Google adds sugar to YouTube with Omnisio acquisition

The king of videos, Google owned YouTube, has been heading the stale route ever since the media giants have stepped in to crush it by banning videos and flashing lawsuits in Mountain View, California. This could really start to change with the acquisition of Y-Combinator funded Omnisio.
Omnisio lets users mash up content, and annotate videos. [...]

iPhone gets a little more Googled, Round 2

Google has been pounding the iPhone specific code out since Steve announced the killer touch screen device that has all the kids going googoogaagaa. Now they have released a newer, faster, juicier user experience especially for iPhone-a-holics. And as you can see from the screen shots above, it looks pretty hott!
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Google apps for iPhone are now faster

With the Steve Job’s MacWorld keynote coming up tomorrow, the news leaks and press start to roll out. Its especially great news when the companies involve two heavy hitter like Google and Apple.
Google has announced just in time for MacWorld that they have built a faster and more customizable Google experience for Apple iPhone [...]

Google gets GPS’d with Magellan

The CES news is flowing out early this year, and yesterday it flowed right onto some interesting Google news.
Magellan, providers of steller GPS units, have joined forces with Google to build a device called the Maestro Elite 5340+GPRS. This new device will have GPRS, and will enable real time traffic reports and local directions [...]

Google’s User Experience designer leaves the Googleplex

Kevin Fox, Google’s star user experience designer has left the building. Once responsible for the design of Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Reader 2.0, Kevin says its time to leave.
Once employed at Yahoo!, Mr Fox has helped Google’s User Experience and Research group grow from seven members to over 100, and helped forge the clean, [...]

Google patent to read text in images and video

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What was the main goal of Google? oh yes, to index the worlds content. Well, of course they are still pushing along with it, and have some interesting patent applications available for public viewing.
Patent applications that were recently made public from July 2007, talk about methods to make computers [...]