Google has not yet built an operating system and Marissa mayer, the vice president of search products and user experience recently denied of any such possibility in future.
I still thought on this issue and just wildly thought of how the Operating system would look like. Being bad at photoshop and other image editors I thought I'd leave it to somebody else to put it on his blog, but the thing in my scope was to try and list the salient features of google OS, in case it comes. I've put a list of 5 such features.

Zero boot time : Yup, it sounds unpractical today and my XP, I feel takes an eternity to log on,more so if its AVG Antivrus starts scanning at start up. The puzzling part is that how is it achievable. Solution is simple. The PC will boot the boot OS, yes a boot OS for the OS. That boot OS will simply act as a platform for you to connect to the internet onto the google server and there your OS will lie, which will already be booted. SO you see, boot time is practically zero.

Security : My laptop is full of viruses. Even the antivirus gets puzzled figuring out what to do. Imagine gooogle using its security technology to do it for you. So you see the security lies in the hands of google and not your free antivirus.

Privacy : This seems quite vague, but let me tell you privacy could be more. Today you key in your password to log in to your laptop. Imagine a public/shared PC. Anyone can open, read and edit your documents and can take then in a thumb drive. Once you log out from your OS, the files on the server will automatically become inaccessible to all others.

License Cost : The cost of buying original softwares, word editors, antiviruses is high. Imagine all provided to free by google. The best of the tehnology for free.

File sharing : Today we email our files to send them to a remote desktop or pass them on through our thumb drive. In the google OS you will simply key in the google identity number(GIN) of your friend and simply push the file into his outdoor stack (A mail box).

I would like to share with you the 2 hidden facts of gmail, which you can use to your advantage in filtering various emails

First Fact : The plus(+)advantage

1. For example your email id is myname@gmail.com.
2. You need to give an email id for your banking information.
3. Normally you would give myname@gmail.com and then once you receive an email, you might apply a filter.
4. Now you can simply give your email id as myname+bank@gmail.com.
5. Similarly you can use any number of names by appending a "+" sign followed by the name.

Second fact: The dot(.) advantage

1. Again taking the same email id myname@gmail.com
2. You can add as many dots(.) in your email as you want
3. You can give your email id as my.name@gmail.com and the email will come to you
4. Or you can simply write it as my.n.am.e@gmail.com

Google says that it will dump one section of the end-user licensing agreement that gave the company "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through" the new browser.

Several Web users raised copyright and privacy concerns about portions of the licensing agreement shortly after Google launched Chrome. Some critics suggested the language would allow Google to use any Web content displayed in Chrome without getting copyright permission.

Google said it borrowed language from other products, "in order to keep things simple for our users," when it inserted the copyright provision in the Chrome licence. Read

Three browsers on the web, the archaic Internet Explorer, the featured Firefox and the Gusto Chrome, compete for what could change the dynamics of web for ever. The browser war was earlier between internet explorer and google backed mozilla, which was more of a turf war between two industry giants. Now google has introduced its lethal weapon, which if hits the right spot, could simply kick out microsoft out of the web world.

Contest

You can join this browser war and make it colourful by making and emailing your imagination in the form of images of a browser war to sk.insync@yahoo.com

Keep the subject as "Browser War Logo" and email it and I'll feature it on Techreef.

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I downloaded Chrome yesterday and despite all attempts by my hectic schedule and MBA preperation, I have finally managed some time to write a small post on Chrome fairs on day one. Back home from work, tired and exhausted I checked out my percentile of the mock MBA entrance test I gave last sunday. Although I just managed a 81 percentile, quite less from what I expected, there was something more in what i was viewing. The small bar on top of the browser made it possible for me to see the whole page without scrolling down, something which was good. It was just like watching a movie on your big screen TV. It is far better than the small cramped screen. The same was felt here. Chrome won the battle on day one as my Mozilla almost chocked my 512Mb RAM notebook. It would be still too early to stay that the success of Chrome is inexorable, I'd still say, it is very much on the cards.

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Gone are the days of Microsoft’s archaic web browser, the Internet Explorer that tried to monopolize the market of web browsers by bundling it with their windows. Now comes the progenitor of the internet search industry, Google with its new web browser, Chrome. The operating system developers are now facing stiff competition from the gods of search. Chrome has a panache, which was lacking in Mozilla firefox and in the internet explorer. Although I found nothing new in it, 

which was missing in the firefox, its just the style, after all we need to try something new. As the leader of the web world, google does things with élan and now chrome has broken into the browser industry with éclat. This comes as blow to the beleaguered explorer that is now trying to explore its way back into the browser market.I wouldn’t go all ga ga about Chrome as it is new and various bugs may come into limelight in a few days. Overall it has outweighed Mozilla in terms of design and style and IE8 is way behind in utility.Download Chrome

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Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of New Mexico in one day. What does that mean? Well, you could get high resolution pan-sharpened imagery for the entire country in around 30 days. Impressive.

The level of detail will be approximately 50cm per pixel — that’s just under 20 inches. If you want to see what that looks like, take a look at this. Imagine having a Google Maps/Earth content that is this detailed, 100% complete and updated once a month — that’s powerful stuff. source:zdnet

With 10 weeks to go before the election, the amount of news coverage surrounding John McCain and Barack Obama is set to skyrocket (as if it hadn't already). In order to help you parse through all the chatter, Google has set up a special Web site where mobile phone users can find the latest headlines.

Google appears to be throwing everything it has at the upcoming presidential election. It is using multiple avenues and products to provide coverage. Google believes that plenty of people will be interested in accessing news from their mobile phones. So it set up a "one-stop-shop" for mobile phone users to get what they need.

The site is located at m.google.com/elections.

The products that it is tailoring to election coverage are mobile Search, News, Reader, YouTube, and Maps. Read
source:www.informationweek.com

From New York Times

Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station, plans to buy a Soyuz flight all its own in 2011, with the option of buying more.A new investor is likely to occupy one of the two available seats on Space Adventures’ 2011 flight: Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. He made a $5 million investment in the company that will serve as a deposit on a future flight.
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Reuters

At a news conference in New York, Anderson announced the creation of an Orbital Mission Explorers Circle of members who will each contribute $5 million to help finance the company's first private mission to the space station.

Previously Space Adventures has bought seats on Russian space agency missions to the orbiting ISS. It now plans to build its own Soyuz rocket for private missions that could start as soon as the second half of 2011.

The $5 million down payment gives members first option on a seat on the mission. Anderson said he was looking for five more wealthy people to be founder members of the Explorers Circle.

But he said he was determined that private space exploration shouldn't be just for the very rich.
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Cnet news

"I am a big believer in the exploration and commercial development of the space frontier and am looking forward to the possibility of going into space," Brin said in a statement.

Space Adventures' new club was formed to help kick-start a new effort by the company to fund its own rockets and missions to the International Space Station. Previously, Space Adventures, which has been around for 10 years, has bought seats aboard already scheduled Russian missions to the International Space Station for its clients. Now it will build its own rocket for its own missions. The inaugural flight with its own Russian-built Soyuz rocket is scheduled for 2011, Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, said at a press conference here Wednesday.
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Google has got a new face on the Web. A smaller one, just 16x16 pixels.The internet mammoth updated its favicon, the small logo that appears in URL location bar, tabs bookmarks and a few other places. The older icon, an uppercase multicolored G has been supplanted by blue colored lower case g. It's just a minor change, but coming from a company which gives detail to its design, I could not help, but draw my (and yours) attention to it. Given the fact that icon is beaming across our browsers like a bulb in a room, this aspect of their branding deserves some attention.But do note that this new icon doesn't appear on all Google sites.

Google adsense is up and ready for RSS feeds and will be launched next week to a limited set of publishers on feedburner. According to the blogpost by steve on 30th may on feeburner weblog, he said that the publishers will get to see the CPM based feedburner ads and also will see the contextual advertising by google, which will add to their inventory. All you need is an adsense account.

He also adds that " You can slice, dice, mix, or mash your tracking across feed units and content units, or keep them totally separate "
Steve is confident of the "chocolaty goodness that will come from ongoing integration effort with Google" and so am I.
The contextual advertising by google has been a big hit and publishers with a good number of subscribers are going to benefit from this service as it is a cpm (cost per 1000 ads served) based service.

Google adsense has been for quite a while now and when ads will be there in RSS feeds there wouldn't be a place left for the reader to read ad free content. Earlier services like google reader gave a clean approach for reading content and the ads by feedburner were didn;t give a bad look either. I too use adsense for generating some pocket money . The "mix and mash" would actually crash the purpose of RSS feeds.

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format.

Wikipedia

The standard and the ease of reading the RSS format will disappear and then will come a mix and mash and the ads. This integration with google is good, but what I suggest is that let there be one server of ads and since Google's adsense is far more advanced than that of feedburner, let Google rule the roost. Everything in the world is not about money, we need some aesthetics. Anyways I hope the mix and mash is proper and feedburner, which is going to come under the umbrella of google ads. It is a good news of for all (because if the money). I just a bit concerned over the aesthetics and the nature of service which will be under adsense

You have read it right. Teens are struggling on google (not literally) and so was I. I've been bad with my spellings and so when I was posting my previous blog entry on "How to make popular a struggling blog" I decided to type my version of the spelling on google.com to check whether it was correct or not, because if it is not correct then above the search results you get a red colored sentence "DID YOU MEAN". You can see it in the picture below. I wrote the wrong spelling just to show you the result. So as I finished writing my spelling, what I saw amazed me.
Click on this image below to enlarge it and see the search results. 292,000 search results for struggling teens. Woah! that's not a good sign at all for the teens, or maybe the parents. I'm out of my teens so I don't need to worry and actually nobody needs to worry. Its just that 292,000 or less websites(people) thought about writing on struggling teens and this simply shows that it is searched more and read more. The idea of this post is not to scare or discourage anybody or even google. It is just an observation I made while checking my spelling. Small things lead you big observations and that means another blogpost. Mine is a Tech-No-Logy blog and although being from a technical background, I like looking at the other side of technology, the side which few of is look at.
If you have noticed some freaky results on google or any damn thing, make sure you comment about it.
As a safety measure
Please note : I have no intention of defaming or abusing any organization. It is just an observation.

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Acquisition date	Company			Derived services
02001-09-20 20 September 2001	Deja			Google Groups
02001-09-20 20 September 2001	Outride			Google Personalized Search
02003-02 February 2003	Pyra Labs			Blogger
02003-04 April 2003	Neotonic Software			Google Groups, Gmail
02003-04 April 2003	Applied Semantics			AdSense, AdWords
02003-09-30 30 September 2003	Kaltix			iGoogle
02003-10 October 2003	Primedia			AdSense, AdWords
02003-10 October 2003	Genius Labs			Blogger
02004-05-10 10 May 2004	Ignite Logic			Google Page Creator
02004-06-23 23 June 2004	BaiduA
02004-07-13 13 July 2004	Picasa			Picasa, Blogger
02004-09 September 2004	ZipDash			Google Ride Finder
02004-10 October 2004	Where2			Google Maps
02004-10-27 27 October 2004	Keyhole, Inc			Google Maps, Google Earth
02005-03-28 28 March 2005	Urchin Software Corporation			Google Analytics
02005-05-12 12 May 2005	Dodgeball			Google Mobile, Google SMS
02005-07 July 2005	Reqwireless			Google Mobile
02005-07-07 7 July 2005	Current Communications Group			Internet backbone
02005-08-17 17 August 2005	Android			Google Mobile, Google SMS
02005-11 November 2005	Skia			Picasa
02005-11-17 17 November 2005	Akwan Information Technologies			Internet backbone
02005-12-20 20 December 2005	AOLB
02005-12-27 27 December 2005	Phatbits			Google Desktop
02005-12-31 31 December 2005	allPAY GmbH			Google Mobile
02005-12-31 31 December 2005	bruNET GmbH			Google Mobile
02006-01-17 17 January 2006	dMarc Broadcasting			AdSense
02006-02-14 14 February 2006	Measure Map			Google Analytics
02006-03-09 9 March 2006	Upstartle			Google Documents
02006-03-14 14 March 2006	@Last Software			Google Earth
02006-04-09 9 April 2006	Orion			Google Search
02006-06-01 1 June 2006	2Web Technologies			Google Spreadsheet
02006-08-15 15 August 2006	Neven Vision			Google Maps
02006-10-09 9 October 2006	YouTube			Google Video
02006-10-31 31 October 2006	JotSpot			Google Sites
02006-12-18 18 December 2006	Endoxon			Google Maps
02007-01-04 4 January 2007	XunleiC
02007-02-16 16 February 2007	Adscape			AdSense
02007-03-16 16 March 2007	Trendalyzer			Google Analytics
02007-04-17 17 April 2007	Tonic Systems			Google Documents
02007-04-19 19 April 2007	Marratech			Google Talk
02007-04-13 13 April 2007	DoubleClick			AdSense
02007-05-11 11 May 2007	GreenBorder			Internal use
02007-06-01 1 June 2007	Panoramio			Blogger
02007-06-03 3 June 2007	FeedBurner			Google Reader
02007-06-05 5 June 2007	PeakStream			Server (computing)
02007-06-19 19 June 2007	Zenter			Google Documents
02007-07-02 2 July 2007	GrandCentral			Google Mobile
02007-07-20 20 July 2007	Image America			Google Maps
02007-07-09 9 July 2007	Postini			Gmail
02007-09-27 27 September 2007	Zingku			Google Mobile
02007-10-09 9 October 2007	Jaiku			Google Mobile

Refernce: Wikipedia

If a genie granted you a wish, would "The ability to access other people's Gmail accounts" be it? Abdulaziz Al-Shalabi from Kuwait wasn't visited by a genie, but he was granted access to Gmail accounts that were not his -- for a considerable period of time at that!

The goof-up began last weekend and only stopped on Wednesday. As it happened, Al-Shalabi was incessantly trying to access his Gmail, and he just wasn't able to. It's not clear whether entering his own username and password -- or random ones -- allowed him access to other Gmail accounts. But as he reported to News.com, he got a peek into the private information of over 30 Gmail users.
The problem apparently occurred only over Al-Shalabi's ISP and with Gmail accounts; it didn't work with Hotmail accounts, for example. Having heard the news, a Gmail user in Sri Lanka reported a similar experience.

Acknowledging the problem, a Google spokesman said the goof-up had occurred in Kuwait because of a server caching problem the ISP was facing. He said Google was in contact with the ISP in question in order to find a solution. It's not known whether other Google sites were also affected by the ISP's problem, and if so, to what extent.

This is certainly a one-off incident, and we're certainly not trying to say you should switch away from Gmail. What's to be learnt is that the system isn't foolproof, and that it's possible for your mail to become accessible to others -- which, we bet, most of you would have thought impossible (unless your password is "abc123" and someone guessed it, in which case you deserve it).

If you're the really paranoid kind, and this bit of news has shaken you more than a bit, you might consider encrypting sensitive mails (such as those in which you call your boss an unfortunate accident of evolution) using a free service such as Hushmail.

Source:techtree.com

Google's philanthropic arm has announced $25 million in new grants and investment to help "make the world a better place." The computer search engine is focusing on projects that include disease and disaster prevention, helping small and medium-sized enterprises, improving the flow of information to hold governments accountable, and developing renewable energy sources. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports from Washington.

The co-founders of Google (Sergey Brin and Larry Page) launched their unconventional business ten years ago under the motto "Don't Be Evil." In 2006, Google hired Larry Brilliant as executive director of its in-house philanthropy, known as Google DotOrg. Brilliant is an American physician who moved to India in the 1970's and played a major role in eradicating smallpox in the country. One of the five new grants goes to a project to use information technology to predict and prevent ecological disasters and the outbreak of disease. Brilliant says diseases that jump from animals to humans are a real threat.

"We've pushed all the limits, we've cut down the rain forests, we've moved into the territory of animals, and these diseases which have always been there in the animal population are now jumping to human beings," he said.

Brilliant says there are more than 35 major diseases which have jumped species, including SARS and bird flu, and that an early warning system would make a huge difference.

"There are now 50 million people living with HIV-AIDS," he added. "Had we been fortunate and been in that African jungle when that virus jumped from a chimpanzee to a human being, and had we been able to stop the disease, nip it in the bud, so to speak, then, look at the tragedy, human tragedy that could have been averted."

The grant seeks to strengthen disease surveillance systems in the Mekong Basin, stretching from Vietnam and Burma to southwestern China.

Aid from Google.org is different from other corporate giving because it allows investment in for-profit companies. Google also encourages its employees to participate directly in philanthropic projects on company time, and to lobby public officials for changes in policy. The foundation has pledged $10 million to eSolar, a California-based company that has developed a solar generator to replace traditional power plants. A number of the new grants are going to India, to improve urban and education planning there.

Google's new grants have generated both enthusiasm and criticism. Siva Vaidhyanathan is an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia. He welcomes Google's commitment but questions its approach.

"Google's approach to every problem is technocratic," he said. "It is that they can impose a machine, or invent a machine, or invent a piece of software that can solve a major, complicated challenge, and that given enough bombast, people will converge on this machine as the answer to a problem. And I think that is a mistake."

Larry Brilliant admits that Google's philanthropic efforts are an "experiment", and says we will all just have to watch and see if they work.

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Source: www.voanews.com