Today is Thomas Alva Edison’s 164th Birthday and to mark the occasion Google has created a brand new Doodle. The Doodle shows some of Edison’s most famous inventions which has been animated using a series of 22 jpg images. The Doodle shows a blinking light bulb in the place of the letter L, the incandescent light bulb was one of Edison’s most important inventions and revolutionised the way people lit their homes and more importantly paved the way for more inventions and technology. Edison wasn’t a one trick pony though; he holds...
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Google users will logon today to reveal a brand new Doodle celebrating the life and work of Jules Verne, a French author who is widely regarded as being the father of Science Fiction. His book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was penned in 1870 and seems to be the inspiration for today’s Google Doodle. Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8th, 1828 in Nates, France. Today would be his 183rd birthday and he would have wanted us to celebrate his extensive works which have been given the ultimate online tribute in the form of this...
Two of the world’s biggest search engines are, of course, Google and Microsoft’s Bing. Now it seems that the international firms behind the search engines are going to get engaged in a long and potentially dirty war of words over whether Bing copies data from the Google engine. The people at Google started off the war by carrying out a sting operation when they noticed irregularities in the Bing results which suggested to them their own data was been copied. Basically, the people at Google noticed that spelling errors on searches which...
January 19th 2011 is the 172nd birthday of famous artist Paul Cézanne, the master artist who specialized in still life paintings. The Google Doodle team has been busy knocking together a tribute to the great man which is why a still life befitting his work has replaced the standard Google logo today. Like previous doodles the ‘painting’ based logo mimics the shape of the letters that make up the usual logo, the g for instance is made up by a jug and cloth where as the two O’s are made up by plates that follow a similar style to...
The latest Android OS, Honeycomb, follows a long Google tradition of naming their mobile operating systems after tasty snacks and if Techcrunch are correct the next OS (due out in summer) will be called Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Honeycomb is also known as Android 3.0, it is the first OS from Google to be built specifically for tablet PC’s. Honeycomb will be available first on the Motorola Xoom which is tipped for an April release date. At this stage it is unclear on what version number will be assigned to Ice cream sandwich – presumably...
Tablets are causing a lot of the buzz at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. The big question is, what operation system is system is going to drive all of them? Just over a month back we saw the latest version of Android, known as Gingerbread, which is only currently seen on the Samsung Nexus S. Despite this, Google has pushed ahead and is believed to be close to releasing the next version of Android, which we have seen previewed here at the CES. The name which is being used to describe this tablet optimised version of the system is Honeycomb,...
2010 is officially over and to celebrate Google has provided a brand new Doodle featuring the Roman numerals MMXI – translated this means 2011. The numerals are surrounded by fireworks much like the ones seen in Sydney, London and New York. The Doodle is the last of 2010 and indeed the first of 2011; we hope this year will be as fruitful as last year’s graphical offerings. 2010 saw Google launch animated Doodle, the dots logo proved to be very popular as did their special Doodle’s for Halloween featuring Scooby Doo, Jane Austen’s...
You may have noticed that today’s Google Doodle is celebrating the life and work of Jane Austen, born on 16th December 1775. Austen is known for a large variety of famous works including, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility and perhaps most of all for Pride and Prejudice. Today’s Google Doodle depicts a country scene with two suitably dressed individuals, one lady and one Gentleman – probably Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. The Doodle pays homage to works that made Austen famous long after she passed away,...
A few weeks ago the gadget world caught a glimpse of the Google Nexus S at the web 2.0 summit; Eric Schmidt was nonchalantly showing off the phone in an unofficial way. After a long wait the Nexus S handset is finally here pre-loaded with the hotly anticipated Android Gingerbread. Gadget lovers who want to get their hands on the brand new Smartphone can order it now exclusively from the car phone warehouse. The Google Nexus S is manufactured by Samsung and is the successor to the insanely popular Nexus One, manufactured by HTC. The device...
Google has announced that their popular ‘Doodles’ will soon be available on various smartphones and mobile operating systems. The very first Google Doodle was way back in 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page put the Doodle up to show they were at the Burning Man festival – look how far it’s come since then. There have been a few Doodles in the past that have featured on mobiles, the first was for the 2008 Olympics, since then mobile Doodles have been few and far between so today’s welcome announcement will mean smartphone owners...