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No matter what you think about piracy it's hard to argue against the fact that many times it's easier to pirate something than it is to pay for it. If you grab a bunch of albums from The Pirate Bay, you can listen to them however you want, move them to any of your devices and share them with friends.If you ... |
16 May 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Google is continuing to add more "social" features to its products. It's been doing this for almost a year now and, on occasion, the additions may even make sense.This is one of the occasions, Gmail now presents contact data in a lot more places and, what's more, it also displays more complete info, dependi... |
16 May 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Google has started rolling out the semantic search update we've been hearing about all year. The feature actually started showing up in searches over the last few days and has been in testing for a lot longer than that.It may not seem like it at first, but the new Knowledge Graph is a major update for Google, no... |
16 May 2012
15:50 GMT |
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Google has once again published updated imagery in Google Maps, mostly satellite images but also aerial ones. Most of the new images are from the US, but there's new stuff around the world, in over 100 countries. If you're rather familiar with a region on Google Maps, you may be able to spot the changes, bu... |
16 May 2012
10:53 GMT |
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Google+ has been going great, if you listen to Google, it's always adding new users and growing in the metrics "that matter," to Google at least. In the metric that seems to be the most important, engagement, Google+ is fluttering. Of course, saying that something is doomed is even more enticing than saying some... |
16 May 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Google is adding a small but useful new feature to Google Maps, the ability to save your home and work locations for quick access, especially when getting directions. Users can already save locations they use often and places they check into are saved automatically.
Now, the My Places tab also houses quick links to ... |
16 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Web Intents is a very interesting piece of technology that will allow web apps to work with each other seamlessly without any specific integration. The Web Intents API, which is still experimental, enables one app to "outsource" some functionality, say photo editing, to another app that can handle it without the deve... |
16 May 2012
06:02 GMT |
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This year, Google is expected to debut the new Android 5.0 Jelly Bean platform, and should make a change in the previous approach to releasing it on only one flagship device. In line with previous rumors, new reports suggest that there will be multiple Nexus handsets arriving on shelves in 2012, and that they will ... |
16 May 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Google proudly announced last evening, May 15th, that they have unleashed the stable and final version of the Google Chrome 19 web browser for Linux, Macintosh, Windows and Chrome Frame platforms. Google Chrome 19 (the actual version is 19.0.1084.46) brings a lots of bugfixes and a few new features including tab sy... |
16 May 2012
01:20 GMT |
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The Google 2012 Model Your Town Competition is over and the winner has been selected. This year, the winner is the town of Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Spain.The quality of the models created for this town has convinced the judges, which is anyone who voted, that this is the place most worthy of the first prize. "The winning t... |
15 May 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Google has been on a roll lately with Street View, likely making up for all the lost time during the entire WiFi payload data affair. But that's (almost) behind it now and it's started to roll out the service in more and more countries. Estonia and Latvia join the Ukraine and Israel as the latest countries ... |
15 May 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Google has quietly added a very interesting tool to Google Docs dubbed Research. As the name would suggest, it's designed to help users when researching a subject. Basically it adds an embedded Google Search in a panel to the right. You can use it to search for stuff that's relevant for you and easily inser... |
15 May 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Google Chrome 19 has just landed in the stable channel so this is the first time hundreds of millions of users will see it. It's been in the dev and the beta channel for 12 weeks now, so more adventurous users already know what to expect. Not that there's too much to be excited about, though the new Open T... |
15 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Google has just updated the Chrome stable channel, bringing to the table a feature that users of the beta and dev releases have been toying with for a while now: tab synchronization.
As its name clearly states, all tabs opened in Chrome on one device are readily accessible on another through the newly introduced &ld... |
15 May 2012
11:53 GMT |
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A Google a Day is an interesting way of getting users to learn more about searching, on Google, while playing. The trivia game has users solving puzzles by searching the web and it's proven rather popular. The game's housed at a dedicated site and the daily questions are published in the New York Times abov... |
15 May 2012
09:44 GMT |
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YouTube is synonymous with online video and has been since its inception. But online video is changing and that's mostly because of YouTube. Views have always been the heart of the site, videos getting millions or even hundreds of millions of views aren't uncommon.
Views are great if you're looking fo... |
15 May 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Right on cue, Chromium 21 has landed the beginnings of the next major Chrome release. Chrome 20 still has some time to spend in the dev channel, but Chrome 21 is coming soon. Chrome developers are always adding new features, large and small.Recently, several patches have made their way into the open-source project th... |
14 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Google Street View is surprisingly controversial for such a seemingly mild product. After all, at its core, Street View is just an online photo gallery with a cool, though somewhat gimmicky, 360-degree view and phone-camera quality shots. Yet controversial it is, people are worried that their neighbors as well as an... |
14 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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During the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) that took place in Oakland, USA, Thomas Bushnell from Google talked about how Ubuntu is used by Google developers. It appears that Goobuntu is a Linux distribution, based on the LTS releases Ubuntu, used by tens of thousands of Google employees, in... |
14 May 2012
07:05 GMT |
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Glasses with built-in displays and/or cameras already exist, which means that pairs with augmented reality functions are just one step away.
Sure, that one step might not be the smallest in history, but it's still just one step. Google has already introduced its idea for taking it.
Dubbed Project Glass, it h... |
14 May 2012
04:41 GMT |
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The Chrome team is pushing forward, as always. There's a new Google Chrome for Chromebooks in the dev channel, along with the latest update to Chrome OS. Chrome 20.0.1132.1, part of Chrome OS 2268.0.0. Thankfully for Cr-48 users, Chrome 20 is available to them as well, unlike Chome 19, bringing the full goodness... |
12 May 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Google is apparently interested in buying Meebo, the company behind the all-too-familiar toolbars you'll find at the bottom of plenty of sites. There's nothing official yet, but Google is said to be looking to pay $100 million, €77.3 million for the company. Meebo was founded in 2005 and has gone thro... |
12 May 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Google, and every other big website out there, has to contend with the fact that people are going to take advantage of their brand to trick others, be it for something like offer scams, annoying ads, or more serious stuff like phishing or malware.And Google, much like everyone else has to keep an eye out on domains t... |
11 May 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Google is not the only search engine going social, Bing is taking the big plunge after dipping in toe in it last year. Microsoft has just announced a massive social overhaul, one that adds a lot more social features but, thankfully, also pushes them to the side, literally, away from the regular search results. The r... |
11 May 2012
12:21 GMT |
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It's probably a good thing that Bing is getting a redesign as Microsoft's search engine is hardly flying high. It did gain a bit of market share in April, too little for it to mean anything, and is up year-over-year as well.
That's more than you can say about Yahoo though, there's nowhere to go b... |
11 May 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Google's Summer of Code is a global competition, students from all over the world are asked to contribute to the open source projects they love. Naturally, students in some places may find it easier to join the program, if only because it will be more likely for them to hear about. Still, the official per count... |
11 May 2012
05:20 GMT |
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In Google Search, or in the Chrome Omnibox, suggestions are great. You only have to type a couple of letters and the site, app, bookmark, you're looking for is suggested. The feature is great, when it works, but it doesn't always work as you'd want it.
And when it fails it's annoying, especially ... |
10 May 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Mountain View, California-based search giant Google has rolled out version 2.0.0.5888 of its iOS app Google+ (GooglePlus) delivering another step “toward a simpler, more beautiful Google,” the company has announced. The new Google+ should complement Apple’s Retina displays with clearer fonts, a bet... |
10 May 2012
11:31 GMT |
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With Mozilla breaking the ice, Google just realized that it too is not OK with Microsoft making it impossible to create a full-fledged browser for Windows 8 ARM tablets. And, now that it's thinking about it, it's not happy. "We share the concerns Mozilla has raised regarding the Windows 8 environment restr... |
10 May 2012
09:10 GMT |
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On May 7, Plaxo, an online address book service, and Google noticed some unusual activity. Further analysis revealed that a malicious third party was trying to access Google accounts by using Plaxo’s server connection to the search engine giant.
“Google and Plaxo detected a malicious party misusing Plaxo... |
10 May 2012
09:05 GMT |
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In an effort to keep Google+ fresh, Google has now introduced a major update to the iPhone app, which has been rather neglected and criticized so far. With Google+ for iPhone 2.0, Google is starting from scratch with a design that's meant to be a lot more immersive than before.
"We’re embracing the sensor... |
10 May 2012
05:32 GMT |
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There's been plenty of talk about so-called "search neutrality," the notion that search engines should give equal worth to services and websites regardless of their owners. The argument is being made whenever companies are unhappy about Google ranking and believe they deserve better placement or believe that Goo... |
9 May 2012
17:21 GMT |
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In a move to counter all the publicity LG’s Google TVs are getting, Samsung has just announced the company’s partnership with voice recognition master Nuance, on its official website. Samsung’s dual-core powered Smart TV’s will get voice recognition and command abilities next to the facial an... |
9 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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It seems that Google has started rolling out the structured data search update that it talked about a few months back, or at least is testing it on a large scale. Several types of searches, those with immediate answers, will not get an info box to the right of the search results, similar to the Google+ box, with info... |
9 May 2012
13:31 GMT |
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By now, you've probably noticed the doodle Google is running on its global homepage, dedicated to Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered the very famous tomb of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh. You may also have noticed that this particular doodle is rather dense and detailed. It's not easy to t... |
9 May 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Google threatened that it was going to call for a mistrial in the copyright infringement lawsuit from Oracle and indeed it has, presenting papers to the court asking it to put the issue of whether it infringed on Oracle's copyright with its Java API in Android through a new trial.
The jury found that Google was... |
9 May 2012
10:14 GMT |
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Google's Project Glass is coming along, at its usual pace, so don't expect anything other than teasers for quite some time. But part of the reason why Google chose to reveal that it's working on these augmented reality glasses is to be able to share progress and also ask for suggestions.
There hasn�... |
9 May 2012
08:50 GMT |
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Google is running a doodle celebrating the life of archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered the very famous tomb of Tutankhamun. May 9 marks the 138th birthday of the renowned Egyptologist. He spent the better part of his life doing archaeological work in Egypt or dealing with Egyptian artifacts.
He is best known... |
9 May 2012
05:50 GMT |
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This is probably you've always wondered about, but never actually did something to figure it out, what's underneath you on the other side of the world. Plenty of cartoons would have you believe that you'd hit China, which is true, but only if you live in the US and you tunnel straight to the other side... |
8 May 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Google has debuted a rather interesting new option in Gmail, if you're a Google+ user that is, the ability to reply to notifications straight from the inbox. The best part about this is that, if you're not a Google+ user, you won't even notice the feature."Notification emails are a great way to keep up... |
8 May 2012
17:10 GMT |
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The Oracle vs. Google trial has reached a critical state, the jury decided on the copyright infringement matter. The jury did find that Google copied some code from Oracle and the design of the APIs, however, it could not decide whether the copying was "fair use" or not. As such, even though the jury found Google gui... |
8 May 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Google's self-driving car program has gotten a boost as it's now allowed to test cars in Nevada, a state neighboring Google's home state of California. Legislation allowing these kinds of tests to be performed on public roads was passed a couple of months ago there and, now, Google becomes the first co... |
8 May 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Google is expanding its Hangouts on Air feature to everyone, after being available only to a few broadcasters on Google+. The feature enables anyone now to hold a hangout viewable by anyone, essentially a live video stream. The feature is an important step forward for Hangouts as Google+ now challenges a number of li... |
7 May 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Google is working on expanding the parts of Google Play that warranted its name change, the movie, music and book stores, internationally. It seems that the Google Play eBookstore will become available in Brazil within a few months and that the music store will follow soon. Google's product management director f... |
7 May 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Google is slowly changing its role from provider to content creator with YouTube. It hasn't started creating its own shows, just yet, but it has been funding creators for a while now. And now, there is talk of Google investing in Machinima, the company behind one of YouTube's most popular channels, with the... |
7 May 2012
08:17 GMT |
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Google Maps is no stranger to controversy, anything that has to do with borders and neighboring countries is going to get dragged into decades or centuries old conflicts. Google's approach is to stay neutral, use the generally accepted nomenclature, mark disputed borders or display different names in different c... |
7 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google is reportedly taking over our TV sets with its Android operating system. LG will start shipping these Google TVs beginning with 17th of May this year. The TV sets are powered by a custom quad core ARM processor most likely based on the Cortex A9 design. The operating system is not exactly Google’s well-... |
7 May 2012
06:21 GMT |
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There are plenty of ways of learning a new language, but none are as best as leaving in a place where everyone speaks it around you. Of course, moving to a new country probably isn't the most efficient way of picking up a new language. Immersion for Chrome helps to solve the problem by surrounding you with the ... |
6 May 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Google is continuing to build Google+ into its other products. The latest addition is quite interesting though, there is now a "Shared with me" playlist with all of the songs your friends, specifically the people in your circles, in Google Music."When a friend shares a song or album they’ve purchased on Google ... |
6 May 2012
06:40 GMT |
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Google Chrome has had support for themes for a few years now and there are some interesting ones in the Web Store. But the Chrome team has come up with something that's even better than having access to a ton of themes, the ability to create one yourself.There's now an app, dubbed My Chrome Theme which enab... |
5 May 2012
16:21 GMT |
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