Google Gears Up For Offline Email (RESPONCE)

In my opinion this is old news. When my iPod Touch connects to the internet it downloads my email giving me the ability to read them when I dissconnect from the schools network. Also my phone downloads my emails 24-7 so the new add on and my iPod are obselete because my phone gets my mail as soon as it arrives in my inbox on the Google Gmail servers.

Google Gears Up For Offline Email (NOTES)

• A new gmail addon allows users to search and read their email while offline.
• The add on is still in an experimental stage.
• The add on only lets you read the email and it disables the act of sending them.
• Gmail already has the ability to sinc with mobile phones.
• The add on was created by the Mountain View company.
  

Google Stuff We Missed This Week (RESPONCE)

Wow, Google had failed to amaze me! This is just a small amount of what Google can do in just one week! This makes me love the company even more! I feel better than ever about the research topic I chose because its growing so rapidly and getting better and better! And for anyone that doesn't know already, Google owns YouTube which explains why the article talked about embedded YouTube videos.

Google Stuff We Missed This Week (NOTES)

• You can now watch YouTube videos in Gmail chat.
• Just copy and paste your link into the chat box and the video is embedded automatically.
  
• Embedded videos can be played in high quality.
• Before users didn't have this option.
• Google didn't announce this, they just quietly had it added.
  

Google Prunes Unpopular Services From Its Portfolio (RESPONCE)

We all saw this coming! The economy is down and nobody at google wants to spend money for online webservices that hardly anyone uses anymore. Personally I'm glad this is happening because when I view their services page and I see all these boring and dumb things that nobody uses. It just seems like cyber trash to me so I ignore it! This doesn't make me feel like Google is selling out and downsizing, but the truth is I just feel like their cleaning up a little bit.

Google Prunes Unpopular Services From Its Portfolio (NOTES)

• Google will stop supporting several free web-based services.
• This is due to unpopularity.
• Google video (replaced by YouTube) will be used just as a search engine.
• Google will also stop working on one of their largest projects (Google Notebook) one of its largest projects.
• Google also annouced that it will be closing an engineering office in texas.

Google Cuts 100 Recruiting Jobs (RESPONCE)

I think this is something that had to be done. If Google didn't let anyone go and completly left ignored the terrible economy I think they'd be running directly into the ground. I feel bad that these people are losing their jobs but for the sake of Google, I think a few people could stand the threat of job loss. In other words, it has to happen sometime.

Google Cuts 100 Recruiting Jobs (NOTES)

• Google fires 100 job recruters.
• There are over 10,000 temporary jobs at google.
• The company has over 25,000 total employees.
• Google is still hiring for jobs, just at a slower rate.
• Google VP says "We do recognize the upheaval and heartache that these changes may have on Google families, and that we may not be able to keep 100% of these exceptional employees."