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Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.
Google Maps Navigation Offers Free Turn By Turn Navigation In The UK
04/21/2010, Looks like Google doesn’t only have its sights set on the GPS navigation market of the U.S., as Google Maps Navigation, the free turn-by-turn navigation service for Android phones, is now available in the UK too. The build is the [...]
Google Trying To Attract iPhone App Developers With Free Phones?
04/20/2010, Apparently Palm isn’t the only one who is trying to ramp up app development for its mobile application store, as word is going around that Google is actively trying to attract iPhone app developers to develop apps for the Android [...]
Google Will Fix Flaw That Prevents Android Devices Formatting 32GB Cards
04/20/2010, This might not be the issue for all users out there, as not everybody uses a 32GB microSD card, possibly due to price. But if you’ve recently tried formatting a 32GB microSD card on Google’s Nexus One, or another Android [...]
Lenovo Android-powered LePhone Launched In China
04/20/2010, Do you remember the Android 2.1-powered Lenovo LePhone that we covered a little while back? If you’re living in China, you should be able to get your hands on this interesting phone, as Lenovo has officially announced that it’s launching [...]
Google Cloud Print: A New Approach To Printing
04/16/2010, It’s hardly surprising that Google is very much in love with cloud computing, and now the search engine giant has unveiled Google Cloud Print, which is Google’s way of getting around all your printing woes. With Google’s method, instead of [...]
New York City In 3D Thanks To Google Earth
04/15/2010, With all the data that Google has in Google Maps and Google Earth, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to see that Google has used all that data to come up with a 3D city effect of [...]
European HTC Hero To Be Updated To Android 2.1 By The End Of April
04/15/2010, It was previously mentioned that the HTC Hero would be getting an Android 2.1 update come April 16th, but it seems that the date might be pushed by back slightly. It seems that some folks have buzzed HTC about the [...]
Google To Look Into The Gaming Scene?
04/14/2010, Is Google planning to place a lot more focus on gaming? Considering that the search engine giant has recently hired Mark DeLoura, a gaming industry veteran, to be its developer advocate for games. Considering the popularity of games in Apple’s [...]
Android Picture Gallery Image Quality Downgraded In Android 2.1
04/13/2010, This might not be a worry to you unless you have rather sharp eyes, but the folks over at DisplayMate Technology Corporation have discovered that the picture gallery in Android 2.1 offers lower image quality than that of the previous [...]
Google Docs Gets Rebuilt To Improve Performance
04/12/2010, Everybody has come to love (and some hate) Google Docs, even though it still isn’t able to fully replace Microsoft Office just yet. Now Google looks like it’s planning to turn up the heat on Microsoft, as the search engine [...]
Universal Search Features In Google Suggest For Mobile
04/12/2010, Google has had its universal search features in Google Suggest for some time now, a feature which would show useful information while the user is composing a query directly on the Google home page. So if you’re wondering if your [...]
Google Acquires Visual Search Company Plink
04/12/2010, Google has just bolstered its search prowess by acquiring Plink, a U.K. based visual search company that won $100,000 in the Android Developer Challenge last December. The company’s claim to fame is PlinkArt, an Android app that allows users to [...]
Google tablet being whispered about
04/12/2010, Google might be getting more and more interested in the world of hardware, with news from The New York Times concerning Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt who recently paraded a Google-made tablet at a party, claiming that the company is currently [...]
