After the bit of a false begin, Google’s eventually strictly turned on Google Voice series porting for all existing users. $20 is all it takes to barter your categorical line over to the service, nonetheless you’ll have to terminate your existing assistance contracts to have it all occur. The service is currently only for existing GV users, so you can’t open a new account as well as pier true divided, though Google says new accounts will get the option in the “next few weeks.” So — anybody out there starting to take a thrust?

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You’ve got to hand it to a Nexus S. In annoy of being the souped-up smartphone, it’s still unobtrusive sufficient to accept power from the BlackBerry microUSB cable as well as easy sufficient to penetrate which it’s only perceived not one, but dual OS ports. MeeGo, in the really raw as well as unfinished form, has been dropped onto a phone’s inner memory without a need for any flashing, as well as the process has additionally been successfully used to implement Ubuntu on the stream Google flagship. There’s very little that’s actually organic about the MeeGo install during a impulse, but the ball has begun rolling and there’s a resulting subject that’s occupying our minds right now — will the Nexus S have a perfectly hacked copy of MeeGo before or after Nokia releases its device for the platform? Answers upon the postcard.

[Thanks, Michelle as well as Brad]

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Google’s headed ever deeper into the clouds this year with the new duty for Google Docs: video playback. As of this week, users can upload videos (up to 1GB) in a supported format, and make them accessible for viewing in Google Docs. As with a previous video pity set up, you can still download video, together with prior versions. Google engineers have warned of excessive estimate time, but once videos have been up, viewing is as easy as clicking play — as well as having a Flash player, of march. We’re not wholly certain what a value is over Youtube, though we’re upon house for anything that lets us share the love of creepy drudge examination videos with the coworkers.

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It was a bit as well late to fend off a some-more than 3% dump in its batch price, but Logitech has eventually come out and refuted those rumors that it was asked to halt manufacture of the Google TV hardware until the significant update could be rolled out. As VP of corporate communications Nancy Morrison explains, Logitech “has not been asked by Google to postpone manufacture of its Google TV products,” and that such the cessation wouldn’t even be necessary as “every Logitech Revue messenger box will embrace free over-the-air updates whenever Google as well as Logitech recover software enhancements.” That matter has right away additionally been corroborated up by Logitech’s central blog, that assures clientele which “all’s well with Logitech Revue,” as well as that Logitech will be out in force during CES next month to denote “how Google TV is transforming the TV-watching knowledge.”

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Those crazy cats during Google have been tinkerin’ with the poke results quite the bit newly: in addition to the aged standbys (malware notifications, updated image poke, the association has recently rolled out Instant Search, Instant Preview… and now? That’s right: hacked site notifications in a poke results. According to a Webmaster Central blog, the company uses “the accumulation of automated tools to acknowledge common signs of the hacked site,” and if you have the Webmaster Tools account you’ll even be notified of the crack. Hit a source couple for more info.

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Google recently released the annual Zeitgeist inform of hot poke terms for the year, as well as if you ask us, what people aren’t searching for is only as interesting as what they are searching for. The climate is starting topsy-turvy, oil sources have appearance (or have been now peaking), Afghanistan is the no-winsituation, and a deteriorate finale of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret was a single of a least satisfying in the story of sitcoms — though what tops America’s first concerns? That’s right: Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Chatroulette, as well as Apple’s iPad. It almost creates us prolonged for 2009, when Michael Jackson and the swine influenza were all the rage. Almost.

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It happens each December. You conduct home for the holidays usually to be accosted by relatives who need help regulating their computers. This year, it looks similar to Google will be lending a hand with the unannounced Teach Parents Tech series of open use videos. The Google-registered website teachparentstech.com still shows a “coming shortly…” striking and a videos remain unlisted upon YouTube, but which shouldn’t stop you from promulgation the source couple next to your relatives right right away. At a moment, we’re counting 54 cross-platform how-to videos hosted by genuine live Google employees. The videos have been short (less than a minute) covering topics as simple as “how to duplicate and paste” as well as “how to insert the record to an email” to more modernized sessions covering “how to setup an email autoresponder” as well as even “how to find cheap flights.” Unfortunately, even Google can’t insist to relatives how to emanate a FAT32 hard drive partition. See what you mean after a break.

[Thanks, Nathan G.]

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The initial Cr-48 Google Chrome notebooks began arriving currently, as well as while by all accounts the hardware is well written and the operating complement is simple to make use of as well as quick to boot, there’s a single glaring complaint: Adobe Flash support seems to scent at a moment.

Like a latest versions of the Google Chrome web browser, Chrome OS comes with Adobe Flash oven baked in. That’s good, because it equates to that you can watch videos and play Flash games right out of a box.

But whilst Adobe Flash Player 10.1 provides a decent observation experience upon most Windows and OS X notebooks, users are stating which they can’t reliably perspective YouTube videos with resolutions higher than 480p, as well as a consensus seems to be that Hulu video is watchable, but only barely.

Adobe is wakeful of the issue, and says that “Flash Player 10.1 await remains the work in progress,” and promises which engineers are operative with Google to urge video opening. Hopefully a kinks will be worked out by a time Chrome OS notebooks have been accessible for squeeze in 2011. The Cr-48, after all, is essentially the testing device, so it’s not surprising that there have been still a little kinks to work out.

HTML5-based video and web apps, on the alternative palm, apparently work utterly nicely upon the cover.

It’s additionally probably value noting which whilst I’ve found which Adobe Flash plays good with most Intel Atom-powered notebooks I’ve used over the past couple of years, it mostly seems to onslaught with full-screen mode on higher fortitude displays. Give me a netbook with a 1.6GHz Atom processor as well as the 1024 x 600 pixel display and many videos will look good in full screen mode. But tall quality Flash video tends to look choppy upon machines with Atom chips as well as 1366 x 768 pixel displays unless you have some sort of graphics acceleration hardware.

I haven’t seen any specs on the screen fortitude for a Cr-48, though a laptop has the 12.1 inch arrangement. I’d be astounded if a fortitude was anything reduce than 1280 x 720 pixels.Update: It looks similar to a mechanism has the 1280 x 800 pixel display.

Just the couple of days after Google unveiled the Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook, a association has begun sending out demo units to the name organisation of beta testers. Ben Kessler perceived one about an hour ago, and acted the initial unboxing photos upon Flickr.

Kessler reports which the setup peculiarity seems to be great, and a case has the rubberized cosmetic feel, though a battery doesn’t lay flush with a bottom of the laptop.

The Cr-48 has the 12.1 inch display, 802.11bn WiFi, the Gobi 3G wireless chip, as well as an 8 hour battery. The set of keys has been optimized for Google Chrome, replacing a Caps Lock pass, for example, with a Search pass — although you can change a settings to capacitate Caps Lock if you unequivocally need that function.

Google is promulgation a laptop out giveaway of charge to testers. Only about 60,000 units will be done available. Acer, Samsung, as well as alternative PC companies have been expected to produce consumer-oriented Chrome OS laptops which will go on sale in mid-2011.

You can find some some-more photos at TechCrunch, as good as Engadget, that appears to have perceived its shots from the dissimilar Cr-48 target.

Update: Engadget’s Paul Miller has received a Cr-48 laptop as good.

Sure, a Google Cr-48 laptop is the device for early adopters who want to test Chrome OS, not the general public. But aren’t you a little curios to know what it looks similar to underneath the metal cover? Apparently you’re not alone, since Engadget has published the series of photos from the user who perceived the laptop yesterday and then soon proceeded to slice a thing to shreds (or rather than, to methodically strip it down to get the improved look at its individual components.

The photos do help fill in the few sum that Google has been deceptive upon. The laptop has the 16GB plain state hoop, for instance, and what appears to be the 56Whr battery, as good as a usual laptop goodies including wireless modules

The computer has a 56.4 Whr battery, wireleess modules, as well as the tiny fan to assistance waste heat buildup (although with the low power Atom processor and the plain state hoop instead of the tough drive, a Cr-48 should hopefully beget reduction heat than a standard 12 in. cover.

You can find more photos at Engadget.