Although Google spends a great deal of time updating and improving the general functionality of its wide range of products and services, often, the search giant comes through with some nifty customization features. Fairly soon, your Google+ profile will be the subject of deeper integration with your Android smartphone, becoming the profile picture seen by those who call, and so long as you've gone through the process of verifying your phone number in the first place, anybody ringing you will see your Google+ image.
Motorola hopes to change the way smartphones are built, and given the fact that the company is now owned by Google, we wouldn't put it past them.
Last month, Samsung dropped its Galaxy Gear smartwatch, and although Pebble's Kickstarter-boosted effort is credited as the main reason for the uptake in big-company interest on wrist-worn tech, it's fair to say that the South Korean company doesn't have a great deal of competition at this moment in time. According to a report over at The Wall Street Journal, though, this could soon be about to change, with Google apparently just a couple of months away from finalizing a smartwatch of its own.
It doesn't matter that we're all sat eagerly anticipating invites to a Nexus 5 announcement event to pop up in all the usual places because Google is staying very much tight lipped. Instead, the Android maker has sent out some invites to something wholly less interesting, with the 24th of October set to be a day of Google Play news, rather than new hardware.
Every so often Google does something that reminds everyone of just how close to the creepy line it likes to sail. With hooks into email, social networking and of course the entire Web, Google knows just about everything there is to know about us, and what we do online.
Google is as serious about its Android smartphone and tablet platform as it can be, and the latest “discovery” by François Beaufort is a definite testament to that. The Chromium expert noted a feature in the latest beta of Google Chrome for desktop that allows developers to control their Android devices directly from their desktop, thanks to an experimental screencast feature that Chrome beta carries.
We've become increasingly aware of how important it is to protect privacy and personal data in this modern digital age, and whenever there's a risk of said information falling into the wrong hands, it's only natural that we pay attention.
No service is really complete until it receives its very own iPhone app, and that's exactly what Google has (belatedly) done with AdSense. Having recently dropped the corresponding app for its own, Android mobile OS, the Big G has finally seen it as high time that iOS was given a similar offering, so now those in ownership of an iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can check their AdSense goings-on while on-the-fly.
Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility has yet to bear any fruit, leaving many an analyst and commentator to question the value in the $12.5 billion acquisition last year. But the Moto X smartphone, which has long since been rumored as a mid-range device with wider appeal, has finally been revealed. And far from being another standard smartphone, offers more variants than one could shake a proverbial stick at. With plenty of surprises, the Moto X smartphone is much more than just another run-of-the-mill handset, and we've got all the details after the jump.
Motorola's highly anticipated Moto X is set to be officially announced on August 1st, but at this rate there won't be much left to announce. After leak upon leak over the last few weeks, today sees yet more images of the unannounced Google Android-powered handset.
