October 22nd, 2008 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
Last month I outlined some details around Android Market. Today, Android Market launched for users to download applications along with the first Android-powered phone—the T-Mobile G1.With Android Market, users can easily download apps to their An…
October 22nd, 2008 | by Misko | published in Google Testing
by Miško Hevery After reading the article on Singletons (the design anti-pattern) and how they are really global variables and dependency injection suggestion to simply pass in the reference to the singleton in a constructor (instead of looking them u…
October 22nd, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
One of the coolest things about social networking is that it lets all different kinds of people come together and express their unique personalities and interests. Most of the time this is positive, helping people around the world make new friends and …
October 22nd, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Today, you may have noticed a little polish in your Google Analytics report interface . The layout is a little cleaner because we added some color consistency and contrast between sections in the interface so that it’s easier to distinguish between the…
October 21st, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Chad Parry, Gmail engineer Hello, you’ve reached Chad’s mailbox. Thanks for your email about the latest Labs feature: Canned Responses, or email for the truly lazy. I’m on paternity leave so I won’t be able to respond personally. Instead, I h…
October 21st, 2008 | by Dan Morrill | published in Google Android
When we released the 0.9_r1 beta SDK, we mentioned that the Maps API included with Android would soon require an API key to function correctly and load map tiles. Part of the reason for this was that the Terms of Service (ToS) for the Maps API had not …
October 21st, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Last week, we added support for footnotes. You can find footnotes in the Insert menu. When you create a footnote, it’ll appear to the right of the document margin and a footnote marker (#) will appear within the actual document. You can drag and drop f…
October 21st, 2008 | by Kevin Gough | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Kevin Gough, Sr. Product & Marketing ManagerI was recently forwarded an email from the CEO of Zuora, a Google Apps customer whose company has embraced Apps across the board. According to CEO Tien Tzuo, “Google has been transformative, all…
October 21st, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
The core of the Inform and Empower initiative lies in the access to timely, relevant information that can empower government leaders and citizens to improve the delivery of vital public services. So I was delighted to hear that yesterday one of our gra…
October 21st, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
A number of us at Google.org have been gleefully contributing to the spread of the Girl Effect video. Maybe you have seen this powerful and moving video already. This piece of art and social commerce, which argues that the key to breaking the cycle of …
October 21st, 2008 | by Jeff Bailey | published in Google Open Source
By Jeff Bailey, Open Source TeamThis morning at 8 AM Pacific, I had the joy of participating in the Android release. If you’ve been following along, you’ll have seen how excited we’ve been – and are – to publish millions of lines of code to the outsid…
October 21st, 2008 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Book Search Online TeamToday marks the birthday of the influential author, Edogawa Rampo, who is well-known and beloved in Japan as the godfather of mystery and detective fiction.114 years ago today, he was born Hirai Taro in Mie …
October 21st, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Fred Zhang, Software EngineerShooting video isn’t limited to videocameras, anymore — people are now capturing video content on everything from their mobile phones to their high-end SLRs. Thankfully, Picasa 3 can help you easily manage all th…
October 21st, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Gmail now automatically adds people that you corresponded with to ‘Suggested Contacts’. You can move people you correspond with regularly to ‘My Contacts’. Gmail’s address auto-complete feature works for all of your contacts, whether they’re in ‘My C…
October 21st, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
The Google Marketer’s Playbook is a series of educational talks where our experts discuss strategies for making the most of AdWords and other Google products such as Google Analytics and YouTube. You can attend the Google Marketer’s Playbook and hear …