Yesterday, a Reddit reader at first noticed that if the word “sell” is typed into the search field on Google Finance, the site redirects to the financial page for Apple Inc. Is it a algorithmic slip-up or some type of Christmastime Easter egg? Or, Google deliberately did that?
On the eve of 2013, Google has given a present to its voice service users. The free calling facility to phones within the U.S. and Canada from Gmail has been extended for another year.
We have seen some big revolutions in Enterprise, a unit of Google in 2012. But seems like, 2013 will be even bigger. Amit Singh, Vice President of Google Enterprise has said in an interview that the goal of Google is to grab 90% Office users from Microsoft in 2013. Details inside.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the largest showcases of new technology in the world. Next year’s CES is going to be held from Jan 8 to Jan 11. Many people are eagerly waiting to see what new things will be unveiled at CES 2013? However, recently LG Electronics (LG) has announced that it’ll launch seven new models of Google TV that runs on Google TV 3.0 OS at CES 2013. Details inside.
Google has decided to change its position on silently installing extensions on Chrome browser. From Chrome 25, external extension installation option in Windows will be disabled by default. Extensions that were installed using this option will also be disabled automatically.
A huge number of iOS users had apparently refused to update to iOS 6 because of a lack of Google Maps. And now that a Google Maps app for iOS is here, these users seem to be making the switch rather rapidly. Ever since the app was released, there has been a 30% increase in unique iOS 6 users.
iOS users have been clamoring to get a Google Maps iOS app ever since Apple ditched Google’s mapping solution for its own. Google had finally released the app only last week and within 48 hours, the app had been downloaded more than 10 million times!
Users in UK and Ireland have been fairly irked by the lack of adequate availability of Nexus 4 handsets. It has been quite a while since this Google-branded LG-manufactured device was launched. Google’s UK chief has now pinned the blame on LG for the scarce supplies of the device.