Would we care about Android if it weren’t for HTC? Perhaps not. The HTC Desire was an early poster boy for Android, a genuinely great design that squared up to Apple’s all-conquering iPhone and suggested it step outside.
The HTC Desire remains at the top of our Best Mobile Phones in the World Today [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S2 is the phone the Korean firm deems a worthy successor to its best smartphone so far – with a 1.2GHz processor, super-slim chassis and feather-light innards, it’s easy to see why.
On April 1, Google announced that it was hiring ‘autocompleters’ to make helpful suggestions to users making searches. That was a joke: this isn’t.
Google has officially ended development of its nascent web-based Wave application due to a lack of user adoption.
“Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Wave – a web app for real time communication and collaboration – it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser,” explained [...]
Google is reported to be working on a one-click micropayment system allowing newspapers to charge for content accessed through Google Search.
According to La Repubblica, the system, called NewsPass, will allow users to pay for low cost items such as newspapers, video and images. Google is currently contacting Italian newspapers to [...]
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Australia’s attorney general has called for a police investigation of Google’s collection of Wifi data by Street View cars.
“In light of concerns having been raised by the public, my department thought there were issues of substance that were raised that require police investigation,” Robert McClelland told AP.
He said the investigation into [...]
A woman afflicted by a car on a active alley is suing Google for giving her alarming walking directions.
Lauren Rosenberg acclimated Google Maps to get admonition on how to airing amid two addresses in Esplanade City, Utah. These included the apprenticeship to airing for about bisected a mile forth the actual [...]
An Oregon judge has ordered Google to preserve WiFi data that was accidentally collected by the company’s Street View cars.
According to BusinessInsider, Google had previously announced plans to consult with privacy advocates and legislators over the best way to dispose of such information.
However, residents of Oregon and Washington who filed a [...]
Google has gone all out for Pac-Man’s 30th altogether celebrations by absolution the aboriginal anytime playable Doodle.
Head over to Google to yield a attending for yourself. It’s a mini, added adaptation of the classic, complete with the aboriginal sounds and of course, those infuriating ghosts.
Tomorrow is 30 years to the day that [...]
Google today announced that its acquisition of leading mobile advertising firm Admob has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission, but some opponents of the deal disapprove of the FTC decision.
It gives Google more ammunition against Apple, which has its own mobile ad platform called iAd and promises to revolutionize the [...]
Is Google’s VP8 codec ready for prime time? Well, not according to digital video expert Jason Garrett-Glaser, who described the spec as slow, buggy and nearly identical to H.264.
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The spec consists largely of C code copy-pasted from the VP8 source code — up to and including TODOs, ‘optimizations,’ and even C-specific [...]
Google has confirmed that it is working with Sony and Logitech to include its open TV platform in televisions, Blu-ray players and set top boxes.
“Imagine turning on the TV and getting all the channels and shows you normally watch and all of the websites you browse all day — including your [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google’s interactive TV software, which will be powered by a tailored version of its Android operating system, is expected to be officially announced at its “I/O” event on Thursday.
Sony will also be there, the Journal reports, to showcase TV hardware that can make use of [...]
Google has expressed ‘profound’ sorrow following evidence that it has collected information from open networks as part of Street View, with a blog post admitting ‘we failed badly here’.
What Google claim was a mistake surfaced as part of the German authorities look into the Street View data, and the company has [...]
We’ve been holding off on this, but now it seems there’s no other way to put it: The new way Google tried to sell the Nexus One—over the web—failed. Google’s killing the web store, and shifting to retail.
The web store has “remained a niche channel for early adopters,” says head of Android Andy Rubin in [...]
Clever sod of the week must surely go to Alec Brownstein, a 28 year old New York resident who, up until recently, was an unemployed copywriter looking for work.
Brownstein’s plan was to play upon the the guilty pleasure of Googling one’s self in order to bring attention to his details. He took [...]
Google has updated its sophisticated text translation software for Android-based smartphones.
“The first Goggles translation prototype was unveiled earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and could only recognize German text,” explained Google spokesperson Alessandro Bissacco.
“Today Goggles can read English, French, Italian, German and Spanish and can translate [...]
