Google Nexus One sales lag Apple, Motorola: Flurry

Nexus One phone is first hardware device directly to consumers by Google. The initial sales of this smartphone are ahead of Apple’s iPhone and Motorola’s Droid. An analytics firm named Flurry has reported this news recently. According to a report by Flurry, Google sold roughly 135,000 of its new Nexus One phones in its first 74 days on the market. By contrast, during the same timeframe Apple sold 1 million of the original iPhones in the first 74 days, while Motorola sold 1.05 million Droid phones based on Google’s Android software.

According to a recent report by comScore, the market share of Android-based smartphones in the U.S. grew to 7.1 percent in January from 2.8 percent in October 2009. By contrast, Apple’s share grew at a much slower pace, reaching 25.1 percent in January compared with 24.8 percent in October.

Though The users of Nexus One smartphone think this phone is overpriced.

Creation of YouTube Overlay Ads are now automated

After acquiring YouTube in 2006, Google is trying a lot to turn it into a profit center. That’s why, Google is automating the way that Flash overlay ads can be created and displayed on YouTube videos. Through the self-serve Display Ad Builder in Google AdWords, one can easily create Flash overlay ads as easily as they can create display banner ads and place them in YouTube videos. Most of the small businesses don’t have the tools to create Flash overlay ads. Now Google is providing them with templates, much like it does already for banner ads.

Google AdWords is a text-sensitive advertising service. Overlay ads have been around for a long time on YouTube and other video networks.

YouTube wants to open up all of its video inventory to advertisers. Creation automated Overlay Ads is the latest move in that direction.

China again tells Google to obey the law

China again warned Google not to stop filtering its web search engine results. From the commerce ministry if China said, Google should respect and abide by Chinese laws. They have also said, said if Google were to decide to shut down its businesses registered in Beijing, it would have to notify the commerce ministry. They confirmed that they have not get any such notice from Google.

Google has said it does not want to bow Chinese government’s web censors. It also says it could abandon its Chinese-language search engine and possibly pull out of China altogether after the hack attacks in China.

Google threatened in January, 2010 to abandon google.cn and perhaps leave China altogether over what it said were cyber-attacks aimed at its source code and at the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The internet giant has since continued to filter results on google.cn, but says it will not do so forever.

A pair of printer driver updates released by Apple

Recently Apple has released a pair of printer driver updates. printer drivers are necessary, if not exactly spine-tingling, so owners of Samsung and Brother printers will doubtlessly want to download Samsung Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 and Brother Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6, respectively. The former is a 23.25MB download that includes Samsung printing software that shipped with Snow Leopard, while the latter is a 100.02MB file with the latest Brother printing and scanning software for OS X 10.6.1 and later. Apple offers these drivers for Samsung, Brother Printers. To know the feasibility of your printer model that mean whether your printer model is supported by this Apple’s news pair of updates or not. You can Follow Apple’s website to see a list of supported Samsung and Brother hardware. The list includes supported printer model.