During a conference at Stanford University, Google engineer David Petrou has announced that Google Goggles, a visual search engine for (currently) Android enabled phones, will be arriving for the iPhone before the end of this year. Up until now, the only way to search has been to type and in some cases speak, but with Google Goggles, you can search the web using your phones camera. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, that was quick. After only a little bit more than a year since its launch in May 2009, Google has announced they would be stopping any more development of the Google Wave platform.
It has been reported that YouTube was hacked by numerous hacking communities, one of them being 4chan, through an exploit found in the commenting system. The majority of hacks were performed on videos uploaded by the singer Justin Bieber, however over videos were compromised as well. Read the rest of this entry »
If you haven’t noticed already, check out Google’s new logo and click on the ‘Insert Coin’ button. Yup, the Google logo is a fully functioning Pac-man game. It has been made using HTML5 so will work on your iDevice as well!
I don’t know if you have noticed, but there is a new craze of videos that everyone seems to be doing on YouTube. The videos are called Search Stories and you can see an example of a one I made above. This article will teach you how to make your own! Read the rest of this entry »
In an attempt to be less productive after my two previous reviews, I thought I’d share a picture Lifehacker posted on their site. The graph shows the amount of servers owned by various companies. And at the bottom we find Google, with…well, see for yourself.
The guys over at iFixit have posted this great infographic which shows a rundown and compares the differences in hardware of both the iPhone 3GS and Nexus One. Which do you think ends up better? Read the rest of this entry »
Google have gone ahead and released a new product called Buzz. It is a social application which allows you to write statuses privately or publicly and easily share images, YouTube videos, Flickr or Twitter updates.
Much like in Twitter you can even ‘follow’ people statuses and ‘like’ them as well. The people whom you follow will have their statuses displayed in your Gmail on your content stream. Read the rest of this entry »
Reasons I like Chrome. It’s simple in it’s design and interface. It’s blazing fast, using different processes for each tab and window. And now, it has extensions, that turn this gem of a web browser into a more amazing gem!
Whilst the iPhone 3GS’s first week sales were well over 1 million, Google’s Nexus One has come out with dissapointing numbers for it’s first week on sale. The Nexus One only sold 20,000 copies which is only a 12 of the number sold of the DROID. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a video I stumbled accross on YouTube which is a video of a comedian called MarkDayComedy who plays around with the Google Goggles application on the Nexus One. Check out the video after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Vodafone, a UK based phone provider, has announced via a spokeswomen that Google’s new superphone Nexus One is coming to the UK in a matter of weeks.
What’s more, other phone provides in a range of Eurpean countries including France, Germany and more are all following suit and sell the phone in their coutries by the end of the year.
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Now this is definitely a bonus for the Nexus One over the iPhone. It has been leaked that the Nexus One will soon get the full Flash Player 10.1 allowing it to have the Flash capabilities that a computer does (flash videos, flash games etc). Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday, if you didn’t already know, Google held an press-conference where they officially unveiled their Google Nexus One mobile phone who’s aim is to steal the smartphone market from the iPhone. Except, the Nexus One isn’t a smartphone, Google have branded it as the first SuperPhone. Read the rest of this entry »
The Google annoucment is now live! We are obtained a live video stream of the event. In this event Google are expected to reveal their Google Nexus One phone which is aimed at taking the SmartPhone throne from the iPhone. Read the rest of this entry »
