At a keynote today at Google I/O ,  Google came out swinging against its competitor Apple and announced Google TV. again. Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV.

Android lovers have a good new. Now they can Translate the real world with Google Goggles where they can use pictures to search the web. Traveling to another country can be an amazing experience. The opportunity to immerse yourself in a different culture can give you a new perspective. However, it can be hard to fully enjoy the experience if you do not understand the local language. For example, ordering food from a menu you can not read can be an adventure. A new feature of Google Goggles will prove useful to travelers everywhere: Goggles translation where users can capture an image and use visual search technology to know more information about the picture taken.

I have been using gtalk from quite a few years and it was just today when i discovered a feature of Gtalk to format the text in there.

There are 3 formatting options for Gtalk that may be used in Gtalk messenger :

1. Bold Text
2. Italics Text
3. Strikethrough

How to do it ?

Google has launched a person finder for Chile Earthquake Victims to quickly connect those who are looking for missing people in Chile and those who have information about a person in Chile.

You may either choose “I’m looking for someone” or “I have information about someone”. The database have 3800 + records as of now. A great initiative by Google.

Google recently launches its social layer over Gmail, Google Buzz. Google Buzz is integrated right into Gmail and thus making more convenient for a Gmail user to stay in touch with his social network. You may read more about Google Buzz here.  

With a lot of products being released last year by Google including Google Wave, Chrome OS they have announced yet another product named as “Google Buzz”. But its better then the previos ones and i am liking it. It has an edge over Twitter in terms more information can be shared via Buzz. The content is not limited in length nor does it appear to have limit on the amount of photos that can be uploaded.  Interface is same of gmail, easy to use and there is no limit over what you Upload or post.

Soon you’ll be able to upload and access your files from any computer on google docs.Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You’ll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don’t convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and extra space, can be purchased at additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. This makes it easy to backup more of key files online, from large graphics and raw photos to unedited home videos .

Google has released Google Pack which is a collection of Softwares which are free and compatible with Windows7. The pack contains software like,

1. Google Chrome – Web Browser
2. Google Apps – Contains Google email, calendar and document applications
3. Picasa – Photo Editor
4. Spyware Doctor with Anti-Virus
5. Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
6. Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer

Google has offered a new URL shortening service from Google called the Google URL Shortener. According to Google Blog

Google recently had a press event to preview Chrome OS, its new operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser. According to Google Blog “In July we announced that we were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS”.

First Official Screenshot of Google Chromium OS.