Gmail gets a Priority Inbox
To help Gmail users deal with a plethora of email flooding their inboxes, Google has announced that beginning next week, it will introduce Priority Inbox, an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.
In addition to sending Junk mail to the Spam filter, Gmail will now split your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else.”
Google updates free Picasa photo management software
Google this week released the latest version of Picasa, its photo management and editing software.
New features include the ability ot batch upload multiple from Picasa to Picasa web albums, improved editing features thanks to Picnik integration, metadata enhancements, bug fixes and a cool new feature called face movies.
Google Wave shutting down
In a blog posting on the official Google Blog, the company has announced that it is shutting down Google Wave, a real time web communications and collaboration application which the company released last year.
Despite many unique features and positive feedback from developers, the number of people using Google Wave failed to live up to the company’s expectations.
Google stops selling Nexus One
In a blog posting last Friday, Google announced it will stop selling the Nexus One smartphone and will be closing the Nexus One web store.
The Android smartphone will continue to be sold by partners including Vodafone in Europe, KT in Korea, and possibly others based on local market conditions.
YouTube celebrates fifth anniversary
Five years ago this month, YouTube launched the beta version of its site to the world, six months before the official launch in November 2005.
The site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day.
Google Search gets a new look
On its official blog today, Google has announced that it has begun to roll-out several new features to its search results which the company says will assist searchers in refining their results.
The first is the addition of a contextually relevant left-hand navigation to the page. The new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. Google says the left hand panel is the combination of three new technologies which have been introduced in the last three years: Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared.
Google launching ebook store this summer
Google will launch an ebook store called Google Editions in late June or July. The announcement, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, was made by Chris Palma, Google’s manager for strategic-partner development at a Book Industry group in New York.
The service, which will compete with Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble, will let users buy books they find through Google’ existing search tool or can be embedded in a booksellers website.
Chrome chalks up seventeen months of gains
The Google Chrome web browser gained market share for the seventeenth month in a row according to recent figures published by NetMarketshare.
Total worldwide usage in March 2010 for Chrome was 6.13%, up 0.5% of global from February and more than triple the 1.6% recorded in the same month of 2009.
