Category: Google
Google Panda is Google Japan’s April Fools Joke
Google Japan got in early with its April Fools joke, thanks to the power of time zones. It has gone with "Google Panda" - which is essentially Google Now, stuffed inside a cuddly toy. Check out the video above for more, umm, important details.
Google moves Photos in with Drive
The slow death of Google+ continues today as the company has announced that it will now be integrating its photo uploading facilities with Google Drive. The Google Drive Blog reveals the changes - which will now see photos sensibly listed alongside other types of files, rather than ghettoised over on Google+, where nobody looks. The…
Google launches Chrome “Data Saver” extension
If you tether your computer to your phone a lot, then you'll know that the full-size web can often be a drain on precious bandwidth - but luckily Google may have found the solution. What the extension does is when you navigate to a webpage, it will send the data to Google's servers and crunch…
Google plans to let you pay for bills by Gmail
Hate the hassle of paying bills? What if you could pay them by email? It turns out that paying companies using Gmail is apparently, well according to Recode, a project that Google is currently working on. Boasting the title of Pony Express the system lets users receive the bill by Gmail and then pay it…
Will Android 6.0 support multiple windows?
The next major version of Android could support multiple windows - according to some informed speculation and intriguing screenshots. According to Tracy and Matt, digging through the latest Android 5.1 sourcecode suggests that Google may be planning to build in support for windows apps - in other words, enabling you to run two apps side…
Google spends $25m on .app top-level domain
Apps could soon be easier to find thanks to a new purchase by Google, which has just negotiated with ICANN to buy the entire .app top-level domain. According to Business Insider the company paid $25m - the most paid for a TLD so far. The move could conceivably mean that we start seeing URLs like…
Apple’s Tim Cook always thought Google Glass would fail
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been speaking out on Google Glass and how he always thought that it would fail. But he would say that, wouldn't he? The Glassholes over at Glass Almanac spotted the key quote, in a recent profile of Apple's design guru Jony Ive in the New Yorker. Here's what it says:…
Does Google think that you stink?
We often report on patent applications by the big players like Apple and Facebook, as they can hint at what the companies are working on, but this latest patent from Google is just plain bizarre. It seems to be building some sort of smart deodorant. Pic from here. Here's how the…
Google blocks Mobile Firefox from viewing the Play Store
Was it something they said? According to IT Pro Portal, the web version of the Google Play store is no longer accessible on the mobile version of Firefox. The move appears to be a change in policy - which previously let Firefox users browse the web-based store. The good news is that Google isn't being…
Tweets to start appearing in Google search results again
Google and Twitter have inked a deal to enable real time tweet results to appear in searches on Google, apparently. According to Bloomberg, the deal gives Google direct access to Twitter's "firehose" stream, meaning we could soon see real time tweet results - which will be great for anyone searching for details on breaking news…
