Articles tagged "Google"

After many years of stagnation, Google has finally decided to do something cool with Google Earth. So on the eve of Earth Day, Google has released a new version of Google Earth for the web and Android. Google Earth was always about...

Android Pay's list of supported banks/financial institutions has been growing at a rapid rate. Last month, the service's list of supported banks in the US crossed the 600 mark. And now, some more names have been added to the list. In total,...

Another Android update, another broken feature. Google is not having the best of luck with supporting its newest smartphones: the Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL. A new forum thread opened on Google’s product forum just ten days ago on April 4....

Google has launched a new service called Areo, which will let you order food as well as arrange for home services. The service is available only in India for now (that too only in Mumbai and Bengaluru) and the app is only available on...

Google has been updating Allo with a bunch of new features (here, here, here, and here) lately, and with the latest 9.0 update to Google Allo we’ll be seeing one feature that should have been implemented since the the app's launch: chat backup and...

Have you ever looked through a half-loaded web page on your mobile device, only to have it jump away from something you were viewing or reading as the rest of the page loaded around it? This is quite an annoying bug that drives many Chrome mobile...

This comes with some half-good news. Google Home has officially (but indirectly) been confirmed to gain the ability to manage multiple accounts for others who you share a household with. In its most recent app update, a message appears in the app’s...

Google has launched the Google Play Music ‘All Access’ service in India. Although the ability to purchase music was launched in September last year, the All Access streaming service was not available until now. Being late to the market...

Last fall Google made a new push into hardware. Sure, we're talking about the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, but let's not forget that the company also launched the Home smart speaker and its own wireless mesh networking solution. Google Home and...

YouTube TV was originally announced back in February, and today it has finally gone live. It's a streaming video service that delivers live TV from major broadcast networks such as ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC, alongside "popular cable networks". The...

The YouTube Go app has arrived in India. You can get the beta version (no stable release for any market yet) of the app from Google Play in the Asian country. YouTube Go is trying to improve video watching experience in regions with...

Google is often praised for its openness in cross-platform compatibility, most notably with iOS, Android’s largest and most direct competitor. Unfortunately, this open-mindedness doesn’t always benefit Google like in the case of Android’s Google...

Google has added a new feature to its Allo mobile messaging app that brings along the ability to create polls. The information came in the form of a tweet from Amit Fulay, who is Head of Product (Allo and Duo) at Google. trying out our new...

Back in November last year, Google announced that it will pull the plug on its Map Maker service sometime March 2017. Inline with that, the crowdsourced editing tool for Google Maps has been retired - the service was closed on March 31. Google...

A few more smartwatches have started receiving the Android Wear 2.0 update. These include the Fossil Q Wander, Fossil Q Marshal, Michael Kors ACCESS smartwatches, and Nixon the Mission. The list, shared by a community manager at Google, also...

Google has announced a new service called Reserve with Google, which, for now, will be able to help you book your next fitness class from your Google Search or even Google Maps app. With this service, you can look up places around you. If...

To say that the state of the Android Wear 2.0 release is a mess would be an understatement. The new version of the wearable operating system was unveiled last year and its first release timeline was fall 2016. It didn't make that, being delayed...

Google has finally launched its Calendar application on iPad. In terms of features, the app is broadly the same - it's just that it has been optimized for use on Apple iPads. "With the new app, you’ll get all the Calendar features you know...

The Android Wear 2.0 update has finally started rolling out. Only three smartwatches are currently getting it - Fossil Q Founder, Casio Smart Outdoor Watch, Tag Heuer Connected. This information was revealed by a community manager at Google, who...

Google has pushed out a new update to its Docs application's Web client, making it easy for users to convert text to uppercase and lowercase. The new features can be accessed by choosing Capitalization sub-menu from the Format menu. As you...