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So now that most entrepreneurs and businesses are familiar with Google Voice let me tell you what you are missing out.
I have been with Grasshopper for over a year now, formally well known as GotVMail.
As an entrepreneur taking on different aspects of business deals Google Voice was just not cutting any deal for me. It’s [...]

Google has released a new version of it’s browser toolbar for Firefox. This new release allows you to translate any webpage simply by clicking a button without leaving the page. Two other changes are web-site suggestions and sponsored links to the toolbar when you type in any query.
When you are using Firefox’s private [...]

Google has released a new website translator gadget which automatically translates a website into different languages. Site owners and publishers will be able to implement this feature by paste a short snippet of code into their websites and instantly increase their reach to up to 51 languages.
The translator gadget has the ability to automatically [...]

Google has released version 3.5 of their desktop photo organizer and viewer application, Picasa. The update adds facial recognition so when you add a name tag, it scans your entire photo library and applies that name to every match. If it’s unsure of a particular face, will will give you the option to apply the [...]

Google has acquired ReCaptcha. The exact terms of the deal were not disclosed but it is said that Google plans to use ReCaptcha’s technology both as a security measure on Google sites and also to make its book-scanning project a little smarter.
Here’s why Google’s reason for the acquisition:
“But there’s a twist — the [...]

With a recent article on Netbooks,  it seems fitting that there should be a list of applications and gadgets that every Netbook user should have. Unfortunately, I haven’t really researched a lot of Linux applications, so the applications below are geared towards users with Windows XP and above installed on their system. Importantly, users of [...]

For the last day of August, Google has announced on their blog that their translator is able to now translate more languages, an impressive 51. Apart from the usual Google spin that is on their blog, the new languages include the following

Afrikaans
Belarausian
Icelandic
Irish
Macedonian
Malay
Swahili
Welsh
Yiddish

Here’s just a few impressive figures to digest, while you ignore the slightly rough [...]

Google Wave’s Public Beta Release will be opened up on the 30th of September, according to Wave API Tech Lead Douwe Osinga.
Before the Beta is released to the public, Osinga has released a document outlining it’s features. Probably the most important one is the ‘automated expressions’ function that can be displayed on a web page, [...]

With Google releasing Google Services for Websites earlier this year, this allows the webmaster and access providers to offer powerful tools to their customers. These services include Webmaster Tools, Custom Search, Site Search, and the Almighty Adsense, which could be made available to the webmasters from their hosters quite easily. These tools help webmasters to [...]

A few days ago, Google had announced that they were creating a ‘Theme Gallery’ of sorts. At first, I thought that Google had once again created a product of beautiful minimalism, something that I’ve counted on them to provide. Some of these themes live up to the trend that Google has set. On the other [...]