Google is changing it’s name!
First thing that stroke me this morning was Google’s home page. Here, take a look:
Categories: Mixed Tags: April 1st, April Fools Day, april fools day pranks, google, jokes, pranks
Gmail detecting suspicious account activity
From Official Gmail Blog:
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:00 AM
Posted by Pavni Diwanji, Engineering Director
A few weeks ago, I got an email presumably from a friend stuck in London asking for some money to help him out. It turned out that the email was sent by a scammer who had hijacked my friend’s account. By reading his email, the scammer had figured out my friend’s whereabouts and was emailing all of his contacts. Here at Google, we work hard to protect Gmail accounts against this kind of abuse. Today we’re introducing a new feature to notify you when we detect suspicious login activity on your account.
Do Not Use Hotmail As Your Secondary Email Account
This post by Gina Trapani (Lifehacker) made me reconsider what i use for secondary email address…
Google Chrome OS
Today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System.
Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.
Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.
And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.
Sounds like Google is about to release it’s own Linux Distro. I have no doubt that they will do exceptional job, but my main concern is privacy.
Don’t you think that Google know about us a little too much already?
Neowin reports that Microsoft might respond to Google OS by next Monday
Categories: Sci/Tech Tags: computer, google, google benefit, google chrome, google chrome os., open source community, OS, system, user, web