Google lays off 100

Posted by admin | Posted in News | Posted on 16-01-2009

google_layoffs.jpg The recession has created such hell for big businesses and companies that you forget to look at the more obvious and tangible ones. Google has announced laying off 100 people from its HR department. The company says it hopes those who lost their jobs will get a chance somewhere in Google itself. How can that happen? Who will hire them? And nonetheless, the move only proves to say that the company is satisfied with what they have for the moment and the rest, those responsible to bring onboard more human expenses, may as well pack and be gone

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Your Google search is killing Earth

Posted by admin | Posted in News | Posted on 12-01-2009

Debate global warming all you want, but no one can argue that CO2 is an extremely toxic pollutant which is very bad for our health. When we think of how CO2 gets into our atmosphere we tend to think of millions of cars whipping down highways or of factories whose smoke stacks spew black, acrid smoke while producing consumer goods. But have you ever thought of Google? Harvard University Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has calculated that a simple Google search emits 7g of CO2, about half of what is given off when boiling a pot of tea. While 7g of CO2 isn’t an awful lot in the grand scheme of things, considering that Google handles over 200-million searches per day you can forgive us for double checking our calculators when we calculated this out to be 1,400,000kg of CO2 per day or well over 511,000,000kg in a year. Google denies the aforementioned figures and said on its official blog that the actual CO2 emissions per search are more like 0.2g, but that stat is difficult to accept considering how many servers are involved with a single search (you know, that and the fact that Wissner-Gross has a Bachelors in Physics, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from MIT along with a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard). Numbers aside, emissions aren’t a good thing and Google obviously recognizes this having co-founded Climate Savers Computing, a group comprised of the who’s-who of the tech world with the goal of halving its CO2 emissions by 2010; a noble effort indeed.

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Google Chrome Browser To Grow Beyond Beta Phase

Posted by admin | Posted in News | Posted on 11-12-2008

Google Chrome Browser To Grow Beyond Beta Phase

Google’s Chrome browser might be three months old in the market with its beta version, but will be arriving in a full release shortly. This is a surprise since Gmail is still in beta despite being around for four years already. Speculations abound that many OEMs want to bundle Chrome, but they won’t be able to do so until the full release. Guess this is good news for Google but bad news for Microsoft who will most probably see its market share drop. It would be interesting to see whether the full version of Chrome will increase its current browser market share from 1% to a more respectable figure.

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Gmail Google Desktop Gadget Now Available

Posted by admin | Posted in News | Posted on 02-12-2008

Featured Windows Download


Windows only (running Google Desktop): If you want access to your Gmail on your desktop (literally) without running a full-blown email client, now you can download the Gmail Google Desktop gadget. You’ll need the free Google Desktop software installed first, and then you can dock your Gmail gadget to the desktop to read, search, send, and star messages. The Gmail gadget offers the same keyboard shortcuts that web-based Gmail offers, too. You can even open multiple instances of the gadget and log each into a different Gmail account. The only complaint about the gadget? It doesn’t play a sound when new mail arrives. (Though you may thank Google for that one.) The Gmail gadget is a free download and works in conjunction with Google Desktop 5 for Windows only.

Gmail Google Gadget [via Official Gmail Blog]
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gOS “Cloud” instant-on OS comes to Gigabyte touchscreen netbooks

Posted by admin | Posted in OS | Posted on 02-12-2008


Not that we were too impressed with gOS when we first saw Rocket almost a year ago, but Cloud — the small footprint, quick boot Linux variant that Good OS introduced today at the Netbook World Summit in Paris — looks like an altogether different beast. Arriving pre-installed alongside Windows on the new Gigabyte touchscreen netbooks (perhaps some variant of the M912V), the new SplashTop-esque OS uses a web browser as its main interface, with an integrated dock providing such Web 2.0 mainstays as Skype, YouTube and the Google family of apps — and if this smattering of tools doesn’t meet all of your computing needs, you can always boot into your main OS from there. Cloud can be installed as a dual-boot partition on your hard drive or SSD as well as onto a flash chip hardwired onto a motherboard. That’s all we have for now, but you can bet we’ll be on hand to check it out at CES in January.

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