Google Voice on the Nexus One

We're excited to see today's launch of Nexus One, particularly since Google Voice is one of the pre-installed apps on the phone. This is the latest version of the Google Voice mobile app we released for Blackberry and Android-powered phones last July.

Google Voice comes pre-installed on Nexus One phones sold in the United States. Existing Google Voice users can log-in and access their voicemail messages right away, while new users can set up Google voicemail as an alternative to their carrier's voicemail.

With the Google Voice mobile app, you can receive free voicemail transcriptions and play messages in the order you want. A karaoke-style interface lets you easily replay any part of a message, without needing to listen to the whole voicemail. You can also place international calls via Google Voice and enjoy Google Voice's low rates from your Nexus One.



Last but not least, the app is synchronized with the web, so you can access and listen to all your voicemail messages from any computer by simply logging in to www.google.com/voice.

If you're already using Google Voice and have a Google phone number, you can display this number as the caller ID on outbound calls. Additionally, you can send and receive text messages using the Google Voice app for free.

To learn more about the app, visit m.google.com/voice. And for more on the Nexus One, visit google.com/phone. As always, we welcome your feedback on how to improve Google Voice.

Posted by Christian Brunschen and Jacob Hesch, Software Engineers

Google Docs and Sites: 2009 in Review

As the new year begins, we wanted to reflect on 2009 and highlight our favorite additions to Google Docs and Sites. We've shed the beta label and added more than 45 new features including:

• Shared folders to simplify collaboration with friends and colleagues
  
• The Google Docs viewer, making it easy to view more files in your browser
  
• Templates, automatic and hierarchical navigation, monetization, maps, and photos in Google Sites
  
• Opening up the Public Template Gallery so everyone can share their templates with the world
  
• Logic branching, new themes, and more in Google forms
  
• Improved translation features in documents, spreadsheets and Google Sites
  
• Spreadsheet editing on mobile devices and sheet protection
  
• An easier way to give us your feedback and feature requests
  
• Improved consistency and better sharing emails across Google Docs
  
• Improvements to presentations, including co-editor presence, tables and better object control with drawings
  
• Features for the busy student just in time for back to school

We hope you enjoyed the 2009 additions to Google Docs and look forward to bringing you lots more in 2010.

On behalf of the entire Google Docs team, Happy New Year!

Posted by: Peter Harbison, Product Marketing Manager

Google Docs and Sites: 2009 in Review

As the new year begins, we wanted to reflect on 2009 and highlight our favorite additions to Google Docs and Sites. We've shed the beta label and added more than 45 new features including:

• Shared folders to simplify collaboration with friends and colleagues
  
• The Google Docs viewer, making it easy to view more files in your browser
  
• Templates, automatic and hierarchical navigation, monetization, maps, and photos in Google Sites
  
• Opening up the Public Template Gallery so everyone can share their templates with the world
  
• Logic branching, new themes, and more in Google forms
  
• Improved translation features in documents, spreadsheets and Google Sites
  
• Spreadsheet editing on mobile devices and sheet protection
  
• An easier way to give us your feedback and feature requests
  
• Improved consistency and better sharing emails across Google Docs
  
• Improvements to presentations, including co-editor presence, tables and better object control with drawings
  
• Features for the busy student just in time for back to school

We hope you enjoyed the 2009 additions to Google Docs and look forward to bringing you lots more in 2010.

On behalf of the entire Google Docs team, Happy New Year!

Posted by: Peter Harbison, Product Marketing Manager

Google Map Maker Ambassadors -- party on!

All around the world, our Google Map Maker users have been in high-gear over the past six weeks, becoming Map Maker Ambassadors by organizing local events to spread the word about how people can map the places they know and love. Supported by Google, these dedicated mappers have secured event locations at local universities, translated presentations and brochures, publicized the events and coordinated with the local mapping community.

Power-mapper Mihai organized a Map Maker event in Bucharest, Romania in mid November:
Serbia mapper Jovica organized a Map Maker event at Novi Sad University in early December:

Ulziisaikhan & Tsengel organized several "Map Maker Fairs" in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in December:

Tilek Mamutov, a Dublin-based Googler and a top Map Maker user in Kyrgyzstan organized two Map Maker events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Almaty, Kazakhstan in late December:

And to ring in the new year for mappers in Pakistan, super mappers Faraz and Jabran, with help from fellow mappers Omer and Khurram organized a mapping party in Lahore on January 2nd:

Here's a big shout-out and thank you to our Google Map Maker Ambassadors, and we're looking forward to similar events being organized in Kerala, India (February 5th) and elsewhere. In the meantime, check out the Google Map Maker Global Mapping Competition benefiting UNICEF that runs through January 31st.

Posted by Jennifer Mazzon, Maps Community Organizer

Get your Nexus One!

In case you didn't catch the post on the Official Google Blog yesterday, we announced a new Google hosted web store where you can easily purchase selected mobile Android devices and service plans online. As a student, it's especially important to stay connected, both on and off campus, and our hope is to help create devices that allow you to do that seamlessly.

The first phone we'll be selling through this new web store is the Nexus One — a convergence point for mobile technology, apps and the Internet. Nexus One, manufactured by HTC, is an exemplar of what's possible on mobile devices through Android — when cool apps meet a fast, bright and connected computer that fits in your pocket. It's the first in what we expect to be a series of products which we will bring to market with our operator and hardware partners and sell through our online store.

So head to http://www.google.com/phone to check out the store and take a full tour of the new Nexus One.

Posted by Anna De Paula Hanika, Android Team

2010 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years

Dr. Anita Borg (1949-2003) devoted her life to revolutionizing the way we think about technology and dismantling the barriers that keep women and minorities from entering the computing and technology fields. In honor of Anita's vision, Google is proud to announce the launch of the 2010 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years.

Google hopes to encourage aspiring female students to excel in technology and become active role models and leaders in the field by offering scholarship opportunities for students. the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years will award students entering their first year in university and pursuing their studies in computer science.

Recipients of the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years will each receive a $10,000 award for the 2010-2011 academic year and be invited to attend the Google FUSE networking retreat in Summer 2011.

Who can apply?

Applicants must be high school seniors and meet the following eligibility criteria:

* Intend to be enrolled in or accepted as a full-time student at a university in the U.S. for the 2010–2011 academic year. International students are eligible to apply as long as they intend to be enrolled at a local university;

* Intend to be enrolled in or accepted for enrollment in a baccalaureate Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related program;

* Able to demonstrate a commitment to and passion for computer science and technology

For complete details, please visit us at www.google.com/anitaborg/first-years/

Deadline to apply: February 15, 2010

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Plan a trip in one click

Why should trip planning be any more complicated than opening your browser and entering the name of your favourite city? Six months ago we launched City Tours on Google Labs with the goal of making vacation planning as easy as searching the web. After all, Google knows the top sights in many cities around the world and we've been providing directions on Google Maps for years, so Google Labs seemed to be the perfect way to test out a combination of these two capabilities, with our computing power thrown in to sift through the thousands of possibilities.

Though City Tours is still in Google Labs, the purpose was clear and the demo was popular, so we've continued to work on it over the past few months to take into account the hundreds of suggestions from users all across the globe. Now you'll find several handy additions:

1. Show complete walking directions. Until now, we've simply estimated the travel time between destinations based on the distance between them. Today, we start providing complete pedestrian routing information for every step of your tour, taking road types, bridges and bodies of water into account just like a regular Google Maps walking directions search. We still try to minimise the time you spend walking and we still won't recommend a visit to an attraction when we think it's closed but, now, the suggested tours are a whole lot closer to reality.
   
   

2. Import a My Map as a tour - because we can't always guess what you want to see! Maybe last time before you went on holiday you created a My Map of all the things you wanted to see when you got there. Now, next time you're planning a trip, you can import that My Map into City Tours: we'll try to schedule a visit to every feature in your map, just as if you had entered the city name into City Tours' search box.
   
   Alternatively, maybe the last time you came home after holiday you created a My Map of the best attractions you saw. If you've made your My Map public and listed, once a user has found it they can import it into City Tours with its link and re-live your tour, customised - of course - for the dates on which they're visiting. In the mood for literature in the Big Apple? You'll want to try out this walking tour of New York bookshops.
   
   

3. Finally, we've made a whole bunch of small user interface improvements both to help usability and make City Tours behave just a little more like the Google Maps site you're used to.

We're confident that these additions will make City Tours a whole lot more useful to a whole lot more people, although it should be noted that City Tours remains a Google Labs product and is still far from complete. We hope to continue tweaking and improving it over the coming months, continuing our goal of making planning a trip as easy as doing a Google search.

Posted by Trevor Johnston, Software Engineer, Google Zurich

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