Google Glass is finally nearing the point where developers may finally land their early units. The consumers are expected to get the smart glasses later this year. However, what is rather unfortunate is that Google currently has no Google Glass offerings for such people who wear prescription glasses.
The much-anticipated 20th Annual South by Southwest (SXSW) has started on March 8, Friday, in Austin, Texas. The conferences & festivals presented offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Search giant Google always waits for this event. Last year the company created an entire village near the Convention Center. And this year, Google has opened a “playground” just outside the convention center and unveiled a “smart” shoe. The best thing of this shoe is it can talk!
Security agencies as well as other entities are increasingly eager to lay their hands on the information of users stored with different web-based companies, including Google. The good thing about Google is that it dished out Transparency reports to let us know the extent of such requests. The search giant has divulged how many times FBI has reached out to access such data.
Google+ users earnestly requested the ‘social network’ to bring some changes in its looks. Their requests have been granted. Yesterday, Google announced a number of updates to Google+ in the browser, including the addition of a new “Local reviews” tab, a sleeker and easier to edit “About” tab, and larger cover photos.
The official Nexus 7 Dock is now listed on Google Play for $29.99. We first noticed the dock on a B&H Listing which had a release date of January 10. But it took a few months more to come out. Google has confirmed through Twitter that the dock is selling in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the UK and the U.S.
It has been a year since Google branded its apps marketplace into a single, consolidated Google Play store. Celebrating its firth birthday, Google has now announced a whole week of awesome deals, discounts and other goodies for Google Play users.
Google’s Picasa photo sharing service has been a great platform for uploading photos and sharing them. We’ve known for some time that Google would be transitioning users away from its Picasa photo-sharing service to Google+ Photos. Seems like that process is complete. From now on, Google redirects Picasa photo galleries to Google+ photos. Details inside.
Google’s practice of displaying snippets news from popular newspapers as part of its news aggregating site has been a contentious issue for a long while. Newspapers essentially want Google to pay for doing so while Google holds that demand as preposterous. Germany has now decided to side with Google on this one.