Know Google's new CEO- An Indian

As Google's third CEO, Pichai is taking over a
company in flux. In a massive corporate
restructuring, Google has become a subsidiary of
Alphabet, a new company run by Google co-
founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Pichai, 43, was born in Tamil Nadu, India. After
graduating college in India for metallurgical
engineering, he came to the United States to study
at Stanford University -- the alma mater of the
Google founders and so many other early Googlers.
Pichai got his start at Google in 2004, building the
now defunct Google toolbar. The toolbar allowed
Internet Explorer and Firefox customers to make
Google their default search engine .
In the next few years, he took over Chrome,
Google's Web browser. When he introduced Chrome
to the world in 2008, the world reacted with
puzzlement: How could it compete with Internet
Explorer and Firefox?
Yet Chrome eventually became the world's most
used Web browser. Chrome even became a
successful operating system for Chromebook
laptops, used mostly by schools.
Pichai eventually became vice president, then senior
vice president in 2013 when he added Android to his
growing portfolio.
Last year, he became Google's product chief,
overseeing virtually all Google software products
not named YouTube. He runs Google+, Google
Wallet, Android Pay and Google's Apps services for
businesses.

Pichai also runs the Google I/O developers
conference, where he serves as the public face of
Google for eager customers waiting to know what
the next versions of Android and Chrome will do. He
also shows off the company's biggest new products
and services, including kicking off this year's
massive Google Photos announcement.
Subdued and generally quiet, Pichai is admired at
Google not just for his obvious engineering talents
but also his general likability.
"Sundar has been saying the things I would have
said (and sometimes better!) for quite some time
now, and I've been tremendously enjoying our work
together," said Page in a blog post announcing the
move.
As CEO of Google, he gets one more feather in his
cap and adds a few more products to his now giant
kingdom -- search, ads, maps, apps, Android,
Chrome and YouTube will now all be under his
purview.

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Motorola Moto G

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO

LAUNCH	Announced	2013, November
	Status	Available. Released 2013, November

BODY	Dimensions	129.9 x 65.9 x 11.6 mm (5.11 x 2.59 x 0.46 in)
	Weight	143 g (5.04 oz)
	SIM	Micro-SIM

DISPLAY	Type	IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	4.5 inches (~65.2% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	720 x 1280 pixels (~326 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass 3

PLATFORM	OS	Android OS, v4.3 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to v5.0 (Lollipop)
	Chipset	Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400
	CPU	Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7
	GPU	Adreno 305

MEMORY	Card slot	No
	Internal	8/16 GB, 1 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	5 MP, 2592 х 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
	Features	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama
	Video	720p@30fps, stereo sound rec., HDR, check quality
	Secondary	1.3 MP

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, hotspot
	Bluetooth	v4.0, A2DP, LE
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
	Radio	FM radio
	USB	microUSB v2.0, USB Host

FEATURES	Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	HTML5
	Java	No
		- Google Drive (50 GB cloud storage) - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - MP3/AAC+/WAV/Flac player - MP4/H.264 player - Photo viewer/editor - Document viewer - Voice memo/dial

BATTERY		Non-removable Li-Ion 2070 mAh battery
	Stand-by
	Talk time	Up to 24 h

MISC	Colors	Black (front panel), 7 color options (back panel)
	SAR US	1.17 W/kg (head)     1.06 W/kg (body)
	SAR EU	0.79 W/kg (head)
	Price group

TESTS	Performance	Basemark OS II: 559
	Display	Contrast ratio: 967:1 (nominal), 2.477 (sunlight)
	Camera	Photo / Video
	Loudspeaker	Voice 81dB / Noise 75dB / Ring 82dB
	Audio quality	Noise -92.1dB / Crosstalk -91.4dB
	Battery life	Endurance rating 54h

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Google to reveal wireless service: Report

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Google is planning to launch its own wireless service as soon as Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The new service will run on T-Mobile and Sprint's networks and will enable customers to only pay for the data that they use each month, according to the report. This would be a big change for the wireless industry, which has traditionally charged customers to pay for a certain set amount of data that expires at the end of each month so that users are required to pay even for unused data.

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While Google's business model marks a significant change for the industry, its wireless service will not be available to everyone, at least not at first.

Initially, Google's wireless plan is expected to only work with its Nexus 6 smartphones, and the devices are expected to be capable of switching between T-Mobile and Sprint's networks depending on which one has the stronger signal, according to the report.

The new service may also utilize Wi-Fi networks to make phone calls and service other data, according to the report.

Wireless isn't the only sector that Google is disrupting. The tech giant's high-speed broadband Google Fiber business has already pushed some of the biggest broadband companies like Comcast to ramp up the speed on their competing services.

Read the Journal's full report here.

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Find How Many Visitors Are Not Seeing Ads on your Website

Adblocking software like AdBlock Plus have become mainstream and now pose a significant threat to web businesses that are dependent on online advertisements. The problem is so severe that Google and Amazon are paying the writers of AdBlock Plus to whitelist their ads. This may be seen as some kind ofextortion but with billions of dollars at stake, the advertising companies have chosen to take the more profitable route. It is estimated that ~5% of website visitors are blocking ads (PDF report) and the situation could be far worse for websites that have a more tech-savvy audience. If you are curious to know how many people visiting your own site are blocking AdSense and other ads, here’s a little trick.

Track Adblock Users with Google Analytics

Open your website template and copy-paste the snippet below before the closingbody. This code will detect the presence of adblocking software on the visitor’s browser and, if found, an event gets logged into your Google Analytics account.

<script> 
  
  window.onload = function() { 
  
    // Delay to allow the async Google Ads to load
    setTimeout(function() { 
      
      // Get the first AdSense ad unit on the page
      var ad = document.querySelector("ins.adsbygoogle");
      
      // If the ads are not loaded, track the event
      if (ad && ad.innerHTML.replace(/\s/g, "").length == 0) {
 
        if (typeof ga !== 'undefined') {
 
            // Log an event in Universal Analytics
            // but without affecting overall bounce rate
            ga('send', 'event', 'Adblock', 'Yes', {'nonInteraction': 1}); 
 
        } else if (typeof _gaq !== 'undefined') {
 
            // Log a non-interactive event in old Google Analytics
            _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Adblock', 'Yes', undefined, undefined, true]);
 
        }
      }
    }, 2000); // Run ad block detection 2 seconds after page load
  }; 
  
</script>

The snippet works for both Universal Analytics and the older version of Google Analytics tracker that used the _gaq object. As a web publisher, your only option is to serve alternate content to AdBlock users so the visitors at least see some content in place of the ads.

One big caveat though – it will fail if the ad blocking extension installed on the visitor’s computer has blocked Google Analytics as well. Some of the popular choices like μBlock, NoScript and Ghostery do block Google Analytics so the approach won’t work and you may have to build your own in-house solution – like downloading an image hosted on your own server and then counting the hits to that image through the Apache server logs.

Also see: Use Google Analytics without JavaScript

(source) 

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