Tag Archives : Google

Image via CrunchBase Steve Jobs has released a statement clarifying his opinion on Adobe’s Flash platform and it’s place on the web / mobile: Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe [...]

Google added a fully featured GPS satellite navigation service to its Google Maps application for mobile phones running its Android operating system 1.6 and higher, including the Nexus One. Google Maps Navigation which is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance which was until now available only in the United States on Android phones. Speaking at the launch Steve Lee, [...]

Image via CrunchBase Running Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone, what many geeks have been dreaming for over a year is a reality now thanks to David Wang, better known as “planetbeing” , who is  a member of the a group called the  iPhone Dev Team, Planetbeing sent a Twitter update and uploaded a video Android running on iPhone ( click on the link for the video) [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has gone the Wikipedia way for its  Street View  by giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service. It  will even allow users  to move the tags, many of which are badly positioned. Street View was made available in UK last year  is an add-on to Google Earth and  Google Maps   that allows [...]

Image via CrunchBase All those whining and complaining about lack of good  graphics and high quality gaming experience in Android phones will soon become history. Google has paved the way for  iPhone-like 3D games on  Android handsets running 1.5 or higher, offering support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard through its latest Android Native Development Kit r3. It is offered [...]

Image via CrunchBase Google owned YouTube which pioneered online streaming videos has started providing automatic captions to videos to make the site more accessible to the deaf and people with hearing difficulties. At present the feature is only available for videos recorded in English and Google says that more languages will be added in the coming months. Even though the idea and intentions are [...]

Image via Wikipedia The Digital Economy Bill which was first announced  in  2009 and reportedly is designed to curtail copyright   infringement by users sharing files and media online has been criticized and condemned severely by many people, as its complicated and extremely stringent laws including the one which allows Internet Service Providers to give customer information to copyright holders [...]

Image by louisvolant via Flickr The internet search war has just taken its ugliest turn with Microsoft leaving no stone unturned to take on Google’s supreme dominance in the UK search market. The latest step in this showdown is Microsoft’s multi-million pound TV ad campaign to promote Bing. Known as the ‘Bing and Decide’ ad campaign, the three month TV ad campaign will not only showcase Bing’s [...]

Image via Wikipedia It is official now; Chinese hackers have raged a Cyberwar against the western world and no one has been spared whether its technology companies like Google and Intel or government agencies in the United States and European Union. These cyber attacks have much broader implications than what most people can imagine. Sensitive intelligence secrets being compromised and exposed to [...]

Image via Wikipedia After dragging Nokia to court for patent infringement, Apple has sued HTC over their alleged infringement of 20 patents related to the iPhone user interface, architecture and hardware. Steve Jobs who is known for not mincing his words said that HTC is stealing their technology. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about [...]