Chromecast – Google’s answer to streaming videos and music on TV

Google announced a host of new services and some amazing devices to the technology world. One gadget that caught our attention was the little dongle named Chromecast. Although its not something about making free calls but still it is good to play lot of content on your TV for free from your smart phone. Read on for details.

Google Goggles visual search app for Android mobile phones

Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words for search, this mobile app use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web. With this you can search text, Landmarks, Bokks, contacts, read business cards, Artwork, Places etc.

Google Voice invitation for students having .edu email address

Google Voice is already popular which offers many features such as free sms, conference calls, voicemail transcription, international calls. Google Voice is currently only available in the U.S. and only available by invitation. Now they have started open invitation to the students, so if you have an email address that that ends in .edu and a Google Voice invite will arrive in your inbox within 24-72 hours.

Send Gmail Holiday Greeting cards via postal mail (snail-mail) in USA for FREE

It think now days most of people, having access to internet, do not prefer to send a greeting card on festival because of the convenience of emails and phone calls, But if you get an opportunity to send one greeting card for FREE and that is through POSTAL MAIL (not email) without going to post office, then you should think of sending one beautiful greeting card to your friends this season.

Google Acquired Gizmo5 in $30 million Deal :: Rumour or True?

As per a report published by TechCrunch.com, Google has Acquired Gizmo5 in a multi million dollar cash deal. Till now there is no official confirmation from either side but if its true then Google will step in to full VOIP services. Earlier news flows are pointing towards Skype acquiring Gizmo5, but now "IF" Google has acquired Gizmo5 then point will how well Gizmo can be integrated with Google services.

Chat and mail in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic with Google transliteration bookmarklet

Google Indic Transliteration is very famous tool to type in Hindi and then paste it into your mail or chat, but does not allow functionality for online chat and direct typing.

Recently Google added direct typing facility with transliteration bookmarklet where you can do real-time chatting in any of the following languages. Transliteration bookmarklet is a small piece of code that you store in your browser. Once stored, you can type in Hindi in any text box on any web-site of your choice. It works on Google web-sites as well as other web-sites.

For details how to use this add-on, click the given links for your language.

• Hindi Click Here
• Arabic Click Here
• Kannada Click Here
• Malayalam Click Here
• Tamil Click Here
• Telgu Click Here

Please leave your comment, I really feel proud when chatting in हिंदी

GrandCentral to Google Voice: Free calls to USA and $1 for free trial international calls and SMS

After acquiring GrandCentral few years ago, Google launched its new VoIP international calling service with the brand name of Google voice. However this service is not open to new users, but if you already have GrandCentral account, you can upgrade your GrandCentral account to Google voice account. 

To upgrade your account to Google Voice, just log in to your GrandCentral account and follow the directions at the top of your inbox. Upon upgrading, your GrandCentral number, PIN, and forwarding phones will be moved to Google Voice.

After upgrading your account, you can call any number in USA for free and you will also receive $1 as a trial to call any number. The call rate to India is 0.07 USD (7 cents) per minutes, which is not the cheapest moreover you can use this service only from USA.

You can always call or leave a voicemail with this widget.

Google always comes with innovative services..

Google number - One number for all your calls and SMS

• SMS - Send, receive, and store SMS
  
• Free USA calls - Call US numbers for free
  
• International Calls - Call any numbers in low rates
  
• Call screening - Announce and screen callers
  
• Listen in - Listen before taking a call
  
• Block calls - Keep unwanted callers at bay
  
• Taking calls - Answer on any of your phones
  
• Phone routing - Phones ring based on who calls
  
• Forwarding phones - Add phones and decide which ring

Google voicemail - Voicemail as easy as email, with transcripts

• Voicemail transcripts - Read what your voicemail says
  
• Listen to voicemail - Check online or from your phone
  
• Notifications - Receive voicemails via email or SMS
  
• Personalize greeting - Vary greetings by caller
  
• Share voicemail - Forward or download voicemails

Voice features - More cool things you can do with Google Voice

• Conference calling - Join people into a single call
  
• Call record - Record calls and store them online
  
• Call switch - Switch phones during a call
  
• Mobile site - View your inbox from your mobile
  
• GOOG-411 - Check directory assistance
  
• Manage groups - Set preferences by group

You can always add credit with Google checkout. We wish that Google will soon open this service to all users integrating gtalk with Google voice.

For details: http://www.google.com/voice/

Google introduced voice and video chat directly from your gmail

It was the Google who launched chatting right inside gmail while browsing your mail. Now you can talk face to face with Gmail voice and video chat right inside gmail. you don't need to login to your gtalk for the voice purpose. I think this is a great news. This small tool is developed by Serge from Google Sweden. This takes gmail far ahead of yahoomail.

To enable voice and video chat, you need to install one small application from Google.
Click here to download and install Voice and video chat.

Have a look at this video from Google and enjoy the innovative products from Google.