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Google Reveals Facts about Android 3.0 Honeycomb

The latest Android version from Google, the 3.0 Honeycomb, has finally hit the markets. What most of us always thought was that the Honeycomb would specifically be for tablets and have just a few upgrades for SmartPhones. What we really didn’t was just how refined and jammed with features it would be! The Android 3.0 Honeycomb consists of a completely new email client that serves messages in landscape mode and brings many competitive messaging features to the Android tabs. Also, Google has added new tools to the Android browser and has packed it with many minimalist controls to make the most of the big screens found on the Honeycomb tablets. What’s more, the Honeycomb also comes replete with full 3D mapping for Google maps. This way, you’ll be able to vie beautiful satellite imagery that shows 3D rendered buildings as well. However, Google didn’t just stop here. YouTube also received a major makeover. The new interface shows video results as a grid along with neat 3D effects. So, now y...

Google Places Introduces Some New Tools For Localized Search Engine Marketing

Google re branded its Local Business Center service and has relaunched it as Google Places, boasting new features and also a new name. Search engine marketing may have been its biggest application on the ‘World’ wide web but for various businesses, the local market is the main focus. Besides from targeting geographic locations and keywords as a part of the overall search optimization (SEO) strategy or focusing PPC ad campaigns by Geo-targeting data, all kinds of businesses – from service providers to retail shops – who rely upon the local market are able to make use of Google’s ability to deliver related results to the users based on more than just the keywords in their query. Last year, Google had expanded its Maps service – an important part of localized search engine marketing – with the Place Pages feature. By aggregating information related to the businesses listed on Google, automatic content generation algorithms create pages contained a variety of data from across the web. As ...