On Friday, an announcement was made by Singapore Telecommunications under which it confirmed that it will commence selling the HTC Dream or Google mobile phone in Singapore from 21st February. This will make Singapore the second market in Asia to witness their launch.

Since the HTC phone comes with preloaded software such as Google Web Search, Gmail and Google Calendar, it is more commonly known as Google phone. Via this new phone, SingTel will also provide subscribers with video-on-demand content.

Search giant Google has decided to educate common people about power of Internet in India’s Tamil Nadu (TN) state.

To fulfill its purpose, Google on Tuesday flagged off a ‘Google Bus Project’, which will educate the power of Internet to the common people in 15 tier II and tier III towns in Tamil Nadu over a period of a month and a half.

It is an Internet connected bus, which will demonstrate content as well as usage of the internet to create awareness among the common people.

San Francisco  - Google announced a new mapping feature Wednesday that allows people's locations to be featured on Google maps in 27 countries. While the new application could be helpful in locating friends, or for parents keeping track of their teenagers, it also raises serious privacy issues, experts say.

The new feature, called Latitude, allows people-tracking via the internet and smartphones such as Blackberry, Google Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia. It will soon be available via the iPhone.

As per some of the popular tech blogs, Google, world’s most popular and widely used advertising system, would soon come up with 'GDrive', an online storage for its users.

If launched, the Google’s GDrive would store all the data of your PC on the internet. If instructed, G-drive would keep syncing all the data of the web and your PC on a periodical basis. Not only this, the new service from Google would make it possible to access and update information like emails, photographs, music, documents and spreadsheets from any device with an internet connection.

It might be a bit sad to know but the hard fact is that latest technology always takes over the old, making it completely extinct from the scene. In a similar fashion, rumors are spreading all around that the desktop computer might be killed if Google's service "GDrive" comes to the scene, which would let the users access their PCs from anywhere with just an Internet connection.

As of now, Google has not confirmed GDrive but it has been learnt that it might be launched this year. It is being seen as the most awaited product by Google so far.

London, January 26 : Search engine giant Google will soon come up with a system that may make the personal computer virtually redundant, predict technology experts.

The GDrive system will merge Google''s all existing web-based services to make them easier to use together.

Industry reports suggest that the ''GDrive'' would enable users to store almost all their data on the Internet, and access it from wherever they are.