Google Nexus 8 set to launch with Android 4.5 in July

Reports have for a while indicated Google may be working on a Nexus 8 tablet, and the latest claim which is being said to launch in July this year, along with the next Android version, said to be v4.5.

It has being speculated that the search giant might be shifting away from its 7-inch devices because of the high competitiveness of the segment, which would be much less in the 8-inch bracket. Some of the popular 8-inch tablets in the market are Apple iPad Mini, Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 and LG G Pad 8.3.

 A senior employee of Google Dublin confirmed that the firm will be launching Android 4.5 OS in July along with the new tablet, Nexus 8. The source is also quoted to have that the upcoming Google I/O conference, which will start from 25 June, will concentrate more towards the services Google plans to bring for its users.

The 8-inch Google Nexus 8 is most likely expected to launch with the next Android 4.5 OS version. Nexus 8 will be launched by April-end with "initial shipments of two million units."

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Did Google Planned To Buy Whatsapp Before Facebook ?

If you haven’t gotten over the fact that Facebook is paying a stunning $19 billion in cash and stocks for WhatsApp, then you’ll get a kick out of this: Google was ready to offer even more.

Yes, Google, the search engine giant, was willing to pay above and beyond the $19 billion that Facebook shelled out for the cross-platform chat service.

Sometime last year, Google apparently approached WhatsApp, offering the company money for the right to be notified if and when someone else expressed interest to acquire it. The offer was turned down, and as you now know, Facebook later stepped in to buy it. But Google’s involvement didn’t end there.

Google CEO Larry Page reportedly met with WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum last week after learning that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was bidding for the app. Page wanted to counter Zuckerberg’s offer and the way to lure Koum away from the Zuck’s grasp was to tell him that if he chose Google, the company will stay independent as it’s a big threat to Facebook’s own services. But when Page learned that WhatsApp was not interested in its offer, he went to Sequoia Capital, WhatsApp’s investors, and made it clear that he will outbid whatever Facebook offered.

Whatever Google offered, WhatsApp wasn’t interested as they see Facebook as a better match for them. The Information reports that WhatsApp’s owners believed the social giant has a better grasp on things, and they also believed that Google was only interested in them to spite Facebook.

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Android Starts To Rule For Google

Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005,

The user interface of Android is based on direct manipulation, using touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching and reverse pinching to manipulate on-screen objects. 

Internal hardware such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and proximity sensors are used by some applications to respond to additional user actions, for example adjusting the screen from portrait to landscape depending on how the device is oriented. Android allows users to customize their home screens with shortcuts to applications and widgets, which allow users to display live content, such as emails and weather information, directly on the home screen. Applications can further send notifications to the user to inform them of relevant information, such as new emails and text messages.

Google provides major updates, incremental in nature, to Android every six to nine months, which most devices are capable of receiving over the air.The latest major update is Android 4.4 KitKat.


Despite its success on smartphones, initially Android tablet adoption was slow. One of the main causes was the chicken or the egg situation where consumers were hesitant to buy an Android tablet due to a lack of high quality tablet apps, but developers were hesitant to spend time and resources developing tablet apps until there was a significant market for them.The content and app "ecosystem" proved more important than hardware specs as the selling point for tablets. Due to the lack of Android tablet-specific apps in 2011, early Android tablets had to make do with existing smartphone apps that were ill-suited to larger screen sizes, whereas the dominance of Apple's iPad was reinforced by the large number of tablet-specific iOS apps.

Platform usage

Version	Code name	Release date	API level	Distribution
4.4	KitKat	October 31, 2013	19	1.4%
4.3.x	Jelly Bean	July 24, 2013	18	7.8%
4.2.x		November 13, 2012	17	15.4%
4.1.x		July 9, 2012	16	35.9%
4.0.3–4.0.4	Ice Cream Sandwich	December 16, 2011	15	16.9%
3.2	Honeycomb	July 15, 2011	13	0.1%
2.3.3–2.3.7	Gingerbread	February 9, 2011	10	21.2%
2.2	Froyo	May 20, 2010	8	1.3%

These charts provide data about the relative number of devices accessing the Play Store recently and running a given version of the Android platform, as of January 11, 2014.

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Google's First Theory "Page Rank"

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm and it assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is referred to as the PageRank of E and denoted by Other factors like Author Rank can contribute to the importance of an entity.

A PageRank results from a mathematical algorithm based on the webgraph, created by all World Wide Web pages as nodes and hyperlinks as edges, taking into consideration authority hubs such as cnn.com or usa.gov. The rank value indicates an importance of a particular page. A hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support. The PageRank of a page is defined recursively and depends on the number and PageRank metric of all pages that link to it ("incoming links"). A page that is linked to by many pages with high PageRank receives a high rank itself.

Numerous academic papers concerning PageRank have been published since Page and Brin's original paper.In practice, the PageRank concept may be vulnerable to manipulation. Research has been conducted into identifying falsely influenced PageRank rankings. The goal is to find an effective means of ignoring links from documents with falsely influenced PageRank.

How Page Rank Can Be Calculated ?

Assume a small universe of four web pages: A, B, C and D. Links from a page to itself, or multiple outbound links from one single page to another single page, are ignored. PageRank is initialized to the same value for all pages. In the original form of PageRank, the sum of PageRank over all pages was the total number of pages on the web at that time, so each page in this example would have an initial PageRank of 1. However, later versions of PageRank, and the remainder of this section, assume a probability distribution between 0 and 1. Hence the initial value for each page is 0.25.

The PageRank transferred from a given page to the targets of its outbound links upon the next iteration is divided equally among all outbound links.

If the only links in the system were from pages B, C, and D to A, each link would transfer 0.25 PageRank to A upon the next iteration, for a total of 0.75.

Suppose instead that page B had a link to pages C and A, page C had a link to page A, and page D had links to all three pages. Thus, upon the next iteration, page B would transfer half of its existing value, or 0.125, to page A and the other half, or 0.125, to page C. Page C would transfer all of its existing value, 0.25, to the only page it links to, A. Since D had three outbound links, it would transfer one third of its existing value, or approximately 0.083, to A. At the completion of this iteration, page A will have a PageRank of 0.458.

In other words, the PageRank conferred by an outbound link is equal to the document's own PageRank score divided by the number of outbound links L( ).

In the general case, the PageRank value for any page u can be expressed as:

,

i.e. the PageRank value for a page u is dependent on the PageRank values for each page v contained in the set Bu (the set containing all pages linking to page u), divided by the number L(v) of links from page v.

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What Is Google ?

What Is Google ?

Google Is an American MNC which deals with internet related services and products including search , software , online advertising and cloud computing.

Minds Behind Google ?

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.

Larry Page is is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur .As of 2013, Page's personal wealth is estimated to be US$20.3 billion, ranking him #13 on the Forbes 400 list of the 400 richest Americans.

Page is the inventor of PageRank, the foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm, and he and Brin own approximately 16 percent of Google's stock.

Page is an investor in Tesla Motors. He has invested in renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.At the question and answer section of the 2013 Google I/O keynote talk, Larry Page expressed an interest in Burning Man.

Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur.He has a net worth of around US$24.4 Billion as on September 2013.

Google Products And Services ?

Google has numerous number of products in the internet arena.Some of the google products are as follow :

1.Google Search : It is the dominant search engine in US market with share of 65.6%.Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day.Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word-search capability. These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie showtimes, airports, home listings, and sports scores.

2. GMAIL : Gmail, a free webmail service provided by Google, was launched as an invitation-only beta program on April 1, 2004,and became available to the general public on February 7, 2007.The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009,at which time it had 146 million users monthly.The service was the first online email service with one gigabyte of storage. 

It was also the first to keep emails from the same conversation together in one thread, similar to an Internet forum.The service offers over 15 GB of free storage, shared with other Google Apps, with additional storage ranging from 20 GB to 16 TB available for US$0.25 per 1 GB per year.

3.Google Docs : It is a freeware web-based office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. It was formerly a storage service as well, but has since been replaced by Drive.It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating with other users live. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems.

4.Google Translate : It is a free, multilingual statistical machine-translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate written text from one language into another.

5.Google News : It is a free news aggregator provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm.

6.Google Fiber : is Google's fiber-to-the-premises service in the United States, providing broadband internet and television to a small and slowly growing number of locations.The service was first introduced to Kansas City, Kansas,and is being rolled out to Kansas City, Missouri, with plans for expansion to several other Kansas City area suburbs, as well as Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah. In February 2014, Google announced they had chosen another 34 cities as candidates for future expansion

7.Android : is an operating system based on the Linux kernel,and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance: a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.The first publicly available smartphone running Android, the HTC Dream, was released on October 22, 2008

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8.Google Goggles : is a downloadable image recognition application created by Google which can currently be found on the Mobile Apps page of Google Mobile. It is used for searches based on pictures taken by handheld devices. For example, taking a picture of a famous landmark would search for information about it, or taking a picture of a product's barcode will search for information on the product.

9.Apache Wave Or Google Wave : is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google originally developed it as Google Wave.It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009.

Wave is a web-based computing platform and communications protocol designed to merge key features of communications media such as email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. Communications using the system can be synchronous or asynchronous. Software extensions provide contextual spelling and grammar checking, automated language translationand other features.


10.Google Wallet : It is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store debit cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cards among other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone. Google Wallet can use near field communication(NFC) to "make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at checkout."

11.Google+ : is a social networking and identity service. Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking website, but also an authorship tool that associates web-content directly with its owner/author.It is the second-largest social networking site in the world after Facebook. 540 million monthly active users are part of the Identity service side, by interacting socially with Google+'s enhanced properties, like Gmail, +1 button, and YouTube comments.In October 2013, Google counted 540 million active users, of which 300 million users are active in "the stream"

12. Google Shopping Express : is a same-day shopping service from Google Inc. launched on a free trial basis in San Francisco and Silicon Valley in spring 2013 and publicly launched in September that year.

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