The long-expected rumour of the Google Nexus tablet has simmered away and things have just gotten more real. Gizmodo is now reporting a shot of a rendered image of what may actually be the upcoming Jelly Bean tablet. The specs are also reported to be at the high scale with a Tegra 3 processor clocked at 1.3Ghz, […]
The new Google doodle is a playable Moog Synth
Today Google are celebrating Robert Moog’s birthday. Robert Moog is famous for inventing the Moog synthesizer. Born May 23 1935, Robert was the founder of Moog Music, he was an American Pioneer of Electronic music which no doubt you listen to everyday. Robert Moog passed away on August 21st 2005 at aged 71. Google are doing something […]
Google purchase of Motorola finally complete
Finally Google have completed their purchase of the company Motorola. The initial purchase began back in August 2011 and has finally been completed nearly a year later. This was due to the decision being made by the U.S, the EU and of course China and with that China were the holdout for the longest period and the […]
Original Google phone revealed in Oracle Vs Google case
No doubt that Oracle and Google are having fun during their case against each other, but one thing that we geeks can take away is some no seen before photos of the original Google phone design. The design is somewhat blackberry/nokia e71 style. Let’s take a look at the specs of the device below. ARMv9 Processor (at […]
Google Drive finally official
It’s has been expected for some time now and it has finally arrived. Google Drive is now official and gives anyone access to 5GB of free online storage. The new service from Google comes after while of speculation and guessing games of it’s launch and of course it was inevitable that Google would launch it’s […]
Google announces Brand Activate initiative for online advertising
Google as the king of advertising online has launched a new kind of ad based service. Google want to have a new standard for all online advertising. The new Brand Active Initiative will consist of two new services for advertisers. The first being Active view and the second being Active GRP. The Active view system […]
Google globally switching its search to HTTPS by default
Google last week announced that it had enabled SSL encryption on international search sites.Using HTTPS by default for users logged in. This type of security was introdcued over a year ago by Google for google.com and now is being implemented on all of Google’s search pages. Google has said that feature will be pushed out to more Google search […]
Google Marketplace now called Google Play
Google have just renamed the marketplace in the sense they have launched a new name and a complete rebrand of all things marketplace. The new service is called Google Play and combines all your movies, music, apps, games and books together making it your one stop shop for everything Android. This new re-brand comes just after the […]
Google gets the thumbs up from the US for Motorola Purchase
It’s only been a few hours since the EU signed off on the Motorola acquisition by Google. The United States has also thrown up two giant thumbs a giving the go ahead for the purchase. This was likely to happen this week, But the same day is pretty quick. The Department of Justice posted the […]
Google get EU approval for Motorola purchase
The European commission has just given the go ahead for the acquisition of Motorola go Google. Google Announced back in August that it would be purchasing Motorola for it’s extensive 17,000 patents and its 7,500 pending patent applications at a price of $12.5 Billion. “We have approved the acquisition… because upon careful examination, this transaction does not itself raise competition issues,” […]