Google has announced plans today to sell $3 billion in debt in 3-year, 5-year and 10-year notes. Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase & Co are handling the transaction, which will be priced later on Monday.
Why are they doing this?
Techcrunch was lucky enough to get their hands on the upcoming “Chromebook”. Acer and Samsung will be producing the Chromebooks and here are pictures of the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook.
Google has just introduced the world to the brand new Chromebook. The Chromebook is unlike most laptops because it is optimised for web use. Google arent interested in making software, so they have decided to basically turn Google Chrome into the operating system for a new laptop.
Google Chromebooks will be available for sale from June 15 in U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Spain. In the U.S., buy Chromebooks online from Amazon and Best Buy.
It was during Google’s annual I/O Conference this week in San Francisco that Google announced the release of their shiny new Chromebook.
Acer and Samsung have taken up the project and will be releasing them for public sale on June 15th. Samsung’s WiFi-only Chromebook will cost $429, but if you want their 3G version, it’ll cost $499. Acer will be selling their WiFi-only Chromebook for just $349.
Chromebooks will also be sold internationally. In the U.S. you can pick them up from Amazon or Best Buy. Other countries these will be readily available for are the U.K., France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy.
So what is it that makes these better than every other Netbook out on the market right now? Well, here are a few reasons:
-All-day battery life.
-Built-in Net connectivity. (WiFi and/or Verizon Wireless 3G service)
-Automatic weekly updates. (Don’t have to worry about installing patches.)
-Contain dual-core processors from Intel. (They’re functional!)
For the detailed specs, check this out: Specs
For continuing coverage on the Google I/O Conference: Coverage
Google Music beta is here and you can request your invite here (only if your in the USA).
So what is Google Music? Google Music is a very basic music locker and music player. Google music allows you to store your music library in the cloud (simply just add your mp3 files) and then play your music on both PC, MAC and Android phones. Google Music is currently free but has an upload capacity of 20,000 songs.
It seems like Google are trying to get into the music industry, but the product itself seems to have a limited shelf life. I really think music streaming of an unlimited library is the way forward. Owning your own mp3 files is very limiting and is going to cost a lot to the consumer in the long run (that is if they dont torrent the files in the first place). It seems like a music subscription service on every possible device is the way the industry is moving. I think it is going to be very difficult for the leading technology companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple) to win in this market, because they will have to get their products on all platforms through very difficult negotiations.
Google Music seems to be exactly the same as the recent Amazon Cloud Drive, so Google will need to match and beat them on price.
Overall, Google Music seems to be like a poor mans Spotify.
Sprint has just made the Google Nexus S 4G version available to buy for $199.99 on a two year contract in the USA. The phone is also available at BestBuy if you want a bit of a bargain.
The phone itself has been made by Samsung and runs Android 2.3. Featuring a 4 inch AMOLED touchscreen, 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and 16 GB of storage.
Unlike the T-Mobile version Sprint has a WiMAX chip in the phone to allow even faster mobile data transfer.
Do you think Google will have any more success with this device?
I have been reading a huge amount of very interesting articles about the recent Panda update by Google. The update was to Google’s search algorhythms with the aim of drilling out low quality content, content scrapers and content farms. It seems as though the update did partly work, but along the way there were also smaller sites that were wrongly added to the list.
Here at Crenk we were affected by this recent Google Panda update and since that time I have been trying to clean our site and make it a lot better for our readers. I have read great articles from Search Engine Land and BlogStorm, made a lot of changes to Crenk, but with no affect on our rankings. Im more than happy to make changes to our site to improve the site overall for our readers, but I find it amazingly fustrating that I have no idea why our site has been punished (site-wide) and I have no idea how to fix it. It would be amazing if someone could just pinpoint the reason and then I would go ahead and fix it, but it doesnt seem to be the case. I realise there might be some low quality articles on Crenk, but how do I find out which articles they are, considering we have over 5000 articles?
Does anyone have any advice on this topic or do we just have to continue our site and see where it takes us?
It seems like Twitter are now experimenting with their own text ads. Text advertising has show up on Twitter just below the “trends” section of the site. Those text ads have been there for a long time, but previously they have only been promoting Twitter applications and other Twitter services, but now it has changed!
In this screenshot it was advertising the upcoming NFL draft, which included the website URL and there’s a related hashtag to help you see related tweets on Twitter search.
via Labnol
Have you ever wondered how secure your data is within Google? Well here is a great video from Google that shows off the security to the Google data center.
Google has just released Google Chrome 11. Chrome 11 is the new version of the very popular browser from Google. Chrome 11 features updated bug fixes, translation and speech-to-text features, plus some simplified icons.
Users can download Chrome 11 at the official Chrome page.
Google has paid out around $16,500 to developers who have been able to find bugs in Google Chrome. Additionally, Google gave special thanks to Apple Product Security team members miaubiz, kuzzcc, Sławomir Błażek, Drew Yao and Braden Thomas who helped take the browser to a less buggy stable release.
