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Google just released a free 411 service in Google Labs on Friday. It’s a (free) telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and it is a $7 billion/year market.
“Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search […]

 
Google announced last week that their Google Notebook product “has now graduated from Google Labs and is officially out of beta”. Besides launching in 17 new languages, we’ve added a slew of improvements to the user interface and new features too. You can add your own comments to individual notes, view your notebook content on […]

LG Electronics, a leading worldwide provider of advanced wireless handsets and accessories, and Google today announced a global collaboration to pre-install Google’s services on millions of LG mobile phones. Mobile users around the world will now be able to easily search for information, find locations, update blogs and manage email while on the move.
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Google announced today the testing of a advertising model called Pay-Per-Action, or PPA. “It’s important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Google controls so much of the online advertising market that just about anything they do in advertising has real consequences around the Internet.” - Michael Arrington
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Google announced they have just released “six themes for the personalized homepage that try to solve these challenges: a city, a teahouse (super cute — this one is my favorite), a winter scene, a sky, a beach and a bus stop. All of our themes are dynamic: they change with your own local […]

Many of you probably have already heard the news, but if not … you’ve read the headline … Google’s Gmail is finally open for public sign up …
“No more waiting for an invitation: You can now sign up for your own Gmail account. Sign-ups are open worldwide in more than 40 languages.
Now everyone can get […]

Today’s the day …’G-Day’ as some call it, Google announces the launch of their Premiere version of ‘Google Apps for your domain’, a new version designed to take on all the challenges presented by businesses with complex IT needs. For $50 per account per year, you get the whole Google Apps package plus many new […]

Google Radio … not working out as planned. I wont say I TOLD YOU SO! (ops, did I just say that). The last I had heard they put this thing “on hold”, now the two brothers that founded the company and were staying on with Google to run the Google Audio thing, hit the road, […]

 
Some news slipped out today about Google currently preparing a presentation tool that will be a direct hit at Microsoft’s long reigning PowerPoint. The code-name of the new tool is “Presently” (a play on Writely, the name of the online word processor bought by Google).
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Google blogged today about a couple of their software developers taking a trip over to London to drive around and test our the Google Maps for Mobile service on a device running Windows Mobile OS. See their brief adventure here.
I use GMM on occasion and it works well; it’s not a GPS (although it does […]