Apps, Games & Google Services

Google have updated their YouTube Music service continually this year with Google Play Music being shuttered in the coming months and we have seen changes to their TV experience along with the smartphone app. Today they have signalled...

Update: 11:30pm - Services have been restored. Following plenty of reports in short succession, a quick check shows that Google services are down. This appears to be a major incident in that it's not just web interfaces but appears...

YouTube can be quite the cesspool at times; you start watching some innocent content, follow a link then another and before you know it you're watching -- quite hilarious -- conspiracy theories. It's that lack of control and...

After a fairly significant hiatus due to being flooded with requests, Twitter is almost ready to reopen its verification process. This reopening will include some improved guidelines outlining expectations for users who wish to become "blue tick" verified. https://twitter.com/verified/status/1395400234952441862 You'll...

In what seems to be a bit to rebuild the userbase, WhatsApp continues to add features and improve its platform. This time taking aim at bringing some Snapchat users over to the collective. The new feature, rolling...

In what appears to be a pretty smart move, Twitter has updated its privacy policy to include media of others. The policy update specifically notes "private media" to be of interest. The new addition to the policy specifically relates...

Twitter is a great communication medium, a source of news and entertainment. But there are without a doubt some annoyances with the platform. Trolls are rife, separating real from fake news can be difficult at times and there's no...

WABetaInfo is a remarkably reliable source of information for what is likely to land on WhatsApp for regular users. This time around, we're seeing a couple of overdue features that are in the works. One feature coming is the ability...

It started with a tweet from Hiroshi Lockheimer, with the pressure steadily increasing over time. Now Google has raised the stakes in the messaging mayhem, adding a "get the message" page to the Android domain. Noting that the continued pressure...

If you've just nabbed a new Fitbit or Pixel Watch at Christmas, you've got one of the best fitness trackers out there. Like many services though, there are a lot of features available, but some require a subscription. A feature...

Google's first true wireless headphones, the new Pixel Buds, were announced at the Made By Google event in October last year and since then we have seen them appear at the Bluetooth SIG, Wireless Power Consortium and also at...

Google recently rebranded their Hangouts Meet to Google Meet recently and have been adding features that other video conferencing products already have as quickly as possible as businesses transitioned to online meetings only. Now they have added more,...

We have seen over the last few days some very credible rumours surrounding the new and also the missing features on the Google Pixel 4a (and Pixel 4a XL if it does indeed exist). The latest feature to...

Spotify is the biggest streaming music provider around and has a very loyal client base. That being said, it's hardly surprising that when one of their competitors has a great feature that Spotify don't - it makes its...

After what has felt like a long break, today we have seen a new Australian financial institution add support for Google Pay, Revolut. Revolut is another in the increasing number of online-only card providers in Australia. Revolut is not licenced...