Google released Google Music which is a cloud-based locker for up-to 20,000 songs with a web-based media player. Google is now interested in creating an online music store of its own to compete with the likes of iTunes and Amazon MP3.
I’m sure readers of Redmond Pie already know about Find My Friends. It’s a location tracking app developed by Apple which was released on October 12th alongside iOS 5. I don’t know if it is fair to say this, but Find My Friends is definitely Apple’s version of Google Latitude - an imitation, essentially, of a similar service which all Android smartphones have been offering since 2009. It feels rather odd seeing an innovative company like Apple doing the copying (especially after calling 2011 “Year of the Copycats” in March). The copying done here, though, is not your regular half-hearted stuff: Apple has added some nifty features which sets their location-tracking tool apart from Google Latitude.
While Google has seen undoubted success with its Android smartphone operating system, it has seen much more limited success when trying to branch out onto tablets. If the tablet market has proved to be a difficult one to crack for the search giant, then it's probably safe to say that Google TV is what some may call an unadulterated failure.
It's all go at Google these days. They've just shown off their latest version of the Android mobile operating system; Ice Cream Sandwich, and their hardware partner Samsung has announced the Galaxy Nexus as the first handset to sport it. Now it seems there's another Android Nexus phone packing Ice Cream Sandwich, and it's not the one you expected.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Is Now Official: Will Be Available In November Alongside Galaxy Nexus
After announcing Galaxy Nexus, Google finally made Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich official. The said OS is specifically designed to run on this type of powerful hardware. Also, Samsung is confirming that Ice Cream Sandwich's native resolution is 1280x720, 16:9 aspect ratio. The Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 will be available in November this year.
At the joint Google-Samsung event in Hong Kong today, the hotly-anticipated Galaxy Nexus was finally unveiled alongside Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
According to a report published recently, Google is looking to open a music store which will compete with similar services from Apple and Amazon.
You can't really be a geek and not have played one of the super-popular and mega-successful Grand Theft Auto games. Even back in the day when the title brought top-down action and a spot of attitude to the table, the Grand Theft Auto franchise was one revered by fans.
We're getting closer and closer to a Samsung/Google announcement, which we presume will be home to the new Nexus handset, complete with Google's brand new mobile operating system - Ice Cream Sandwich. Samsung and Google have already delayed the announcement once, reportedly due to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' sad passing, but the event itself can't be too far off.
Built-in Google applications for a certain upcoming smartphone running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich have started leaking out. Earlier today, we talked about leaked Google Music app and, now, we’ll talk about an updated Google+ app which comes with support for Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich.
