Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Google Finally Launching Its Online Bookstore Soon Which Will No Longer Be Named Google Editions

Google is now in attempt to launch its already overdue online bookstore in this December after all, however, It is now claimed that it will no more be called Google Editions, as reported by the Wall Street Journal in their Nov. 30th Edition. Everyone is waiting for an online bookstore of such a giant company as ‘Google,’ and such service is obviously be competing with similar services rivals such as Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iBook and Barnes & Noble. However, while announcing, the spokesperson refused to comment about the new title for this service and what exactly will be the launch details. Alough, Scott Dougall, the Google Product Management Director, as informed Journal that the the e-book service is expected to launch in the U.S. by the end of the year and maybe earlier next week it continues internationally.

Facebook Once Again Changes the Layout of Profile Pages!

        Just this Sunday, Facebook has installed, yet another, new profile pages layout, which this time gives photos center stage. While allowing users to show off their important best friends, goes into even more further detail regarding jobs and education information. Facebook own software engineer, Josh Wiseman, published it in his blog post that according to him, the new improvement would make it "easier for you to tell your story and learn about your friends."
The new layout of Facebook's Profile Page
Among several amendments, the most major one includes, the users’ profile layout. It now has a small strip of user’s tagged photos at the top head of their profile pages. Whereas, other highlights of the changes made include larger forms of lists of interests, such as favorite television shows or sports teams.  And from now onwards users will be able to sort all their friends in different lists according to relationship, groups or maybe family members together, and highlight their chosen best friends.

After Motorola and HTC, Now Apple Prepares to Face Nokia’s Patent Issues

Apple and Nokia will finally have to confront each other over the legal conflict involving the previously claimed Smartphone patents in the supervision of International Trade Commission. It was one of the very first of several disputes which arose over intellectual property, which if proven could redefine the smartphone market forever.
Originally this conflict roots in October 2009, when Nokia sued Apple, claiming that allegedly the Cupertino-based company had infringed on 10 of its patents with the iPhone. Whereas, later afterwards Apple countersued in December 2009, alleging that the ante by saying Nokia was in violation of 13 of its patents. If considered that Nokia wins the case, that could mean that Apple may lose the right to sell the iPhone in the U.S. On the other hand, If for instance Apple wins this sensitive case, that would imply that all Nokia's devices shall be shut out of the U.S. market altogether.

Google Earth 6.0 Includes 3D Trees, Which Makes Up To 30% of Earth's Surface

This Monday, released updated its 3D globe and map software on Google Earth. After which Google Earth is considered to be in its milestone beta version, new classified Google Earth 6.0 did not add much new features, though it still increased the usability and reality by tying the 3D Earth images to those captured in Street View. This was done by adding 3D rendered trees!
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