Tag Archives: Google

According Android Police, Google is planning to introduce its Nearby feature with the new Play Services update. It will apparently, enable you to interact with people, places and things near you. Here’s the official description of the feature from a leaked screen acquired by Android Police: “Nearby lets you connect, share, and do more with people, places, and things near ...

Amazon posted a promotional video for a new product announcement that’s going to take place on June 18th. It’s probably the rumored smartphone that we kept hearing about lately. A few frames of the video reveal the top of a smartphone as discovered yesterday by a sharp eyed Google+ user. Sources say that Amazon plans to announce a smartphone this ...

The Android 4.4.3 KitKat update has begun rolling out for a number of devices. Reports have started coming in that the long-awaited update is now available for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 . Yesterday we’ve heard that Google has started pushing 4.4.3 to the Moto X, Moto E, Moto G, Galaxy S4, and HTC One M8 GPe. Earlier today the company began ...

Google was planning to launch the Street View Imagery of all 12 World Cup stadiums. The launch took place today, just a week before the first game of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil.  This way, Google is giving football fans the opportunity to save their tickets and expenses. The feature lets everyone explore all 12 of the World ...

You probably already knew that Google’s Gmail supports encryption. But did you know that when a Gmail user e-mails somebody using an unencrypted service, the message isn’t protected? In fact up to half of all e-mails sent to, and from Gmail are not encrypted because of this. To fix the situation Google intends to start naming and shaming unencrypted e-mail ...

Google announced it will launch the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, starting with the 64-bit Dev and Canary. You can download them from Google’s official site by clicking on Dev or Canary. As its name suggest, the Dev channel will get updated fervently and it’s meant for developers to test all the new features before ...

Apparently Google plans to spend more than $1 billion on a satellite system that’s going to spread internet access to the far reaches of the world. This is a familiar story of course. To increase ad revenues Google needs to make the web far more accessible to more people. This latest project will start with about 180 small satellites orbiting the ...

Reports are claiming that the NSA is collecting millions of digital pictures from the internet everyday, including thousands of facial recognition images. Information is very important as we’ve learned from the Edward Snowden trial of leaked National Security Agency documents. The pictures are extracted from e-mails, text messages, social networks, video conferences and other types of communication. The story also reveals some interesting details, ...

HTC is rumored to be working on a line of smartwatches, thus joining the likes of LG and Samsung. As wearable technology grows more popular by the day, it would be a shame to stay behind. In order to keep that from happening, HTC decided to develop their own wearable device, namely a smartwatch called One Wear. According to rumors, ...

Reports say that Google is going to shut down the Moto Maker website. The site is an innovative place that allows you to customize Motorola smartphones. There were discussions saying that Levono was going to continue the Moto Maker site, and perhaps even expand it globally. But now it looks like the Texas plant is going to be shut down and the ...