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  It has taken good nine months but it is finally official – Motorola Mobility is now a part of Google Inc. Google is yet to reveal the future plans but has confirmed that Sanjay Jha will step down as CEO and Dennis Woodside will take his place instead. Back in August, Google bought the [...]

  Google Chrome’s tab sync is a really nifty feature and today they’ve extended it to the stable version of Chrome 19. The desktop version can sync opened tabs in real time so that users can access those sites from any other PC or device running Chrome browser. A user needs to associate his Google [...]

  Google’s long-rumored cloud storage service, Google Drive may get an unveiling as early as today, according to a report by Reuters. Reuter’s source points out that Google will announce both free as well as paid versions, which will have 5GB as an initial storage and users will be add up to 100GB of space [...]

  Reliance Communications has entered into a collaboration with Google to promote Android devices sold in India. Touted as India’s first operator to tie up with Google, the collaboration will last two years where Reliance will promote the devices with their 3G network. To start off, Reliance has announced a scheme valid till June 15, [...]

  So the Google’s Project Glass from the other day is not just a concept. Google’s already testing some prototypes and co-founder Sergey Brin has been snapped wearing it at a charity function. According to Robert Scoble, the glasses seemed “very light looking” and had a bluish light flashing off that supposedly gave out some [...]

  Google is looking to give augmented reality a big boost with the Project Glass project they just revealed. It involves user wearing a display that will allow them to do a multitude of things like setting up appointments, receive a video call, get directions, check out the reviews of a particular place and a [...]

  New info related to Google’s Drive storage service has surfaced. According to a screenshot posted by Talk Android, Google will give 5GB of free storage. This is good news since the previous rumor suggested to give only a gig of space, which seemed less than what the competition offered. In addition to the regular [...]

  Google co-brands with manufacturers to market and sell Nexus phones and it seems they’ll adopt a similar strategy for their tablets as well. According to Wall Street Journal’s sources, the company will start selling co-branded tablets on their online store. The article also says that until the Motorola deal is approved, Google won’t produce [...]

  Google has started rolling out its latest Ice Cream Sandwich update for Samsung’s Nexus devices and Motorola’s Xoom. The Android 4.0.4 will be available to Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi users in the coming weeks as an OTA update that will bring improved stability along with better camera performance, smoother screen [...]

  Ever wanted to know to what extent do you use various Google services? How many emails you received and sent in a month? Who is the most contacted person in your Gmail account? Or how many total views your uploaded YouTube videos got? Well, Google has introduced Account Activity that does all of the [...]

  It has been rumored for years but it seems Google’s fabled storage service will come out for real next month. Dubbed as GDrive, GigaOM’s source claims the service will go live in the first week of April. As for the free storage, Google is rumored to give 1GB of space compared to Dropbox’s 2GB [...]

  Google’s Chrome OS currently runs on devices powered by Intel Atom processors but according to the new info on the Chromium OS page, Google’s OS will support ARM-powered processors pretty soon. A Chrome OS device codenamed Daisy is apparently being tested with an ARM-based Samsung Exynos 5250 processor. This Exynos processor is a dual-core [...]

  Google first released the Android 4.0 update in December for Nexus S but pulled it soon following complaints from users. Now Engadget has a word from their source that Google is gearing up to release the fixed update again for the previous generation Nexus users. Apparently, Google will release the Ice Cream Sandwich update [...]

  Android is penetrating the mobile phone market by leaps and bounds and the new activation numbers released by Andy Rubin confirm that. The SVP of Google Mobile and Digital Content confirmed that they’re seeing over 850,000 Android devices getting activated every day. This is a 250 percent growth year-on-year, making total number of Android [...]

  Google’s Chrome team has had a busy week. First was the release of the Android-based Chrome browser and now they’ve updated their desktop version to make it better than before. Version 17 is now available in the stable channel and enables faster browsing by pre-rendering the most likely to visit web page. As for [...]