Google hands over some tips on how you can use Google Voice to rescue a swarm of bees.

1. Tell us about your organization.
The Backwards Beekeepers are dedicated to saving the native honey bee population by teaching chemical-free beekeeping. We have monthly meetings in L.A. and also advise beekeepers all over the world.

2. How are you using Google Voice?
We use our Google Voice number for the Bee Rescue Hotline. People all over L.A. call the hotline when they find unwelcome bees in their garages, hot tubs, trees, chimneys and such. We get their message on our Google Voice account and email it to our list of almost 500 beekeepers (and aspiring ones). Someone claims the job, contacts the caller and picks up the bees.

3. How is Google Voice helping you achieve your mission?
Google Voice is helping us save the bees and cultivate new beekeepers. We are now a go-to hotline for city postal workers, animal control officers and parks employees. We’ve rescued more than 300 swarms since we set up our Google Voice number a year ago.

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In another takeover move by Google, the company has introduced their own notebook Рthe Cr48 Chrome.  Weighing in at 3.8 lbs, the cpu features a 12-inch display, full size keyboard and 8 hr lifespan.  Another key feature is that the notebook is run solely on flash drives and a cloud system.  WTF.

If you are interested in giving the C4-48 a few runs on Google’s dime, check out their Pilot Program.

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By far my favorite kitschy roll-out from Skynet Google, the Teach Parents Tech site allows you to generate a ‘ticket’ for your parents, helping them through everyday computer functionality.

No more back to back phone calls.¬† No more emails.¬† All you have to do is find the issue, check it out, and send it to their email. :poof: It’s that easy.

Thats right, Google is introducing to users over the next few days a way to call telephones directly from your Gmail account. The service has been rumored ever since Google bought out Gizmo5, but now it is actually rolling out. For the rest of the year, user will be able to make calls to the US and Canada completely free, and to other countries at very low rates.

How does it work? It is all pretty simple, while in your gmail, just click ‚ÄúCall phone‚Äù at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact‚Äôs name. That’s it.

Whats even cooler, at least in my eyes, is that Google will be putting red phone booths in college campuses, airports and such so people can try out GV.

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I have like three different Google Accounts. I have my personal/bills account, my nerdlike/gmail account, and I have my original gmail account I opened. Each of these accounts has a specific use and they help my keep my inbox organized. Well over the last few days, Google has rolled out a feature that I have been longing for since I started managing separate accounts; multiple sign-in.

Unfortunately, I am not one of the lucky ones that has been part of the roll-out just yet. However, you should see it in the next few days. To check, just go to your Google accounts page and see if you have the options in the image above. Here is what you get with the new update:

• You can sign into a maximum of three accounts at once.
• The first account you sign in with when you’re setting up multiple sign-in will be set to your default account
• You can’t use Offline Gmail or Calendar with the multiple sign-in feature.
• Multiple sign-ins only work with¬†these Google apps‚Äîthat is, Google App Engine, Code, Calendar, Gmail, Reader, Sites, and Voice support the multiple sign-in feature. Most notably, Google Docs isn’t yet supported, but it’s marked as coming soon.

Let us know if it activates for you. WE.ARE.STILL.WAITING……

Though Blackberry may have things on lock when it comes to getting you your email, the entire OS experience has been lacking to say the least. Both Apple and Google have made tremendous strides with their respective operating systems and continue to widen he gap. But RIM has not been resting on its lions. In fact, BBOS6 should be quite an advancement in the experience category if the video below is more than just fancy camera tricks.  The video shows features like aggregated social network integration, universal search, and the all-new WebKit-based browser (Thank GOODNESS). Take a look and let us know what you think.

WolframAlpha generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base. It does some thinking. For example, a search for ‘How do I cure a sinus infection?’ returns a breakdown of the four treatments most commonly proscribed by doctors, based on gender. Wolfram’s got a sense of humor too: type in ‘What is Love?’ and get several answers, including ‘Baby don’t hurt me. Don’t hurt me, no more.’ Not only is Wolfram a thinking search engine, it apparently also listens to early 1990s dance music.

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We tried to explain it to you before, but it is probably best if we let Google explain it to you directly. It is a little basic, but it definitely explains it in a way that everyone should be able to understand.

Google has plans to change the way we watch TV. At the recent Google IO conference, they announced Google TV. The new product would enhance the way we currently watch TV be bringing the internet and all it’s resources to our TV screens. The enhancement would make searching for shows and accessing internet footage a lot easier and take it away from just being a desktop experience. Check out the video above for a good example of the product.

We will admit that the Google took a very unique approach to testing out the speed of their browser, Chrome. The gang at Opera, makers of Opera Mini for iPhone, decided that it was great source material for their own brand of internet/browser humor. That a look at the video below for geek humor at its best.

As a side note, Opera Mini for the iPhone has accounted for a cool 70 percent of the browser growth over the month of April, with 2.6 million Apple users downloading the software worldwide.

Google just released a list of the 100 most popular websites in the world. They left themselves off the list, so they couldn’t occupy the #1 spot. However, the company that is #1 should be of no surprise considering you are on it all day at work. I recognize a lot of the list, but some of them I have never heard of. Tells you how big this thing called the Internet really is. [Top1000]

That sounds you just heard was nerds all over the world screaming with joy at the site of Pacman on the Google Homepage. Hop on over and enjoy it while you can.

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