Although Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the google.com domain in 1997,
Google wasn't officially launched till one year later, making Google 9 years
old this year. Google's birthday has alweays been celebrated on September
27th with a doodle displayed on the homepage, and today is no exception.
"Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate
our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel
like having cake," says Google's help center.
You can read more about it directly from Google.
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OpenSocial, the industry-backed application programming interface (API)
developed by Google to promote interoperability and shared data across all
online social networks, is gaining momentum at a rapid pace. The sites that
have already committed to supporting OpenSocial - Bebo, Engage.com,
Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, mixi, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut,
Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, Wink.comand XING -
represent an audience of about 200 million users globally.
“The web is fundamentally better when it’s social, and
we’re only just s... (more)
A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies today joined
forces to announce the development of Android, calling it "the first truly
open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices." Google, T-Mobile, HTC,
Qualcomm, Motorola and others have collaborated on the development of Android
through the Open Handset Alliance, a multinational alliance of technology and
mobile industry leaders.
This alliance shares a common goal of fostering innovation on mobile devices
and giving consumers a far better user experience than much of what is
available on today's mobile pla... (more)
Google recently released its Browser Security Handbook to the general public.
The 60-page document provides a comprehensive comparison of a broad set of
security features and characteristics in commonly used browsers, along with
commentary and implementation tips for application developers who need to
rely on these mechanisms, as well as engineering teams working on future
browser-side security enhancements.
The Browser Security Handbook, Google hopes, will help make the Web a safer
place.alewski, of the company's Security team, comments:
"Many people view the task of writing secu... (more)
Google Gears, the open source browser extension – still in beta –
that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using
JavaScript APIs, might be the key to an upcoming online/offline version of
Gmail.
Google Gears specifically allows AJAX web apps to run offline without a net
connection. An open source runtime, it allows you to build offline Web
applications, so presumably the bright folks at the Googleplex are keen to
eat in their own kitchen.
Such, anyway, are the current rumors circulating round the blogosphere.
Meantime, Google Gadgets Architect Adam... (more)
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