Tag Archives : Google

Google is unhappy with the version 3.0 official YouTube app for Windows Phone which was released last week.  Google reportedly sent Microsoft a cease and desist letter today, which The Verge has reported, the lack of ads on the YouTube app for Windows Phone seems to be the primary complaint. Google has asked Microsoft to “immediately withdraw this application from the Windows Phone Store and [...]

Google unveiled a brand new version of Google Maps at its annual I/O developers conference on Wednesday, this will be the biggest redesign since Google Maps was launched eight years ago. As with most of it’s new products, Google is only letting a few people try the new Google Maps initially. Users can request an invite  here. The new Maps features will be available for the Mac and Windows, along [...]

You can now attach money to your email using Gmail. Google today  announced on its commerce blog that it will soon be integrating Google Wallet features into Gmail to allow users to send and receive money. The feature will be available to those with a Google Wallet account and will initially be available to users in the US. “While sending money in Gmail is currently only available on desktop, [...]

Google today announced that it’s combining the storage for three of it’s products, Google Drive, Google+ Photos and Gmail, instead of 5GB each, users will get 15GB of space for free. Google is also scrapping  away the $2.50 plan that had 25GB of space, instead, the lowest paid plan is $5 for 100GB of storage. ” With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about [...]

Google launched  Google+ mobile recommendations on Monday, the new feature allows websites to include a discovery feature in any mobile website. The discovery features already do exist in native apps, this is Google’s attempt to keep users around to read more than a single article. Google detailed the feature in a blog post : “When you help someone find a great article on your site, you’re [...]

Google has introduced push alert support for apps in Google Chrome browser or Chrome OS. The protocol called Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome is designed to let apps receive notifications from outside Chrome and respond to them more efficiently. Earlier apps that wanted to respond to an outside trigger would have to keep checking back with a server, using more data and power. Now, developers can have [...]

Google  I/O conference, Google’s annual conference for Developers which features more than 120 sessions on the Android and Chrome operating systems and  one keynote begins May 15 and ends on May 17  in San Francisco. This conference is eagerly awaited each year as it usually brings some exciting new development for Android and Google’s other projects. Last year at Google I/O was announced [...]

Google was reportedly working on launching its Android based information aggregation tool Google Now to iOS. Google has now officially made Google Now available on iOS  with an update to the Google Search application. The look and feel is identical to it’s Android version and is available for both the iPhone and iPad, “Google Now is about giving you just the right information at just the [...]

Google has added an auto sync feature to Google Drive for all documents, sheets, and slides today as well as the ability to view all documents when the user is offline. Few hours before that Google Drive got  profile pictures and one-click group chat. Google announced it on a Google+ post If you’ve set up Google Drive offline, you can now create and edit drawings offline. In addition, all of [...]

Wavii, the Seattle based startup which allows users find personalized feeds of the news, has been purchased by Google. TechCrunch is reporting that Google purchased Wavii for more than $30 million. Neither Google nor Wavii has confirmed or denied the news. “Wavii is kind of like having your own team of people whose only job is to work 24-7 to find the most relevant news, photos and videos about [...]