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Google's last Doodle of the year 2011 carries Happy New Year wishes for search giant's millions of users across the globe. Google's last Doodle of the year 2011 carries Happy New Year wishes for search giant's millions of users across the globe. The colourful Doodle has the letters in the word "Google" seemingly attending a New Year party, wearing decorative caps and blowing trumpets. The second 'G' of the letter 'Google' wears the year 2012's goggles. A click on the logo takes users to a page which has all the Happy New Year-related links. Google's Doodle last week featured a colourful neon design with images of a snowflake, Santa Claus, bell, snowman, candle and a gift box on a black background, wishing its users "Happy Holidays". A click on the Doodle took users to holiday-related links like tips for holiday, holiday greetings and budget tours. Google recently revamped its Doodle site allowing users

Happy Holidays Google Doodle brings Christmas spirit to search giant Google Google gets into the Christmas spirit with its Happy Holidays Google Doodle Comments   Email   Twitter in Share 4   The festive spirit has certainly infected Google this year with the search giant’s latest interactive ‘Google Doodle’ bringing bright lights to the holiday season. The   happy holidays   doodle hit computer screens first in Australia and New Zealand at google.com.au   and   google.co.nz   and has now appeared in time zones in Canada and the United States as they near Christmas Day. Once a computer user clicks on the coloured lights, the screen turns black and the letters of Google change to represent objects of the holiday season, including a snow ball, snow man and jingle bell. Screen-grab The Googe Doodle becomes interactive after the user clicks on the search engine's lights. Once the lights have finished flashing, the search engine finishes the performance with a rendition of Jing

Marking the festivity and joy around, Google's Happy Holidays doodle is back. With   New Year   just round the corner and Christmas   almost here, it's celebration time! Marking the festivity and joy around, Google's Happy Holidays   doodle is back. Google Doodle featuring a colourful neon design with images of a snowflake,   Santa Claus , bell, snowman,   candle   and a   gift box   on a black background, wishes its users "Happy Holidays". A click on the Doodle takes users to holiday-related links like tips for holiday, holiday greetings and budget tours. Google has traditionally been wishing its users with a pre-Christmas Doodle. Last year, Google's Doodle comprised a collage of photographs of holiday scenes from across the globe. Google's first holiday Doodle, dating back to year 1999, featured a snowman. The   snowman made up for the first "O" of the Google logo, and as users scrolled over the Doodle it displayed the message, "Sea

Google has revealed a new chip-themed homepage doodle that celebrates the birthday of  Robert Noyce , co-founder of Intel and widely known as one of the brains behind the microchip. Noyce – who would have turned 84 today – passed away in 1990 at the age of 62. Nicknamed “the Mayor of Silicon Valley” the physics doctor created Intel with Gordon E. Moore in 1968. Noyce had been employed at Shockley Semiconductor, but left as part of the “ traitorous eight ” after reportedly growing disillusioned with the company’s approach to research. Noyce and Moore, two of the eight, decided to set up their own company, Intel, with a more holistic approach to management, with scientific endeavor as the primary goal. It was at Intel, supervising Ted Hoff, where Noyce oversaw the creation of the microprocessor. One of Noyce’s final wishes was to “make sure we are preparing our next generation to flourish in a high-tech age.”  The Noyce Foundation , intended to promote K-12 level physics an

Google Doodle pays tribute to Mark Twain by depicting scenes from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain celebrated in a Google Doodle Google celebrates  Mark Twain 's 176th birthday today with its latest doodle, which depicts a famous scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The full-width illustration greeting web users logging on to the search engine portrays an episode in the novel in which the protagonist is made to whitewash a fence. Resembling a drawing from a children's story book, the picture appears to show Tom and his friend Ben at various stages of the paintwork job, with the 'e' and half the 'l' of "Google" subjected to their brush. Although the writer's 176th birthday may seem a somewhat arbitrary milestone to mark, he remains a towering figure in American literature whose works enjoy an enduring popularity today. Born on 30 November 1835 in the town of Florida, Missouri, Twain penned Tom Sawyer in 1876 and its sequel, The Adve

Mumbai:  Shares in beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines slumped nearly 18 per cent on Friday as concerns heightened about the cash-strapped carrier's ability to raise funds to continue operations. The carrier, whose losses doubled in the September quarter due to high fuel costs, has cancelled scores of flights in recent weeks as it struggles to raise working capital. "The fresh infusion of capital in Kingfisher is still uncertain. There is nothing concrete coming from the company, except that flights still continue to be cancelled, and the market is reacting to that uncertainty," said KK Mital, chief executive for portfolio management services at Globe Capital. CNN-IBN The Financial Times reported Kingfisher Chairman Vijay Mallya said in an interview he was close to sealing a $ 370 million deal with an Indian private investor and a consortium of banks that would save the airline. Mallya said on the social networking site Twitter that the report was 'factually wrong',

Mumbai:  As soon as Amitabh Bachchan announced that Aishwarya Rai has given birth to a baby girl, congratulatory messages from Bollywood stars started pouring in, welcoming the new arrival in the Bachchan family. "Congratulations!! Baby B had a baby girl!! @juniorbachchan!!! All the love and happiness...am sure she will be the prettiest girl ever!!! (sic)," filmmaker  Karan Johar wrote on twitter. "@juniorbachchan how beautiful is this feeling. Allah bless u and Aish. Dying to come & see the three of u...YAY!!!! Now u really r PA lov u," super star Shah Rukh Khan tweeted. IBNLive "OMG! So excited Baby B is Daddy to a little Angel! Congrats Ash n @juniorbachchan and to the entire family! Welcome sweet baby girl:)," actress  Bipasha Basu  said. Javed Akhtar : "Congratulations Amitabh ji, this has evoked my memory of the day when Shweta was born. Time flies and how swiftly !!" Anupam Kher : "CONGRATULATIONS @juniorbachchan and Ash. So so H

Mumbai:  Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has given birth to a baby girl, the first child for the former Miss World and her actor husband Abhishek Bachchan. The delivery took place at the Seven Hills Hospital in Marol, Mumbai. A proud grandfather, Amitabh tweeted on Wednesday morning, "I AM DADA to the cutest baby girl !!" Later in the day, an excited dad Abhishek said both mother and daughter were doing fine. "Thank you all for your prayers and good wishes. Both Aishwarya and the baby are doing great and taking some much needed rest....And I'm trying my level best to get rid of this caffeine high and get some sleep too. Don't think it'll work. TOO EXCITED!!!!," Abhishek tweeted. IBNLive Aishwarya, 38, has been married to Abhishek for more than four years and the star couple had been fending off baby rumours for months before the pregnancy was confirmed in June. Aishwarya was expected to give birth to her first child in November and the media had followed h