Category: Google
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Samsung Announced Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1
Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 are official now. Samsung announced these amazing next generation devices on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2011. The next generation smartphone Galaxy S II comes with an impressive 4.3” Super AMOLED Plus display, 1GHz dual-core Samsung CPU, along with 8MP rear-facing camera. It rides…
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All New Features of Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Google’s Honeycomb event is happening now and they have been showing sneak peaks of it for the past few weeks. Android 3.0 Honeycomb is designed exclusively for tablets and Google has given a pretty big advancement in the user interface. This tablet version is slightly different from Android’s phone interface to take advantage…
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Google: Microsoft Is Cheating and Copying Our Search Results
Google set up a sting operation (!) in an attempt to catch Microsoft red-handed stealing their search results in Bing. Interestingly, Bing doesn’t deny this completely. The whole sting operation is amazing and it started from Danny Sullivan’s post and resulting Microsoft’s response on Bing search quality. But what’s most interesting right now…
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Eric Schmidt Stepping Down As Google CEO, Larry Page To Replace Him
Big news from Google yesterday with Eric Schmidt announcing that he will be stepping down as CEO effective April 4th. Larry Page, who served as Google’s first CEO from 1998 to 2001 will take over as CEO. Schmidt will remain on as “Executive Chairman”, where he will focus on deals, partnerships, customers and…
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Google Bangladesh Site Hacked
Google’s been ‘hacked’. Yes, you heard it right! Visitors of the company’s Bangladesh search site (Google.com.bd) see a defaced landing page rather than the usual search site a while ago today. Local Bangladesh media, including online newspaper bdnews24, reported on the news as well, quoting a CTO of a local ISP, who confirmed…
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You Can Now Upload/Play Videos Directly in Google Docs
Google has launched a new feature in Google Docs where you can upload video files and play it directly in the browser. Once you’ve uploaded your video to Google Docs, you can watch it with the Google Docs video player. Simply click the file from your Documents List, and the player opens in…
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Google releases Android 3.0 Honeycomb video
Google has released an official video on their YouTube channel, unleashing Android 3.0 – designed exclusively for tablets. It’s been pretty much confirmed that 3.0 is Honeycomb. If the video embedded below is anything to go by, the next-generation of Android tablets could pose the first real challenge to Apple iPad (or iPad…
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Intex To Launch Android Phone for Rs 5500
After launching first Triple SIM phones, Projector phones in India, Intex Mobiles, an Indian handset brand is to join the Android vogue with a smartphone powered by Froyo (v2.2). The Intex Android smartphone will be equipped with a 3.2 MP camera, 2.8 inch resistive full touch screen, Wi-Fi, GPS. This phone will be…
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Chrome OS Will Die or Merge With Android
Former Googler, FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit just tweeted a few hours ago– Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year (or "merged" with Android) He continued: ChromeOS has no purpose that isn’t better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display). I was thinking, “is this too obvious to even…
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Google Redesigns the Android Market
With Android 2.3 just days away from its official release, Google has decided that the Android Market should get redesigned. In a blog post, Google made an announcement that this market client update will be rolled out in over next two weeks to all devices running Android 1.6 or higher. Users can quickly…