Google Updates Apps' Android the car home,

An application for Android car home to provide the device drivers behind the wheel when so many want at your fingertips. Google on Friday rolled out the app to update new features like shortcuts, icons, colors and includes a background wallpaper option.

"Android you leave the car at home by providing instant access to key applications driving its a better partner turns Android phone: GPS navigation, voice activated commands, touch, and more," Markus Mühlbauer, engineering Google's motor vehicle managers and product, Google Mobile Blog said. "We car home for Android, which makes it easy to customize the car home, you need fast information are releasing a new version."

Applications can now be started automatically when a particular port associated with or mounted on the windshield when it is connected with Bluetooth. You also touch by phone a few apps and access to information can be customized for individual as well as selecting wallpaper settings "shortcut, add".

2.2 Android phone running Android for free application available in the market.

An appropriate time to update app debuts. This week, many studies related to the dangers of distracted driving has been released. Vlingo a study released Thursday showed that 35 percent of drivers are using their phones to text while driving, and the Highway Loss Data Institute study found that a ban on texting behind the wheel collisions are low. As more data becomes available, the need for hands-free solution likely will increase.

Google eyes China as Baidu fumbles (Reuters)

In 2005, China administered a spelling test that asked respondents to spell "Google" for a search market report: only 60 percent took the test and more than 20 percent got it wrong.
Four years later, Google Inc (GOOG.O), whose whimsical name is synonymous with Internet search in much of the world, is still struggling for recognition in China, the world's largest Internet market by users where local rival Baidu Inc (BIDU.O ) dominates.
Yet, Baidu's switch to a new advertising system, Phoenix Nest, may be the catalyst that boosts Google's market share.
Last month Baidu warned investors it will lose customers and post lower revenue than expected in the upcoming quarters due to the switch.
Analysts say Google could capitalize on Baidu's disruption, but note that the US company needs to more broadly revise its strategy and align itself with local companies to gain on its search rival in China.
"For whatever reason right now, the brand just doesn't have the same cachet (in China) that it has here," Broadpoint AmTech analyst Benjamin Schachter said of Google in China.
Revenue from China is just a fraction of Google's roughly $ 22 billion in annual, worldwide sales, analysts said. But the country's massive population and fast growth make it key to the future, particularly as growth slows in mature markets like the US, where Google already has a roughly 65 percent share.
Google has overtaken many of the other search companies in China, including Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), growing its share of China's 2 billion yuan ($ 293 million) search market to 31 percent in the third quarter. But Google has been unable to crack Baidu's share of the market, which stood at 64 percent share in the third quarter of 2009, according to Analysys International.here
Change at Google's China business has already come at the top. In September, Google appointed its head of sales, John Liu, to take over former China chief Lee Kai Fu's business responsibilities.
Liu told local media in September that he intends to double Google's sales force in China in six months, although he was not more specific. Baidu already has a sales and customer service team of over 4,000.
Google has also beefed up its ranks of engineers with a focus on making the search engine better-suited toward Chinese language Web content. It was not immediately clear how many people Google employs in China.
At a recent roundtable discussion with reporters in Boston, CEO Eric Schmidt said the quality of Google's search results in China is now on par or better than the competition, in terms of speed and relevance, according to internal tests.
Still, some Chinese users say Baidu, whose name is taken from an ancient Chinese poem, has better contextualized search results. For example, typing in "Power Station" in a Google China search will give hits on what a power station is, whereas on Baidu, you get links to news articles and songs by the Taiwanese band Power Station.