The next time you look at the people widget, you might see up to 3 photos from recent emails from that person. Not only does this remind you of photos they’ve sent to you, but it also gives you one click access to the emails with those photos.

 

Most of us, would want to NOT show the photos on the Gmail email window. Here’s how you can disable your photos from being showing in Gmail.

From our research on the Google groups, the only possible option is to disable the people widget altogether..

To turn it off goto Gmail Settings > General > Hide people widget.

Although DARPA is a specialized study the deformation of the robot and mind control and other advanced technology sectors, she (Regina E Dugan) puts more focus on strategic research and have contacts with the hacker ring.

Dugan Ventures founded RedXDefense, LLC, a privately held company devoted to innovative solutions for combating explosive threats, where she also served as President and CEO. In 2011, she was named a Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine. Defense Department said that her departure has nothing to do with the investigation.

In fact, Google’s driverless car inspiration comes from the DARPA: Many years ago, DARPA has organized a lecture entitled “DARPA Challenge automated car race, and Google eventually recruited some engineers from the winning team.

Google did not disclose the specific work of Dugan, but she may be with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, co-focus on some long-term research projects.

A Google spokesman said: “Dugan is a technology pioneer, she worked at DARPA during future technology into the military. She will become a real wealth of Google, to join her to make us excited.”

So as per this new change all developers will NEED to use Google Waller necessarily. This move could come as a HIT to PayPal , Zong, Boku and other major payment service providers. Developers will not have other choice but to follow suit in order to continue to offer their software.

Google seems to follow the footsteps of its main competitor Apple which has also imposed that all purchases go through its own platform. A choice made for economic reasons, of course, since the sale of each firm at the apple key gives a whopping 30% commission. A strong binding obligation but those developers will need to meet these requirements in order to offer their applications in greater numbers. Google responded to this announcement and stated that its policy of in-app payment has absolutely not changed. The firm said that the stipulations have always said that in-app purchases must go through Google Wallet, except for purchases of physical goods (as on Amazon and eBay for example) or for portable digital goods such as books.

Do you think this new brave move by Google would be welcomed heartly by the developer community?

Google Play can be accessed through play.google.com.  Google Play, the entertainment center in the cloud (formerly known as Android Market), is about to become the storage and application market mandatory for users of Google and Android. This new renamed cloud service from Google also has the potential to compete with the mighty itunes store.

Google has already made ​​a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum. This should not be too complicated because Google already has the trademark for the name of Google Play and in addition, also the domain contains only the keyword of Google. In addition, Google recently acquired 32 domains that included Google “misspelled” (as Goolgle) after a similar judgment. Are you ready for Google Play?

We can see how Google is ahead with this. We need to wait for the final decision on the domain – googleplay.com.

From the recent Google apps update blog, it is also possible to disable the chat via Gmail settings.

Disable chat setting: A new option to disable chat in “Settings” and this action can also be done via a screen reader.

Couple of days ago, clicking on the chat icon would toggle between the invite box and the chat box. But as of now, clicking on the chat icon, simply hides the chat window – which is a fantastic thing If you ask us!

Thanks Labnol!

Hi there,

We’re writing to let you know that Apture has been acquired by Google.

Since day one, we’ve been working on getting the Apture experience into as much of the web as possible. While we’re proud of having helped thousands of publishers enhance their websites, we think now is the best time to expand our efforts by joining Google’s Chrome team to help build the next generation user experience directly into the web.

On December 20 we will discontinue Apture’s product and services. When this happens, users will no longer be able to highlight and search terms with Apture on your web pages. Your website will continue to work as normal even after our service is suspended; however, you are free to remove the Apture code from your site as well.

We want to thank you personally for your support and positive feedback over the years, and we hope you’ll stay tuned for some amazing new Chrome experiences coming your way.

You can view the announcement here on our homepage, or check the FAQ below.

Sincerely,
The Apture Team

We at GoogleWatchBlog used apture sometime ago and can commend that the team would do fantastically well at Google!

All the best guys and we wait to see something new with Google Chrome!!

Throughout the design process, Google conducted user interviews to help identify how to make Blogger even easier and more enjoyable to use. Google also watched users trying out new Blogger interface and made many refinements based on the user’s feedback.

After introducing the new Blogger Interface, the next phase of the Blogger updates that was released is seven new ways to display Blogger blog, called Dynamic Views.

Dynamic Views is much more than just new templates. With just a couple clicks, you’ll get endless scrolling thus putting an end to “Older posts” link, images that load as you browse, integrated search, sorting by date, label and author, light box-style posts for easy viewing, keyboard shortcuts for quickly flipping through posts, and one-click sharing to Google+ and other social sites on every post.

7 Dynamic Views available on Blogger are Classic, Flipcard, Magazine, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot and Timeslide.

If there are lots of photos on your blog, you may prefer Flipcard or Snapshot view. If your blog has more of text then Classic, Sidebar or Timeslide dynamic view may be preferable.

Adding a Dynamic View to blogger blog is as easy as changing your template. Log in to Blogger account –> click on the Template tab present on the dashboard –> Select the view whichever you want to set as your default –> Click on the button “Apply to Blog” to save the view. Take a look at the Blogging Movies Blog, to view how different Dynamic view of Blogger blog work or looks like.

Note that readers can still choose to navigate your blog in a different view by selecting from the pulldown in the upper left of the screen.

Several other official Google blogs will be featuring Dynamic Views through the weeks and months ahead, including the Gmail Blog, LatLong Blog and Docs Blog. Google is happy to bring Dynamic Views into the fold and it is looking at how to incorporate this new technology across Google’s blog network in the long term.

Finally, Google Earth Pro users can also upgrade to the 6.1 version. Major updates include the following: 

All in all, it’s a solid update.. Thus update seems to be lots of little enhancements to make the Google Earth experience better for every user.

If you don’t have Google Earth yet, download Google Earth 6.1 to get started. And as always, if you notice any other changes, please do leave a comment and let us know.

Via GLatlong blog. Thanks Anurag for the image.

The Motorola’s handset division was acquired by search giant last month for $ 12.5 billion – 100 times more than the supposed amount paid by Zagat.

This new siny Google toy(Zagat) is supposedly going to help Google Expand its local offers verymuch.

The slide was bought two years ago for about >$200 million, and was used by Google to develop apps for various games and social networks. According to information from specialized blogs in the daily Google’s Slide was closed at the request of Larry Page, CEO of the company. He would be cutting costs and eliminating the departments that do not make money or develop tools that, somehow, bring prestige.

Another reason: the Slide would also be competing internally with other teams Google+, the company’s new social network. And that would not have pleased the Google board team.

Google announced the closing of the slide last Thursday. Among the products developed by the company are the SuperPoke! Photovine and a photo app for the iPhone. Data from these programs will be migrated to other services, said the slide in a statement. The company’s employees, about 100, will be transferred to other Google products, such as YouTube and Picasa.

Slide The company was founded by Max Levchin, a few years ago he helped PayPal and With Google’s move, Max Levchin left Google.