Tag Archives : Google

Twitter launched Vine for Android on Monday,  the Android version of it’s popular video capturing and sharing service via Google Play. Vine app for iOS has been available since January with about 13 million active users soon after Twitter purchased it. The Android version does not have al lthe goodies of it’s iOS counterpart. “Though we’ve been very focused on releasing Vine [...]

 Google Glass app called “Tits & Glass” developed by developers at MiKandi, a mobile app store for adult content which was launched on Monday was in the news for becoming the first sexually explicit app on Google’s revolutionary device, the app allows users “share racy content from their devices directly to other Glass users and online” . Google updated its developer [...]

Google Play All Access music streaming service was launched few weeks ago at Google I/O and was available for Android mobile OS, with an iOS app sorely missed and keenly awaited. The wait seems to be nearly over.  At the D11 conference, Google’s head of Android Sundar Pichai confirmed that the service will be making its way to iOS according to Engadget. Users who start a free trial by June 30th, [...]

Google shows off a new Gmail interface for both Android and iOS, along with a new inbox experience for the web, a new inbox feature that offers automatic organization of incoming mail into groups. Category labelled “Primary” will house messages from friends and family, and the messages which do not land in other tabs.  “Social” tab will automatically contain notifications and [...]

Facebook no longer seem to be in the race to buy the Silicon Valley  startup, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told  Allthings’sD Walt Mossberg at All Things D’s D11 on Wednesday that Facebook isn’t getting into proprietary Facebook mapping software. Google also reportedly was in the hunt and had offered $1 billion to win over the owners of Waze. The report further added that “the [...]

The European Commission is planning to ask Google to make more concessions to their proposed changes to Google’s search services to  allay its concerns about the internet giant’s search and advertising practices to end its three-year anti trust investigation according to Reuters. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia addressed the European parliament on Tuesday and said that Google’s [...]

Microsoft’s and Google’s spat over Windows  YouTube app seem to be heading towards a resolution, the two companies have agreed to team up and jointly create a native YouTube app for Microsoft’s mobile platform according to reports by The Next Web. Microsoft and Google have released a joint statement today saying that they “are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows [...]

Google demonstrated conversational search for desktop version of Google Chrome browser at last week’s Google I/O conference, the  Google Now like voice search to the desktop is now available to users of its Chrome browser through the latest version of Google Chrome browser (27.0.1453.93). Conversational search works on natural language and semantic search and more built into it. To use the feature [...]

YouTube  one of the most visited website in the world turns eight years old today, YouTube was  launched back in 2005 and were among the first website to offer streaming video, Google marked YouTube’s eight year anniversary by sharing the statistic that it is now seeing more than 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. “Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every [...]

At Google I/O, Google unveiled a major new unified messaging service for iOS and Android called Hangouts. Hangouts is a cross platform service that will replace Google Talk, Google+ Messenger  and the Google+ video chat. Earlier it was rumored to be called Babel, but Google announced it as Hangouts. Google Hangouts will allow the sharing of photos, emoji, and video calls, together with traditional [...]