Tag Archives : Google

Sony Ericsson Google’s Android mobile platform has a come a long way in the past two years, it has been winning users, developers and fans with its open-to-all approach. Android mettle may have been proven for smartphones, nevertheless, its gaming capabilities are yet to be put to test. Sony Ericsson seems to be taking that plunge. Sony Ericsson is reportedly making a PSP Go type Android [...]

Gmail Gmail’s contacts manager had a outdated and jaded look and a cumbersome functionality – but, that’s history now. Google has given a makeover to the UI ( user interface) of Gmail. Major changes are done to the contacts manager with keyboard shortcuts support and custom labels for phone numbers. Some of the newly added features include keyboard shortcuts, custom labels, [...]

Android A Trojan horse began appearing on phones running Google’s Android software in Russia. The malware was detected by security firm Kaspersky, who reported the file is named “Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a” and is downloaded as a .APK Android app. This is the first known Android specific trojan. Once the file is installed the Trojan horse begins sending text messages to premium-rate [...]

Google Wave Last year at Google I/O, Google has launched Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser (character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop). Google said yesterday that they “don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product,” though the code [...]

Give way, iPhones and BlackBerrys, smartphone customers in U.S. have voted with their wallets and picked Android as their favorite in the second quarter of this year according to NPD , a market research company. Earlier NPD survey has shown Android-based smart phones outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. NPD  concluding that 33 percent of phones sold during the [...]

Google If you are one of those people with multiple Google accounts and always wished to get rid of hassles in using a different browser or sign out of one Google account to access another. We have good news for you; users of multiple Google accounts, now can sign in to more than one of them from the same browser window. It will take some time to reach everyone  as Google releases its upgrades [...]

Facebook If you think your information is only available to those visiting your Facebook page, you are wrong. The personal details of 100 million users of  Facebook are now available for download after they were leaked online. Ron Bowles, an online security consultant, used a code to scan Facebook profiles, collected data not hidden by users’ privacy settings, and compiled a list, [...]

Google Maps Google had launched a new version of its Maps app for Google’s Android platform. Google has given half-a-dozen upgrades to Google Maps on Android in as many months. The update gets Google Maps a new logo, and   the Navigation features got more stronger and powerful with  a dedicated ‘Places’ icon which  allows users to quickly look up nearby places and is clearly [...]

According to an online dashboard Google provides to developers, nearly 60 percent of all Google Android devices that recently accessed the Android Market are running Android Froyo  or Android  Eclair. It took nearly nine months since Android 2.0 was introduced, but more than half of those frequenting the Android Market have the most recent and polished versions of Google’s mobile platform. 55.5 [...]

Google has announced last week  that it will close its Web store once the latest  shipment of Nexus One phones are sold out and sell only through its carrier partners, including Vodafone in U.K. and that day has arrived, and that was fast, we did not anticipate that it would be sold out so  soon. As shown in the image above, Google’s official online store for the phone now just shows an ominous [...]