eBay Australia 2017: Google Home Assistant Bot and More Personalisation Coming Up
Last week Ausdroid was invited to a breakfast briefing by eBay Australia where I was able to ask them how their eCommerce site has evolved over the last 5 years, their position on the GST low value threshold (LVT)...
Keyboard is now showing up in Google Assistant – and you can now see...
At Google I/O earlier this week, a big announcement, or at least a big announcement for those of us still not comfortable talking to Google Assistant, is that a typing option was coming - and it's now showing up.
Saying...
How to get Google Assistant onto your Australian non Pixel device, maybe
With Google officially announcing Google Assistant and Google Home for Australia many of us are trying to get the update onto our compatible devices. Unfortunately, Google has said that it's only officially available in the US for users with...
Android TV is getting an interface overhaul and more features including Assistant with Android...
Are you a fan of Android TV? Well, we are for the most part, but it's got some issues and Google is trying to fix some of those with the latest update for Android TV.
We sat down with Android...
What’s happening with Google Assistant and Home launching in Australia
The big news of Google I/O for many people was the direct call out to Australians on the expansion of Google Home to Australia. The physical home for Google Assistant is finally coming to Australia and while we're still...
Paying with Google: the all new Google Payments and updates for Android Pay
During the IO 2017 Keynote Google revealed their new Google Payments API intended to provide developers with a way to implement seamless payments across the Web, Mobile and even via Google Assistant. The Google Payments API provides all the...
LG and GE are making Google Assistant compatible appliances
Google Assistant got a big shot in the arm yesterday with a functionality boost to match Google Home. As an extension of that, appliance makers LG and GE have announced that their appliances will now be Google Assistant compatible,...
Nick Fox from Google says Allo’s web client is still ‘a month or two’...
We have know for a while now that Google would be bringing a a web view for Google's Allo chat/messaging service, but Google hasn't as yet provided an exact date for when the web view would actually become available...
Actions on Google gets more features, including payments and action shortcuts, and a developer...
Along side with the new user facing enhancements to the Google Assistant at Google IO, such as Actions on Google now being available on phones, the Google Developer team has also taken the wraps of a few enhancements for...
Embedded Android Auto gets detailed at Google I/O 2017
The other day Google blogged about how Android Auto would soon be arriving as an embedded system in some cars (Audi and Volvo at this stage). This afternoon at Google I/O more details were furnished to developers on...
Google Assistant and Home get more features announced at Google I/O
Google Assistant has had a fairly busy first year since it was introduced on stage at Google IO 2016, and then finally got shipped to users following the first Made by Google event a few months later. Since then,...
Google Home officially coming to Australia
Google Home is pretty awesome but there's one big issue with the initial launch -- it's not available in Australia. Minutes ago, Google have changed that announcing that Canada, Australia, France, Germany and Japan will have Google home...
Google Lens: A new way to use your phone camera
The first jaw dropping announcement at Google I/O 2017 this morning has been the announcement of Google Lens, utilising Google's continually growing understanding of vision in photos -- labelled as vision based computing capabilities by Sundar Pichai.
The initial implementation...
Android Things Developer Preview 4 drops just in time for Google IO with full...
Google IO kicks off tomorrow and just in time for the developer conference, Google has dropped the latest Developer Preview (Dev Preview 4 for those playing at home) which includes full support for the Google Assistant SDK.
It's all about...
HTC’s U11 is now official; packs premium performance, camera and audio features into a...
We're in Taipei at HTC's headquarters for the launch of the U11, the company's 2017 entry into the smartphone flagship wars. This is ground zero for HTC, which celebrated its 20th birthday just hours before.
The U11 is the company's...