JENS MEYER / AP An illuminated Google logo at the Hanover industrial fair, July 7, 2009. Google’s stock hit $1,000 per share on the Nasdaq on Friday. Google shares jumped to an all-time high above $1,000 on Friday after the search engine giant reported a surge in mobile and video advertising that helped drive quarterly… Read More: Google stock surges, tops $1,000 per share »
[adsenseyu1] Google today announced a new cloud-based note-taking service dubbed “Keep.” The notes can be taken in an Android app (Google Play link), for example, and are then synced across all devices using Google Drive. The service also allows speech-to-text translation on-the-go. Keep track of your thoughts via notes, lists and photos Have voice notes… Read More: Google announces a cloud-based note-taking service ‘Keep’ »
Google has just announced yet another round of product shutdowns as the company continues its “spring cleaning” of sorts. The company’s relatively popular “Google Reader” product, which allows users to combine RSS feeds and view them from a single source, is amongst the products being discontinued soon. Reader will shut down on July 1, 2013. Other notable… Read More: Google announces yet another list of product shutdowns, including Google… »
The Motorola Droid Razr HD, Droid Razr Maxx HD, and Droid Razr M were announced today at a joint Google/Motorola event in New York City. With the new handsets, the companies promise the start of a new phase in their relationship—one that will focus on giving phones better battery life, more speed, and consistent Android… Read More: Motorola, Google announce next generation of Droid Razr’s »
Google officially launched its high-speed Internet service, dubbed “Google Fiber” in Kansas City. The company, which first unveiled the Fiber project back in 2010, says that its network should be able to give customers up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) speeds. [adsenseyu1] In addition, Google announced a Fiber TV service for customers, which will allow… Read More: Google Launches 1 Gbps High-Speed Internet Service dubbed “Google Fiber”… »
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Google are close to reaching a deal that would force Google to pay a $22.5 million fine for allegedly tracking user behaviors in iOS’ Safari browser. The fine would be the largest in history that the FTC has ever put upon a company in… Read More: FTC to dish out largest fine in history to Google… »
Google announced its next set of product shutdowns as part of its “spring cleaning” initiative. Among the services that will be closing down include Google Video and iGoogle, which allowed users to create a custom version of the Google homepage. Content currently being hosted on Google Video will be migrated to YouTube later this summer, and users… Read More: Google to shut down iGoogle and Google Video »
Google announced that it would be releasing a version of its Chrome web browser for the iPhone and iPad. Chrome for iOS has begun rolling out to App Stores around the world, and I have had the chance to use it for a little while now. Chrome for iOS is available now for the iPhone,… Read More: The new Google Chrome for iOS – iPhone and iPad… »
Yesterday, Adobe announced that it has no plans to support the Flash Player plugin on the just-announced Android OS 4.1 (a.k.a. “Jelly Bean”). The company revealed late last year that it would be halting development for Flash Player on mobile devices, and won’t be making an exception for the new Android release. [adsenseyu1] In addition, Adobe plans to… Read More: Adobe won’t support Flash Player on Android OS 4.1, no… »
During its opening keynote at the Google I/O developer conference this morning, Google announced the next major release of Android OS, dubbed “Jelly Bean.” Android OS 4.1 builds upon the work Google began in Android OS 4.0 (a.k.a. “Ice Cream Sandwich”), and introduces a new set of back-end tools, dubbed “Project Butter,” to improve performance… Read More: Android OS 4.1 “Jelly Bean” – offline voice typing, notification… »