Tag: Google

Google’s Nearby Feature to be introduced soon

According Android Police, Google is planning to introduce its Nearby feature with the new Play Services update. It will apparently, enable you to interact with people, places and things near you. Here’s the official description of the feature from a leaked screen acquired by Android Police: “Nearby lets you connect, share, and do more with ...

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Tags: Apple Continuity, Google, Google Play Services, Leak, Nearby, Update

Amazon announces 3D smartphone on June 18th

Amazon posted a promotional video for a new product announcement that’s going to take place on June 18th. It’s probably the rumored smartphone that we kept hearing about lately. A few frames of the video reveal the top of a smartphone as discovered yesterday by a sharp eyed Google+ user. Sources say that Amazon plans ...

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Tags: 3d, 3D smartphone, amazon, Android, Google, hologram, Kindle, Price, promotional video, Xbox Kinect

Android 4.4.3 KitKat is now available for Nexus 10

The Android 4.4.3 KitKat update has begun rolling out for a number of devices. Reports have started coming in that the long-awaited update is now available for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 . Yesterday we’ve heard that Google has started pushing 4.4.3 to the Moto X, Moto E, Moto G, Galaxy S4, and HTC One M8 GPe. ...

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Tags: 4.4.3, Android 4.4.3 KitKat, battery drainage, Bugfixes, Dialer app, features, Galaxy S4, Google, HTC One M8, install, instructions, Moto E, Moto G, Moto X, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Over-The-Air, People app, rollout, Update

Google launches Encrypted E-mails Chrome extension

You probably already knew that Google’s Gmail supports encryption. But did you know that when a Gmail user e-mails somebody using an unencrypted service, the message isn’t protected? In fact up to half of all e-mails sent to, and from Gmail are not encrypted because of this. To fix the situation Google intends to start ...

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Tags: Chrome, Comcast, e-mail encryption, End-to-End, extension, gmail, Google, Hotmail, TLS, Transport Layer Security

Google spends more than $1 billion to improve internet access

Apparently Google plans to spend more than $1 billion on a satellite system that’s going to spread internet access to the far reaches of the world. This is a familiar story of course. To increase ad revenues Google needs to make the web far more accessible to more people. This latest project will start with about ...

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Tags: $1billion, AT&T, breakthrough, Direct TV, Google, Google satellite project, internet access, Project Loon, satellite system, Titan Aerospace

The NSA reportedly has the most advanced facial recognition technology

Reports are claiming that the NSA is collecting millions of digital pictures from the internet everyday, including thousands of facial recognition images. Information is very important as we’ve learned from the Edward Snowden trial of leaked National Security Agency documents. The pictures are extracted from e-mails, text messages, social networks, video conferences and other types of communication. The story ...

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Tags: Edward Snowden, Facebook, facial recognition, FBI, Google, National Security Agency, NSA, Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, Wellspring

Google shutting down Moto Maker website, factory in Texas closes

Reports say that Google is going to shut down the Moto Maker website. The site is an innovative place that allows you to customize Motorola smartphones. There were discussions saying that Levono was going to continue the Moto Maker site, and perhaps even expand it globally. But now it looks like the Texas plant is going to ...

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Tags: Android, Google, Lenovo, Moto Maker, Motorola, shut down, Texas factory