SocialDeck has become the latest addition to Google’s Hall of Acquisitions. The creators of the popular iPhone game Shake and Spell have also produced Spark, which allows mobile gamers to challenge or chat with friends, recommend games, save games in the cloud, and more. In their own words, SocialDeck are “super excited to announce that [...]
Google announced a new Android feature called Voice Actions today, and it’s useful, but maybe not a big enough deal to warrant the press conference they held for it. Voice Actions allows you to control your Android phone (2.2 Froyo only) with spoken commands: you can send email, call any contact, get a map of [...]
At the beginning of the month, we told you how Google’s license to operate in China was up for renewal. Well, that renewal has finally come through, and Google will be allowed to stay in the country. The search giant had temporarily redirected its Chinese site to Google.hk in Hong Kong, to avoid censorship, but [...]
Google’s homepage has always been simple and uncluttered. Those who wanted to customize the homepage with gadgets and themes had to switch to iGoogle, the personalized Google homepage. Lately, Google’s homepage has changed a lot: the search box is bigger, there’s a fade-in animation and a new logo. Inspired by Ask.com’s themes and Bing’s wallpapers, [...]
Chrome OS will also be a good option for kiosk setups, say at libraries and coffee shops. Many users might just want to take a seat and start browsing — again, without wanting to enter account info. There are security concerns here, too, and some people may be averse to using their personal accounts on [...]
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside [...]
Google TV is now official, “a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet.” More information. .
Here’s the operating system: Android. The browser is Google Chrome, naturally. And it has Flash 10.1 plugin for Chrome. But what’s the deal with Android? You [...]
Google’s move to purchase a VoIP software maker, Global IP Solutions, certainly suggests that it might be a possibility. GIPS is an established player that currently provides Internet calling for companies including Oracle, Samsung, Yahoo!, and AOL
About Global IP Solutions
Global IP Solutions (GIPS) provides best-in-class voice and video processing in IP communications. GIPS enables its [...]
Instapaper is the creme-de-la-creme of web clipping services, and now it’s got its own Chrome extension. Instachrome gives Chrome users a quick way to save and read articles, right from the menubar. You can also use it to view a webpage in Instapaper’s highly-readable text view.
Instachrome has two modes: one is a basic click-to-save button, [...]
Since everyone and their mother is in the e-book business now, it makes sense that Google would jump in with its own digital book offering. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google’s bookstore could go live as early as next month. The service, called Google Editions, plans to make its books compatible with as [...]
