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Google Maps Android Gets Indoor Navigation
Google Maps has been updated to version 6.7 for Android. Now users in Japan and the US can not only be get directions to a particular building, they can even get directions inside the building. And Google has slipped in a money-shot too – US residents can see Google Offers from nearby businesses, whether as [...]
Google Drive – Review
Google Drive has launched as a serious threat to the other cloud storage solutions on the market. It’s also pitched in opposition to Microsoft’s corporate MS Office software. Google will use its phenomenal reserves of information, gleaned from everyday searches, to attempt to predict what people will like and how they will behave. In so [...]
Tablified Market HD Eases App Selection
Google Play, which for the last time we’ll mention was formerly the Android Market, can be a bit frustrating as Google’s own app store for Google’s own OS makes no user-friendly distinction between smartphone and tablet apps. So users can find themselves downloading and installing apps which weren’t designed for their particular form factor. Tablified [...]
Google Updates Search
Google has been updating its search algorithms and UI over the last month, and has now made a blog post detailing the changes. They are not so cataclysmically important unless you’re involved in SEO or use Google Search particularly heavily, but a few are outlined below. ‘+’ is henceforth to be handled as a normal [...]
Google Making Plenty Out Of iOS
Google offers its Android OS to smartphone and tablet manufacturers free of charge, which turns out to be shrewd business sense. Google will rake in $2.5 billion from ads and the 30% cut from app sales through Goole Play (formerly Android Market) in 2012. Android devices themselves brought in less than $550 million from launch [...]
Google Drive online storage solution
Google is thought to be resurrecting its Google Drive online storage solution, possibly offering users 5GB of free storage as standard. Sources have pencilled in mid-April as a launch date. Google will no doubt be hoping users might like to buy extra space although at this stage pricing details are unknown. source
Google Tablet Store
If Google manufactures an Android tablet of its own this year, as is rumoured, they’ll need somewhere to sell it. Now the word is that Google is developing a 7-inch tablet to go head-to-head with the Amazon Kindle Fire. Everything points to a dual-core tablet selling for around $150, and insiders believe the new Google [...]
Chrome Updated To Version 18
Google Chrome has been updated to version 18, with the upgrade bringing hardware-accelerated rendering for the HTML5 Canvas tag, at least on Windows and Mac. That should mean a boost for the new rash of browser games appearing. The major browsers are working feverishly to improve performance of browser games, knowing that the best (that [...]
Google Play
Google recently refurbished the Android Market and bolted on a few new features, repackaging the whole thing as Google Play. Google Play is an aggregation of the Android Market, Books, and Music, and Google hopes that together the various elements of Google Play will eventually rival Apple’s iTunes in popularity. Content is categorized under Movies, [...]
Chrome Modded For Metro Touch UI
The Chrome browser is currently being modded to suit the Metro UI of Windows 8. Standard Metro applications are tightly restricted by Microsoft in Windows 8 in terms of access to features of the OS, although desktop apps are on the whole unrestricted. Browsers are a hybrid case – Microsoft boffins permit browsers to present [...]
