A new version of Google Earth is released and it contains 4x amount of data it had earlier. Googleblog announced this yesterday.
We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of GoogleEarth that we decided to celebrate a bit early. Beginning today, youcan download a brand new version,Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? Ditto.Yes, we’re releasing simultaneously for PC, Mac (universal binary forfull performance on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs) and for thefirst time ever, native support for popular Linux distributions. And weshould say “salut,” “ciao,” “hallo,” and “hola” to our French, Italian,German and Spanish users, because Google Earth is now fully localizedfor those languages in addition to English. This includes a UIlocalized to French, Italian, German, and Spanish, as well as localsearch, driving directions, geo-coding, and unique local informationlayers for those countries.
I remember my blogpost of February,2005 when Google bought Keyhole and started converting it to Google Earth, I was very excited and one of my friend Ankit pointed out that however good it maybe it cant be of any use to people outside US. Here is his comment.
iamGOD Says:
Hey Man,
“Keyholeâ€, No use to us, because we are Indians.
Can you fly form Bombay to Kalol…….?
Well KEYHOLE cann’t fly over slums in india and those of kalol.
And BISAG is sleeping ……….. they works only for government….and thiswill take at least 5 (minimum, if they plan) years for government toput all bisag data on web.
5 years.hmmm. Well its done in 1 year and I am happy about that.I can even see my home in new google earth. Below is the image of that.
technorati tags:Google, Earth, Home, Technolgy, Keyhole, BISAG, Release
Few days back Firefox 1.5.0.4 was released and as always I upgraded to the current version expecting nothing new but some security updates making me more secure. But I was pleasantly surprised that this time some memory leaks were fixed. And suddenly even after the huge number of extensions I have installed the response and speed of Firefox has increased or is it just me?
Last month @Last Software joined google and now they have released a free version of Sketchup which will really help get 3D modelling to the masses. Just check it out. They also launched a 3D Warehouse where you can publish your models and share them. Read more on the link below.
The new Google SketchUp is for the do-it-yourselfer, the hobbyist — really anyone who wants to build 3D models for use in Google Earth. Go ahead and model that new kitchen, or deck, landscape your virtual garden, or impress your teacher with a roller coaster or medieval castle. When you’re finished, place your model in Google Earth. There! The beginning of a virtual world. Warning: don’t start messing with this stuff after dinner because your first experience could be an all-nighter… making an idea come to life in 3D can be very addicting.
Read more on Official Google Blog: A great day for 3D
bit-tech reader RotoSequence writes to point out a very cool snippet of info over at French news site X86-Secret.
The info is about a potential new AMD processor. Allegedly, the green camp is developing a sort of “Anti-Hyperthreading,” which would allow two (or multiple) physical cores to emulate one physical core.
From the site (via Google translation): “Conscious that K8 architecture could not compete with the next high-speed motorboat of INTEL, all its hopes are for the moment based on a new ‘revolutionary’ technology (it is our opinion, not it his) on which AMD works in this moment for after-K8. This technology is in fact a kind of anti-HT: There or HyperThreading sought to emulate two virtual processors with a physical processor, it is a question for AMD of emulating a single virtual processor with two (or several) physical processors.”
This could be incredibly interesting. Early performance numbers suggest that AMD’s new AM2 platform won’t be able to compete with Conroe on raw native performance. However, if AMD can perfect the ability to make multiple cores appear as one, then it could take a massive performance lead in applications that are single-threaded - like the vast majority of games right now.
Source: bit-tech.net
Simplify. Organize. (And relax.) Organizing your schedule shouldn’t be a burden. That’s why we’ve created Google Calendar – our free online shareable calendar service. With Google Calendar, it’s easy to keep track of all your life’s important events – birthdays, reunions, little league games, doctor’s appointments – all in one place.
Using Google Calendar, you can add events and invitations effortlessly, share with friends and family (or keep things to yourself), and search across the web for events you might enjoy. It’s organizing made easy.
FeaturesCalendar Sharing: Set up a calendar for your company softball team, and share it with the whole roster. (Your shortstop will never forget about practice again.) Or share with friends and family so you can view each other’s schedules side by side.
Invitations: Create event invitations, send them to friends, and keep track of people’s responses and comments, all in one place. Your friends can receive your invitation and post responses even if they don’t use Google Calendar themselves.
Quick Add: Click anywhere on your calendar where an event belongs (or use the Quick Add link), and start typing. Google Calendar understands whole phrases like “Brunch with mom at Java Cafe 11am on Saturday,” and will pop new events right into your agenda.
Gmail Integration: Add your friend’s Super Bowl party to your calendar without ever leaving your Gmail inbox. Gmail now recognizes events mentioned in emails.
Search: Find the date of the Baxter family BBQ (you knew it was sometime this summer). Or, search public calendars to discover new events you’re interested in and add them to your own calendar.
Mobile Access: Receive event reminders and notifications on your mobile phone.
Event Publishing: Share your organization’s events with the world.
So Finally Google Calendar is released and I feel it rocks 
Check it out 
Visit: Google Calendar
There is a great news from Google. Google is starting a federated service for IMs. Many have tried to enable ppl messenging across different IMs but none has succeeded particularly so far. I hope this one succeeds :). Read more on the link below.
Source : Official Google Blog: Open federation for Google Talk
Google Earth is out and the good news is that it is available on Mac too
We feel like proud parents around here. Our eldest, Google Earth for the PC, is officially leaving beta status today, and we couldn’t be more pleased. For those of you who downloaded early, upgrade to the latest and discover Google Earth all over again.
And we have a brand new member of the family — Google Earth for Macintosh. We’re happy to finally have some good news for the, ahem, vocal Mac enthusiasts we’ve been hearing from.
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Google has created a special version of its Gmail e-mail service that provides mobile phone subscribers with quick access to their e-mail, the company said on Friday. Details on the mobile e-mail service, which currently is only available to U.S. cellphone users at http://m.gmail.com. The service works on the subset of more advanced mobile phones that offer an Internet browser. Users can view attached photos and documents from their phone, and reply-by-call to people whose phone number is stored in their Gmail account.
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Google was set to launch on Thursday a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.
Google Music will allow a user to type in the name of a band, artist, album or song in the main Google search bar special, and results will appear at the top, accompanied by icons of music notes, said Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google.
Items that can be purchased will have links to merchants for online ordering or downloading, she said. Initial merchant partners include Apple Computer’s iTunes service, RealNetworks Rhapsody, eMusic, Amazon.com.
“We aren’t building out a music store,” Mayer said. “We are getting people to the iTunes store” and others.
Results will also include links to supplemental Google Web pages with more information about the music, including names of tracks on a CD and other CDs a band or artist has released. Google also will provide snippets of reviews from sites on the Web and links to those sites.
“This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs,” Mayer said. “We saw a search need where we weren’t providing users with the highest quality results that we could.”
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In a move with potentially far-reaching implications for the search market, Alexa Internet is opening up its huge web crawler to any programmer who wants paid access to its rich trove of internet data.
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