April 8th, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
Early Monday morning, the Italian region of Abruzzo was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. The epicenter of the quake was in L’Aquila, a town about 100km northeast of Rome. According to the latest news reports, authorities fear that more than 200 pe…
Standards-based Persistence For Java™ Apps On Google App Engine
April 8th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
When I sat down to write this post I decided to glance back at my last post on this blog. One sentence in particular jumped out at me: “…I would never again feel compelled to build an [Object-Relational] Mapping framework in Java.” Well, friends, n…
April 7th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Every once in a while, we invite members of the developer community to visit Mountain View campus to talk shop, share news, and eat Google’sS’mores. We call these events “Google Campfire One,” and we held a lively one tonight.At tonight’s Campfire One…
April 7th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
I’m excited to announce new, highly requested features for App Engine which we unveiled a few minutes ago at Campfire One.First, we’re giving developers an ‘early look’ at Java™ language support for App Engine. The team has taken a standards base…
Seriously this time, the new language on App Engine: Java™
April 7th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Today, we’re very excited to announce the availability of a new programming language for Google App Engine. Please welcome the Java runtime!When the two of us first heard the promise of Google App Engine, we realized that the chance to bring this kind …
April 7th, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
The new version of Gmail for mobile includes:– New offline functionality that allows you to start Gmail for mobile, compose new messages and read recently read messages when offline.– The new “floaty bar” menu can be used to perform batch actions s…
April 7th, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
The new version of Google Calendar for iPhone and Android allows users to edit Google Calendar events (change your attendance status, edit the details, and add or remove guests) from the browser.Editions included:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and …
April 7th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Congratulations to YouTube’s most hyperactive star, the helium-voiced Fred Figglehorn, on the occasion of his Fred channel recording its millionth subscriber, the first YouTube channel to do so. What’s even more amazing is that all this was accomplishe…
April 7th, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
What are Regular Expressions and Why Use Them?Regular Expressions (RegEx) are a set of characters you can use match one or more strings of text. The main reason to use Regular Expressions is that they support wildcard matching, letting you capture a l…
April 7th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
Today I’m happy to announce that we’ve updated Gmail and Calendar for the iPhone. We’ve completely re-architected the code so you get more consistent performance, refreshed the user interface so it’s easier to perform batch actions, and most important…
April 7th, 2009 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Enjoy a few new tidbits in the latest release.Search for playlistsYup, the same way you can search for videos and channels , you can now use the API to search for playlists:http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/snippets?q=soccer&v=2 The quer…
April 7th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Rob Kroeger, Engineer, Google MobileToday we’re introducing a major revision to Gmail for mobile that takes advantage of the latest browser technology available on iPhone and Android devices. We’ve updated the user interface, made it faster t…
April 7th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
Secrets for Android is an application to securely store and manage passwords and secrets on your Android powered phone. It uses techniques like strong encryption and auto-logout to help ensure that your secrets remain safe, assuming you’ve chosen a goo…
HTML5 and WebKit pave the way for mobile web applications
April 7th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
When I first started at Google, we were building a Java ME email client for the phones of the day. It’s an excellent product – still the fastest, slickest way to get your Gmail on many devices because of Java ME’s widespread penetration. Yet it always …
April 7th, 2009 | by Kai | published in Google Mobile
It’s probably no news to all you parents out there, but as a new dad I only recently found out just how busy life gets with kids. So I was thrilled when I was able to view my Google Calendar on my phone. Being able to check the week’s schedule is great…