The updates to the official Google Play app have been arriving thick and fast over the last couple of weeks. Google Play Store 4.0.25 APK brought a substantially revamped user interface when released earlier on in the month, and that was quickly followed by last week's arrival of Google Play Store 4.0.26 APK, which offered a bunch of bug fixes and performance enhancements. Today, the APK of Google Play Store v4.0.27 has appeared, and as with the last week's version, it's mainly a housekeeping update.
Comex, developer of the revolutionary JailbreakMe 3.0 tool for iOS 4, has just announced via Twitter that he will soon be interning at Google, just six months after ending his employment with Apple. Some felt the motives behind Apple's hiring of Comex, real name Nicholas Allegra, were to essentially suppress his powers and prevent him from actively jailbreaking, but with Google now on the scene, hopefully he can get back to doing what he does best.
A few years ago, many were amazed at how easily smartphones were able to snap high-quality pictures within seconds. Leaked code from MyGlass companion app suggests that in future, users will be able to snap pictures of the world around them with a simple wink. This comes at the same time as Google chief Eric Schmidt stating that Glass wont be available to general consumers before 2014.
A new strain of Android malware has been discovered by security firm LookOut that has managed to find its way onto millions of devices. Although it manifests within dodgy looking Russian clone apps and thus, probably hasn't affected your device, the fact that millions have already been infected makes for rather disconcerting reading. More details about the whole fiasco can be found right after the jump.
With Google's Project Glass commanding quit a few column inches in the digital world, many spectators had wondered if the wearable tech ran on Android or whether Google had come up with a new ecosystem through which to build software for the headgear. In terms of practicality and future integration, it would make a great deal of sense for Glass to run on Android, and today, the Mountain View company's CEO Larry Page had stepped out and confirmed this to be the case.
Having been around for a relatively short amount of time against the rivaling App Store, Google Play has done a remarkable job in offering users a very comparable experience for the most part. As well as now boasting much of the content also available to those on iOS, Android Police's teardown of the new MyGlass companion app for Android suggests a supplementary Game Center-like hub for gamers could well be forthcoming. With such a vast number of gaming fans now enjoying some of the biggest titles around on Android, it was perhaps only a matter of time before we saw this kind of feature added to the repertoire, and thanks to the tenacity of the Android Police, we may just have our first clues.
Google has finally published the full technical specifications of Glass, alongside Mirror API for apps, and MyGlass companion app for Android on the Google Play Store.
Google celebrated Gmail's ninth birthday with a nostalgic little infographic yesterday, but, not being one to rest on its laurels, the company is back with a brand new feature pertaining to the Google account in general. From now on, if your little patch of the Big G's vast Web landscape just so happens to fall into a period of inactivity, you can decide exactly how you want your data to be handled from then on, and by whom.
Prepare to let me make you feel old: Gmail, Google's much-celebrated email service, is already in its tenth year, and although we did get ourselves in a bit of a tizzy when the Big G first launched Gmail on April 1st, 2004 as a beta-only service, it has continued to go from strength to strength ever since. Google has, quite naturally, done a little reflecting of its own as the 9-year mark passes, and couldn't resist a little self-congratulation to boot. Below, Gmail's biggest achievements and landmark occasions since April Fool's in 2004 are illustrated in a rather pretty infographic, but if you thought the search giant was about to rest on its laurels, you've another thing coming!
Google's Play entertainment store has lost 60,000 apps from its roster since last month, in what appears to be a move to combat widespread spam and low-quality apps. As reported by TechCrunch, it looks as though the vast majority of this mass cull didn't abide by Google's anti-spam policies, and were subsequently taken away. Although it's likely some of that number were pulled by the developers behind them, the disproportionately high figure of removed apps suggests the Play Store has been subject to the search giant's spring cleaning.
