Tag Archives : Google

iPhone’s next version is around the corner and Google is making moves to incite customers towards it Google Nexus 4 phone, Google has announced a price cut by 25 percent for the Nexus 4 smartphone in UK, US and in Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain and  Korea. Google Play Store’s Twitter account formally announced the price cut today. These huge discounts comea shortly before Apple is [...]

Google is planning to add restricted accounts for Google Chrome browser, which should be useful for parents looking to limit their kids’ internet usage according to BrowserFame who spotted a feature in the development version of Chrome that would allow for ‘supervised user’ accounts. ‘Chrome team is currently working on the UI, backend and flow. Interested users can preview these [...]

Google has  again blocked YouTube app on Windows Phones for violating the terms of use even after the issue was sorted out between the two tech giants. Microsoft has failed to make necessary upgrades to its browser to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, “and has instead re-released a YouTube app that violates our Terms of Service.” According to The Verge, which received a statement from [...]

Google is going the Amazon way by  adding encryption to it’s Cloud Storage, any data stored in the Google cloud will be first kept in RAM and encrypted via AES-128 before being saved, it was  announced by Google on Thursday as a way to “make securing your data as painless as possible,” according to a blog post. Data will then automatically be decrypted when accessed by authorized [...]

Google’s All Access music streaming service which debuted in is now available in UK and several countries across Europe, including France, Ireland and  Spain and the U.K. Google on Wednesday updated its international availability page for its Play Store. For early sign ups the price is €7.99 if they sign up before September 15 after which it will cost €9.99. There’s still no word on when [...]

Unable to find your Android phone?, Google is giving you an app to locate your phone. Google has announced that it will launch Android Device Manager, a device location and security service app for Android phones and tablets  in the next few weeks, this feature was on the wishlist of many Android users who had to rely on third party apps like  Where’s My Droid or Lookout Security & [...]

Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition phones have started getting an OTA (over-the-air) upgrade to Android 4.3 today evening. ‘ I just got the 4.3 OTA notification on both of my Google-suppled GPe phones. The update is around 150 MB for the SGS4 and 180 MB for the HTC One, and comes as build JWR66V. This comes immediately after both HTC and Samsung released their Android 4.3 kernel [...]

Active Google Maps users now get a chance to show off their knowledge through Google City Experts, Google’s effort  to encourage more high quality local business reviews on Google+.Users who have at least 50 reviews to will be required to produce at least five new reviews each month for which they will be rewarded. The program is currently limited to London, Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh [...]

Google on Wednesday announced the next in line Nexus 7 tablet to the media in a breakfast event with Sundar Pichai, president of Android and Chrome at Google, the new 7-inch  weighs 290 grams, the tablet is lighter and thinner than its previous generation and comes with a  1080p resolution. It runs the newer 4.3 version of Androd Jelly Bean, specs include a high resolution 7-inch screen with a [...]

NetNewsWire  which was introduced in 2002 and  is probably the oldest news reader still under development  has got a beta release for OSX, while in beta it’s available as a free download, it will cost $20 when releases go out of beta,  the iPad and iPhone versions are still under development. Aol, Feedly, Rockmelt and numerous others have joined the RSS bandwagon since Google announced plans to [...]