A couple of months ago it was announced that Apple would be expanding its headquarters with the spaceship-looking Campus 2, and it looks like it won’t be alone in the expansion process. Today it’s been reported that Google will also be expanding with the purchase of a 240,000 square-foot office complex near its headquarters in Mountain View. While Google confirmed the purchase of the office, the company declined to disclose how much it cost.

Called The Landmark, the new office complex is said to house 960 workers at the new office – a far cry from Apple’s humongous Campus 2 that was built for up to 13,000 employees. Google has been snapping up a lot of real estate and properties in the area recently, and The Landmark probably isn’t going to be the last of the company’s purchases. No word on whether Google will be making some renovations to the place, but I wouldn’t put the conversion of the office complex into a green-friendly zone (with solar panels and windmills) past the company.
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Although Samsung and Apple are at legal war over patent disputes, the Korean giant released a statement mourning the death of Apple Chairman Steve Jobs who passed away after battling with pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. “Chairman Steve Jobs introduced numerous revolutionary changes to the information technology industry and was a great entrepreneur,” Choi Gee-sung, the chief executive and vice chairman of Samsung Electronics said in a statement. “His innovative spirits and remarkable accomplishments will forever be remembered by people around the world.” Recently, Samsung also filed preliminary injunction motion related to communication standards in Paris, France and Milano to block the sales of the recently launched iPhone 4S. Samsung as been involved in patent battle with Apple in 10 countries around the world. [SH]

Samsung’s 3D video-on-demand service is now available for Indian consumers. The VOD service which is already available in South Korea and other regions will allow consumers to watch three-dimensional video content on their 3DTVs without any additional cost. All a user needs to do is download the Explore 3D app from the Samsung TV Apps store and can enjoy content like movie trailers, music videos, children classics, documentaries etc.

Some of the content available on the VOD service include 3D movie trailers of How to train your dragon, Shrek4, Megamind and Kung Fu Panda 2; music videos from popular bands like Girls Generation, Super Junior and BoA; children’s classics such as Pinocchio, The Ugly Duckling, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Puss in Boots; lifestyle videos such as Mercedes Benz Classic Collection, Takeoff-Macau, The Enchanted Hill: Inside the Hearst Castle; and IMAX documentaries such as Grand Canyon Adventure, Dinosaurs of Patagonia, Dinosaurs Alive, Wild Ocean, Mummies, Ultimate Wave Tahiti, Ultimate Gs, Legends of Flight. Samsung plans to increase the content to 100 items by end of 2011. The 3D VOD service will work on the complete 2011 range of Smart 3D TVs.

Remember when your legitimate emails were flanked by dozens of grammatically nightmarish blurbs, peddling pills, x-rated services, and Nigerian scams? If you use Gmail, most of that garbage no longer arrives in your inbox, instead making its way to a spam folder, where it’s held for a month before ending its journey at the Google graveyard.

Now, Mountain View is applying that same concept to your Google Voice calls, flagging unsolicited calls, texts, and voicemails, then booting them to a spam folder. The company’s servers use collected data from other users marking similar messages as spam, as well as propriety identification tools, to help ensure that those generic creditor or vacation sweepstakes calls never make it to your phone. And like GMail messages, misdirected calls can be marked as “Not Spam” from within the Spam folder, letting them slip through the fence the next time around. GV users can simply check the box next to “Global Spam filtering” on the Calls tab to activate the feature, or hit up the source link for the full scoop.

The latest announcement at the 2011 Cable Show comes from the seemingly unlikely pairing of Comcast and Skype, who have arranged to enable video calls through the cable box. All it takes is a camera, adapter and ‘specially-designed remote’ to turn HDMI-equipped Comcast boxes into Skype-on-TV machines when they start trials in the next few months. Senior Comcast VP Cathy Avgiris tells the Seattle Times that video will max out at 720p to start but will be ugraded to 1080p eventually. The tie-in will also means Skype features for theComcast Xfinity apps on tablets and phones, but according to Avgiris it won’t “necessarily be limited to triple-play” (TV, phone and internet) customers only.

Skype has already partnered with several TV manufacturers for HD calling in the living room, but working through cable boxes means a much greater prospective installed base. Beyond the still-unanswered questions of pricing and release dates, we’ve already seen enough Cable Show demos that didn’t amount to much (*cough* tru2way) so this will goes on the shelf with the others until it’s spotted in the wild.

We’re so grateful for everything happened in 2010. We also want to thank you for your support by following us this whole year, we will try our best to make Gadgetsholic even better in 2011 so keep supporting us and Happy New Year 2011 everyone. New Year, New Dream, New Hope, and New Faith.

If you own a medium size business which has grown a lot faster than anticipated, you might also need to move to a larger premises with spesialised business teams and also increased your communication needs. You should probably has a better telecommunications system which will start to become significantly more expensive as you will need to transfer your phone lines, your PBX phone system and associated infrastructure.

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Gadgetsholic team would like to thank you for following us this whole year. Since today is Christmas time, we would like to say Merry Christmas 2010 to all of you. May God bless all of you.