You’ve seen images of Google Glass, probably you already had the chance to see someone walking with it, but you might haven’t seen yet what is inside of Glass. If you are curious, an electrical engineer Star Simpson and software engineer Scott Torborg, took upon themselves to figure out what components make this headset tick. [...]
If you haven’t heard WebP is a new image file format designed for the web and developed by Google. It is also an open-source royalty-free compression technology that derivates from the video format VP8 that will help to make the web better and faster in desktop computers, but mobile devices are the ones that will [...]
Google I/O 2013 kicked off today and the company talked about almost everything (almost I say, because the only absence was the announcement of Android 4.3). During the 3.5 hours keynote the search giant unveiled a new redesigned Google+, which looks a lot like Pinterest and Facebook, demoed a new standalone Hangouts app, and showed [...]
In an effort to stop users from worrying in which service they should save their files, Google just decided that having a separate storage for each of its services isn’t working anymore. So starting now the search engine giant is combining the 10GB space storage from Gmail and with the 5GB of Drive and Google+ Photos [...]
There is not denial that Google Glass is perhaps one of the most futuristic, exciting, and fun piece of hardware we’ve seen for some time. Currently the device is available only for early bird adopters and some people who participated in the Google+ and Twitter contest. And although Glass is at least a year away [...]
Chrome 27 is getting closer to leave the beta channel and become a stable version for the masses running Windows, Linux, or Mac. And the new version brings a handful of changes in the user-interface, bug fixes, a faster web browsing experience and new HTML5 forms. In version 27 of the popular browser, Google claims [...]
We are getting closer to start seeing Google Glass everywhere, the company already made public Mirror, the Glass API, but what we didn’t officially know until now is the technical specs for the new gadget. According to Google, this is what customers will get for $1,500: A 640 x 360 high-resolution display that “is the equivalent [...]
Microsoft to add Google’s SPDY support to Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Blue (a.k.a Windows 8.1) to make the web experience faster. According to a new article from Paul Thurrott at the WinSuperSite, the folks at Redmond may be planning to include SPDY support in their next web browser. The new protocol isn’t yet implemented in Internet Explorer 11, [...]
Google recently announced that it will be retiring Google Reader’s service, by far the most popular RSS reader known to man, effectively on July 1st, 2013. This means that if you are one of the many loyal users, you’ll need to start thinking today on replacing it and moving to a new RSS feed service, if [...]
It seems that Google Now maybe making its landing to the Windows version of Chrome and Chrome OS, new beta release of the software reveals. The new integration of Google’s version of Siri was hinted by engineers after mentioning the feature in the latest release of Chromium. Currently there is a new option added to the back-end of [...]