Google is among the popular website around most of the world. So naturally, when any one of the search giant’s domains run into trouble, it is propelled into limelight. Recently, a Bangladeshi hacker targeted Google’s Kenyan domain name by hacking and defacing it.
Facebook recently decided to notch up its presence on the Android platform by offering Facebook Home. The new app essentially makes the whole experience of using an Android devices more Facebook-centric. Quite surprisingly, Google’s Eric Schmidt has said that he really loves the idea.
After a lot of anticipation and eager wait, Google has finally announced that a limited number of Google Glass units are ready to be shipped to the users. The team revealed in a recent email that some units are finally off the production line, which means that they may reach the users within the next few days.
The U.S. Department of Justice has approved the sale of Google owned Motorola Home set-top business to Arris Group for $2.35 billion. The approval removes all regulatory hurdles that stalled the deal until now.
Iran’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has announced that it’ll launch Islamic Google Earth within four months.
After weeks of speculations, Google formally announced that the company will deploy its Gigabit fiber internet in Austin, Texas. On the very day, AT&T has announced that it will build a 1Gbps Fiber Internet network in the city too.
Around one and half year ago, Google launched its music service Google Play Music. The service was initially available to U.S. consumers only, and later expanded to some other European countries. Earlier today, Google announced that the Music service has stepped in the Australian continent and expanded to some more European countries.
Last year at the Google I/O developer conference, Google launched Compute Engine, a cloud computing platform that allows developers to run their apps on Linux virtual machines hosted on Google’s massive infrastructure. Only few developers could access to this service and for that they had to either get an invitation or go through Google’s sales teams. But now any developers will be able to use the Google’s Compute Engine! Keep reading for further details.