Eurpean Unioun antitrust regulators plan to order Alphabet’s Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large fine, an EU document showed. The document, running to more than 150 pages, was sent to complainants last week for feedback. Google received […]
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Google announced on Friday that it plans to stop supporting Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux over the next two years. Beginning in late 2016, new Chrome apps will be available only to users on Chrome OS. This means that app developers will need to begin shifting their apps to web interfaces, where they’ll […]
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It represents Google’s response to other popular video calling options, including Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s Messenger. It’s not that different from the other video chatting services, except that it gives users a glimpse at who’s making the call, helping people decide whether to answer or not. Google says it’s calling the feature, “knock, knock”. […]
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Social networking sites Facebook and Twitter and internet search giant Google have rolled out special features and emojis to let people add some Olympic spirit to their digital communications. “Twitter is the place where all the live action is at present,” Aneesh Madani, head of sports partnerships at Twitter India told ET. “With over 1,700 […]
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Soon, all you’ll need to do is Google yourself if you’re wondering how deeply Google has been digging into your digital life, SV report. In coming weeks, a shortcut to personal account information will appear at the top of Google’s search results whenever logged-in users enter their own names in the query box. The feature […]
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Google Inc. will begin testing an alternative to passwords next month, in a move that could do away with complicated logins for good, Guardian report. The new feature, introduced to developers at the company’s I/O conference, is called the Trust API, and will initially be tested with “several very large financial institutions” in June, according […]
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Google wants your help naming Android N. It’s launched a website that’ll let anyone suggest names for N, and Google says it’ll search through them to pick out a final name. Does that mean it could choose something aside from a dessert? Who knows. Google didn’t really go into detail about what the selection process […]
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[su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrPeC1ez-M4″ height=”300″ autohide=”yes” rel=”no”] Imagine being able to play with a Google driverless car inside the fictional world of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) video game. Well one YouTuber has done just that. PizzaForBreakfast (who did not wish to disclose his real name) hacked GTA to include the pod-shaped Google car mowing down pedestrians, […]
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Technology industry giants Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Netflix have published an open letter opposing the draft bill by US Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein. The Bill, if passed, will make it possible for courts to order smartphone makers to decrypt data on demand. An official draft of the bill was published last […]
Read More Google Inc. is scaling up its digital skills training programs to accommodate a million Africans in the next year, aiming to deal with high unemployment numbers on the continent. The U.S. tech giant plans to train 300,000 people in South Africa, it said in a statement, a country where 35 percent of 15-to-34-year-olds are unemployed, Bloomberg […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]A[/su_dropcap]pple isn’t the only company fighting against government-backed cyber attacks. While Apple and the FBI bicker over user security, Google is bringing security into the public eye in a different way, by simply telling you what’s going on. The company will be increasing the visibility of Gmail security warnings to try and help people better […]
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THE Google latest version of Google’s Android operating system Marshmallow is now running on 2.3% of all Android devices. Android Lollipop is the most widely-used version of Android, with the OS running on 36.1% devices. Marshmallow adoption may look poor, however, it still appears to have picked up pace in the last month with several […]
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