May 19th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Matthew Leske, Product Manager From the beginning, we designed Google Talk using open standards so that you could connect to your friends and family using any chat product, making communication as easy as possible. A few years ago, we announc…
May 19th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Google Summer of Code is truly a global program. For this year’s program we received 5,651 applications from 3,731 students in 97 countries.We accepted 1,115 students from 68 countries. The ten countries with the highest number of accepted students a…
May 19th, 2011 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
The Guide to the App Galaxy, which we showed off last week at Google I/O, is designed to help mobile app developers—regardless of platform—navigate the complexities of launching an app and building a business on mobile. As you maneuver through…
May 19th, 2011 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Alan Davidson, Director of Public Policy, AmericasMobile location services create enormous social and economic benefits. Many of us are already experiencing those benefits – things as simple as getting real-time traffic maps that aid your c…
May 19th, 2011 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
This month we are releasing two highly requested features for creative trafficking in DoubleClick for Advertisers (DFA): Flash variable detection and validation.This update alleviates a major pain point for traffickers when uploading creatives in DFA. …
May 19th, 2011 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Derek Lei, Software Engineer, Google BooksWhen bookworms stumble across a word we don’t know, we face the classic dilemma of whether to put the book down to look up the word or forge ahead in ignorance to avoid interrupting the reading experi…
May 19th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By T.V. Raman, Research ScientistCross-posted with the Chromium BlogWe recently unveiled ChromeVox — a built-in screen reader for Chrome OS — during Google I/O 2011. This is an early developer beta that is designed to help authors of web applicatio…
May 19th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Justin Mattson, an Android Developer Advocate, and Erik Gilling, an engineer on the Android systems team. — Tim Bray]Android’s USB port has in the past been curiously inaccessible to programmers. Last week at G…
May 19th, 2011 | by Brett Wiltshire | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Posted by Peng Ying, Developer Programs EngineerUpdate 6/10: We’ve updated our gadget’s Terms of Service and you will need to agree to these new terms before you can add or continue to use the gadget.We know that most of you blog for the sake of s…
May 18th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Ryan McDonald and Fernando Pereira, Research TeamThe Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics is one of the premier conferences for language and text technologies. Many employees at Google have strong roots in the commu…
May 18th, 2011 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Dan Hirsch, Google Books Support TeamPlease note that some content may not be available in full view to users outside of the United States.As millions of commuters clip in and pedal off for Bike to Work Week, we, on the Google Books Team crui…
May 18th, 2011 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
For a while now, the SketchUp sales team has been working on an important side project: We’re on a mission to collect cities’ 3D model data sets to add to Google Earth and Maps. Adding photo-textured or even gray building data can improve the way c…
May 18th, 2011 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Sean Carlson, Global Communications & Public AffairsOutside 555 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., the front pages of newspapers from all 50 U.S. states mark the entrance to the Newseum. Inside the lobby, a gallery of Pulitzer Prize…
May 18th, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
It’s that time of year again! The seasons are changing and our Dublin team is ready for the heat. Sending all of our publishers around the world the best wishes for the months ahead!Posted by Katrina Kurnit – Inside AdSense Team
May 18th, 2011 | by Mark W. | published in Google OpenSocial
On May 12, 2011, the OpenSocial community came together for the annual State of the Union event. That day will be remembered as the start of the “Open App Revolution!” (#openapprevolution) A special thank you to Google, who was kind enough to…