Google releases OTA update for Chrome OS, Cr-48 owners can upgrade now and the update brings bug fixes, Flash 10.2.158.22, a file manager context menu and some spiffy new icons and avatars to its browser-based UI…………..
You’ll soon be able to access your Google Docs files even when you don’t have an Internet connection and Google has said it will make Google Docs and Google Apps accessible for offline use later in 2011. It could certainly be useful for users who are on a non-Wi-Fi-accessible plane or train and need to show something to a client somewhere without online access………..
Nearly every smartphone running the Google Android platform today is readily vulnerable to data snoops and cyberthieves, who can easily pluck information from them over ordinary Wi-Fi networks and as consumers increasingly rely upon their phones for banking, shopping, and storing photos, phone numbers and addresses of friends and relatives. Android-based smartphones use security tokens to grant access to only certain bits of information on the phone and no smartphone comes with antivirus software, now google fixes Android Wi-Fi security hole
Google has just updated its long waited Chrome OS with Beta version. A few days ago, in the Google I/O event, they unveiled brand new Chromebook which runs in Chrome…
Google’s Prediction API lets Fords learn all about you, tell you where to go and there aren’t many details available for now but Ford was quick to stress that the Google Prediction API will be an option in its cars, not a basic feature and also any information collected will be encrypted. Ford partnering with Google is a head-scratching presenter because it seemed as if the car and light truck giant had already hitched a ride with Microsoft as its tech partner and this new technology can determine whether a weekday morning start-up is going to be a long workday commute or if a Sunday afternoon run is just a few blocks to church…………
Google announces new ways to discover apps on Android Market, more tools for developers and those include some newly revamped top app charts that promise to be “fresher” and country specific, a brand new Editors’ Choice section that highlights apps chosen by Google, a new Top Developers feature that places a special icon next to the name of developers that make the grade, improved related apps on individual app pages and, last but not least, a new trending apps section that shows the apps growing fastest in terms of daily installs………..
Facebook gets busted for actually hiring a PR agency to try to plant anti-Google stories in the press and plan to plant anti-google stories in the press.Facebook hired hotshot public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to urge major news outlets to take a very close look at Google’s privacy policy and legal issues surrounding Google’s Social Circle feature, allows users to see information that’s publicly available for those they’re connected with in Google Chat and Contacts……….
Google to offer $20-a-month student package for a Chrome laptop and this will make a compelling option for laptop-seeking students bounded by a limited budget.Making it available to students is a great idea most of them have a limited income and also when students are away on long holidays and have no need for the laptop, they can simply return it……….