Don’t you hate your email’s Inbox greets you with tons of unimportant messages such as spam emails? It’s an old story, but it’s a prevalent one which you wish there is a simpler solution to it. The folks at Google is planning to roll out something known as Priority Inbox for Gmail, and this feature attempts to unclutter your Gmail’s Inbox.
You can compare this new feature to the most primitive artificial intelligence! Why? Priority Inbox is like an assistant to you as it sorts out the emails it thinks you want to read, and it stuffs the unimportant emails into the everything else category. Something that you think you should read later, Priority Inbox stuffs such emails into the category where all emails would be starred. The more you use the Priority Inbox, the more it learns of your behavior in categorizing which email is important. In a sense, Priority Inbox can only get better at helping you out in sorting the email messages in your Gmail account.
Google says it won’t roll out Priority Inbox for Gmail users till next week! Google has some more testing to do for the feature needs to be better than now as it rolls out for the mass. Check out the video below to see what is Priority Inbox in a fun way!
There are rumors that Google is in deep negotiations with popular movie studios to bring more rental movies to everyone! Rumors or not, Apple is doing the same thing! What is the fuss? Not much, really! All I can see is that Netflix still rules the world! Why? Rumor has that Google’s will charge $5 for streaming a movie to you! Good luck with that price Google! I’m looking at Apple too with my eyes rolling in the sockets! Come on, Netflix has outdone everyone here! Netflix is only charging people $10 a month or $12 a month if you throw in Blu-ray DVD in the mailbox, but the coolest thing is that you get to stream unlimited instant play movies on your TV (through the uses of PS3, set top boxes, Wii, etc…), computers, and laptops! Apple and Google are going the AOL Time Warner route? Source.
At the pace where everyone has a cell phone, land line phone system may soon be obsoleted. The success of smart phones such as iPhone is a big threat to land line phone system. The popularity of smart phones are the trendiest phenomenon, but something else is lurking in the horizon that is begging for some attentions. Can you guess what it is?
That something else is the Internet! Internet can be used as a phone system! Through the Internet, a technology has sprung forward known as Voice Over IP and it’s gaining popularity. Voice Over IP services over the Internet offer amazing rates, and free offers are obvious too. How can something like this will be overlooked by a giant in the tech industry such as Google right? Google is testing with the idea such as adding VOIP on top of Gmail so people can make free phone calls within Gmail. Amazing low rates will apply when calling International.
As Google moving forward with VOIP over Gmail, will companies such as AT&T fight for survival? Imagine when countless of cheap gadgets come out and allow people to connect to Gmail’s phone feature for free talk times, how can companies such as AT&T charge people with their current phone rates? In reality, Google is still testing the whole idea, but like fire, everything can spread really fast if people find Gmail’s phone feature attractive. What do you think? Source.
Google is testing and probably will make a new feature permanently of allowing results to be updated instantly while you’re typing in search keywords.
Many investors and iPhone users think Apple will not be affected by the plethora of news about iPhone 4′s defective antenna. Think again! The smart phone market is a very competitive one. Everybody will try to take down the leader of the market. Unfortunately for Apple, right when Apple has all the trust from its fans, the defective antenna infects many iPhone 4(s) to a very visible degree.
Powerful competitor such as Motorola and Google use Droid X to combat iPhone 4(s) shrinking popularity. From this blog post, it appears Motorola has an ad out that is subtly making fun of iPhone 4 by saying Droid X doesn’t need a jacket! How about the news of Mark Zuckerberg has picked up an Android smart phone as a replacement for his iPhone? Other people complain how they experience weak signals or no signal from AT&T network when they’re using iPhone(s). Combining the complaints about the AT&T data network and iPhone 4′s defective antennas, some people may still have faith in Apple, but many other people may switch to other popular smart phones!
The smart phone market has many players, and each player has all the motives to outsmart everyone else in the smart phone market. Apple has been in a full defensive mode as it tries to tell its fans that not only iPhone 4 has a defective antenna, but its competitors’ smart phones are also having the same exact problem. It could be a bad move for Apple and backfire against Apple for making more enemies. Luckily for Apple, iPad is still going strong and free of problems! iPad’s still leading the way, but for how long?
The technology market is a volatile market by nature. To advance the quality of life and create better entertainment and provide answers for curious minds and everything else, new waves of discoveries have often drowned out the old waves of discoveries, and this is why technology is such a volatile market. Apple has proved that it’s one of the new waves, but for how long?
Google has released App Inventor to the public. What’s on earth is App Inventor? App Inventor allows you and your cat to create applications for Android without touching a single code. Oh, please disregard about the cat that can program an app, I just want to be cute like a cat! Anyway, all you have to do is to be creative and have a mental image of how you want to approach in formulating an application for Android. For an example, you want to allow a sound to play when someone taps on an image as to tell your little application to display the next image, you can do just that without touching any code using App Inventor. App Inventor developers boast that they have had created image versions of the codes for just about anything, and so you can mash the mashable objects together to form a complete Android application.
Yes, coding will always be a better form of poetry, but App Inventor is one quick way to form up an Android App without being too geeky! Imagine using App Inventor as a way to create a new whole puzzle from standard bits and pieces of the older puzzles. It’s way more flexible than a puzzle literally, because bits and pieces from real puzzles cannot be mashable unless those are from the same puzzles.
In a way, I don’t think App Inventor will allow users to create better Android applications. To create the more sophisticated applications, one has to get down and dirty by coding days and nights away. Writing poetry is not cake!
Even if all has failed, I still adore App Inventor for one reason only, and the reason is that it allows people without the knowledge of coding to form limitless number of Android applications that are uniquely compatible to the creators. Just a head up, don’t even try to avoid similar Android applications that will be produced by App Inventor factory. It will be a hopeless mission for you!
Give App Inventor a try here! To clarify, I have not used App Inventor yet, and so my words on this new thing are for show! Have a merry active mind in creating Android applications! Source.
Although the search business looks rather boring and static, it’s actually an ever changing game in the world! It has to do with the expansion of the mobile industry and more. The number of people that are using mobile devices is astounding, and it’s also a focus to why the search business is changing! Mobile devices are small, small in screen size, people spend small, short time intervals on their mobile devices — it’s a stark contrast to how people spend their times on their computers, data that are sending to the mobile devices for marketing purposes have to be small in every way, people have small patience as they use mobile devices (slow data speed), not the end of the world for search — people tend to search less on mobile devices as they rather spend their times on specific applications with specialized functionalities. As a leading search giant, the largest of all, Google knows that it needs to find ways to capitalize the future of search where search market is no longer the same as now!
Little that we know, Google actually has a lot of sayings in all types of businesses even though it has no direct relationship to those businesses. What on earth? Well, after all, Google is the catalyst that drives sales and deal makings and prospects and positive outlooks and votes to all types of businesses, because it’s that popular and people are using Google more than all other search engines, combined! To expand its presence, Google’s search model may have to morph radically to capture both audiences, the regular Internet crowd and the mobile crowd . One thing for sure, people won’t be spending less time on computers for Internet browsing, but they’re going to spend more time on their mobile devices, and we all know almost all mobile devices are wireless connected. The question is, how can Google go about capturing the mobile crowd so its business can be more profitable?
Today, I read a piece on “Google Buys Huge Flight Search Engine ITA For $700 Million,” and I think I know right away that Google is wanting to make sure it has a strangle on the search market in a broad sense, even more. Google pushed aside the travel websites by winning the bid of the unique flight search engine ITA, but Google is not a travel business — think again, Google is pretty much a business of everything! Google wants to be the only search engine on the web that has the power to move a larger and a largest population to anywhere it wants to! I’m thinking, if I have any saying in Google’s business, I definitely think about pushing flight search engine ITA not only over the regular Internet, but also all over the mobile world with what might be a flight search data mobile application!
Anyway, how on earth can Google go about making a profit in the mobile world? Displaying ads on mobile phones and mobile gadgets may not be as profitable as on computers, or is it? An article “Going Mobile: How iAd and AdMob Move Apple vs. Google to a New Playing Field” suggests that Google is trying to expand its presence by going mobile, even though mobile industry has not yet come close to making real revenue for Google’s bottom line. The mobile industry is growing fast, more people are using mobile devices, and the number of mobile devices in short amount of years have hugely outnumbered the computers. To Google’s ever expanding presence and its influence in many markets, Google plays smartly by purchasing the right, unique search technology and non-search technology as it has demonstrated in the acquisitions of AdMob and unique flight search technology.
People spend money as if it’s a Christmas season as many of them have gone and get themselves an iPhone 4. People wait in lines in US and around the world to get an upgrade to a newer iPhone, and some of these people are first time iPhone users. OK, so we have got it, iPhone is one hot gadget! Nonetheless, even an iPhone should not be an end to all gadgets, because there are so many choices out there! What about Windows Phone 7 Series? The OS’s user interface for Windows Phone 7 Series looks really sweet, sleek, and fresh. It’s very different from the OS that is on earlier mobiles from Microsoft. Windows Phone 7 Series may release around October this year.
Windows Phone 7 Series is cool, but here is another contender that we cannot just ignore which is Google’s Droid X. This baby probably is more powerful than iPhone 4 and Windows Phone 7 Series. Droid X has 8 megapixel camera which is more than what iPhone 4 has, iPhone 4 has only 5 megapixel camera. Again, Droid X, the device itself does not look bad at all, and if you set it side by side with Windows Phone 7 Series and iPhone 4, I’ve to say they all look gorgeous and Droid X isn’t shy to be just as cool as the other phones. Android 2.1 is going to be Droid X’s OS.
Someone from Mobileburn used Droid X to shoot a video in 720p HD format. It looks great!
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YouTube has announced its victory against Viacom in a court case! About three years ago, Viacom sued Google for YouTube had hosted Viacom’s copyrighted videos. Viacom was seeking $1 billion in damages! Unfortunately for Viacom, it’s now clear that their frivolous charges against YouTube have only strengthen YouTube for many years to come!
As long YouTube cooperates with copyright holders to make sure their works are compensated fully, there is no reason for YouTube to be punished by just being kind as in hosting a free web video service where hundreds of millions of web videos are shared by millions of people. YouTube has not taken copyright matter lightly at all as I’ve seen way too many videos were pulled off of YouTube, because the copyright holders hadn’t granted some YouTube’s users to upload their copyrighted videos.
Obviously, YouTube is one huge web video service where way too many videos are being uploaded in seconds in a near constant rate, this is why it’s unfair to hold YouTube accountable for copyrighted videos that aren’t yet made aware as questionable videos that need to be pulled off of YouTube. With YouTube’s victory against Viacom, many other websites that are offering user generated contents can also breathe a little easier, because they now know that they too may have a winning chance if they have to face similar charges that YouTube had dealt with in this case. Indeed, it’s a big win for many people on the side of YouTube! Source. Related article: “Viacom sues Google over YouTube clips.”
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