Android KitKat, released just 10 months back, accounts for 20.9% of the Android devices, while Jelly Bean remains to be the most popular version with 54.2% share.
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Google’s Classroom is now open for all Apps for Education users
Google: We’re starting to open Classroom to all Google Apps for Education users, helping teachers spend more time teaching and less time shuffling papers.
Google teams up with Asian tech giants for $300M trans-Pacific cable
Construction of Faster, the trans-Pacific cable is expected to begin immediately, with the goal to be ready to go by second quarter of 2016.
Judge rejects $324.5M settlement in Silicon Valley anti-poaching case
Koh ruled out that the proposed settlement amount “falls below the range of reasonableness”.
Android Device Manager update adds call back button on lost, stolen devices
The relatively small update is void of any change log, but apk tinkerers have unearthed some vital information
Google updates Android L builds for Nexus 5, Nexus 7; releases Fit SDK
The update brings with it support for Google’s recently released health-tracking platform, Google Fit.
Yahoo follows Google’s footsteps; promises encrypted email by 2015
In 2015, Yahoo Mail would be end-to-end encrypted, and will also be compatible with end-to-end encryption for Gmail, which Google is currently working on.
Multiuser support to land on smartphones with Android’s next public build
This hasn’t been announced by Google officially!
Migrate to HTTPS or face search ranking penalty, Google implies
Google is rewarding websites, which use secure connections (HTTPS) for customers’ usage and other activities, with better search ranking. In a way Google would push down websites in its search engines that…
Google acquires mobile messaging startup ‘Emu’
Financial details of the deal have not yet been disclosed.
Google’s YouTube bags video-editing startup Directr
Mobile based video advertising seems to be the next frontier and Google surely doesn’t want to give away its online advertising crown to anyone else.
Google snuffs out Bomb Gaza game from its Playstore
Google: We remove apps from Google Play that violate our policies.
Google’s Gmail scan leads to arrest of Texas sex offender
Detective David Nettles: He was keeping it inside of his email. I can’t see that information, I can’t see that photo, but Google can.
Google to forget even a Wikipedia page
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales: It’s completely insane and it needs to be fixed.
Google to sever photo feature from Google Plus?
Google: Over here in our darkroom, we’re always developing new ways for people to snap, share and say cheese.