Text-to-speech feature of Google Translate stepped up a bit by adding 27 more languages to their service. The magic of text to speech is credited to espeak an open source speech synthesizer by Sourceforge.net, now Google Translate with espeak could be a great experience for linguist community and enthusiast around the globe.

Gmail is one of the most popular product of Google and favorite email service of millions around the world. Many Schools and Governments officially use Gmail and Google Apps to great effect as it is very economical. Washington, D.C., also uses Google’s applications and services, including Gmail. But University of California finds this email system isn’t secure or private enough to meet their standards.

To make search more convenient Google now brings us the left hand side navigation panel. Here you will find relevant tools which will help you refine your query. Left hand Navigation panel is powered by Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared. All these three technologies have been researched in past three years by the google.

Good News for all email users of U.K. Google’s popular mail service Gmail will be providing them their email ids with “@gmail.com” instead of prevailing “@googlemail.com.”

Google Ventures is an investment arm of Google Inc. Google Ventures not only provides start up capital to different entrepreneurial projects across the globe but also helps them with all available resources of Google, provides assistance in staffing, product launches and leveraging technical resources. Most importantly it allows the foster entrepreneur to work in an Independent atmosphere.

170 students studying in different universities of U.S., Canada, Europe, Middle East and Africa will be awarded Anita Borg Scholarship by Google this year plus these fortunate students will also get chance to visit the office and meet some of Internet universe’s big guns.

A few days back BumpTop, a 3D desktop for PC and Mac developer company, announced that BumpTop was being discontinued and that they were taking the software “…in an exciting new direction…”. And two days later it announced that the company had been acquired by the search giant Google. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed yet.

Good news for people who wish to work in their Regional Language on internet. After the addition of more languages in Google Transliteration and Emerging of Script Converter, Regional language virtual keyboard is now available on Google Search Engine.

Google’s plan to offer the 360-degree view of world will be incomplete as German authorities deny the permission of capturing the street images. It was found to violate the German privacy law. Google was planning to provide 360-degree photo archive of German streets. Earlier Google was asked to pixilated faces of people and license plates of vehicles along with few requests of properties to be removed from Google’s display.

Google adds new feature to “Google: The Search Engine”. Which is aimed to simplify “googling” for information or sites over the Internet.
Gone are the days when we entered a phrase in search window and again we were supposed to search out the useful information form the search engine’s result dump.

By the end of last year Google launched Google Transliteration to help people writing in languages which are not supported by the computer keyboards. As we know that computer keyboards only input characters of Roman script, this narrowed the users of different scripts to write on Internet. Google Transliteration helped in overcoming this barrier.