Google acquires Admeld at $400 million
AdMeld is a firm that specializes in ad optimization and get revenue from ad networks and exchanges. The display ad management service provider helps publishers to choose their ad buys across dozens of advertising networks and get the highest price from each ad impression to advance their own major publishing ad networks, AdWords and Analytics [...]
Google Chromebooks now available, on pre-order
According to Google’s tweet, Google Chromebooks are now finally available for pre-order at Best Buy and Amazon. These devices will commence shipping tomorrow in US but do not worry as Google promised that they will begin rolling out in other countries soon. Connectivity-wise, 3G users should go for Chromebooks, because without an internet connection, the [...]
Toshiba Thrive tablet with NVIDIA Tegra2 and Honeycomb
Toshiba will indeed debut Thrive as its first tablet for the US market. The Thrive tablet might be released by mid-July and will run on Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system and an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core chipset. This 10-inch device compares favorably to ASUS Eee Pad, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and the Motorola Xoom (which [...]
Viewsonic 7x is a 7-inch Tegra 2 Honeycomb tablet, weighs only 380g
Tegra 2-powered Honeycomb tablets seem to be rare these days, but this one also belongs to a line-up which is not particularly popular. Viewsonic is about to launch a new Android tablet – the ViewPad 7x packs a 7-inch screen that is now a member of the company’s current 7″ model – the ViewPad 7, [...]
Google Music is out, much like the Amazon Cloud Player
Google announced the test version of a new music service – Music Beta yesterday at Google’s I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco. Amazon shocked Google and Levine when its cloud music service launched in March while they are still negotiating to the four top labels to obtain licenses for the Music Beta though it was [...]
Google acquires PushLife, a mobile music and entertainment platform
Google has just acquired PushLife, a Toronto-based mobile entertainment startup for nearly $25 million dollars according to Startup North. PushLife is a carrier-grade platform that enables you to port iTunes and Windows Media player libraries to non-Apple phones like BlackBerry and Android. Founded by former RIM employee and PushLife CEO’s Ray Reddy, the company manages [...]
Google Chrome 11 beta is out and available for download
Google has just announced the release of their latest Chrome browser in beta version. The new version is 11.0.696.16 and features a several changes in all major platforms (Mac, PC and Linux). To name a few, the improvements of Chrome are: Voice search powered by HTML 5 GPU-accelerated 3D CSS A new icon Ready to [...]
AMD unleashes the Radeon HD6990, new “world’s fastest”graphic card
AMD releases its new “world’s fastest” graphic card – Radeon HD6990 which is two times higher ($700). The Radeon HD6990 is two times power than the HD6970. It is basically two HD6970 soldered into a single board. It features 2×1536 stream processors, 2×96 texture units, 2×32 ROPs, 2×256-bit memory bus, 830MHz core clock, 2×2.35 billion [...]
Edit Google Documents in your Mobile Browser, available in 45 Languages
There’s a good news in Google Docs and now it is finally added the mobile editor option which you can work on documents on the go. Not only English is the language it supported, but it has 44 more languages have just been added, which is a major benefit for mobile users out there. To [...]
Introducing the real rival of iPad, The Motorola Xoom tablet: Let the Tablet Wars Begin
Motorola unveils the first Android tablet running the Honeycomb operating system – Xoom. Powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, the Motorola Xoom is a 10.1-inch tablet (1280 x 800 resolution)that is running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. It sports 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory, plus an SD card slot. The Xoom weights 1.6 [...]
