Larry Page and Sergey Brin accept a $100,000 check from Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim and incorporate Google Inc. on Sept. 7. The Stanford University graduate students work from a suburban garage (pictured below) in Menlo Park, Calif., for six months. Now Google reigns as the World’s most powerful 10-year-old company.

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Google hosted its first data center in a rented 7′ x 8′ room.

Now you can sync your Google Calendar meetings to the Outlook so you can view all your schedules even offline. On top of that, you can then sync your Outlook across your PDA, Blackberry or other mobile devices.

Source: Google

For all those iPhone owners, we know you’ve been waiting for the Flash support in iPhone. The good news is that you don’t have to wait much longer! We’ve just got word from a reliable source that Flash support is on its way to the iPhone, and it should be coming very, very soon. We are guessing that it would be pretty convenient for Flash support to be introduced alongside the iPhone SDK.

Even Gogole’s YouTube has to convert some of their videos to H.264 in order to be seen on an iPhone. We’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest status.

Source: GearLive

According to CNN, Microsoft has been in talks with Yahoo! about potentially acquiring a major portion of the company. The rumor is $25 Billion for this deal. This is not the first instance that Microsoft have this buyout thought for Yahoo! Last year in May, there are news about Yahoo!’s acquisition by Microsoft for $50 Billion in pricetag. (from mashable.com)

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So far all the previous Google posts were positive such as the Gmail 6GB Storage and Google’s Android for mobile OS. However, this is negative! The two Google-related hacks which surfaced recently causes IT managers to look at employee Web surfing as a security hazard rather than a time waster.

Last month Google Toolbar’s security holes could let the hacker install malicious software on the system through the vulnerability of the “add new buttons” application embedded in the Google toolbar. Google later confirmed it was working to fix the problem.

Also last month, Google’s Orkut social networking service was hit by a worm. Read the rest of this entry »

Paris Lemon notices that Gmail has not only gotten festive with funny notes, they’ve also accelerated their secret Gmail storage calculating algorithm so that every Gmail user now has 6 GB of storage - just in time for Christmas. According to statistics, there are way more email users using Yahoo! Mail during Christmas in 2007 than Gmail. Google is a late comer to Free Internet Email Service compared to MSN or Yahoo! (Gmail launched in April 2004) but they sure want to win in every aspect of the Internet war, so far they dominated tons of web services and it’s progressing. Recently, as you read up about the Android, Google is challenging Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Operating System, in an attempt to take a piece of pie from the mobile sector.

Source: Mashable.com

So we can’t really deliver into a lot of specifics, but today Microsoft showed off the next version of Windows Mobile at their annual Mobius conference. Nope, it’s not Windows Mobile 7 / Photon, but what we saw “is an update, not an upgrade”, was running on current hardware, and is due to manufacturers Q108. Our first impressions: very slick, and has a lot of features that just about any WM6 user will agree is way overdue. In other words, we’re expecting users will be stoked — no doubt about it. Expect specific details on features and the like in the near future, we wouldn’t be surprised to hear more about it CES.

As previous post [cref 36], there are many rumors about the gPhone. No Google phone exists yet, but the search giant’s announcement of an open platform for mobile-phone apps is a step in the right direction. So when will we see the so-called Android phones from members of the newly founded Open Handset Alliance?

We have answers to some of these questions!

1. Will a Google Phone ever be made?
2. So what is this Android?
3. When will I be able to buy a Google-powered phone?
4. How will Android phones differ from today’s coolest smart phones?
5. Why is a Google mobile platform any better than an existing mobile OS from Palm or Microsoft?

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Google has just announced that it will work with leading technology and wireless companies to develop Android - the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. The main goal would be fostering innovation on mobile devices while providing them with a superior user experience compared to what they’re getting today. The Android platform will be made available under one of the most progressive, developer-friendly open-source licenses, which gives mobile operators and device manufacturers significant freedom and flexibility to design products. An early access software development kit will be released as early as next week, enabling developers to come up with innovating and compelling applications for Android. Sorry guys, no gPhone for you.