It seems that Google has finally followed along in the steps of Apple and Microsoft – opening up its first ever dedicated retail store in London.
The store was opened on the morning of September 30th with little fanfare, and actually is a store-within-a-store – being located inside Tottenham Court Road’s PC World.
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Google finally introduced its popular Blogger blog-publishing service to the App store on September 8 – via a free download.
Blogger was started in 1999 and was bought by Google in 2003. Since then, its been immensely popular, with many thousands of users.
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As Apple’s battle with its longtime rival Android rages on, the ammunition just keeps piling up.
This time, Apple brings out a huge accusation – claiming that a key patent for a “real-time signal processing” API that is part of Android’s framework was actually developed by Apple engineers a while back.
The ironic part is that one of those engineers was Andy Rubin, who is now co-founder of Android and Google executive.
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Huge news today, as Google has suddenly announced that it was going to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
Apparently, the internet giant is using this acquisition in order to add a new hardware arm to push forward its Android platform. Google paid $40 per share in cash for Motorola’s shares, a 63% premium over Friday’s closing price.
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We here at iTracki have covered Google+ and its debut onto the Internet and into the iOS App Store for a while now, and ever since the free app became available, many users have been dismayed that the app only supported the iPhone, while not the iPad or iPod Touch. However, all this has now changed; with a recent update, the official Google+ app now runs on those two devices as well as the iPhone. However, it’s still not universal; if you want it on your iPad, you’ll have to use the 2X mode to zoom things in, which looks extremely ugly. Oh well, it’s better than no app at all.
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A report by Bloomberg claims that HTC is trying to strike a deal with Apple regarding the patent lawsuits that have been flaring up between the two companies.
Apparently, HTC has recently bought a company that has won a dispute with Apple in the past, and is hoping to use that as firepower for its demands in a deal.
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Mobile advertising is really becoming a big deal. If you use your iPhone to browse the internet, you’ll often see that the mobile versions of websites still have small advertisements in them (damn, and you thought they were gone.) If you launch applications (especially free ones) on either Android or iOS, ads pop up in there too. Programs such as Admob or iAds are targeted to developers who want to make a bit more money off their application. And really, when it comes to the leading mobile advertising revenue platforms, its gotta be Android and iOS. Here’s an infographic from mobile ad mediation platform Inneractive on which OS is faring better.
Read More →If you were one of the first to jump on board when the official Google+ app hit the App Store this morning, you may have already been prompted to update the app. Why? Punit Soni, a member of Apple, explains: We discovered an issue with the version of the iPhone Google+ App that was on the App Store. When we launched, the App Store started serving a previous test version of the App which didn’t have the stability and fixes that the latest version had. It started serving the correct version a little later.
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Google and Apple are once again caught up in a furious battle in court, as Apple has recently unleashed a whirlwind of lawsuits against Android-based smartphone developers such as HTC and Samsung.
However, even when faced with all of these problems, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt remained calm when asked about the lawsuits at Google’s Mobile Revolution conference in Tokyo.
Read More →Google+, the latest social network from Google (obviously) has already gotten an official app on the iOS app store. The app, which launched today, July 19th, makes it even easier for users to share with their Circles or utilize the many other features that Google+ sports. This app is available as a free download.
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An India-based company, Kooltol Software, has targeted over 30 companies, including Apple, claiming patent violations. The list of companies includes Amazon, AOL, Apple, Bebo, Bharti Airtel, ExactTarget, Facebook, Ford Motor, Foursquare, Google, IBM, The Iconfactory, LinkedIn, Microsoft, MySpace, Ning, Nokia, Peek, PopBox, Quora, Research In Motion, Salesforce, Seesmic, Siemens, Sina.com, StatusNet, TwitPic, Twitter, Ubermedia, Webaroo Technology, Yahoo, and Yammer. Quite a large list, with some huge companies, such as Amazon, AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo being targeted.
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Almost everyone knows about Google’s new social network, named Google+, designed to be a competitor with Facebook. But unlike Facebook, Google+ has no mobile app, making it difficult to share and post to the network on the go. But now, you can. No, it’s not a native app, but rather, another app, called DoAT. Check out the video below:
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The recent release of Google+ has caused enormous excitement amongst the internet community. For those of you who don’t know already, Google+ is a new social networking tool that includes group video conferencing features and incorporates a brand new, easy-to-use grouping system deemed “Circles”- which allows you to organize friends, family, [...]
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Yesterday Google released their new answer to Facebook, Google+. It focuses on your friends and connecting with them in different ways. It comes with a fully featured Android app, and today we learn that there will be one for iOS too. The current app has support for video chatting, [...]
Read More →Anyone who follows up frequently on Apple news knows the company’ position on Flash, and its refusal to incorporate flash support into the iOS operating system. Instead, Apple has been promoting HTML5, which is their alternate “solution” for displaying flash-like content. Some developers are jumping on board, but most are sticking with [...]
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