According to some extremely reliable sources, Google is looking at launching their own ‘stand alone retail stores’ in the United States. It hopes to have the first Google stores open in metropolitan areas for the holidays. Google Stores The main objective behind the stores is to get their latest Nexus and Chrome devices into the…
T-Mobile has cut the price of the Nexus 4 down to $50, making the LG-manufactured Google “flagship” smartphone the cheapest it’s ever been. Reports about the sales of the device have been conflicted however, with it publicly being sold out. There are also rumors circulating that over 1 million units have been sold; but Google…
Motorola, Google and the X Phone Motorola Mobility, the handset manufacturer owned by Google, has sort of indirectly confirmed the existence of the rumored “Motorola X” smartphone via a job listing. This confirms a few rumors that have been going around for some time now that the Google subsidiary was preparing to launch a major…
Field Trip: New Pop-Up Location Based Guide for Android Niantic Labs’ new Field Trip app, now available for Android, is a pop-up location-based guide to interesting things all round you. This augmented reality guide would allow you to walk down an unfamiliar street, and to immediately access and know what others already know about that…
Searching with Google Chrome, More Secure than Ever Google Chrome version 25 is tweaked by Google a bit in order to give its users a more secure connection. The Big G has finally come to a realization that enabling SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) during web browsing, whether or not a user is signed in, is…
Google’s Supremacy? To describe Google as the technological Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde in today’s day and age is an understatement. The 2nd commandment in Google’s Philosophy is as states, “It’s best to do one thing really, really well,” which is why such a metaphor is too subtle, Google closer resembles the troubled hero Batman (bear…
With the debut of iOS 6, Apple took the liberty of replacing Google Maps with their own ‘built from the ground up’ maps application. More recently, Google Maps retaliated by releasing an app of their own. Since its release, Google Maps has skyrocketed to the top of the ‘most downloaded app’ list. Now, endowed with…