Category: Google

Pacman 30 year anniversary on Google

David Cowling | May 22, 2010 | Comments (0)

Today is the 30 year Anniversary of the game, Pacman – launched in 1980 by Namco Bandai Games Inc. If you goto the front page of Google.com.au or Google.com you can play Pacman. Check it out!

Google I/O Conference Day 2

David Cowling | May 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

Google unveils more details about the Android Operating System – Android 2.2 (code name Froyo) firmware update with improved speed (apps 2x-5x faster), market place and new features. Java Script runs 2x-3x faster on OS 2.2 The Android Market place has 50,000 applications and 180,000 developers. According to AdMob the Android operating system is No1 [...]

TweetDeck secures another $3 million VC funding

David Cowling | May 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

TweetDeck is a social media tool that can be used on mobile or desktop devices to manager your Twitter account and more recently Foursquare and Google Buzz. Betaworks is the company behind the additional $3 million funding to Tweetdeck. Twitter has recently launched their own application simply called Twitter (used to be called Tweetie). TweetDeck [...]

Google Wave opened to public

David Cowling | May 20, 2010 | Comments (3)

Google has now made their Google Wave product available to everyone, finishing its closed BETA preview. Google Wave (wave.google.com) is an online space where organisations and individuals can collaborate, share ideas, documents and projects in a live cloud environment.

Google App Engine for Business released

David Cowling | May 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

So Google has unveiled their App Engine for Business – the same scalable cloud infrastructure their own business runs on This product has been around for consumers but now Google is looking to the enterprise market. Google will be partnering with VMware for this and will allow companies to build, host and develop applications in [...]

Google I/O conference Day 1 San Francisco

David Cowling | May 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

Recap from Google I/O conference Day 1 – San Francisco What does I/O mean? mainly known for the input/output function, but Google is redefining it as innovation/openness. HTML5 is seen as the future of web development and applications, even mobile applications – allowing speed and less bandwidth consumption. Google co-founder and CEO Sergey Brin admits [...]

Google TV gearing up with Intel and Sony

David Cowling | May 19, 2010 | Comments (1)

There has been much talk about Google TV for some time now, but what does it exactly mean? Google has partnered with Intel and Sony to provide an internet based Television service to consumers. Intel will provide the software via a consumer electronics (CE) operating system based on MeeGo Linux. Sony will provide the hardware [...]

Google claims that Microsoft Office 2010 lacks Cloud Collaboration

David Cowling | May 19, 2010 | Comments (0)

Microsoft has responded to the comments by Google that Microsoft Office 2010 lacks the online calibration needed, something Google claims Google Apps and Google Docs does well. Tracy Overby, senior marketing manager – Microsoft Office Products responded with: ‘Microsoft delivers the best productivity experience and we have the results to prove it. After more than [...]

Google to fight FTC if AdMob deal blocked

David Cowling | May 19, 2010 | Comments (0)

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said his company is prepared to fight the U.S. government if the FTC blocks their acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob. A decision is expected in a few weeks from the FTC. Google purchase Admob in November 2009 for US$750 million. Apple was also throwing up and offer but Google [...]

Search Engine rankings – April

David Cowling | May 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

As Australian search engine data is not as freely available we look at the US market data courtesy of Neilson company. In April 9.72 billion online searches we run. Google had 65.7% market share at 6.4 billion searches. Yahoo had 13.4% market share at 1.3 billion searches. Microsoft’s Bing had 12.2% market share at 1.2 [...]

Youtube announces 2 Billion videos views per day

David Cowling | May 17, 2010 | Comments (2)

YouTube has announced that their website is getting 2 Billion video views per day. Youtube have also mentioned 24 hours of video is uploaded to the site every minute. The company is celebrating their 5th birthday this week and have complied a presentation on their history at – www.youtube.com/fiveyear and make sure you check out [...]

Social Media stats courtesy of Smash summit

David Cowling | May 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

Smash Summit was on yesterday, 12/5 in San Francisco- USA. The event discussed various social media marketing strategies, tools, campaigns and statistics used by online companies to find and retain customers on social, search, and mobile. While not directly related to Australian Social Media there have been some great stats worth noting. – Twitter has [...]

Google to launch tablet computer similar to iPad

David Cowling | May 13, 2010 | Comments (1)

Details are very limited at the moment, but it has been revealed in the US that Google does have plans to a launch tablet computer with Verizon Wireless. The device will no doubt be similar in design and features to the iPad. More details to come as they unfold..

YouTube Introduces ‘Private Video’ option – Unlisted Videos

David Cowling | May 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

A new privacy option by Youtube has been released which allows users to post private videos known as ‘Unlisted Videos’. The videos cannot be found in a Youtube video search, instead a URL is generated for the video that anyone on the internet can access if they have been sent that specific URL. This seems [...]

Google updates search engine

David Cowling | May 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

Google has updated their search engine after month of testing and QC. There are 3 main changes for Google search. 1. Design – Google has redesigned their logo and remove the trade mark sign. The logo does look alot more modern and fresh and gives the impression of a fast and precise service. 2. Left [...]