Tag Archives : Google

Nexus One Google has announced that it will close its Web store once the latest  shipment of Nexus One phones are sold out. this may be the  end of  Google’s attempt to sell phones itself, and weaken the control phone carriers have over the distribution of mobile phones. If you’ve ever wanted to get the Nexus One directly , then this is your last chance. Google says Nexus One will [...]

Android Market Android is growing fast, we knew that, but, this fast – Android Market is now home to more than 100,000 apps and has surpassed 1 Billion downloads. Simply superb. Google has not officially confirmed this but AndroLib has revealed that the Android Market is now stores  more than 100,000 apps.They also claim that more than 1 billion apps have been downloaded from the store. [...]

Apple is leaving no stone unturned to sell its tablet device, the iPad maker is apparently buying Google AdWords ads targeting potential buyers of the Dell Streak and HP Slate. The screenshot above was captured after we did a search for ‘Dell Streak’ on Google.co.uk . As you can see, Apple is trying to capture the attention of Dell Streak searchers by buying text ads on Google, in an attempt [...]

Android If you always wanted to create your ideal Android app for yourself , but were limited by your coding skills, here is your chance. Google has unvieled a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software. With App Inventor, you can build just about any app you do not need to be a developer for that. App Inventor requires zilch programming [...]

YouTube YouTube has announced at  the Vid-Con 2010 conference that it is  now launching support for videos shot with 4K cameras, which are a  new generation of very high resolution video cameras, usually out of the reach of most amateur filmographers. “Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), meaning that now we [...]

Google Google and China has always been at loggerheads, however, here is a piece of positive news , China has renewed Google’s licence in a move that allows the web giant to continue operating in China. Google has confirmed that Beijing has renewed its ICP license — the rights one needs to host a site on its own domain in China. Without that Google would certainly be on the outs, but [...]

NTP Corporation has filed a lawsuit against six leading cell phone makers for infringing on its patents for delivering email to cell phones. The companies against whom cases were filed are Apple , Google , Microsoft , Motorola , HTC  and LG. NTP claims that the companies are infringing eight of NTP’s patents related to the delivery of email over a wireless network. “Use of NTP’s [...]

ComScore, which is an Internet marketing research company has released a report, which shows key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry from February to May 2010.  According to the report, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) with 22.4 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, up one percentage [...]

AppStore HQ developers directory which claims to have  a complete listing of all 50,000 plus developers  whose apps are currently available in the Apple App Store or Android Market,shows that 43, 185 coders have apps on Apple store ,and  10,199 develop for Google’s Android Market with 1412 of those develop for both the platforms. It’s apparent that single-platform development is the [...]

Google Move over Facebook’s complex privacy control and user-data sharing issues, Google has gone one-up on Facebook by scooping up sensitive data such as passwords when putting together its Street View service. French National Commission on Computing and Liberty CNIL, has begun looking into the exact data that Google’s Street View cars captured, and have  found that the “sensitive [...]