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Daily Tech: Which Pocket Camcorder Is the Best?
- Gizmodo compares and reviews the most popular pocket camcorders on the market — Gizmodo
- You can now spruce up your Google Sites with a new template — Google Blog
- Canadians can finally get an Amazon Kindle — The Boy Genius Report
- For people looking to buy a gaming console this holiday season, here's your shopping manual — CrunchGear
- The Shift Chair by Simone Micheli consists of a bunch of computer keys — Gizmodiva
- Seesmic plans to launch a native desktop client for Windows — TechCrunch
Google Increases Online Storage Limit, Drops the Prices
A couple of years ago, Google announced its new online storage plans, which allowed users to upload more photos, save more emails and more. And I have to tell you, when I paid the $20 way back then to get 6 GB more of storage, I thought life couldn't get any better.
Well now, Google has just announced some pretty amazing storage plans that make it even easier to back up all of your photos, documents.
Daily Tech: Use Google Maps to Find H1N1 Vaccine Locations
- Google already has data for locations of H1N1 flu vaccine programs from 20 states and counting — Gizmodo
- Apple beefs up their HD movie selection in the iTunes store — TechCrunch
- Cute! UK designer Kyle Bean has created this Russian Babushka doll style cell phone set — Popgadget
- Staples shows off its extensive Black Friday ad — CrunchGear
- Google has developed a new feature called SafeSearch, so you can easily filter out sexually explicit sites from your search results — The Google Blog
- Blockbuster plans to start renting movies on SD cards — Gadgetell
Google Makes Holiday Travel More Tolerable With Free WiFi
Here's one holiday stress relieved: Google recently announced they'd be sponsoring free WiFi in airports across the country this holiday season, from now through January 15. Google VP, search and user experience, Marissa Mayer says, "We're very happy to extend our Holiday WiFi gift to the millions of people who will spend time in airports over the next few months."
Which I translate to, "Happy Holidays, here is something to keep you sane when your flight is delayed for the third time.
Google's Marissa Mayer Is One of Glamour's Women of the Year
At just 34-years-old, as Google's vice president, search and user experience, Marissa Mayer, will soon be celebrating her 10-year Google anniversary. Being the very first female engineer to be hired by the search engine company way back in 1999, Mayer climbed her way to the top and is now a very prominent figure at Google, which now employs over 19,000 people worldwide.
This month, Glamour Magazine is honoring Mayer with a Woman of the Year award.
Kristen Stewart Is an Avid Self-Googler
Unlike John Mayer who denies Googling himself, most of you have admitted to taking to the popular search engine site to see what the web has to say about you.
In November's issue of Allure magazine, New Moon star Kristen Stewart talks about her Googling habits. Like when she gets lost in her car and the paparazzi follow her every move, she says:
"After I come back from this interview, I'll look up and see what an idiot I looked like getting lost.
Google Search Now Displays Audio Tracks For Song Queries
Ever since my first Google search, life as I knew it changed forever. Google is really revving up their search engine thanks to small but helpful enhancements like being able to find your friends on social networking sites or by refining your search results by date and time.
And now that Google has teamed up with companies like imeem, Pandora, Lala, Sony Music, EMI, and WB, they are now able to deliver a new music search feature that makes it easy to discover music and listen to the track from one of these partner companies.
Stuff Your Friends Love — Now in Google Search Results
Twitter updates will soon appear within search results, Google Labs has launched Google Social Search — an application that displays public search results found via your friends' social media profiles — Flickr streams, Twitter feeds, FriendFeed updates, and more. Google defines your social circle as:
On the heels of the big announcements from both Bing and Google that - People you're connected to through social services that you've listed in your Google profile . .
Sergey Brin Talks About Chrome For Macs and Google Books
Way back when, most of you said that you were planning on downloading Google Chrome when it came out. PC users — did you download it? And what do you think?
Bing and Google to Include Twitter Updates in Search Results
Another day, another huge Twitter announcement. And this time, it involves two of the biggest Internet companies around. Both Microsoft and Google announced today that both companies would start including Twitter posts in search results.
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