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By Carol Smith, Open Source TeamCross-posted with the Google Open Source BlogToday at FOSDEM I was proud to announce Google Summer of Code 2012.This will be the 8th year for Google Summer of Code, an innovative program dedicated to introducing students…

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorMost software developers started getting interested in technology at an early age. With that in mind, Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) is a program that annually awards grants to groups that come u…

By Fred Sauer, Developer AdvocateCross-posted with the Google Web Toolkit BlogLast week Angry Birds for Chrome was updated to use the Web Audio API for all its in-game audio for Chrome users, which means Chrome users get the full Angry Birds experience…

MarcinAaronBy Aaron Wheeler, Senior User Experience Prototyper, and Marcin Wichary, Senior User Experience DesignerCross-posted with the Chromium BlogIt took approximately 2000 years for the original Rosetta Stone to be discovered, which helped transla…

By Rania Hadi, MENA Outreach ManagerView this post in ArabicBuilding on a year packed with g|days throughout the Middle East and North Africa, today we are announcing Google MENA’s first 2012 event to kick off the new year. On March 24-25, Google, in…

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorEverybody likes a faster web, and that theme has been evident this week here on Google Code Blog. On Monday, Yuchung Cheng wrote about Google’s research into making TCP faster through various proposals and exp…

WillRobertoBy Roberto Peon and Will Chan, Software EngineersCross-posted with the Chromium BlogIn the two years since we announced SPDY, we’ve been working with the web community on evolving the spec and getting SPDY deployed on the Web. Chrome, Andr…

By Yuchung Cheng, Make The Web Faster TeamTransmission Control Protocol (TCP), the workhorse of the Internet, is designed to deliver all the Web’s content and operate over a huge range of network types. To deliver content effectively, Web browsers ty…

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorLast Wednesday, the web looked very different than it usually does. Dozens of popular sites went dark or were modified in some way. We censored the logo on our homepage. As you probably know by now, all this was…

By Nicolas Garnier, Developer Relations TeamCross-posted from the Google Apps Developer BlogTwo months ago we announced that a few of us from the Google Apps Developer Relations team would be going around EMEA to meet with developers and talk about Goo…

By Navneet Joneja, Product ManagerGoogle Cloud Storage is a robust, high-performance service that enables developers and businesses to use Google’s infrastructure to store and serve their data. Today, we’re announcing a new feature that gives you g…

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorThis week we launched the 2012 Google Science Fair for students ages 13 to 18. For the Science Fair, young scientists are asked to pose a question, answer it through scientific inquiry, and report the results on…

By Melina Mattos, Program Manager, Google AfricaCross-posted from the Google Africa Blog2011 was a busy year for the Google Africa team. The g|Day developer and business conference visited Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa,…

By Raph Levien, Engineer, Google Web FontsOne of Google’s core principles is that “fast is better than slow”, and the Web Fonts team takes that to heart. We’re always looking for ways to make web fonts load faster, and that’s doubtless a key fact…

By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorThis is the last Fridaygram of 2011, and like most everybody else, we’re in a reflective mood. It’s also the 208th post on Google Code Blog this year, which means we’ve averaged more than one post every tw…