Amazon’s MP3 is preloaded as an application in T-Mobile’s G1, the first phone designed on Google’s Android platform. G1 users will be able to purchase DRM-free MP3’s from the store to listen on their phone.
The Amazon partnership is crucial for Google’s G1 to compete with the iPhone, which integrates very well with Apple’s iTunes store [...]

Google maps now offers street view on java powered and Blackberry mobile devices. Street View can be launched from any address and if Google has photos in their database from that location, maps will display the street view for the address. Street View can be overlaid on the map or in full screen and also [...]

comScore, a leading digital analytics company, today released latest numbers for online video usage. The results? Well Google is leading the pack and is putting the rest of the competition to shame. In the month of July, Americans viewed more than 11.4 billion videos for a total duration of 558 million hours.
Google Sites once again [...]

Ever since Google’s Chrome web browser has been released, I cannot stop and wonder why Google choose to do it’s own browser versus enhancing Firefox, especially when it has backed the Mozilla foundation for quite sometime. According to wikipedia, the Google , Mozilla partnership contributes about 85% of the revenues for the Mozilla foundation.
The foundation [...]

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Google’s blog revealed today that the company is about to launch a new web browser tomorrow in over a 100 countries. The browser, called Google Chrome, will be launched in public beta on Windows first. The browser will be made available for MacOS X and Linux in the future.
So why [...]

Google’s first Android phone, the HTC dream, has apparently cleard FCC regulations as HTC has filed a request with the FCC for granting short-term confidentiality on certain documents on the Dream till the 10th of November. This leads to an obvious speculation that the 10th of Nov. is the release date for Google’s first Android [...]

Big day for Friendster! First, the social networking site announced a $20 million funding from new investor IDG  Ventures. Then Richard Kimber, former Google regional managing director of South Asia, announced he is joining Friendster as its new CEO and a member of Friendster’s board of directors.
“Friendster is growing at an enormous rate in Asia [...]

Maori is the indigenous language of New Zealand with just over 157,110 speakers. It is also one of the official languages of New Zealand along with English and New Zealand sign language. Every year since 1975, New Zealand has marked Maori language week to celebrate the language. This year, coinciding with Maori language week, Google [...]

Google today announced the Knol - an authoritative Wikipedia where it promises to share revenues on pages with authors. As per google, Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects.
The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put [...]

Yahoo today announced it’s financial numbers for Q2 2008. The company had revenues of $1.798 billion and operating Income - $101 million. Revenues were up 6 percent increase compared to the same period in 2007. Net income for the second quarter of 2008 was $131 million or $0.09 per diluted share compared to $161 million [...]

Google announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire ZAO Begun (”Begun”), a leading Russian context advertising service, for $140 million. The acquisition of Begun will give advertisers access to a broader network of sites to advertise on, and publishers will benefit from a wider set of adverts to run on their sites.
Google [...]

Google has just made it easier for anyone who is avidly following the 2008 US presidential elections. The 2008 election trends site tracks search queries on candidates by location to show how, during this election season, voters across the nation are getting politically engaged online.
Original blog post from google available here.
SOURCE: Google

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Palm Inc. has released the Centro unlocked version for US customers. As part of the press release the company also announced the availability of Google Maps with My Location service on the Palm Centro. The unlocked smartphones will be available for online purchase at $299.
With “My Location” Centro customers have easier access to mapping and [...]

According to WSJ, Google’s Android plateform for mobile phones won’t have a working handset until the 4th quarter. According to the report “some cellular carriers and makers of programs that work with Android are struggling to meet that schedule, people familiar with the situation say. T-Mobile USA expects to deliver an Android-powered phone in the [...]

comScore has released video viewership numbers for US internet users for the month of April. 11 billion videos were viewed in April down from 11.5 billion views for March. Google sites topped the list with 38% market share. YouTube accounted for 98% viewership among Google sites and remains the undisputed leading online video destination.
Other notable [...]

In a press release today, Yahoo announced that talks between them and Microsoft have concluded. The two companies are going their own separate ways. After talks had broken down previously between Yahoo and Microsoft over the sale price for Yahoo, there was pressure from billionare investor Carl Icahn for the two companies to resume talks.
Since [...]

Facebook just open sourced their Facebook Open Platform (fbOpen), a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs the Facebook Platform. It includes the API infrastructure, the FQL parser, the FBML parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags.
According to the release - We hope this release is a starting point to [...]

For the month of April, Google was the only major player whose market share of the web search queries grew. Eating more out of its competitors pie, Google search queries grew to 61.6 percent compared to 59.8 percentage for the month of April, according to search Internet monitoring research firm comScore.
Numbers for April:

Search Queries dropped [...]