Google's CEO Sundar Pichai has joined a number of other high profile individuals in expressing his opinions on FBI's demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to an iPhone 5c that forms part of the San Bernardino shooting case. A federal judge has ruled that Apple must indeed assist law enforcement in granting access to a seized iPhone 5c that belonged to one of the shooters accused of killing 14 individuals in California. Commenting on the situation via the use of social media, Sundar Pichai called it a "troubling precedent".
Users wishing to get a free 2GB of Google Drive storage can do exactly that by carrying out a Google account security check as part of Safer Internet Day 2016.
Google's parent company, Alphabet, recently overtook Apple to claim the title of being called the world's most valuable company. Alphabet's reported Q4 2015 earnings caused enough excitement and positivity amongst investors and analysts for the company's stock price to rise enough in after hours trading to propel the company to the top of the rich list. It seems that the excitement within Alphabet can best be described as short lived as the outfit's stock price has fallen just 48 hours later, allowing Cupertino-based Apple Inc. to once again be officially recognized as the world's most valuable company based on market capitalization.
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.
We all love saving money on some of the latest devices in the consumer technology world. It's even better when those savings are only available for a limited period of time, essentially injecting some excitement into the purchase. In the middle of last year's holiday shopping season, Google made the renegade move of reducing the 64GB Huawei Nexus 6P by $50 to entice in those last minute purchases. That deal proved successful and so now the deal has been reintroduced for a limited time only, but this time for the elusive Gold version of Nexus 6P, essentially knocking $50 off the 32GB and 64GB models of the Android flagship.
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.
A new report suggests that HTC could produce two new Nexus phones in 2016. It was almost 6 years ago when the company produced its first and last Nexus smartphone.
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.
It now appears that Google Glass: Enterprise Edition is the new wearable on the block, and it's aimed squarely at, you guessed it, the enterprise. It features new foldable design, among other things.
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.















