Tag Archives : Google

Google has launched it’s own note-taking and archiving app named Google Keep to compete with the market leader  Evernote. Google announced it in a Blog Post : Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember. Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. Unfortunately, if you’re like me you probably [...]

Google has had Chat feature since the launch of Gmail, the newer services too got the chat feature limited to the application, for instance – If you are working on a Google Doc on your corporate GDrive account, your colleague will not be able to text chat with you from Gtalk/Gchat. This is repordely going to change. Google reportedly plans to re-brand and unify its various chat services, like [...]

Google has announced that Google is retiring it’s RSS application Google Reader on July 1. Google Reader was developed in 2005 for users to curate and discover online content. The news came today in a “Spring Cleaning” blog post from Google, where the company said: We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. [...]

Andy Rubin, who co founded Android a decade ago and spent several years at Apple as an engineer, spearheaded Android until now.  Google CEO Larry Page announced in a blog post that Android head Andy Rubin is moving on to other projects, and that Sundar Pichai is taking over. “Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning [...]

Android tablets will continue to grow and cut into Apple’s worldwide tablet market share according to Research firm IDC’s  2013 forecast for worldwide tablet shipments. Tablets powered by  Android Operating System will reach to 49 percent of the market in 2013, while iPad’s share will drop to 46 percent. In 2012, Apple commanded 51 percent, compared with Google’s 46 percent. “One [...]

Google updated Maps for iOS app. the company  announced the  the new features in a blog post and noted that it is rolling out the English version of the app to seven new countries Google Maps for iOS gets the ability to search Google Contacts, quickly access search for local places, and select between Kilometers or Miles in an update to version 1.1 today. What’s New in Version 1.1 * Search [...]

YouTube will be reportedly launching a subscription music service to take on the likes of Spotify and the rumoured Apple iTunes subscription service according to Fortune. Ryan Bradley and Jessi Hempel, writing for Fortune: The two new services are defined by their respective places in the Google empire: Google Play for Android is a digital locker for music – users buy, store, and sort a collection [...]

Google’s plan to take on Amazon and Ebay were earlier reported by  The Wall Street Journal, Google is now reportedly preparing the launch of a same-day delivery service, Google Shopping Express according toTechCrunch. TechCrunch’s report says that the Google’s service would cost between $10 to $15 less than Amazon Prime’s service of free two-day shipping for $79 per year. Google’s [...]

Google has come out with and update to its YouTube app for iOS, the new features includes the Send to TV feature that Google originally debuted on Android devices last year November. The iOS app will enable users to send YouTube videos from their iOS devices to a Google TV, PS3, or Xbox and soon it would be coming to even more smart TVs this year.   “Have an iPhone or iPad and a Google TV? [...]

Reports that Google has been looking for real estate for physical stores may not be true after all.  While speaking at the Mobile World Congress Google Android chief Andy Rubin  says that the company “Google has no plans, and we have nothing to announce,” when asked about the retail stores. At the same roundtable discussion Jamie Rosenberg, vice president of Google Play told The Verge that [...]