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Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed the world the Nexus S from a distance just a little while ago, but we knew you’d want more, and so we managed to convince the man to show us the device in person just a few minutes ago. What should you know about the heir apparent to the Nexus One? Well, it’s exceptionally thin — we weren’t able to compare, but we’d say it’s at least comparable with an iPhone 4 if not slimmer still — and it’s thinner in the middle than at either end, giving it a mildly concave profile. There’s a glossy plastic bezel up front housing an AMOLED screen, a pair of discrete volume buttons on the left side, and a black plastic back (textured similarly to the BlackBerry Bold, though patchier) which seemed too roughly manufactured to be anything but a prototype. We saw the handset for all of three seconds and weren’t able to snap a single picture nor touch it for ourselves, but as Schmidt walked away he left us with one last lingering look at Gingerbread — the screen shutting off. When he pressed the power button, the image winked out like an old CRT TV, an animation which you’ll see a carbon copy of right after the break.

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We had a feeling Eric Schmidt would be doing something surprising at the Web 2.0 summit, and the man didn’t disappoint — he just showed off the Nexus S running on T-Mobile, and revealed it has NFC features, a technology he thinks will eventually replace credit cards. Unfortunately, he also called it an “unannounced phone” from an “announced manufacturer,” and the logo was taped over, so we’re not any closer to a release date here.

Update: We’ve added some more pics to the gallery, including some close-ups that show the carrier is indeed T-Mo. We’ll let you know if Schmidt drops any more details on this thing.

Update 2: Schmidt said Gingerbread would be out in the “next few weeks,” so we’re assuming this bad boy will come along with it.

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Once a Best Buy exclusive, the white version of HTC’s still-badass EVO 4G is finally making its way into actual Sprint retail locations, the carrier’s website, and other third party stores for the same $199 on contract after $100 mail-in rebate as usual. Gives us a good opportunity to levy the same complaint we’d levied before — that the front of the phone should be white, not just the back — but hey, at least passers-by will know you’re stylin’ when you’ve got it held to your face.

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This article was written on April 04, 2007 by CyberNet.

Fortune has once again put together the top 100 companies to work for in the United States. Not surprisingly at the top of the list is Google! With over a 67% growth rate and 6,500 employees Google is almost in another league compared to the other employers in the list. The video below is the best inside look that I have seen when it comes to a “Googler’s” life:

I was a little surprised that Google receives over 3,000 job applications per day (almost 1.1 million per year), but I guess that’s what happens when employees get gourmet food, free massages, and free access to 5 doctors on the premises. How did some of the other big technology companies stack up compared to Google?

• Adobe
  Rank: 31
  Growth: 33%
  Number of Employees: 3,604
• Yahoo!
  Rank: 44
  Growth: 26%
  Number of Employees: 6,840
• Microsoft
  Rank: 50
  Growth: 13%
  Number of Employees: 44,298

I thought that Yahoo! had more employees than that, but I think that means Google will be passing them up pretty soon since they are only about 350 people behind right now.

So I’ll leave you with a quick question…if you had the knowledge and know-how to work at Google, would you?

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This article was written on March 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

The Gmail storage counter on the Gmail homepage was expected to stop counting on April 1st of this year. That is just a few weeks away and Google has altered the counter to run for another 5 years.

It’s a little disappointing to see that happen because April 1st is Gmail’s birthday, and many of us were hoping for unlimited storage at that point (maybe even GDrive). Now the counter runs until April 1st, 2012 and at that point it will hit 3.48GB of storage.

You can do the test yourself by opening up the Gmail homepage (when you’re not logged in) and changing your system clock. You should not have to refresh the page because the JavaScript being used to do the calculation will grab the new time immediately after you change it.

In case you’re wondering just how slow the counter actually is, we’re currently at 2.76GB of storage in Gmail and in June 2008 we will finally hit 3GB. I’m not complaining in any way because I’m only using 4% of my 2.76GB, but it was just something interesting to point out. It’s kinda funny that I say only 4% because it makes it sound like I hardly use my email, when in fact I have 123MB being used. Looking back at the whopping 2MB that my old Hotmail account had makes me wonder how I ever received more than two emails at a time!

On a little bit of a side note, I was also just looking through the Wikipedia article on Gmail and saw this interesting little tidbit that I thought you might like:

Before being acquired by Google, the gmail.com domain name was used by the free e-mail service offered by Garfield.com, online home of the comic strip Garfield. This free e-mail service has moved to e-garfield.com.

Okay, now is Google going to do anything special for Gmail’s birthday like take the service out of Beta, or can you think of something else special they can do?

Source: Googling Google

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