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Google has launched 30 balloons above New Zealand to bring internet to remote areas. Google calls the effort Project Loon and acknowledges it is “highly experimental” at this stage. “This is the first time we’ve launched this many balloons (30 this week, in fact) and tried to connect to this many receivers on the ground, and we’re going to learn a lot that will help us improve our technology and…

Google says it has detected and stopped thousands of phishing attacks targeting email accounts of Iranian users. “For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns”,Eric Grosse, the vice president for security engineering, wrote in a post. “The timing and targeting of the campaigns suggest that the attacks are politically motivated,” he said. Mr Grosse said victims targeted in the attacks had received an email containing…

Google has announced that it is acquiring Waze, a community-based traffic and navigation app company. Terms of the deal for Waze weren’t disclosed in the Google blog post. But many people expect that it will be more than 1 billion. Started in Israel, Waze later moved its headquarters and some operations to the U.S. Read below the official blog post from Google. We’ve all been there: stuck in traffic, frustrated…

Google has launched it’s mobile device Nexus 4 in India May 16.The phone costs around 26,000 rupees in India. “LG Electronics is pleased to partner Google on the release of the Nexus 4 in India,” LG Electronics India Managing Director Soon Kwon said in a statement. The Nexus 4 smartphone is manufactured by LG Electronics.The device runs on Google’s latest Android Jelly Bean software. The phone is currently not available…

Google has shut down its SMS-powered Search functionality without any previous warning.People began to notice the service stop working on Friday. Google employee Jessica S. posted on Google’s Product Forums “Hi everyone, Closing products always involves tough choices, but we do think very hard about each decision and its implications for our users. Streamlining our services enables us to focus on creating beautiful technology that will improve people’s lives. Thanks,…

Today ( May 12, 2013) Google celebrates Mothers Day with an excellent interactive doodle. According to our choice it will different Greeting cards for Mother’s day. You can create 27 different cards.If you want you can print the card. Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring mothers and celebrating motherhood.It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March, April, or May. Most of the countries are…

Google Translate, the search giant’s online translation service will supports five more languages including Bosnian,Hmong, Javanese,Cebuano and Marathi. Google Translate is a free statistical multilingual machine-translation service provided by Google to translate written text from one language into another. “With the exception of Bosnian, these new languages are ‘alpha,’ meaning while the quality isn’t perfect, we will continue to test and improve them over time,” Kelman said. Bosnian is an…

Today May 5th 2013 Google put a special doodle to celebrate 200th birthday of Danish philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author.He is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. Søren Kierkegaard was born on May 5, 1813 in Copenhagen.He was the youngest child of seven, born to parents of Jutlandish descent.His mother, Ane Sørensdatter Lund Kierkegaard, had…

Google today May 2nd 2013 celebrates the 92nd birthday of the Legendary Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray with a scene from his first movie Pather Panchali. Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, regarded as one of the great auteurs of world cinema.Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic designer and film critic. The doodle showed a famous scene…

Google has announced that it will be retiring its Meebo Bar publishing tool on June 6 in order to give more resources towards its Google+ Sign-In service and other plug-ins. Meebo was acquired by Google last June for around $100 million. Meebo was an early IM pioneer and spun out several other products related to advertising and leveraging social messaging like the Meebo Bar Creation of new Meebo Bars has…