Google Achieves First Milestone For Dart, The New JavaScript Rival

JavaScript, as a language for web applications, is widely popular and is used by a staggering majority of the apps we find on the web. Moreover, all browser vendors actively support the language. However, Google is unsatisfied with the performance of JavaScript and is trying to bring its own language, Dart, into the competition. To that end, it recently completed the first milestone.

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[Tips] How To Perform Google Image Search With A Picture

Google always surprise us with some of their hidden features for which many of us probably don’t know. One of these features is the ability to perform a search from an image. If, for example, we have a picture of a painting or a famous building, but do not know who is the author, or if we have the logo of a company whose name we do not remember, we can use this feature to find the right answer .

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Congressman Cites Favor For Google, Warns FTC Over Antitrust Proceedings

Federal Trade Commission has been pursuing an antitrust investigation against Google rather hot-headedly. We recently reported that the commission was gearing up to launch a formal case against the search giant. However, it seems that there are ardent Google supporters in the U.S. Congress. A Congressman has sent a letter to FTC, warning it over its investigations against Google.

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Alleged Google Maps For iOS 6 Photos Hit The Web

A few alleged photographs of Google Maps for iOS 6 hit the web earlier. Developer Ben Guild posted them to his personal blog with a few bullet points of what to expect upon a release. These photos aren’t very revealing to say the most, but at the very least they show major differences from the Google Maps interface on iOS 5.

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[Tips] How To Change The Look Of The New Tab in Google Chrome

If you got bored with simple design of Google Chrome new tab, there is an easy way to make it more interesting with app called Awesome New Tab Page. With this app you can add much more functionality (or shortcut links to applications) to the new Google browser tab and in this tutorial I will show you how.

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Google Reveals Cool Voice-Control Feature For Google TV

Briefly after Google announced Play Store movies, TV shows, and music would launch on the Google TV this month, they also posted a sneak-peek video of an update for the TV-platform. Apparently the posting was an accident because they made the video private shortly later. Tech examiners discovered that Google TV would be updated with a sweet voice-control feature while the video was up for viewing.

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Google Considered Sending Google Glass In Space With Felix Baumgartner

Finally the history is made. Skydiver Felix Baumgartner has successfully made the century’s biggest stunt – Free Fall from 128,000 feet above Earth on October 14. Where everyone is happy, on the other side, search engine giant Google might have been regretting now. Why? Because the company wanted to send a pair of Google Glass with Felix Baumgartner to the edge of the space for his jump. At least, a conversation on Twitter between SEO expert Danny Sullivan and a YouTube employee says so.

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Scales Tip In Google’s Favor In The Battle Over Digitizing Libraries

ver since Google launched Google Books, the project that seeks to digitize written works, the company has been pursued by publishers as well as author guilds. Google intends to make the books, or a portion of them, freely accessible to everyone. The publishers and the guild, naturally, oppose such free hand-out of content, trying to make Google pay them for using it. As it seems, so far the legal scales have been weighing in Google’s favor.

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