Skip to main content

Wrap up of Google I/O 2012 Day Two

Yesterday, Google conducted the second keynote for their 2012 I/O conference. Google started off the conference by telling the press that Google Chrome has 2.3 billion users. They gave us some other stats such as that, on Chrome, there have been 60 billion words typed, 1 terabyte of content downloaded, and 13 years of time saved through the speed of Chrome every day. The first thing they announced was that there will soon be Google Chrome available on the App Store for iPhones and the iPad 2. On the browser, tabs can be stacked up, closed with gestures, and flip between tabs quickly by dragging them side by side. You can sync all of your bookmarks and history across all your devices with Chrome on them, so you can pull up the page you left off on quickly. Google also unveiled Google Drive for iOS and Chrome OS. There is new and improved searching for Google Drive that is very intuitive. In the new searching, you can search for certain documents by words in them or by what it is. Google Drive now analyzes the file to see which one you want to pull up. For example, if you have a picture of an Apple Store receipt, you can search Apple Store receipt and Google Drive will analyze your documents and pictures to find the right one. You can also save documents to be viewed offline for even easier access. with Google Drive, you can also share documents with people and give certain people rights to edit the document, comment on the document, or to view the document. Offline editing has now been added to Google Documents now too. You can edit it offline and when you get back online it will automatically update it across all of your devices. Next, Google started talking about their Chromebooks.

Google has now made many improvements to their Chrome OS Chromebooks. The new Chromebooks have been made faster, now have an app based interface (like a regular computer operating system), and they have a cloud app ecosystem, Google Drive. Chromebooks are now going to be available in over 100 Best Buy stores and in Dixon's in the United Kingdom. Google then did a "behind the scenes" look at the Glass demo yesterday.

The behind the scenes look at the demo was probably not as exciting as yesterday's demo, because we have already seen it and were expecting it. The look was basically the demo from yesterday from more points of view. Google finished off the keynote with the anti-climatic note from Sergey Brin will keep the public posted on their progress with Glass and that he is hoping it is going to lead to some really "exciting". Google also continued the giveaways by giving everyone at the keynote a Samsung Chromebox for their Chrome OS needs. Want more information on the happenings of Google's second 2012 I/O keynote? Check out the source links for more information.


Source: Engadget
Pictures from Google I/O 2012 on Google+

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A New Leaf

Hello everybody; it's been a while. With school, work, and my extracurricular activities, I haven't had as much time as I would have wanted to spend writing. In the two years since I've last posted, I was vice president, president, and varsity captain for my high school's Academic Decathlon team, went to the California state Academic Decathlon competition twice, was a student commissioner for my city's Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, a speech coach for Chinese students learning English, earned my Eagle Scout rank, and was accepted into my dream school, the University of California San Diego. With that in mind, I'm also about to graduate high school. I wasn't the speaker that my high school teachers were looking for as graduation speaker, but I thought it would be remiss if I did not say anything. My original speech would seem a bit out of context as an article, so this is a slightly abridged version. "Throughout my high school career, this...
4 comments
Read more

Hands-on with the Nokia Lumia 1020.

Smartphone cameras have drastically changed in the past few years. Most smartphone cameras have improved so much that most people use their smartphone as their main camera. Some companies have decided to make  cameras with fewer megapixels and better sensors , while most smartphone manufactures have improved their cameras by adding more megapixels. Nokia is one of these people and they have proven it even more with their latest smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 1020. Look and Feel Nokia's Lumia line of handsets has some of the most unique hardware on the market. If you see something that looks like a Nokia phone on the street, there is a pretty good chance that it is a Nokia. Nokia pioneered the unibody polycarbonate design, and is pretty close to perfecting it. Their Lumia line is full of beautiful, colorful, and unique polycarbonate bodies. The Lumia 1020 does not stray too far away from its siblings. The 1020 comes in three gorgeous colors; matte white, black, and yellow. We ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Fourth Generation iPod Touch review

When the iPod Touch was first released in 2007, it started one of the biggest multimedia MP3 player franchises in the world. The iPod Touch had a fantastic touch screen, great iOS software, and was regarded as an iPhone without the phone. Today, millions of people who can not afford to buy an iPhone turn to the iPod Touch to get a similar experience. The fourth generation iPod Touch introduces front and rear-facing cameras, a Retina display, a thinner design, and iOS 4.1. Does Apple's music player stack up to the Android competition of today? Find out our impressions on the fourth generation iPod Touch after the break. Hardware The iPhone 4 and 4s have a very premium design with their glass and aluminium sandwich bodies. Apple put a similar design on the fourth generation iPod Touch with its glass front and aluminium back. It does feel very good and premium in the hand, but it does not feel as premium as the recent iPhones do. The iPhones offer some welcomed heft to the h...
Post a Comment
Read more