Posts Tagged ‘google’

Gauntlet: The Third Encounter was a game for the Atari Lynx, a short-lived handheld console, that was released in 1990. In the game there is a character named Android, who looks suspiciously similar to the character in the Android OS logo. There share the same dotted eyes, antenna, general proportions, and shape. They are so similar in fact, that ...

Yesterday Apple held a press conference which was mainly to reveal new iPods and the new Apple TV. Also, Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, took some shots at Google and Android. He announced that Apple was activating 230,000 devices a day. Last month Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, announced that Google was activating over 200,000 ...

Google Earth for Android has been updated to Version 1.1, allowing users to explore the oceans in great detail. Now, you are able to zoom in underneath the surface and explore the terrain that makes up a huge percentage of our Earth.Included in the 1.1 update is a layer called "Explore the Oceans," ...

The developer of a series of Android wallpaper apps whose applications were put into question last week over security concerns has been cleared by Google and back in the Android Market.The saga began when Kevin MaHaffey, CTO of security firm Lookout, singled out Android wallpaper app developer "jackeey,wallpaper" and called it "a ...

Google Maps has now introduced "Places" which makes it a snap to find a place. The feature is location-based, so it knows where you are while using it.Per Google: Search for several convenient types of places with the default categories or add your own for your most frequent searches. You can also ...

Google Voice has been updated with "direct access numbers" to speed the process of placing calls.Google Voice Blog explains: Until today, the Google Voice app had to make a request to the Google Voice server every time you wanted to make a call to send us the phone number you wanted to dial. ...