What is the next city to get Google Fiber? According to Google Fiber’s website, the next city in line is Kansas City North, MO, and last in the entry is Mission Woods, KS. According to reports, a new name will add to the list shortly – Austin, Texas.
The web browser industry is experiencing a major transition right now. Yesterday, Mozilla announced a new web browser engine named Servo, developed in collaboration of Samsung. On the same day, Google has announced to introduce a new webpage rendering engine named Blink, based on WebKit. The new rendering engine would replace WebKit in future versions of Chrome and Opera.
Though Google Glass is the apparent pioneer in a new breed of augmented reality gadgets, it is not going to have a road of roses. We have already heard about similar developments by LG and Sony. Now, there is another entry in the list – Baidu.
Around three weeks ago search giant Google announced that its Android platform chief Andy Rubin is no longer in that position. And recently Google has confirmed that its current privacy director Alma Whitten is going to resign this June.
Google Translate has always been proven helpful to people translating web pages or languages, although it doesn’t provide perfect translations every time. Recently, search giant Google has launched a new version of Translate for Android that can do translations ‘offline.’ That means from now on, Android users won’t need an internet connection to translate any language or web page through the service.
Google Glass is going to get the “Made in USA” label. Yes, that’s true; Google Glass will be assembled at a facility in Santa Clara, California. However, there is a twist. The assembling will be done by Foxconn.
After bringing the peaks of Mount Everest to armchair travelers via Google Street View, Google has brought the no-entry nuclear zone of Fukushima for the world. The web giant has brought a ghost town inside Fukushima nuclear zone, named Namie-machi, to Google Maps.
Google+ was launched as an invitation-only “field test” in June 2011. Now it has become a popular social network. It has added a new feature for the users. Now users can set animated GIFs as profile picture on Google+.