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Google’s Project Ara Will Debut January 2015
Google revealed that the first generation Project Ara device will be launched in January 2015. Project Ara was first started out by Motorola along with Dave from Phonebloks project, Google retained the ownership of Project Ara when it sold Motorola to Lenovo. With the modular phone, Google wants to take Android even further and from coming…
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Vic Gundotra Resigns From Google
Vic Gundotra the man who built the now famous Google+ social network from nothing has announced his resignation from Google after 8 long years. Vic was the man who built Google+ from nothing after Google’s previous failed social networks. Vic joined Google eight years ago after working with Microsoft for 15 years. He started the…
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Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion
Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, which gives the chinese smartphone manufacturer a key to enter into the US market. Google had been losing hundreds of millions every quarter since the purchase of Motorola, and it appears it’s finally time to cut loose. Google believes Lenovo can turn Motorola into a major player in the…
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Google developing a New IDE Chrome App Codenamed Spark
François Beaufort revealed on Google+ that the Chromium team is working on a exciting new IDE for Google Chrome. This project is to enable Chrome OS users to have a better IDE for development. The IDE is built with Dart, which came out of beta a week ago and Polymer for widgets GUI. It’s codenamed Spark and the…
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Coder Review
Google recently launched their own Raspberry Pi project which is free, open-source and is available in Github for you to mess around with. Coder is a platform which can simplify the lives of teachers and educators who teach basics of building on the web. It is a platform which creates a local server and lets…
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Opt Out of Google’s Weird New Ads that use your Face And Name
If you didn’t know already, Google has started to use your name and face for their advertisements. The good part is that it just takes two clicks to opt-out thanks to TechCrunch writer Greg Kumparak who went into the depths of Google+ to find it out for us. Here’s how to do it Click this link. (And,…
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Google rolls out new features for Google+ Communities
Google has finally rolled a few highly requested features for Google+ Communities.The first one is that now you can turn email notifications on or off for community posts and the second one is a brand new moderator view that puts flagged posts in a out of sight “Spam Folder”. The second feature should ideally help moderators…
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Google Maps Lite For Internet Explorer and Slow Computers
Google has finally introduced “Lite Mode” to Google Maps. This feature is to enable users who are using older and slow computers use the power of Google Maps easily. Lite mode enables google maps to work on some older browsers and operating systems , even on browsers that do not support WebGL and on systems…
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Google Improves RAW Photo support on Google Plus
Google has updated lot of things in the last few days starting from app updates to #Hashtags for Google search. The latest update is for Google Plus which is quite popular with photographers has improved RAW photo support. RAW-to-JPEG conversion in Google Plus is a major overhaul and It’s largely due to the acquirement of…
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Street View at CERN
Over the past few months, we’ve seen Street View come up for all sorts of places. Famous places. From Oceans to Cathedrals. But now is the time to treat the Science Geeks. Google has just released Street View at CERN! CERN is an European Particle Physics laboratory based in Geneva where some of the greatest…
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YouTube Mobile App To Soon Support Offline Streaming
YouTube team took to their blog to announce the next big cool feature for the YouTube mobile app.In what we consider as completely unexpected, The YouTube team announced that they would support offline streaming starting from November. Obviously, the video wouldn’t be saved forever to your device, but exact time span has not been announced…
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Google is Shutting Down iGoogle
Google has decided to end yet another product but only this time it’s retiring something which is not so popular in the recent years. The product retiring is iGoogle which was launched in the year 2005.It is scheduled to shutdown on November 1,2013 , the mobile version was already shutdown on July 31st,2012.Google stated it’s…
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Google Now Update Brings Bunch Of New Cards
Google has a new update for it’s Google Now App on the Android platform with new bunch of cards.The app can be updated now and is available for all phones above Android 4.1. The search engine giant has been working with Google Now and bring lot of improvements over the weeks. Car rentals card: Get…
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Google Helpouts – Powered by Google Hangouts
Google announced “helpouts” without much noise, it is a video chat service where experts can make a few quick bucks while assisting people for various tasks.As the name suggest, helpouts seems to be based on hangouts that has already been launched by Google few weeks back. It is not yet available for the public but…
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How To Disable Touchscreen On ChromeBook Pixel
Chromebook Pixel comes with a amazing display which is also a touch screen. If for some reasons you’re not comfortable with the Touch Screen, you can disable touchscreen on ChromeBook Pixel. Go to chrome://flags Set the “Touch Events” flag to “Disabled” Touch screen tips for your Chromebook Pixel Tap: Just tap the screen on the…