Ex-Google staff launch rival search engine, Cuil

The new site promises better results by scouring a larger index of web pages than Google, but experts are cautious about its prospects
A group of former Google employees is hoping to outmanouvre their old boss by developing a rival search engine they claim provides a more comprehensive guide to the web.
Cuil, which went live today, was built by Anna Patterson, a former Google employee who helped create the company's index - the enormous catalogue of web pages which its scours every time someone conducts a query.
Speaking before the launch of Cuil, which is pronounced 'cool', Ms Patterson said that one of the main reasons rival search engines such as Microsoft Windows Live and Yahoo! had struggled was because they weren't able to index as many pages as Google.
Cuil had solved that problem by compiling an index three times as large as Google's - searching for results across 120 billion web pages compared with Google's index of 40 billion pages, she said. Google does not reveal how large its index is, but in a statement today said that it welcomed competition, which "stimulates innovation and provides users with more choice."
Rather than displaying results in a list, like Google, Cuil shows them on a page which has a more magazine-like feel. Each result has a greater amount of text alongside it, and sometimes an image as well. "You can't be an alternative search engine and smaller," Mr Patterson was quoted as saying. "You have to be alternative and bigger."
Cuil, which is based in Menlo Park, near San Francisco, has raised $33 million from venture capital investors.
s well as Ms Patterson, its founding team includes her husband, Tom Costello, who developed search technology for the computing giant IBM, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power, who worked on the same team as Ms Patterson, and Louis Monier, who was also the chief technology officer at Alta Vista, one of the most popular pre-Google search engines.

First preview of Google's Android phone

You can see the much awaited google’s Android smart phone OS demostration by Google’s Enginner.


Owners of the new Google-powered mobile phone will be able to unlock the handset by drawing a secret shape on the screen.
The new 'signature unlocking' tool was among the features revealed during a sneak preview in California yesterday.
Other highlights include a built-in compass that will allow people to orientate maps as they use their phone to scout out a restaurant or venue, and a customisable homepage that lets people bookmark their favourite web pages.
The device - which is unlocked by drawing a shape only the owner knows on a nine-square grid - will also include a magnifying tool, to make zooming in on web content easier on a small screen, and a mobile version of the game Pac Man.
Google will not make the phone, but has helped develop the software that handset manufacturers will install in their devices. Samsung, HTC, LG Electronics, and Motorola are among the companies that have said they will produce phones that run on Android.
The device on which Mr Rubin gave the demonstration (see the above YouTube video) had a touch-sensitive screen, but the software will work equally well on other devices, he said, including those with a so-called 'tracking ball', which has been used by BlackBerry.
Android is what is known as an 'open-source' operating system, meaning that developers can access the code and create software that works with the device. Apple has announced a similar inititiave which allows developers to create software for the iPhone.

Google’s Phone ‘Android’ Coming Next Week

A prototype of the Google Android mobile by Qualcomm is on display at the Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM World Congress) in Barcelona, February 11, 2008 can be seen below.

The first mobile phone to use Google Inc's Android mobile operating software will cost $199, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Wednesday.

The phone, which features a slide-out keypad, is being manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corp and will be sold by Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA unit, which plans to unveil the device at an event in New York on September 23.

T-Mobile has confirmed that September 23 is D-Day for announcing the massively hyped phone which is expected to inject some vigour into the smartphone market and give tough competition to the Apple’s iPhone.

AT&T Inc, the only U.S. operator selling Apple Inc's iPhone, set the price of the latest version at $199 in July, setting a benchmark for smartphones that can surf the Web, manage email and other multimedia features. Based on the price tag of iPhone Google’s much awaited Android OS phone will hit the market with same price tag as per the first hand information leaked

Apple’s iPOD new 4G-The thinnest in the world

Apple released finally it’s much awaited 4th Generation iPOD Nano into the market. They claimed that this is the thinnest iPOD in the world and only weighs 36.8 g. That’s the fantastic news you guys. Doesn’t It.?

It is measuring a Size 0, 6.2mm thick. There's a new user interface, a high resolution portrait display and a built-in accelerometer which automatically switches to Cover Flow when rotated and goes into Shuffle mode when shaken. Inside is Apple's Genius technology, which creates playlists from songs in your library that 'go together' with a single click.

The new 8GB and 16GB nanos are good for a claimed 24 hours of music playback and 4 hours of video and they are shipping in silver, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, (PRODUCT) RED and black. Shipping now, they cost £109 for the 8GB model and £149 for the 16GB one according to the Apple’s official website.
http://www.apple.com/uk/ipodnano/
The company also revealed four new coloured Shuffles and a slimline iPod classic with double the storage at 120GB for the same price of £179

"The iPod nano is the world's most popular music player and we've made it even better for this holiday season," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We think users are going to love the amazing new design, the automatic Genius playlist creation, as well as automatically going into Cover Flow with just a turn of the wrist."

Asus Galaxy an iPOD competitor

Now a days the buzz is iPOD, iPOD and look like gadgets. We all know how successful iPOD, iPhone and look like gadgets in the market all over the world. Most of the companies who are trying to imitate iPhone, iPOD are pushing their products in the market in order to trap the big market which Apple is enjoying these days.

The news now Asus is pushing its iPhone looks like gadget into the market with a 5 MP camera. It’s cool that having 5 MP camera which Apple cannot have in its product range. It’s more looking like Samsung’s Omnia. It’s Called the Glaxy7 [a.k.a. Zest and runs Windows Mobile 6. There is more to cheer up for this. You can probably notice and smile at that whopping display which is said to be a 3.5in, 800x480 pixel resolution screen with in-built accelerometer.

That’s cool you dudes. Isn’t it?

Incredible Mini projector (pico)

We all seen the projectors and all us one way or the other has used it. Off course projector is very important tool now a day for presentations and watching movies etc. So far the size of the projector is like a small box size of minimum 1 foot and weighs at least 2-3kg.

And now the time has arrived to see a pico projector which looks like a mobile phone or even it can be fitted into a tiny mobile phone and it can be easily accommodated in palm. It’s unbelievable but it’s true and great to know this too. Let’s jump into the details.
DLP inventors Texas Instruments have been pushing a tiny one around the various trade shows but now, from left field, 3M is about to launch the first actual pico projector in a few weeks.
On September 30, the MPro110 mini projector, looking like a mobile phone, goes on sale in the US first for around £190. Optoma should be planning one such I hope.

24-hour powered Laptop?? do you want to see which one it is!!??

Have you seen any laptop which works for 24 hours battery life?? I am sure anybody can say probably NO. But now you need to change your words as Yes.

In a recent news released by HP they are going to release 24 hour battery powered laptop! This is incredible you guys. don't you?

Let's peep into the news as per Gizmodo's new note

HP is claiming to have cracked one of mobile computing's biggest challenges by launching a laptop that can run for 24 hours on a single charge.

The new EliteBook 6930p enterprise notebook marries an Intel Solid State Drive (SSD) with a new LED display to push the battery past the magical 24-hour mark.

According to HP, the SSD boosts battery life by around 7% over the regular hard disk drive while the LED display is credited with adding 4 hours to the battery life. Both the SSD and the mercury-free LED display are options.