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On Google’s company blog, the CEO, Larry Page explains why Google decided to drop $12.5 billion to purchase the smartphone vendor, Motorola Mobility. Page had plenty to say regarding Motorola’s extensive history and how Motorola has played a leading role in the Android platform’s explosive growth, he also pointed out how the company has one of the leading factors behind the deal: patents. “We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android,” the CEO wrote on Google’s blog. “The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to ‘protect competition and innovation in the open source software community’ and it [...]
Continue reading: Google Buys Out Motorola Mobility Mainly For Patent Portfolio
When Google first mentioned its Google Chrome OS software several years ago, one of the selling points was the promise that it would come with better built-in security compared to other operating systems. The Chrome OS has commercially been available for a few months now and security researchers have already figured out how to hack it.
Two researchers told a crowd that they had used web-based hacker tricks to compromise the security of the Chrome OS at today’s Black Hat security conference. The Chrome OS is the software that powers the recently launched Chromebooks from a variety of vendors. The hacks gave the researchers the ability to access a user’s email, Google Docs, contacts, and Google [...]
Continue reading: Security Researchers Demonstrate Hacking Google’s Chrome OS
Google is now greeting everyone with a brand new interface for tablet users as mentioned on the Google Mobile Blog. To sum everything up in short, search just got bigger. This ultimately means that everything is easier to touch, which means everything should be easier to use. The new look isn’t anything revolutionary but should be a welcome use of a roomy-screened tablet display. The Google Mobile Blog mentions the following:
We’ve simplified the layout of search results pages and increased the size of page contents like text, buttons and other touch targets to make it faster and easier to browse and interact with search results in portrait or landscape view.
The search button located below [...]
Continue reading: Google Unveils New Google Search UI For Tablets
Google has found itself caught in a bidding war with the other tech giants such as Apple, Microsoft, and others over more than 6,000 patent filings from Nortel. It was a war that the search giant lost when a group which consisted of Apple, Microsoft, Research in Motion, Ericsson, Sony, and EMC joined together to bid $4.5 billion in cash. Google chose to bid using numbers based upon mathematical formulas and constants, with their final bid based upon pi ($3.14159 billion). A post over at the Official Google Blog, Patents and Innovation, by Google’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker in early April discussed the patent reform and the need for a company to [...]
Continue reading: Google Acquires Over 1000 IBM Patents
Google is rolling out a new version of Android Market to all handsets running Android 2.2 or higher (which now makes up a vast majority of Android users). It’s bringing a new UI, performance improvements, and a variety of features designed to help with app discovery, including lists such as “Top Grossing,” and recently trending applications. Google showed these additions off at the Google I/O press conference but hasn’t rolled them out to the mobile client until now.
Everyone in the US is going to get their hands on the long-awaited Videos application, which was showcased at Google’s I/O but has only been available on a handful of devices until now. This [...]
Continue reading: Android Market Gets Redone With A Complete Overhaul
The most popular custom ROM for rooted Android phones has been updated again today. The first release candidate for Cyanogen Mod 7.1 is up for grabs for users who are interested in getting more from their Android smartphones. Cyanogen Mod is a custom ROM based on Google’s Android OS that is developed and maintained by the CyanogenMod team. Users with rooted Android smartphones can install the custom firmware on their devices to enjoy features otherwise not available on official Android releases.
Today’s update brings support for new devices, bug fixes, performance updates, and a handful of new features. CM71 is based on the latest version of Android (that’s 2.3.4 “Gingerbread) whose major new feature is native [...]
Continue reading: CyanogenMod 7.1 RC1 Released; Supports Most Devices On Android 2.3.4
Google has been hard at work and has recently unveiled two big things. One of them being Google+, which is a unique twist to social media and a direct competitor to Facebook, and another being Swiffy, a new experimental tool for developers which converts some .SWF Flash files into HTML5 code compatible with devices like the iPhone and iPad.
Google+ aims to change the way we stay in touch with people online. The service emphasizes on how data is shared, and with whom, as well as privacy (a department we all know Facebook makes frequent unwanted changes to). The service is organized into five features, which consist of +Circles, +Sparks, +Hangouts, and +Huddle; all targeting different [...]
Continue reading: Google Introduces Google+ and Swiffy
Google recently unveiled tweaks to its core search product. Amongst the tweaks is the ability to search by voice or image. Searching based on image has been around for quite a while now, but Google intends to popularize the alternative search method by supporting it right from within the main Google Images search engine. Users can initiate searches using images hosted on the Web, or they cn upload the images from a PC to start a search. Searches that are initiated by a photo will return both text and image-based results.
The other feature announced recently may have slightly less utility among the majority of its users, voice search for Google’s desktop [...]
Continue reading: Google Introduces Image And Voice Search Features
Apple’s isn’t the only one creating a BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) type service for its platform as it appears that Google is attempting to do the same. Details are pretty scarce at the moment but it would make perfect sense for Google to jump on board, like other competitors have. The exclusive instant messenger trend began last year, when Research In Motion announced BlackBerry Messenger, an exclusive service that allowed BlackBerry users to communicate through texts and pictures with other BlackBerry users. On Monday June 6, Apple announced iMessage, a similar service that will be a part of iOS 5.
BBM has been a popular service among BlackBerry users, and now with iMessage gaining interest on the [...]
Continue reading: Google Rumored To Unveil BlackBerry Messenger Alternative For Android
The popular location-based coupon service, GroupOn, filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission recently. The start-up which alerts over 83 million email subscribers in 43 different countries of local deals that range from restaurant discounts to sailing lessons hopes to raise $750 million in its IPO. Andrew Mason, GroupOn’s Chief Executive Officer said the following in a statement: “Expect us to make ambitious bets on our future that distract us from our current business. Some bets we’ll get right, and others we’ll get wrong, but we think it’s the only way to continuously build disruptive products.”
GroupOn launched in November 2007; now has more than 7,000 employees and reported $645 million [...]
Continue reading: GroupOn CEO Files For $750 Million Initial Public Offering
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