Google App For iPhone With Voice Search Finally Released
Google is one of the world’s largest companies that specializes in Internet searches and most recently, software. Google has put a lot of hard work in designing an operating system for mobile phones, called Android. The operating system is used on HTC’s G1 phone, which is known as a potential “iPhone killer.”
Google is currently offering one of its mobile software for those who use an iPhone. The software is a voice recognition program, made especially for Apple’s phone, which will be available through Apple’s App Store. Tough the program is not yet listed in the store, it is said that it will become available very soon.
Armed with grease guns, astronauts leave station to fix faulty joint
Two U.S. astronauts walked out of the International Space Station on Tuesday to begin maintenance work on a faulty joint on the station’s solar arrays.
Mission specialists Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen left the station in their spacesuits at 1:09 ET p.m. armed with putty knives and grease guns, which they will use to scrape away metal grit and lubricate the starboard solar alpha rotary joint.
Yahoo Rises as Yang Exit Sparks Microsoft Speculation
Yahoo! Inc., owner of the second- largest U.S. Internet-search engine, rose 8.7 percent in Nasdaq trading after Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang agreed to step down, opening the door for a fresh Microsoft Corp. bid.
Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, California, climbed 92 cents to $11.55 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The gain was the largest in a month.
Before today, the company’s market value had fallen by more than $20 billion since Yang took over last year as discussions with Microsoft failed, an ad partnership with Google Inc. collapsed and talks with Time Warner Inc.’s AOL stalled. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the resignation may fuel speculation of renewed talks with Microsoft or another suitor.
Indian space agency Isro to roll out a rival to Google Earth
Emboldened by its first mission to the Moon, India is to take on a target closer to Earth: Google.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which is based in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent, will roll-out a rival to Google Earth, the hugely popular online satellite imagery service, by the end of the month.
The project, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), will allow users to zoon in to areas as small as 10 metres wide, compared to the 200 metre wide zoom limit on Google Earth.
After Banning YouTube, Military Launches TroopTube
The U.S. military, with help from Seattle startup Delve Networks, has launched a video-sharing Web site for troops, their families and supporters, a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites.
TroopTube, as the new site is called, lets people register as members of one of the branches of the armed forces, family, civilian Defense Department employees or supporters. Members can upload personal videos from anywhere with an Internet connection, but a Pentagon employee screens each for taste, copyright violations and national security issues.
AMD Unveils a Server Chip Called Shanghai
The new computer chip is more versatile than a comparable one that Intel will release in a few days, giving AMD an important advantage.
Advanced Micro Devices is releasing a computer chip that could give it a much-needed boost against bigger rival Intel (INTC).
On Nov. 13, AMD (AMD) unveiled a processor, code-named Shanghai, for use in servers, the powerful computers that run corporate networks. Unlike other recent chips from AMD, Shanghai is being released on time, and it will be more versatile than a comparable chip due to be released from Intel in the coming days.
Microsoft turns Windows Live into a social network
Microsoft this week unveiled a slew of new online services that essentially transforms its Windows Live site into a social network.
The changes, which include updated photo sharing, e-mail and instant messaging capabilities, have received mostly positive reviews from Web 2.0 industry observers.
Wi-Fi in the Sky
American Airlines is the first U.S. carrier to offer wireless networking on multiple routes and aircraft. In August 2008, Aircell’s Gogo service became available on 15 of American’s Boeing 767-200 aircraft, flying in the U.S. from San Francisco to JFK; Los Angeles to JFK; and Miami to JFK. Gogo connects each aircraft’s wireless access points to a network of cell towers on the ground throughout the continental U.S.
In-flight Wi-Fi has been a long time coming. American began investigating wireless networking as a service in 1999, says Doug Backelin, the airline’s manager of in-flight communications and technology.
Google tool uses search terms to detect flu outbreaks
(CNN) — If you have a fever, headache and runny nose, you might go to Google and type the words “flu symptoms” to see whether you’ve come down with influenza.
Google knows that you might do something like that, and it also knows which U.S. state you’re in. Now, it’s putting that information together in a tool that Google says could detect flu outbreaks faster than traditional systems currently in use.
Google Cries Foul Over Coverage of Apps Outages
Recent outages affecting Google Apps have received a disproportionately large amount of coverage from the technology press, resulting in a misperception about the stability of this hosted collaboration and communication suite.
That’s the opinion of Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google’s Enterprise unit, who recently chatted about this issue with IDG News Service, one of the news outlets that Google feels has blown the problem out of proportion.