The Google TV update that rolled out to Sony units earlier this week (no word on the Revue, yet) brought tweaks to Chrome and support for Blu-ray 3D playback on the player, but that’s not all. The bump to Android 3.2 also improved hooks for developers to access channel listings in their apps, enabled hardware [...]
Google’s decision to consolidate all of the data it collects from all of us has the internet spooked. After Congress decided to knit a brow in the debate, Google wrote up this official response. Read its self-defense case here. More » Gizmodo
If you’ve seen Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus in action, then it should be clear that the menu button has no future in the Android ecosystem. In order to drive that point home, Google has posted over at the Android Developer blog urging app creators to “say goodbye to the menu button.” With [...]
Google’s bringing a number of changes to its Earth service courtesy of version 6.2, including Google+ integration and improvements to search. Most notable here, however, is a new method of rendering that stitches aerial photos together in a manner less patchy than before, making for “the most beautiful Google Earth yet,” according to the company. [...]
Despite Mountain View’s efforts to the contrary, neither Google Wallet nor Offers, have yet to set the payment sector alight. That doesn’t mean the search giant’s throwing in the towel, as it vehemently expands the latter into five additional cities here in the United States. Residents of Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa [...]
Via its Research Blog, Google has announced the donation of the Sky Map project to the open source community. Originally developed by Googlers during their “20% time,” the stellar application was launched in 2009 to showcase the camera sensors in first generation Android handsets. Four years and over 20 million downloads later, Sky Map’s code [...]
At this point, SOPA needs no introduction. But if you’ve been diligently ignoring it up until this point, good luck getting through January 18th as an uninformed citizen. Google, Wikipedia and a host of other websites are either going dark or making huge, unmistakable statements on their homepages in protest. Google’s tagline? “End Piracy, Not [...]
Everything we’ve heard about Judge William Alsup tells us he’s a guy you don’t mess with — and yet Oracle seems bent on doing precisely that. When the company initially demanded .1 billion from Google in recompense for alleged violations of its Java patents, Alsup laughed that figure out of court and suggested 0 million [...]
Social gaming was a big part of Facebook’s success, so in a continued effort to get more people using Google+, the search giant has created a promo video for an upcoming game that turns their maps into a playable labyrinth. More » Gizmodo
Rupert Murdoch’s latest tweets accuse President Obama of supporting Google—the “piracy leader”—and the rest of his “Silicon Valley paymasters.” The accusations follow a White House blog that expressed doubts about the Stop Online Piracy Act. More » Gizmodo