Rss. Spreadsheet. Where's my Gphone? Alerts. Google-acquisitions.png (PNG Image, 1389×1846 pixels) 57 Useful Google Tools You’ve Never Heard Of | College@Home. If you're like most people, you use Google's products several times a day to search for information or check email. Most people don't know, however, how many useful tools Google has to make research and time management much easier.
Here are just a few of the products Google offers that may be worth trying whether you're a scholar, student, or hobbyist. Must Haves These Google products can make the most basic of computing tasks easy and are a must for any Google devotee. Reader: Reader is a Web-based news aggregator that reads Atom and RSS feeds to allows users to easily subscribe, organize and share news items. It even has a mobile version allowing you to get your news on the go. iGoogle: Create a custom designed home page with iGoogle.
Users can choose to have their Gmail accounts, calendars, weather, news and more all integrated on one main page they can see when they open their browser. Maps and Travel Web Browsing and Development Social Networking and Communication Custom Search Tools. OpenSocial - Google Code. Google: You ain't seen nothin' yet. Anyone can get the Web on their cellphone these days. But now it seems Google is interested in so much more than that. It has reportedly approached the Federal Communications Commission recently about obtaining wireless spectrum, the base upon which mobile-phone networks are built, in the U.S. agency's next auction.
Never mind the potential buyout of Bell Canada Inc. or Apple Inc.'s much-hyped introduction of the iPhone yesterday, there's a much larger, game-changing force in telecommunications lurking just around the corner. Search engine giant Google Inc. has been putting together a massive cable network to provide customers around the world with telecommunications services ranging from broadband Internet to home and mobile phones. Google has publicly denied plans to get into the lucrative business, valued at US$1.3-trillion globally, but industry experts say it is inevitable. "It's not an if, it's a when," says California-based technology analyst Rob Enderle. TeleGeography's Mr. Mr.