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Google Testing “Doctors On Demand” Service in Searchâ
Internet October 16, 2014
Getting medical advice on the Web has never been easy, with most queries getting answered by anonymous Yahoo! Answers instead of factual information. Google is looking to change this, with a new âdoctor-on-demandâ service, as part of their Helpouts expansion. Helpouts, for anyone unaware, lets work-at-home professionals teach or... Read more
Google 64Bit Android L Dev Emulator Image Released
News October 14, 2014
Google has just released the x86 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image. This allows developers to begin testing their 64-bit apps. Building 64-bit apps on an Android platform enables developers to access more addressable memory space, a bigger number of registers and new instruction sets. Google elaborated on the news:... Read more
There has been plenty of evidence revealed in the past two weeks, regarding the Nexus X and Nexus 9. Google looks to be continuing the Nexus program in 2014, adding a new smartphone and tablet from Motorola and HTC. HTC will be head of the Nexus 9 design and... Read more
Android apps have always been confined to the mobile, but what if users were to enable the 1.3 million mobile apps to work on Chrome, Mac and Windows OS? This is what one developer has been able to achieve, going under the alias of “Vladikoff.” Vladikoff used App Runtime... Read more
Google Offers Unlimited Storage for Students
News October 5, 2014
Students always need more storage space for the plethora of photos, essays, research and music they collect over their student career. Recently, the Chocolate Factory, an Apps for Education service by Google, has publicised through its blog, that there will be a number of updates to the Apps for... Read more
Googleâs first modular smartphone, Project Ara, will use a modified version of Google’s Android L operating system and is expected to be out in January 2015. Google is keeping their cards pretty close to their chest on this one. Although limited information is known regarding the final device, it’s just come to... Read more
Google has kicked off its Android One initiative in India, announcing three new smartphones from local manufacturers Micromax, Karbonn and Spice Mobile. The three smartphones will go on sale for 6,399 INR or $105 USD. The three smartphones will be fitted with decent specs, compared to the feature phones... Read more
Google Furthering Tests For Project Wing
Internet September 19, 2014
At the moment Google is all about the drones. After testing their hardware for delivery drones as a part of its Project Wing program in Australia, the company has now asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to allow test the drones, which could eventually be used to deliver internet access to... Read more
Smart Glasses for the Blind Designed at Google Science Fair
News September 19, 2014
A teenager from Greece, Angelos Getsis, has won in Googleâs Science Fair 2014. The young man has claimed a prize for creating a pair of smart glasses, which can assist blind people in navigating their way around the city. The 17-year-old from the city of Arta, Greece, has said that the... Read more
I have lost count of the amount of times, when trying to watch videos on YouTube that the signal on my WiFi drops and I receive very choppy footage or the video becomes unplayable due to a bad internet connection! Â Fortunately after running a few tasks and couple of... Read more
Tour Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in Google Street View
News September 17, 2014
I went to Egypt with my wife on our 2nd anniversary. It was an amazing place but we were unable to take a trip to the Pyramids. This was our one regret about the trip! However, Google has just announced this week that it has brought its street view... Read more
In the last few months the use of in-app purchases has come under a great deal of close scrutiny. Headlines over Apple paying out a fortune regarding the issues caused waves in the industry. Now it looks as though rival Google is to pay at least $19m (£11.6m) to... Read more
How To Create Your Own Motion Comic
Digital ArtHow To September 8, 2014
We’ve had e-books, e-zines, e-cigarrettes and if you eat in the wrong restaurant, E.coli. Â The next big thing in the e-publishing revolution is motion comics, with a number of companies jostling for market supremacy and experimenting with the form. The leader at the moment seems to be Madefire, who... Read more
NASA Is Making A Drone Air Traffic Control System
News September 4, 2014
There have emerged some reports that NASA is developing an air-traffic control system, which has been designed specifically for drones, such as the ones that are currently being tested by Amazon and Google. The programme is in response to a growing interest in drones for a variety of different... Read more
Cops Called On Developer For Planning WWIII
News September 3, 2014
Donât you just hate it when you have been accused of something that you didnât do? Thatâs exactly what happened to software developer Henry Smith. Henry Smith, from Bristol in the UK, was recently given maybe the worst false accusation possible: that he was planning to start WWIII. Well,... Read more
DMV Says Google’s Self Driving Car Will Still Require Controls
News August 31, 2014
The self-driving car is not too far from becoming the standard sight on our highways and although Google’s self-driving car prototypes have been designed with basic controls, it appears as though that isnât enough for some people. The state of California is throwing the proverbial âwrenchâ in the works by demanding... Read more
Amazon has acquired Twitch.TV for $970 million earlier today, the deal was officially announced after two months of silence from Google and Twitch. Amazonâs name had only cropped up one day before the announcement, previously Google had been the only bidder. Twitch.TV is the largest video game streaming service,... Read more
Sharks Keep On Eating Google’s Underwater Cables
News August 16, 2014
All companies have problems. Some of those problems are pretty common across the board, such as meeting the budget, hiring/firing the right people, meeting customer needs, meeting quotas, etc. And then there’s some companies who have problems none of us have really even dreamed of, such as Google. It... Read more