Tag Archives | Google
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Google Calculator in Love?

  If you Google this formula, you’ll get a lovely heart: (sqrt(cos(x))*cos(400*x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.4)*(4-x*x)^0.1

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Will Apple Siri Kill Google Search?

Who pays for Siri? First of all, as you can understand it from the above picture showing Siri out of network capacity, running Siri is a cost to Apple. Means someone has to pay for the servers farms and R&D at the end of the day, and it’s not Apple, of course. That someone is [...]

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Do a Barell Roll!

If you usually like Google’s sharp sense of humour, you’ll definitely also very much like this one: 1) Fire up Firefox or Chrome 2) in the search bar of google.com type “do a barrel roll” + hit ENTER key 3) Ta-daaa! Life’s fun and this technique is called viral marketing! :)

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus: Brute Force?

Google & Samsung announced the Galaxy Nexus, first mobile featuring (native no extra fancy layers) Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich. Let’s make it clear, Samsung wants this little guy to be a hammer to explode the competition. Check some of the features: – Super Amoled 4.65″ 720p resolution screen with 0.1ms response time, 100.000:1 [...]

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Want a Job at Google? Better Buy a Lottery Ticket!

US corporates are famous for their sinuous recruitment processes. Google is no exception. Up to nine interviews, several (if not many) selection stages and unexpected math based questions will make landing a job there something as unreal as winning the lottery. That said, Google is expected to bring in about 6.000 new people in 2011 [...]

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Samsung Nexus Prime Leaked Video!

Google and Samsung have postponed the launch of the Nexus Prime featuring Android 4.0 to October 27th. Both companies say in substance they want to respect Jobs passing away and not throw out immediately a new iPhone killer product. ;) Check the video below to find out if this is really Android 4.0 in action [...]

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First Google Store!

This Google Store is the first attempt of the search engine brand to go physical retail. The store is called Chrome Store and is in fact a corner within PC World in London’s Tottenham Court Road. Something to work as a mini-lab for the brand. With Android and Motorola in house, Google has now what [...]

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How Apple Forced Google to Buy Motorola?

Google buys Motorola Mobility for a mere $12.5 billion in cash. By pushing out Google from the patents market and stressing the Android manufacturers the legal way, Apple made it clear the only option for Google was to acquire a handset manufacturer. As an early Android player (since 2008), Motorola was the easy pick (USA [...]

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Google Will be Your Own Cache Memory.

According to an ongoing study at Columbia University, we already skip memorization of things we know Google will host them forever. For example, if you search for a recipe in Google, you will use it and most of the time forget it because you know it’ll still be there, available. Is this new? Nor really. [...]

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Google To Buy RIM Blackberry?

As the Blackberry is slowly losing traction in the smartphones market, it could become a purchase of choice for the Google/Android couple. Why? Google with Android: – lacks patents thus needs to pays expensive royalties (ie to Microsoft) – has no experience/credibility as a mobile phone manufacturer – needs top notch Java army (the core [...]