Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Google releases YouTube Capture app for iPhone

Google has released YouTube Capture app for iPhone in an attempt to plug a gaping hole in its existing YouTube app, which does not include the ability to upload videos.

Monday, 17 December 2012

Report: Google could escape punishment after anti-trust probe

Google may not face any major repercussions from the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) two-year-old anti-trust investigation into its web search business, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

With Google's help, Delhi's Chandni Chowk market goes online

Over 2,500 businesses in the capital's iconic Chandni Chowk market are now online with their own websites as part of an initiative by Google, owner of the world's most popular search engine.

Polling station information in India to be available on Google Maps

Indian electors can now locate their polling stations and access other electoral information online using Google Maps, an official said Saturday.

Saturday, 15 December 2012

Microsoft, Motorola file to keep patent case details private


Microsoft Corp and Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit have requested a federal judge in Seattle to keep secret from the public various details from their recent trial concerning the value of technology patents and the two companies' attempts at a settlement.

Friday, 14 December 2012

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Google, Belgian papers reach agreement over copyright issues

Google says it has reached an agreement over copyright issues with a group of French-language Belgian newspapers, ending a six-year dispute.

Google release Maps app for iPhone; no native iPad version

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Google Maps have found their way back to the iPhone.
The world's most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps' iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple Inc. replaced Google Maps as the device's built-in navigation system and inserted its own maps into the latest version of its mobile operating system.

Whitney Houston, Gangnam Style's PSY head Google's 2012 'zeitgeist' of top searches

The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and a record-breaking skydiver.
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Google Maps for iOS said to go live in App Store within hours.

Google Maps app for iOS is set to go live in Apple's App Store within hours from now, AllThingsD reports.
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Google's $99 Chromebook laptop offer receives tremendous response

US teachers have flooded school-centric charity website DonorsChoose.org to snap up Chrome notebook computers Google made available to classrooms for just $99 each.DonorsChoose said Tuesday that it was no longer taking Chromebook requests from instructors since the allotted supply was exhausted due to the "tremendous response" to the offer.

Google sells off more Motorola Mobility assets

Google has agreed to sell manufacturing operations of its Motorola Mobility unit in China and turn over management of a Brazil plant to Singapore-based Flextronics, the companies said.

Demure divides in Dubai at UN discussions on Internet

Report By- Anupriya Verma

Discussion over possible new U.N. adjustment for the Internet were deeply segregated Monday, with Russia and others commending for more government check, while a U.S.-led bloc prevised against rules that could circumscribe liberty in cyberspace.

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Britain's Pace approaches Google over Motorola Home

British TV decoder maker Pace Plc said on Monday that it had made an early-stage proposal to Internet group Google Inc to acquire its set-top TV box maker Motorola Home.

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Google teaming with Israeli high-tech startups

Google is searching for promising Israeli high-tech companies.
The international technology giant on Monday launched its "Campus Tel Aviv," a 1,500 square foot (140 square meter) space that will hold regular events for local entrepreneurs and offer access to Google staff and other industry experts.

Motorola closing operations in South Korea

Motorola Mobility on Monday confirmed that it is shutting down most of its operations in South Korea as part of a move to consolidate research after being bought by Google this year.

Gmail back up after extended outage

Gmail seemed to be down for many users across the globe on Monday but was up soon after. The outage lasted approximately four minutes, but in that time people took to social networking sites like Twitter to vent out their frustrations.

Google starts selling $99 Chromebook laptop to select schools

Google Inc began selling basic laptop computers to schools at a price of $99, meeting a price point that prominent MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte famously held out in 2005 as key to bringing computing power to the masses.

Browser wars flare again, this time for phones and tablets

When Google took a video camera to Times Square in 2009 and asked passers-by what a browser is, most of the answers were hilariously incorrect, from "a search engine" to "broadband" to "Yahoo."

But even if consumers are not so sure what Web browsers are (programs like Internet Explorer and Firefox), they have become a crucial business for tech companies like Google and Microsoft.

GMail goes down for thousands of users, and is back up!

Gmail seemed to be down for many users across the globe on Monday but was up soon after. The outage lasted approximately four minutes, but in that time people took to social networking sites like Twitter to vent out their frustrations.