Tag Archives : Google

Android sales declined by 5% over last year, according to a report by Strategy Analysts, Google’s mobile OS’s market share dropped from 60.6 percent a year earlier to 56.3 percent and according to the report Android may be “approaching a peak” in its market share. The key reasons for the decline were a dull economy, maturing penetration of smartphones among contract mobile subscribers, [...]

Google didn’t delete Street View data after all Google broke its promise – Google had told angry regulators couple of years ago that it would delete the ill-gotten data after being caught spying on people across Europe with its Street View cars. UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) received a letter from Google in which the company admits it kept a “small portion” [...]

Google’s  GTalk is currently down. Users are not able to see contacts or send messages, in some cases contacts are visible, the messages won’t get sent. As is the norm now various users on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites have reported this first. Google released a statement “We’re aware of a problem with Google Talk affecting a majority of users. The affected users [...]

If you had planned on buying a 16GB Nexus 7 but have not already, there is some bad news for you – It’s sold out.  Google is no longer taking orders for the £199 model.  The page for the 16GB version Google Play displays a “coming soon” message, Interested customers can register to be notified via email when the model becomes available once again.   Nexus 7 which is built by Asus  [...]

Sparrow, the popular thrid-party email app for MAC OS and iOS plus  a great Gmail solution for iPhone users has been acquired by Google. According to some reports, the price is said to be around US $25 million. “The Sparrow team has always put their users first by focusing on building a seamlessly simple and intuitive interface for their email client. We look forward to bringing them aboard [...]

Google and Microsoft have come out with their Financials for the past Quarter, Microsoft Corp.  announced quarterly revenue of $18.06 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. Operating income and loss per share for the quarter were $192 million and $0.06 per share due to a huge $6.2 billion charge in its online services division relating to its failed 2007 acquisition of aQuantive. “We delivered [...]

If you are among the hundreds of Google Nexus 7 pre-order customers are still waiting for their tablets to arrive on their doorsteps and think that you are unlucky, you are wrong as some of the consumers, lucky enough to receive a Nexus 7 were dumbfounded when they began using the tablet only to find a number of manufacturing defects. XdaDevelopers and other online forums have numerous reports that [...]

UK court gave a ruling last week that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets don’t infringe Apple’s registered designs,  that iPad maker Apple  should  publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn’t copy designs for the iPad according to a report by Bloomberg.  “Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims [...]

Google has started shipping Nexus 7 pre-orders to customers who ordered the device from Google Play stores outside of the United States. ‘We’re now shipping Nexus 7 preorders. Many US and Australia preorders are scheduled to ship by July 17th. UK and Canada preorders have also begun shipping in waves.’ says a statement on the Google Play’s support page. Will the Nexus 7 wave [...]

 Google has began shipping units of the first Nexus tablet PC,  Nexus 7 tablet which comes with Android Jelly Bean mobile operating system and starts at $199 and has drawn glowing reviews from major gadget reviewers is now available in the US. Customers who pre-ordered the device online via have received e-mail notification from Google that the tablet has shipped to arrive soon, the tablet PC has [...]