Google unveiled Chromecast on Wednesday, a device that looks set to rival Apple TV.
Google Chromecast, essentially little more than an HDMI dongle, is Google's first foray into the media streaming market, and it works in a similar way to Apple TV and the firm's Airplay technology.
No longer content to live under Google's shadow, Samsung has announced its first-ever developer conference, to take place in San Francisco in October.
It's no secret that Samsung has been the leading supplier of Android devices for some time now – by a wide margin. According to one study, fully 94.7 per cent of all profits in the Android device market went to the South Korean firm in the first quarter of 2013.
Google's cloud service contains everything you want - and sometimes what you don't want, like the U.S. government spying on you through its Prism surveillance program.
That's why the search engine giant is reportedly testing out encryption for all Google Drive files, according to a report by CNET.
A group of researchers have uncovered a security vulnerability in the Google Glass platform which could allow attackers to hijack devices with specially-crafted QR codes.
Security firm Lookout said that it has found a method for covertly taking control of Google Glass headsets by exploiting flaws in the way Glass interacts with the photographic codes.
An entire year has passed since the launch of the original Nexus 7. We expected a successor to be announced before this year's Google I/O, and potential specifications have been floating around for longer than that. Imagine our disappointment then, when Google I/O's opening day keynote eschewed new hardware (and the Android version bump that customarily comes with new hardware) in favor of a series of impressive but smaller updates to many of Android's services and APIs. Hope springs eternal, though.
Gigabit Internet service is popping up in all sorts of places, from Google Fiber in Kansas City to major cities like Seattle and even a rural part of Vermont.
But a city with two gigabit Internet service is a rare thing indeed. That's just what Vancouver, British Columbia, is becoming, with a startup called OneGigabit now launching to compete against Shaw, a Canadian ISP that already offers gigabit speed in parts of Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton.
Microsoft Corp said hackers have attacked some computers by exploiting a bug in Windows first disclosed two months ago by a Google Inc researcher, who came under fire at the time for publicizing the flaw without going to the software company first.
Microsoft provided few details about the attacks. In an advisory on Tuesday, it said hackers had launched "targeted attacks," a term generally used by security experts to refer to cyber attacks on corporate or government targets, with espionage and sabotage as the motive.
There was a time when Melody Meckfessel juggled two wardrobes: one for one Google, and one for the rest of her life. Her Google wardrobe included hoodies and t-shirts and blue jeans — standard engineering garb — never blouses, skirts, or dresses. Those were for the rest of her life.
“I began working at startups in my early twenties, and then I worked at bigger software companies, and I’ve now been at Google,” Meckfessel says. “Over the years, I was generally the only woman in room, and I adapted, in many ways, to be one of the guys.”
Apple has filed a patent application for something that looks remarkably similar to Google's billion-dollar crowdsourced mapping buy, Waze - which earlier this year was rumoured to be an Apple takeover target.
The fourth-of-July filing for “User Specified Route Rating and Alerts”, US application 20130173155, has one of the briefest abstracts this Vulture South hack has seen:
Researchers said they've uncovered a security vulnerability that could allow attackers to take full control of smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system.
