitted, that Android 1.0 wasn’t really a software package worthy of 1.0 tag. Android reached that level only with the release of the Cupcake 1.5/Donut 1.6 updates. That’s when all other vendors felt that the software was actually ready for their phones, and got busy releasing them." read more here (Source) : http://www.unwiredview.com/2009/11/05/wat-why-all-phones-except-droid-come-with-android-1-6-because-there-is-no-android-2-0-and-there-wont-be-anymore-handsets-with-it/ BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/162992.html#id162992 Google added several new historical images of Berlin to Google Earth Berlin 1945 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jt6gQ866Xuw/SvMBiJ6qB9I/AAAAAAAAAYk/P9T2ETwKezo/s1600/Berlin%2B1945.png http://google-produkt-kompass.blogspot.com/2009/11/zeitreise-nach-berlin.html hebbet http://blogoscoped.com/forum/162983.html#id162983 The Next Web Writes : Facebook Chat’s integration with Jabber/XMPP is just around the corner which means you’ll be able to use applications like Gtalk to communicate on Facebook. According to ProcessOne the launch is imminent as their bot on IMTrends has indicated the XMPP software stack has been deployed on chat.facebook.com. Once launched, Facebook will allow chat applications like Gtalk to let their users communicate with their friends, see which of their friends are online and view their profile pictures as well as set their statuses. With Facebook giving their 300 million users access to the protocol it will mean XMPP becoming the most popular instant messaging protocol on the planet. Google Wave’s federation protocol is an open extension to the XMPP protocol. Source: http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/11/05/facebook-chat-coming-gtalk-jabber-imminently/ BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/162978.html#id162978 http://volokh.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/theirhouseisnotarmed2.jpg Source :http://volokh.com/2009/10/29/funny-sign/ BizAbh http://blogoscoped.com/forum/162976.html#id162976 Google has released a new design for adsense in beta: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-adsense-interface-now-in-beta.html http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YbURk67VlGk/SvIX9MwoX9I/AAAAAAAABCA/KHwQv7FW6nE/s1600/performancegraphs.png hebbet http://blogoscoped.com/forum/162974.html#id162974 very interesting article here.. "•Google has long claimed to be neutral. Their corporate philosophy statement claims: "We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results and no one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust our objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust." •As the world-leading corporate proponent of an industrial policy to mandate net neutrality for all its potential broadband competitors in cloud computing, and as the beneficiary of "The Google Loophole" in the FCC's proposed open Internet regulations (para 104), it is fair to stress test whether Google's claim of a "neutral' identity is true or just cleverly-executed PR. " http://precursorblog.com/content/why-google-is-not-neutral /pd