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Great news for all you Android users – a new and transformed Google Play Store design is on its way.
Kirill Grouchnikov, the software engineer at Google, recently shared a few pictures of the new Play Store on his Google+ account. Even though it’s not very clear what can be expected, it’s certain from the pictures that it’s renewed, with smooth animations and a fun new layout. Read More
Google will unveil its new Nexus device tomorrow and here is what you can expect from it thanks to the leaked Google presentation. Read More
We are all used to Google’s habit of working backstage. Yes, they have performed backstage yet again, this time boasting a whole new User Interface for their app search result on mobile. Read More
Google has appointed an Indian-born CEO, Sundar Pichai, making it the second time within a year that an Indian has made it to the top of a Fortune 500 tech giant company. The former Chrome and Android head will be Google’s CEO while co-founder Larry Page will run a new company called Alphabet. Read More
“Firefox has prevented the unsafe plugin “Adobe Flash” from running on *insert website address here*”. This is a message Firefox users must have recently come across. Well, Google and Firefox have disabled Adobe Flash Player owing to the exploitation of a flaw in Flash by an Italian surveillance company called Hacking Team. Read More
Google Maps for Android is getting an interesting update in its version 9.1, which will allow the users to share My Maps. With My Maps, users could create custom maps which they can now share, owing to the update. There is, however, a provision to hide the elements in the interface as the unnecessary items like the search bar will be taken away from the full-screen mode. So while the search bar and quick-launch for directions are not necessarily the things one would want to share, they can be simply removed with a single tap on screen. Now, in order to get the text entry field and the buttons back, the user needs to tap on the screen once again. However, the turn by turn navigation mode will not work for the features. Read More
With 953 million smartphone subscribers and 6 billion mobile users who did not adopt a smartphone yet but are converting quickly, Google has released its latest mobile search update, which has been effective since April 21st, to rank websites based on their mobile friendliness in search results. Read More
As Apple and Google encourage you to pay by your phone, wallets might soon become history. The tech industry is really serious about the deal and though people still prefer paying with cash or cards, these companies are doing everything in their power to make you quit looking for money in your pockets. Read More
A developer which specializes in font management software, Extensis, has created a new font panel for Google Docs. The Extensis Fonts add-on will allow the user to access more than 1200 fonts. Read More
If rumors are to be believed, then Google Nexus 5, which is scheduled to be released at the end of this year, will have Android M pre-installed in it. While Nexus 5 will hopefully release in September or October, Google also plans on releasing the brand-new Nexus 6 sometime soon. Both the Nexus 5 and 6 will feature Android M. There are two separate codenames for the devices as they are being manufactured by LG and Huawei. Nexus 5 is called “LG Angler”, while Nexus 6 is called “Huawei Bullhead”. Read More
