The US elections are around the corner and the political environment is charging up for the big occasion. Every year, politicians get bytes on TV and radio to present their views but that is insufficient to reach out to enough voters. Congressional candidates also make use of internet which has a far wider audience and reach.
Google has updated its play store developer policies, because the company’s aim is to make this platform like – “Google Play a great community for developers and consumers.” Android Central has published an email which has been sent by Google to its play store developers. According to the email, the company has focused out on some things such as rectification to payment policy concerning subscription billing, impose restriction on using of names or icons confusingly similar to existing system apps, concerning dangerous products and practices that contravene the Play Store’s spam policy.
Google Wallet has been around for some time but the tool hasn’t gained a lot of traction in the tech world. One of the possible reasons of this could be that not many users have found it particularly convenient to make use of the Wallet. However, now Google Wallet is finally able to support all major credit and debit cards through cloud.
Most of you must remember the cool ASCII style in which everything was seen in the world of ‘The Matrix’ movie. Such ASCII art was quite common back in the days but today, it has grown rather obsolete. But to give you a dose of nostalgia, a programmer has devised a new ASCII filter which lets you use the Google Street View coupled with ASCII art.
Although Google+ is still a budding social network, it has some features which have been touted as the best in the industry. One such feature is the ‘Hangouts’, which allows video chat among a group. The good news is that this feature has now come to Gmail.
Google Nexus 7 is the hottest tablet in the market, right now. Google started taking orders of 8 GB and 16 GB Nexus 7 tablets in late June. Within a week, the 16GB Nexus 7 went out of stock. Now, the 16GB Google Nexus 7 tablet is back again in Google Play store.
Another patent dispute has been raised between Apple and Google. According to a Tweet from Wall Street Journal editor Dennis Berman, iDevice technology discoverer Apple and search giant Google have been named as perspective customers of Kodak’s upcoming patent sell-off that is expected to come in August. The Tweet mentioned that both companies were front-runners in the patent bidding battle.
In the past, Google+ has been termed a disappointment by many tech analysts. This is precisely because the social network from Google failed to gain a lot of traction after the initial post-launch boost. However, a lot of indicators now hint that the fortunes of Google+ may be changing. At least, the social network is growing at a fairly good rate.