Thanks to legislation, significant drops in mobile phone theft have been reported. This legislation has led to the introduction of kill switches by most manufacturers. Major ...
February 12, 2015 at 2:58 pm by Joe Dincer-Ubl
To celebrate Safer Internet Day, an initiative to encourage computer users to consider the security of their systems, Google is offering 2GB of storage to Google Drive users ...
February 10, 2015 at 7:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Boston Dynamics, a company now owned by Google, has a new robot to join their other creepy animal-like bots. He/she/it is called Spot, just like the name you might give to a ...
February 10, 2015 at 6:28 pm by Ryan Simmons
When Google launched Chrome, they intended to bring a faster web browsing experience. To do this they developed their own protocol known as SPDY. With the next version of ...
February 10, 2015 at 1:58 pm by Joe Dincer-Ubl
Google Maps has just become 10 years old. It’s hard to believe that it’s as old as that, but it’s also hard to imagine a world without it 10 years ago.The ...
February 10, 2015 at 9:26 am by Ryan Simmons
A 20th Century childhood favourite since its release in the Sixties, stereoscope toy the View-Master could be set for a modern-day revival by Google and original creator ...
February 7, 2015 at 2:58 pm by Ashley Allen
For the first time since 2012, sales of iPhones alone overtook all of the combined sales of Android handsets. According to market research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, ...
February 5, 2015 at 12:58 am by Ryan Simmons
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Taboola have been paying the German owners of AdBlock Plus to make sure that their adverts sneak through the advert blocker’s algorithms. The ...
February 2, 2015 at 11:28 pm by Ashley Allen
Google Earth, the humble and brilliant digital globe application, has always had a much more professional and expensive cousin. Google Earth Pro includes a host of features ...
February 2, 2015 at 1:58 pm by Ryan Simmons
In a surprising example of customer generosity, owners of the original Dropcam and Dropcam Echo, the earlier models of the easy-to-use Wi-Fi security cameras, will receive ...
February 1, 2015 at 9:58 am by Ryan Simmons
Google is to amend its privacy policy in the UK following a recent probe by the nation’s regulators. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) released a statement on ...
January 31, 2015 at 3:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Google has just released Smart Lock – it basically turns your Android phone into one of those fancy ‘walk up’ keys for cars, but instead for your ...
January 31, 2015 at 8:58 am by Ryan Simmons
Google’s ‘Attach money’ feature for Gmail, launched in the US back in 2013, is now being rolled out to UK account holders. The feature transfers funds through e-mail ...
January 31, 2015 at 3:28 am by Ashley Allen
SolidEnergy, an MIT start-up, has built a unique model of lithium-ion battery that can hold double the amount of energy as a current lithium battery. The feat was achieved ...
January 29, 2015 at 11:58 pm by Ashley Allen
As a further sign of Google’s quest to take over the world, The Wall Street Journal says that the company’s Google Fiber service is set to expand to four more US ...
January 28, 2015 at 1:28 am by Ryan Simmons
