Google Offers is expanding in the USA today. Google Offers is the daily deal service from Google that has been hyped up, but doesnt seem to have grown like the other services in the market. Anyways.. Google Offers will soon be available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa.
You can check all the debut deals for the new cities here and sign for the service over at www.google.com/offers.
It is very rare to see Google advertising any of their products on TV. However, they have decided that this is a necessary tool when trying to promote their Google+ social network.
For Google+ Google is trying to push the motto: “Sharing, but like real life. That’s a plus.”
More than 2.5 million Muslims travel to the annual Islamic ritual of the Hajj on November 5, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Google has decided to allow people to watch the pilgrimage live on YouTube.
The stream will be live on Saturday, November 5 at http://www.youtube.com/hajjlive.
The Hajj represents one of the five pillars of Islam; each muslim is expected to make the pilgrimage once in their lifetime. It will be interesting to see if they do the same for the other 5.
Google has just released their new flagship Android phone, the Google Galaxy Nexus. There is a quick run down of the Google Galaxy Nexus specs against other mainstream smartphones.
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Hardware |
Galaxy Nexus | iPhone 4S | Galaxy S II | Droid Razr | Nexus S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4460 | Dual-core ~800MHz Apple A5 | Dual-core 1.2Ghz Samsung Exynos | Dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4460 | 1GHz Hummingbird |
| GPU | PowerVR SGX540 | PowerVR SGX543MP2 | PowerVR SGX540 | PowerVR SGX540 | PowerVR SGX540 |
| Screen size | 4.65-inch Super AMOLED | 3.5-inch IPS LCD | 4.3-inch Super AMOLD Plus | 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced | 4-inch Super AMOLED |
| Resolution | 1280×720 | 960×640 | 800×480 | 860×540 | 800×480 |
| PPI | 316 | 326 | 217 | 256 | 235 |
| RAM | 1GB | 512MB | 1GB | 1GB | 512MB |
| Fastest Cellular | LTE, 21Mbps HSPA+ | 21Mbps HSPA+ | 21Mbps HSPA+, Sprint Wi-MAX | LTE, 21Mbps HSPA+ | Sprint Wi-MAX |
| Camera | 5MP | 8MP | 8MP | 8MP | 5MP |
| NFC | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Weight | 135 grams | 140 grams | 116 grams | 127 grams | 129 grams |
| OS | Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich | iOS 5 | Android 2.3 Gingerbread | Android 2.3 Gingerbread | Android 2.3 Gingerbread |
In order to celebrate it’s 1 billionth download, Google Earth tapped JESS3 to create an infographic.
You have to love parody song, well if they are actually good. Anyways, here is a Google+ song. Let us know what you think.
Larry Page and Eric Schmidt take the stage at Google’s Zeitgeist. We havent heard much from Larry Page since taking the CEO job at Google. It seems as though he lacks the public speaking and charisma of Eric. Shame!
Forbes has just released their annual “Richest People in America” list. First of all 8 of the top 20 are related to the internet and computer industries!
However, the main news this year is that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is up from 35th previous year to 14th this year. Zuckerberg is worth $17.5 billion and is now above Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Very impressive for a punked up kid from the valley.
We have just noticed that Larry Page (Google, CEO) hasnt even made an effort to post on his Google Plus profile for over a month. No wonder everyone else has left Google Plus!
Gamestop seem to be a company jumping all over the place at the moment. Gamestop has noticed that no one seems to be buying games from your basic game shops, thus they are trying to find other revenue streams. Last week it was leaked that they are working on a Steam competitor and now it has been announced they are working on their own Android gaming tablet! Really.. a Gamestop gaming tablet! No one is going buy that surely.
via CNET
