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Wallet - make your phone your wallet

Wallet - make your phone your wallet
Send money to anyone in the US with a Gmail address, or request money on-the-go. It's easy, fast, and free to send money directly from your bank account, debit card or Wallet Balance. Received money? Spend it instantly in stores or withdraw cash from ATMs with the Google Wallet Card. You can also transfer it directly to your bank account. Get your card | Learn More *MasterCard® is a registered trademark of MasterCard® International Incorporated

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New App Can Diagnose A Concussion A new app for the iPhone and iPad can help determine whether a person is suffering from a concussion. Developed by Dr. Jason Mihalik of the University of North Carolina’s brain injury research center, and Dr. Justin Smith of the Children’s National Medical Center, the Concussion Recognition & Response app involves a short checklist that can be used to decide whether the person needs to seek medical attention in under 5 minutes. The app guides users through a series of questions and can email the information to a doctor. Status of Google Wave - Google Wave Help As we announced in August 2010, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave. Stage 1: Google Wave is read-only -- January 31, 2012 In this stage, you will no longer be able to create or edit waves. Marking a wave as read will also not be saved.

PayPal : Effectuez et Acceptez des paiements Your browser does not meet new security standards for websites (like PayPal) that hold payment data, you’ll need to update it to continue accessing paypal.com after June 26th. Check your desktop browser to see if it’s up-to-dateClick here to test your browser. If you see a message that says: “PayPal_Connection_OK” your browser is up-to-date and no further action is needed. If you have an outdated browser you’ll see this message: “ERROR! Like? Meet The ‘Want’ Button For The Real World Remember writing Christmas wish-lists to send to Santa in the North Pole? Well, Jack Widman has developed an iPhone app to apply that to everyday living called Want!.The app allows you to not only capture physical items you come across during the day but also “want” things such as “that haircut” or “a nap.”

Move from Website Optimizer to Content Experiments - Analytics Help If you have a website, you have activities that you want your visitors to complete (e.g., make a purchase, sign up for a newsletter) and/or metrics that you want to improve (e.g., revenue, visit duration, bounce rate). With Content Experiments, you can test which version of a landing page results in the greatest improvement in conversions (i.e. completed activities that you measure as goals) or metric value. You can test up to 10 variations of a landing page. The iPhone App That Can Identify A Tree By Its Leaf This article titled “The mobile phone app that can identify a tree by its leaf” was written by Leo Hickman, for guardian.co.uk on Friday 6th May 2011 15.30 UTC To date, the world of mobile phone apps has largely left me cold. Yes, I can see how you can easily lose an hour of your life – or more – to Angry Birds. But the most interesting and potentially useful developments I have seen so far are apps such as Shazam and RedLaser.

PowerMeter - Save Energy. Save Money. Make a Difference. We launched Google PowerMeter as a free energy monitoring tool to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. PowerMeter included key features like visualizations of your energy usage, the ability share information with others, and personalized recommendations to save energy. We partnered with device manufacturers and utilities around the world. An App For Wanderers Seeking Workspace In Cafés Booktrack is a startup that seeks to revolutionize the reading experience through the creation of a whole new genre of e-books. The company’s technology pairs music scores and sound effects with text, automatically paced to the user’s reading speed, generating a synchronized soundtrack for e-books. Currently Booktrack is compatible with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, with plans to expand into Android apps.

Notebook As of July 2012, Google Notebook has shut down and all Notebook data should now be in Google Docs. As previously announced, in most cases we were able to automatically export the Notebook data, so please visit Google Docs. Also please update any bookmarks or links to Notebook so that they point to Docs instead. Here are answers to some questions about this transition.

Stopping the Gears Last February, we let you know we were shifting our focus from Gears to HTML5. Over the last year or so, we’ve been working closely with other browser vendors and standards bodies to help define and standardize HTML5 features across browsers, and we’ve worked hard to improve these HTML5 capabilities in Chrome: We implemented support for application caches, which are a great replacement for Gears’ offline features. App caches are already being used by web apps like the NYTimes app in the Chrome Web Store.

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