Ready for translation with google GOGGLES

Last December, Google launched Google Goggles, an application for Android devices that allowed users to search with photographs. Using the onboard camera, users could send a photo of something to Google and the search giant would analyze it and offer up the relevant search results. A nifty tool but overall, not something you'd think of as an essential feature of your phone.oday Google is making Goggles essential; the application can now translate foreign languages or text, making traveling to a new country a whole lot easier. If you've been to a country where English isn't the first language, you probably know what it's like to see a street sign and wonder, "Does this mean we're supposed to go this way, or we're not supposed to go this way?"

2 million baby

Wade McGilberry just won a million dollars playing a video game in a Take-Two promotion. The 23-year-old from Mobile, Alabama, accomplished the feat in just an hour and a half, becoming the first to pitch a perfect game in Take-Two's "Major League Baseball 2K10." He and his wife, Katy, plan to pay off their mortgage and start a family with the winnings.

Wade has not been able to duplicate his feat since March 2, the day he bought the game at its midnight launch and played it after coming home from his job as a records keeper for 401(k) retirement plans. (So not only does he play boring games, but he also has a boring job. sub.ed.) Take-Two offered the $1 million prize to the first person to pitch a perfect game. The outfit had been hoping that it would take a bit longer for someone to crack the game as they were hoping to milk the promotion a bit more.

The arabic lettered domain names for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Three Middle Eastern countries have become the first to obtain internet addresses entirely in non-Latin characters.

The arabic lettered domain names for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were added to the internet's master directories this week. It's the first major change to the internet domain name system since its creation in the 1980s.

Registrations for websites to use those names are to begin soon. Egypt granted three companies approval to register names using the country's new Arabic suffix. Websites had to end their addresses with ".com" or another string using Latin characters. This means that Arab businesses and government agencies still had to use Latin characters on billboards and advertisements, even if they were targeting populations with no familiarity with English.