Want to use Google Chromecast without WiFi and active Internet connection? A new custom ROM for Chromecast enables this functionality. Here are the details on it.
Alphabet, Google's parent company, has announced its Q4 earnings and the results of those have seen the company's stock price rise in after hours trading, so much so that it has now eclipsed Apple as the world's most valuable company. Alphabet's market capitalization was $517.6 billion compared to Apple's $539.7 billion at close today, and while the price is still fluctuating after hours, Alphabet’s market cap will be over $540 billion tomorrow if it continues its current pricing.
Google and Oracle have been going against one another in court over Oracle's insistence that Google should be paying royalties to the company for its use of Java software within the Android platform. A lawyer for Oracle Corp has crunched some numbers as part of the litigation and found that Android has generated revenue of $31 billion in its lifetime. $22 billion of that is pure profit for Google. Those figures actually sound quite impressive, that is until you dig a little deeper and compare that revenue to how much the iPhone generates for rival Apple Inc.
Here's how to get, setup and use a USB Security Key with your Google Account for two-step verification. Security Keys use cryptography instead of standard verification codes which make them more secure for logging in, and they work without needing a data connection or battery, best of all, you can carry them easily wherever you go.
Google has today announced the official dates for Google I/O 2016 developer conference. Chief Executive Sundar Pichai took to various social media channels to inform the general public of the dates, announcing that this year's conference will be coming back Mountain View where it all started ten whole years ago. Google will be releasing additional details about the conference over the coming weeks and months, but May 18-20 is the date that needs to be entered into those diaries for anyone interested in attending the I/O experience.
The National Football League (NFL) is a behemoth sporting organization within the United States. The popularity of the company and American Football in general has always been at astronomical levels in America, but it's been also steadily growing in prominence on an international level over the last few years with a number of games being presented to an English audience in London. According a new report, prominence on an international level is about to grow thanks to a deal in the works within the NFL to live stream every single international series game, as Google and Apple look to grab the coveted rights to that.
Here is our own, entirely subjective view of the top best smartphones of the year 2015 and the categories that they fall into. This year sees some lesser-performing companies sneak into our list alongside big players the likes of Apple and Samsung.
Google is testing a new password-less authentication mechanism that could see a user's smartphone act as a key for logging into the company's services online.
Google's new Lightsaber Escape browser game lets fans of the Star Wars franchise wave their smartphones around as if wielding a lightsaber of their own.
As Christmas winds ever nearer, retailers the world over are offering great discounts on popular tech items in time for the holidays. As of this very moment buyers can head on down to the Google Store, Amazon or Best Buy and pick up the 2015-released Nexus 5X unlocked model for just $329 (down from original price of $380) for the 16GB model and $379 (down from original price of $430) for the 32GB model.
