Hi-Tech Juggernaut's new business !!!

Google’s Book Store Is Coming Soon !!

Google Editions, the Internet giant’s book store business promised for last summer, is set to launch before the end of 2010, the The Wall Street Journal reports.

Google Editions will have a significantly different sales model from most competitors, such as Amazon’s Kindle store or Apple’s iBookStore. Instead of purchasing books through a single online store, Google will let users buy them either from Google or from independent bookstores and then tie them to a Google account, which will enable them to read the books anywhere and on any device they please.

Originally, Google Editions was supposed to launch even earlier in 2010, but that didn’t happen; in May, Google’s Manager for Strategic Partner Development Chris Palma said the launch is slated for June or July 2010.

Now, Google product management director Scott Dougall claims everything is set for a launch by the end of 2010 in the U.S. and in the first quarter of 2011 internationally. “Because of the complexity of this project, we didn’t want to come out with something that wasn’t thorough,” said Dougall.

Google’s partners for the launch, as well as the revenue share Google will offer to publishers and independent bookstores are unknown at this point.

Visit this for more information Google Digital Book Store !!

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Hi-Tech Juggernaut's new business !!!

Google’s Book Store Is Coming Soon !!

Google Editions, the Internet giant’s book store business promised for last summer, is set to launch before the end of 2010, the The Wall Street Journal reports.

Google Editions will have a significantly different sales model from most competitors, such as Amazon’s Kindle store or Apple’s iBookStore. Instead of purchasing books through a single online store, Google will let users buy them either from Google or from independent bookstores and then tie them to a Google account, which will enable them to read the books anywhere and on any device they please.

Originally, Google Editions was supposed to launch even earlier in 2010, but that didn’t happen; in May, Google’s Manager for Strategic Partner Development Chris Palma said the launch is slated for June or July 2010.

Now, Google product management director Scott Dougall claims everything is set for a launch by the end of 2010 in the U.S. and in the first quarter of 2011 internationally. “Because of the complexity of this project, we didn’t want to come out with something that wasn’t thorough,” said Dougall.

Google’s partners for the launch, as well as the revenue share Google will offer to publishers and independent bookstores are unknown at this point.

Visit this for more information Google Digital Book Store !!

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A bold restructuring move :)

Motorola Splits, Makes Mobile Division a Standalone Company !

Motorola is giving mobile technology a new emphasis in the company’s present and future.

Effective January 4, 2011, Motorola, Inc. will become two separate companies: Motorola Solutions, Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. Following the split, the company’s current co-CEOs, Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha, will head up Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility, respectively.

This company restructuring comes along with a stock restructuring. Current shareholders will get one share of Motorola Solutions stock per seven Motorola, Inc. shares and one share of Mobility stock per eight shares. Motorola Solutions will be home to the infrastructure businesses while Motorola Mobility will be the one focused on mobile phones and consumer devices.

A split like this has been in the works since at least 2008.

We’re going to make a wildly speculative guess and suggest that the blockbuster success of the Motorola Droid has had something to do with the company’s growth in the mobile sector.

Various models of the Droid have been so popular they’ve been hard to find in stores. Over the summer, the company’s Android-powered devices were selling faster than they could be built.

In fact, the Android platform has been a huge boost to Motorola’s success ever since the original Droid launched almost one year ago, when the company moved a healthy quarter of a million units during the first week of sales.

Motorola hadn’t had a device that big since the pre-smartphone Razr from 2004. With its robust and successful line of Android devices — and who knows, possibly a tablet or two in the future — we’re looking forward to what Motorola Mobility will deliver in 2011.

A bold restructuring move :)

Motorola Splits, Makes Mobile Division a Standalone Company !

Motorola is giving mobile technology a new emphasis in the company’s present and future.

Effective January 4, 2011, Motorola, Inc. will become two separate companies: Motorola Solutions, Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. Following the split, the company’s current co-CEOs, Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha, will head up Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility, respectively.

This company restructuring comes along with a stock restructuring. Current shareholders will get one share of Motorola Solutions stock per seven Motorola, Inc. shares and one share of Mobility stock per eight shares. Motorola Solutions will be home to the infrastructure businesses while Motorola Mobility will be the one focused on mobile phones and consumer devices.

A split like this has been in the works since at least 2008.

We’re going to make a wildly speculative guess and suggest that the blockbuster success of the Motorola Droid has had something to do with the company’s growth in the mobile sector.

Various models of the Droid have been so popular they’ve been hard to find in stores. Over the summer, the company’s Android-powered devices were selling faster than they could be built.

In fact, the Android platform has been a huge boost to Motorola’s success ever since the original Droid launched almost one year ago, when the company moved a healthy quarter of a million units during the first week of sales.

Motorola hadn’t had a device that big since the pre-smartphone Razr from 2004. With its robust and successful line of Android devices — and who knows, possibly a tablet or two in the future — we’re looking forward to what Motorola Mobility will deliver in 2011.

Get the world's geographic information at your fingertips :)

Introducing Google Earth 6 - the next generation of realism !

Yesterday Google introduced the latest version of Google Earth,An interactive digital atlas. Now you can explore your childhood home, visit distant lands or scope out your next vacation spot with even more realistic tools.


In Google Earth 6, we’re taking realism in the virtual globe to the next level with two new features: a truly integrated Street View experience and 3D trees. We’ve also made it even easier to browse historical imagery. Over the next several days on our LatLong blog, we’ll be digging deeper into these great new features, but here’s an overview to whet your appetite.


Integrated Street View
When Google Earth was first introduced, people were wowed by the ability to virtually fly from outer space right down to the roof of their house. While flying over rooftops gives you a super-human view of our world, the ground level is where we experience our daily lives. We took our first baby steps toward bringing the Google Earth experience to street level with our implementation of Street View in Google Earth in 2008, which enabled flying into Street View panoramas. In Google Earth 6, the Street View experience is now fully integrated, so you can journey from outer space right to your doorstep in one seamless flight.


3D trees
I think we can all agree that our planet without trees would be a pretty desolate place. Besides the ever-important task of providing us with the oxygen we breathe, trees are an integral part of the landscape around us. In Google Earth, while we and our users have been busy populating the globe with many thousands of 3D building models, trees have been rather hard to come by. All that is changing with Google Earth 6, which includes beautifully detailed, 3D models for dozens of species of trees , from the Japanese Maple to the East African Cordia to my personal favorite, the cacao tree. While we’ve just gotten started planting trees in Google Earth, we already have more than 80 million trees in places such as Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Tokyo.

Easy-to-use historical imagery
One of the features people told us they liked best in Google Earth 5 was the availability of historical imagery, which enables you to visually go back in time to see such things asWarsaw in 1935, London in 1945, and Port-au-Prince Haiti before and after the devastating earthquake of January 2010. making this feature one of Google Earth’s lesser-known gems.


To download Google Earth 6, or to see videos of our newest features, visit 
www.google.com/earth