Google finally jumped on the Virtual World band wagon, by launching 3D virtual environment platform “Lively” on June 09, 2008. But before you started saying “Ah another Second Life” hold your horses, Google’s lively isn’t entirely a world, on the contrary it’s a virtual space/room, which you can embed to your own web page or blog or even on Facebook profile. To run Google’s lively you should be running either Windows XP or Vista and your browser is IE or Firefox. The whole lively virtual space exists within your browser …

The Google Earth team has announced yesterday (May 28, 2008) that it has ported the Google Earth desktop client’s 3D mapping technology into the browser. Paul Rademacher, Technical Lead, Google Earth Browser Plug-in stated on his release blog post— Today, I’m happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google Earth to the web, embedable within your own web site. Driven by an extensive JavaScript API, you can control the camera; create lines, markers, and polygons; import 3D models from the web and overlay them …

Google finally confirmed the rumours of turning to undersea cables and announced that, together with other five associates will start “Unity”, a trans-Pacific undersea fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The investment will cost approximately not so cheap $300 million and became necessary as the demand and the current capacity of the trans-Pacific cables tent towards an imbalance. With today’s announcement, it appears the Internet giant’s desire for infrastructure investments is growing or should we say hunger for domination :). …

While Sony Ericsson closing a partnership with Microsoft to run Windows mobile on their phones, some of the biggest mobile brand decided to follow Google’s path to open source the Mobile OS. The world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung and LG Electronics showed new phones using free Linux software from Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors, would use its software. This isn’t first time for Samsung using Linux. They used Linux in its phones in 2006, launched new SGH-i800 phone model running on LiMo software at the Mobile World Congress trade show, while …

Just a few days ago when OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen announced her departure, optimists were still hopeful that Nicholas Negroponte will turn the things around in no time; after all it all is for a good cause. But just a few days before mass production begin when Intel announced it’s puling the plug on its dealings with Nicholas Negroponte’s brainchild’ things are not looking good at all for OLPC. When Intel joined OLPC’s educational programme last July, the aim was to combine two major attempts …

A search engine from the creator (Jimmy Wales) of online encyclopedia Wikipedia will be made available to the public next week. After just a few weeks of invitation-only testing, Wikia Search/Search Wikia (Not quite sure about the actual name as the logo shows one name but text shows something else) will debut on Monday, 7 January. Co-founder Jimmy Wales said the open source search engine would be released for public viewing in “alpha” so users can complain about flaws and developers can work out …

Few days ago Google began giving its Gmail user’s access to IMAP; have to say it’s about God dam time. Google’s free Gmail service has been admired for its massive storage capabilities, streamlined interface, and functionality, but many email power users have never considered using Gmail just for the lack of interpretability. Things are about to be change a lot. IMAP is not a new technology—it’s been around for over a decade, and its …