Google’s News

Google an internet giant and a very efficient web search provider is in news from quite some time now. This is not new to us, but the news can be of competition with Microsoft, the FCC auction, the mobile services, the ads search and etc.. etc….

The news never stops, few of the items which flash lights on Google are..






Ad deal with yahoo

The justice department is still in a dilemma whether to give green signal for this deal or block it. But Google is campaigning hard for this deal. It was discussed to move forward with the partnership and to help assure that Yahoo would remain an independent company. The two companies also signed the ad partnership after merger talks with Microsoft failed. It has been 3 months now that this deal is on hold at the Justice department. But Google says they will go ahead with this deal on or around Oct 11 with or without the green signal of the justice department.

Google Chrome

Google’s new browser named Chrome will now support Add-Ons. Released earlier this month, Chrome saw a amazing downloads of about 2 million in its first week. After seeing this, Microsoft, Mozilla and others have started working on upgrading and adding new features to their browsers. Google Chrome has a new technique in which all the web pages are virtually separated which results in no magic in case of explorer crashes, like most of the today’s explorers does. There are lots more new features in Google Chrome which will be adapted by other explorers very soon. Download your copy of Chrome here.

T-mobile for Android

Very soon, T-Mobile and Google are expected to unveil a new smart phone which will be the first phone to run Google’s Android mobile operating system. The phone will be running on 3G network and will be in market probably by mid next month.

Sergey Brin’s Blog

It’s been more than 5 year now that Google has acquired Blogger and it’s now that the compay’s co-founder Sergey Brin started taking advantage of his service. He wrote his first post on his blog named TOO is his personal writing about his mother and her ills. This is very inspiring post in which he says that he has a better guess than anyone else for what ills would be his and he is all prepared for it.

Google Site Search

Google has enhanced it commercial site search traditionally known as Google Site Search. Google site search is a hosted search engine which can be hosted on your site to increase the loyalty of your visitors, this can be used to find information on your site instantly. This is so simple that you can design a search engine for your site in few minutes. This site search box falls into the same category in which Microsoft’s Fast search and Rival suites from stand-alone vendors Autonomy. Google site search provides ad-free search results, it is highly customizable, it is also for the developers who uses API and who are rather interested to peep into the raw code for a search result and it also provides the feature of reporting, the basic reporting structure allows you to check how often people search with your search engine and what are they looking for. Presently Google site search supports the following languagues, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian.

Below are the new features which has been recently updated by Google on this product.

Date Biasing: As per the older standards, all the recent product documents are given more weightage than the older ones, but now the site administrator can set the levels of influence of their sites under low, medium, high or maximum category.

Synonyms: You Google Site search box on your site has now got the intellengence to find the abbreviations. If you type in fd, you can get Flexible benefits, if you type in car, you can get the results of cars.

Enhanced Indexing: As per Google, they have enhanced their indexing when compared to their previous versions. It is now possible to search even the deeper products in your site.

Top Results Biasing: You can now target the top search results from a specific section of your site, in a way making a catalogue of your site search.

Tips for New IT Managers

The new manager’s role is very challenging job in the early phases. You have to manage the growth from being a technical person to an expert manager. But as you get experienced and follow the rules, you will start loving it.










Communication: Regularly meeting with your team members and your boss, discussing work related issues, challenges and ways in which they can learn and develop is part of day to day job for a manager. Arrange outings, this will strengthen the working relationship within your team. Things have changed now, other people are relying on you. A good way to build trust is to do what you say you are going to do, it would be better if you keep the secrets with you rather than revealing then to your team members. A manager would definitely have good presentation skills and he/she undertakes training program. Have informers who can gives regular updates regarding the team to you. Always take suggestions even to enhance your skills. No, no I don’t mean you to take suggestions with your peers to enhance your communication skills. Learn the internal politics in your organization.


Management: Be conservative to your boss and open to your peers. This is a strategy of a clever manager. Take recurring issues and problems to your boss, but don’t take day to day problems to him\her. Don’t pull your staff member to save money. It’s very easy job to fill your project with extra staff as long as their salaries are included in the cost of implementing the project. You can find this more easy if you prepare the matrix reports of the work load on each member of the team.


Support: As you are the leader, you are the responsible person at the time of disaster. Design and follow your disaster recovery plan from the starting phase of your project. Have your staff members to work from a disaster recovery site once in 6 months. If you have a helpdesk kind of environment where the user put their queries and you find that you are getting lots and lots of them, then try various other options like making few more members part of the team who takes calls, or outsource this function if it is possible. But if you are doing so, then keep well defined SLA’s (Service Level Agreements)


Environment: Try to be very patiet. If you cannot be patient, try to act as if you are have patience. Listen to your employees very patiently. Provide your staff with clear objectives and help then to reach their goals. Arrange outings and some other recreation activities. If you control budget, you can manage this cost. Don’t always expect high standards from your team members. Praise and encourage your employees in their areas and provide training to them to improve in their weak areas. Never pass the heat to your employees, this will break their courage and the mutual understanding between you and him\her, approach towards the mistakes very friendly.

HTC Launches its 3G Microsoft Based Phone.

HTC (High Tech Computers) well known for its smart phones, which has sold nearly 3 million units since its launch last year, this smart phone has been upgraded to support 3G network, which was much awaited as the next IPhone feature. Touch diamond as it is called would hit European market early next month and would reach US markets by second half of this year.

The Touch Diamond offers a high speed internet access of 3.5G with the technology called as WCDMA (Wideband CDMA). Qualcomm is the manufacturer of the chipsets for HTC Touch Diamond. Thats not all, there are lot of other features in this new upgraded Touch smart phone from HTC. The TouchFlo software will provide 3D effect to screen images. The web browser has been upgraded, this has been built from Opera software but specifically designed for HTC. The turn around feature of IPhone has been added to touch. Just turn around your touch diamond and the image will automatically rotate. This device has a internal card slot to support SD cards, an additional business card scanner. It has a GPS system built into it, a customized application to watch Youtube videos and a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus would be some thing you would love. The battery has been rated for 4 hrs of talk time. It runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.

I hope in the coming months, HTC will launch an upgradable model for this with the memory capacity competing with IPhone which would be 16 or 32 GB when compared to the 4GB memory that it has. With this new product, there comes a new website of this company, yes HTC has launched a new website www.htc.com

Yahoo Getting Closer to Google

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So coming to today's post. No No Do not thing that this post is all about what is listed in the title. But the title is part of what's the newz is. Its all about the deals over internet.







It’s a deal again, but this time it’s between Yahoo and Time Warner’s AOL internet unit. Looks like this deal has been freezed at around $10 billion. Yahoo is really kind to Google, with this deal, Yahoo would outsource web search advertising operations to Google.

But Microsoft is never gonna stop. There were speculations that Microsoft in combination with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is looking to jointly bid for Yahoo. If this deal happens, then Yahoo, Microsoft’s MSN and News Corp’s MySpace would come under same roof. But sources say that Yahoo has an alliance with News Corp’s MySpace. Ufff, Microsoft is really trying harder and harder to overcome the dominance of Google. Even after Yahoo’s board formally rejected the Microsoft Corp’s bid saying it undervalues the company.

Since then, Yahoo is also striving hard to come up in the market, alliance with Google Inc, News Corporation’s MySpace and Time Warner’s AOL, but what about Microsoft. There will be time, when Microsoft will be left all alone and all the other companies would form an alliance. If Yahoo joins hands with Google, it would be impossible for Microsoft to complete for all of its life span. Just kidding, Microsoft is also looking around them to find some fresh bones. Kidding again. But these talks turn out to be an advantage for stock market investors.

As of now, Yahoo is facing a three weeks deadline from Microsoft to reach a deal and Microsoft is eager to offer higher than what it has announced now.

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