1. Introducing Google Places
Today the Local Business Center is becoming Google Places. Why? Millions of people use Google every day to find places in the real world, and we want to better connect Place Pages — the way that businesses are being found today — with the tool that enables business owners to manage their presence on Google.
We launched Place Pages last September for more than 50 million places around the world to help people make more informed decisions about where to go, from restaurants and hotels to dry cleaners and bike shops, as well as non-business places like museums, schools and parks. Place Pages connect people to information from the best sources across the web, displaying photos, reviews and essential facts, as well as real-time
updates and offers from business owners.
2. What's an iPhone Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Wow! Who knew summer and the new iPhone would arrive so quickly? Apparently a next-generation iPhone was found on the floor of a California bar, the phone itself camouflaged by a special case fashioned to make the hottest gadget under wraps look like a run-of-the-mill iPhone 3G. Sounds implausible, yes? Not so fast. While Apple may be the most secretive consumer tech company ever spawned, mounting evidence points to legitimacy. Over the weekend, gadget site Engadget posted a photo of what appears to be the next generation iPhone.
3. Google Apps highlights – 4/16/2010
Google Docs reloaded
On Monday we released a preview of the new Google Docs, which brings added features, higher fidelity for imported documents, more speed and faster collaboration to our browser-based productivity tools. Documents sport features that weren’t feasible with older browser technology, like a new ruler for margins and tab stops, better bullets and numbered lists, easier image placement and character-by-character real-time collaboration in the browser. Spreadsheets now have a formula editing bar, drag-and-drop columns and cell auto-fill. They support up to 50 simultaneous collaborators, and are much faster and more responsive overall. We added Google drawings to the mix as well, so you can work with others to create flow-charts, schematics and other kinds of diagrams together in real-time.
4. Google Dreams Up Cloud Printing Service
Google on Friday announced that it's working on Google Cloud Print, a service that will let any application on any device print to any printer over the Internet. Instead of relying on the device's local operating system and drivers to print a job, applications will use Google Cloud Print to submit and manage print jobs. Google Cloud Print will then send the print jobs to the appropriate printer and provide information on the job status to the application.
5. Why the 13" MacBook Pro didn't get a Core i5 upgrade
Fans of Apple's most diminutive professional notebook were let down this week when the newest 13" MacBook Pro revision didn't get an upgrade to Intel's latest processor architecture. The update to Nehalem-based cores, as well as a die shrink to 32nm, gives these Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 mobile processors clear performance advantages over the Core 2 Duo that Apple retained for the 13" MacBook Pro. So why didn't Apple give the 13" MacBook Pro some Arrandale love?
6. Understanding the split personality of Iceland's volcanoes
The initial images of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption showed the sort of dramatic spires of molten rock that we associate with Hawaiian volcanoes. The next time it made the news, it was because air travel throughout Northern Europe had been shut down as a huge cloud of ash spread slowly across the UK and Scandinavia—very un-Hawaiian. To get a better sense of why this Icelandic volcano was showing such a split personality, we got in touch with the American Geophysical Union, which handed us on to Dr. Jeff Karson, who's chair of the Earth Sciences department at Syracuse University. Dr. Karson patiently explained what makes volcanism in Iceland distinct.
7. iPhone OS 4 jailbreak available, enables multitasking on 3G
iPhone OS 4, set to ship later this summer, has already been jailbroken. The iPhoneDevTeam has released a preliminary beta of the redsn0w jailbreaking tool, but be warned: it's definitely not for the casual jailbreaker.
redsn0w 0.9.5 is a beta release with limited functionality. Right now, it only supports jailbreaking iPhone OS 4.0 beta 1 on iPhone 3G hardware and the tool only runs on Mac OS X. The iPhoneDevTeam also notes that the beta firmware overwrites the baseband firmware, so it's not compatible with carrier unlocks at this time.
Today the Local Business Center is becoming Google Places. Why? Millions of people use Google every day to find places in the real world, and we want to better connect Place Pages — the way that businesses are being found today — with the tool that enables business owners to manage their presence on Google.
We launched Place Pages last September for more than 50 million places around the world to help people make more informed decisions about where to go, from restaurants and hotels to dry cleaners and bike shops, as well as non-business places like museums, schools and parks. Place Pages connect people to information from the best sources across the web, displaying photos, reviews and essential facts, as well as real-time
updates and offers from business owners.
2. What's an iPhone Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Wow! Who knew summer and the new iPhone would arrive so quickly? Apparently a next-generation iPhone was found on the floor of a California bar, the phone itself camouflaged by a special case fashioned to make the hottest gadget under wraps look like a run-of-the-mill iPhone 3G. Sounds implausible, yes? Not so fast. While Apple may be the most secretive consumer tech company ever spawned, mounting evidence points to legitimacy. Over the weekend, gadget site Engadget posted a photo of what appears to be the next generation iPhone.
3. Google Apps highlights – 4/16/2010
Google Docs reloaded
On Monday we released a preview of the new Google Docs, which brings added features, higher fidelity for imported documents, more speed and faster collaboration to our browser-based productivity tools. Documents sport features that weren’t feasible with older browser technology, like a new ruler for margins and tab stops, better bullets and numbered lists, easier image placement and character-by-character real-time collaboration in the browser. Spreadsheets now have a formula editing bar, drag-and-drop columns and cell auto-fill. They support up to 50 simultaneous collaborators, and are much faster and more responsive overall. We added Google drawings to the mix as well, so you can work with others to create flow-charts, schematics and other kinds of diagrams together in real-time.
4. Google Dreams Up Cloud Printing Service
Google on Friday announced that it's working on Google Cloud Print, a service that will let any application on any device print to any printer over the Internet. Instead of relying on the device's local operating system and drivers to print a job, applications will use Google Cloud Print to submit and manage print jobs. Google Cloud Print will then send the print jobs to the appropriate printer and provide information on the job status to the application.
5. Why the 13" MacBook Pro didn't get a Core i5 upgrade
Fans of Apple's most diminutive professional notebook were let down this week when the newest 13" MacBook Pro revision didn't get an upgrade to Intel's latest processor architecture. The update to Nehalem-based cores, as well as a die shrink to 32nm, gives these Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 mobile processors clear performance advantages over the Core 2 Duo that Apple retained for the 13" MacBook Pro. So why didn't Apple give the 13" MacBook Pro some Arrandale love?
6. Understanding the split personality of Iceland's volcanoes
The initial images of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption showed the sort of dramatic spires of molten rock that we associate with Hawaiian volcanoes. The next time it made the news, it was because air travel throughout Northern Europe had been shut down as a huge cloud of ash spread slowly across the UK and Scandinavia—very un-Hawaiian. To get a better sense of why this Icelandic volcano was showing such a split personality, we got in touch with the American Geophysical Union, which handed us on to Dr. Jeff Karson, who's chair of the Earth Sciences department at Syracuse University. Dr. Karson patiently explained what makes volcanism in Iceland distinct.
7. iPhone OS 4 jailbreak available, enables multitasking on 3G
iPhone OS 4, set to ship later this summer, has already been jailbroken. The iPhoneDevTeam has released a preliminary beta of the redsn0w jailbreaking tool, but be warned: it's definitely not for the casual jailbreaker.
redsn0w 0.9.5 is a beta release with limited functionality. Right now, it only supports jailbreaking iPhone OS 4.0 beta 1 on iPhone 3G hardware and the tool only runs on Mac OS X. The iPhoneDevTeam also notes that the beta firmware overwrites the baseband firmware, so it's not compatible with carrier unlocks at this time.
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