Nest, the Google-owned home monitoring company, has pulled back its Protect Smoke detector device from stores on Thursday, after discovering a flaw. Nest confirmed that it is temporarily halting sales of the…
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Google’s trademark application for Glass stalled by USPTO
United States Patents and Trademark Office (USPTO) has stalled the trademark application for Google Glass. Though Google was able to make a reservation for the term last year, a report by The…
Around the world in 22 days: Google’s Loon Ibis-167 sets a new record
Google’s increasingly popular Project Loon Ibis-167 balloon has just finished its first lap of journey around the world in 22 days connecting remote places to the world of Internet. The balloon has…
BT Sport to make Chromecast debut on April 7
BT Sport has confirmed its support for Google’s new HDMI TV dongle Chromecast, few weeks after the device was launched in the UK and ten new countries. The ‘cast’ button will arrive…
Chromebooks shipments reached 2.1 million in 2013
Latest study claims that around 2.1 million Chromebooks shipped in 2013 with nearly 89 percent of total shipments reaching North America. ABI Research, a market intelligence firm, on Tuesday published its research…
Amazon rolls out streaming device Fire TV in US
Amazon launched a new streaming and video game device on Wednesday to compete with Google, Apple and Roku. The device costs $99 and is available now in the US. The new device,…
Nest Learning Thermostat lands in UK
Nest, a Google owned intelligent home electronics start-up, on Wednesday, launched its Learning Thermostat in the U.K, two years after its US launch in 2012. The thermostat’s UK rollout comes just three…
Moto G’s success drives Motorola’s come back in UK
Latest research report claims success of Moto G smartphone to have a great positive impact on Motorola’s UK market share of 6 percent from almost 0 percent over the six months period….
Microsoft slashes Azure prices by 65% to compete with Amazon, Google
Microsoft on Monday announced price cuts of up to 65 percent for its newly renamed Azure cloud services. The company is dropping prices of compute by up to 35 percent and storage…
Google Chromecast scores big in UK
Google’s Chromecast has had an impressive UK launch with leading retailer claiming to have sold one Chromecast unit every 4.5 seconds. The latest reports from some of the European retailers reveal that…
Google+ adds page view counts to user profile page
Google today announced that it is adding an interesting update to Google+ in order to boost the social network’s popularity. As part of the update, the new ‘total content views’ feature will…
Google: Turkish ISPs are intercepting our DNS
Google on Saturday confirmed that most of the Turkish Internet service providers are intercepting its public DNS (Domain Name System) service by setting up masquerade DNS servers. “We have received several credible…
Government data requests surged by 120% in last four years claims Google
According to Google’s latest transparency report published on Thursday, data requests by government agencies have increased by more than 120 percent since 2009 when the company first began publishing the data request…
Google revises Play Store developer policies to corner nefarious developers
Google is taking steps to clean up Play Store by ensuring that developers get their act together and refrain from publishing apps that contain or promote pornography, and steer clear of potentially…
Google researchers: Journalists, news organisations top targets of state-sponsored hackers
Google researchers claim journalists and news organisations to be the target of state-sponsored hacking attacks with 21 of the top 25 news organisations having been attacked recently. Discussing the research paper at…