12/25/2011, Santa Claus is one of the most beloved characters in the human psyche, where he has been called the busiest man in the North Pole. Well, watching Arthur Christmas might have planted some ideas in your head as to how he managed to send presents all over the world in just one night, but how about the rest of you out there who have a very different take on the […]

12/22/2011, Here is a little bit of trivia – did you know that Google and Mozilla do talk to one another, so much so that they have come to an agreement where the former pays the latter $300 million annually? All that moolah did not exchange hands for nothing, don’t get me wrong, but it is there so that Google will be the default choice in Mozilla’s Firefox browser as part […]

12/22/2011, The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is one of the most anticipated Android smartphone of 2011. It is eagerly awaited by customers because it is a beautiful handset equipped with a new generation of 4.65″ 720p Super-AMOLED display, but more importantly, it is the first smartphone with Google’s latest operating system, Android 4.0 codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. Interestingly, beyond the display, the specifications are not that impressive, and if anything, the good […]

12/21/2011, Do you use Google Currents? Wait a minute, you have never heard of it? Well, fret not – Google Currents is not exactly one of the mainstream Google services that everyone uses, but that does not mean the Google team is going to sit down and do nothing, letting the app rot all by itself. No sir, Google has just issued a software update for Google Currents, where this latest […]

12/21/2011, Will HTC still be able to sell some of their smartphones by April next year? That certainly remains to be seen, and as we covered earlier this morning, HTC’s CEO Peter Chou steadies his ship by reaffirming the fact that they already have a solution in hand. Google’s Mobile Senior Vice President Andy Rubin chimed in as well, claiming that the feature which purportedly infringed Apple’s patents is nowhere near […]

12/21/2011, Yes, we all know that Santa already has his own Google Voice number (855-34-SANTA), but here is yet another interesting thing about the busiest man in the North Pole. It seems that you can now send personalized holiday videos to your beloved friends and family with Santa featuring inside. There is one drawback to this though – the personalized cartoon video message is currently available in one language, that is, […]

12/21/2011, Back in June, Andy Rubin of Google announced that 500,000 Android devices were being activated on a daily basis. Well as of today, it looks like Android has hit another milestone. According to the latest numbers posted by Andy Rubin on his Twitter account – there are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day. We’re short of the predicted 1 million devices activated daily, but hey – 700,000 is […]

12/21/2011, Google has been doing a pretty good job of going green this year, making quite a large number of purchases related to clean, renewable energy. And to cap off the year, everybody’s favorite search engine company has done it again with the investment in a portfolio of four solar photovoltaic (PV) projects being built by Recurrent Energy near Sacramento, California. Google announced that it spent $94 million on its latest […]

12/20/2011, While it was reported that the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Nexus S started rolling out in certain parts of the world last week, it looks like the update is going to be delayed for the rest of us who haven’t received it yet. According to reports online, the Ice Cream Sandwich update has some serious issues – users have been reporting abnormal battery drain and high spikes of […]

12/19/2011, For those of you who use an Android-powered smartphone as your daily communication tool of choice, I am quite sure that you are more or less pretty satisfied with the overall user experience. Well, there is quite a healthy number of apps on the Android Market that would certainly strike your fancy, and even better is some Google-developed apps being made available for free – with Google Goggles being one […]

12/19/2011, The  US International Trade Commission Sides has ruled on Apple’s favor in a case that involves fundamental patents like “tap to call”  or “tap to schedule a calendar appointment” from within an email. While very simple, those are features that I consider to be basic and fundamental to the ease-of-use of a smartphone.  If Apple was to win this decisively and irreversibly, this would dampen the productivity of every other […]

12/19/2011, If you’ve been holding out from getting an Android tablet for the past couple of years because you’re looking for a “Nexus”-style tablet to make an appearance, you might not have to wait too long now. According to reports online, Google’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, was said to have told an Italian Newspaper that Google has plans to sell a a tablet “in the next six months” that would be […]

12/19/2011, The folks over at Google do have a wicked sense of humour, and one of their latest efforts at making sure this festive season adds a touch of Yuletide to your favorite search engine includes typing “Let it Snow” in the search box. Once you hit Enter, you will be treated to snowflakes that fall down your browser, and leaving it long enough, snow will soon start to pile up. […]

12/19/2011, Google+ users rejoice – after listening to your feedback, Google has implemented a whole bunch of new features to the social network to make it better. First up you get the option to select how many updates you get from a particular circle via an easy to use slider control. This allows you to stop receiving or lower the amount of updates you get from people who are posting new […]