Google’s Executive Chairman is good value for a headline-grabbing quote. Sitting down with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera at the opening of the company’s new offices on the former NABISCO bakery, he said “in the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality.” Take the translation with a pinch of [...]
Logitech pushed out the Google TV 2.0 update to its Logitech Revue set-top box this week, upgrading the smart TV adapter with Android Market access, a revised UI and more. The update, based now on Android 3.1, arrived on the SlashGear Revue – which we reviewed, in first-gen form, all the way back in November [...]
Google has another employee to add to their popular and ever-growing list as they’ve recently hired one of the head managers from the Microsoft Windows Phone crew — Joe Marini. Joe was “retired” or resigned follwoing some troubled waters after tweeting information regarding the then unannounced Nokia Lumia 800 Mango handset. The Windows Phone web [...]
If you lucky owners of the Galaxy Nexus in these first days of its release complete with the first iteration of Ice Cream Sandwich, you’ll notice that you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed, nor do you have access to a download on the Android Market – Google has just confirmed with us that [...]
Everyone loves a satellite view. One designer named David Hanauer has taken images directly from Google Earth and turned them into carpeting. Each rug is about 4′ by 6′ showing a carefully selected bird’s eye view of the planet. Stomp on those tiny houses like you’re Jolly Green Giant or Godzilla! Hohoho, Rarrrh. The symmetry [...]
Released to the public free-of-charge in 2005, Google Earth has had more impact on how we view our earth than any cartographer could have imagined. It seems fitting that the software would reach 1 billion downloads on America’s Columbus Day, as discovering America then may represent our in-depth analysis of the world now. Could you [...]
Google Maps has added a new Helicopter View to the navigation service, allowing users to preview their journey in 3D. Recognizing that many users want a more indicative – or at least entertaining – way of seeing their prospective route than either plain maps or birds-eye satellite imagery, the Helicopter View could even let you [...]
Google Offers Beta is expanding to five new markets, with the first daily deals in those markets redeemable starting tomorrow. The service was first launched back in June in Portland, the Bay Area, and New York City. Now it will be adding Austin, Boston, Washington D.C., Denver, and Seattle. To give you an idea of [...]
Samsung may have publicly praised Google’s acquisition of Motorola earlier this week, but behind the scenes the company is reportedly furious that its competitiveness may be slipping away. Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee chaired a last-minute meeting in the aftermath of the deal’s announcement, Yonhap News reports, in which he warned execs that IT power was shifting from hardware companies [...]