Apple and Google try to help you curb your smartphone compulsions
Google and Apple are having their “Alfred Nobel moment.” Nobel was the Swedish inventor of dynamite who also established the Nobel Prize....
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Australian privacy regulators examining Google’s Android location-data collection
European privacy moves are having a ripple effect around the globe. Reuters reported earlier today that Google now faces an investigation...
Android P: AI inside and simplification outside
Yesterday at Google I/O, the company previewed its next Android operating system: Android P. I haven’t downloaded and used it, but the...
Oracle’s $9 billion Java lawsuit against Google back from the dead
Oracle’s suit against Google has been brought back to life by a federal appeals court. The underlying lawsuit involved Google’s...
Google Play Instant lets app marketers offer game trials for free on Android devices
Google has redesigned its Google Play Games app and added a new Google Play Instant feature on Android devices that lets marketers offer...
The upcoming mobile app Monday: Be prepared
The season is upon us: mobile download season. Christmas falls on Monday, and if history holds true, Christmas and the day after will be...
Google releases Android Go edition for India’s 400 million internet users
Kashin / Shutterstock.com Google has released Android Oreo (Go edition), which is part of the larger Android 8.1 release. The new version...
Report: Google to reabsorb Nest to better compete with Amazon in smart home market
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Google is considering bringing its smart home device unit, Nest, back under the Google...
A new era: Mobile-location tracking, user consent and government surveillance
Last week, Quartz reported that Google has been collecting user and cell-tower location data even when people have turned location...
All the devices Google announced Oct. 4 at its ‘made by Google’ hardware event
In San Francisco on October 4, Google held its “Made by Google” hardware event. This comes in the wake of Apple’s recent iPhone X launch...
Gab.ai sues Google after removal from Play store for hate-speech violations
Described as a “digital safe space for the far right” or the “alt-right’s very own Twitter,” social site Gab.ai is suing Google parent...
Google reportedly looking at buying HTC’s phone unit, expands Android One program
HTC is the maker of Google’s successful Pixel smartphones. However, the Taiwanese company has been under intensifying financial pressure...
Apple introduces HomePod: A premium speaker with Siri
As anticipated, Apple introduced its Amazon Echo and Google Home competitor today at WWDC, its developer conference in San Jose. The...
Former Android boss launches devices to compete with Google Pixel and Google Home
Andy Rubin, former Google employee and creator of the Android operating system, unveiled two new products from his new company: a...
Web browsing coming to VR headsets, AR coming to the web via Chrome
Google is bringing the Chrome browser to virtual reality (VR) and also bringing augmented reality (AR) into the Chrome browser. On the...
Google adds more ads to Play Store, and other app ads news from I/O
Google will now show app ads on the Google Play Store home page and app listings pages. The company made several app ad announcements at...
Google settles Russian antitrust case over default Android apps
Google and Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) have settled the antitrust case focused on the pre-installation of Google apps on...
Email shines even brighter with Gmail and Google Wallet
integrating Google Wallet into Gmail for Android users is big news, not just for the millions of Gmail users who can now send money right...
WebMD’s new Alexa health skill should go to pharmacy school
WebMD just launched an Alexa skill that promises to answer health and medical questions. But it seems there’s a lot it doesn’t know. The...
Now you can shop with Google Home — just like on Amazon Echo
Earlier today, Google announced that you will now be able shop with Google Assistant on Google Home. This duplicates functionality...
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