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Google offers 2 months of free Google Play Music subscription to new users
If you haven't yet tried Google Play Music's All Access service, you probably should. Streaming radio is all the rage these days, and Google's service is pretty good. With over 35 million songs that...
Google’s inbox wants to enhance your snoozes
Despite the rise of messaging as a global phenomenon for communication the likes of Telegram, WhatsApp and similar services have just not been able to defeat the ubiquity of good old fashioned standardised email.
Google...
Google’s Cloud Platform team are launching their own Podcast
Google has announced that their Cloud Platform team will host their own podcast, to talk about what new updates are being put through for their cloud platform along with new products the team are...
Twitter launches its Fabric mobile development toolkit for Android and iOS
Twitter has announced the mobile app for their Fabric mobile development toolkit is now available in both Google Play and the App Store for iOS.
While Fabric has been available since 2014, the app has...
Gmail gets rich text formatting and enhanced calender RSVP integration on Android
What's a Wednesday without an update to some Google products? The Gmail team today announced two new features are coming to Android - Rich Text Formatting and Instant RSVP.
Rich Text Formatting integration is fairly...
The LG G5 Does Have An App Drawer, And Samsung May Not
Yesterday, just moments after the LG G5 announcement, the world exploded. Yes, that's right LG had "removed" the app drawer from their launcher. While many murmured about the downfall of Android in...
Google is leading a growing group of carriers towards adoption of RCS, a new...
In a decidedly Google-style move, the company just announced at Mobile World Congress the formation of a partnership with 19 international carriers and the GSM Association (GSMA) to work on the development and deployment...
Android at MWC isn’t all hard work, there’s pins to collect and Android fun...
Those who have been to Mobile World Congress before know that it can be a hard, dry slog. There's hundreds, if not thousands, of vendors, booths and more to see and getting around to even...
Exporting Google Fit data just got a little bit easier
Google Fit has been around for a while now, it contains a wealth of information but what if you want to take that data and do something with it? Till now it's been locked...
Editorial: US Government wants to force Apple to modify software to allow it access...
There's a rather complex situation coming out of the US in the last couple of days, arising out of the San Bernardino shooting incident which occurred in December last year. We won't go into...
Gmailify your @yahoo and @outlook email account
Want Gmail functionality but still want to keep your long held or now impossible to get email address? Well if you use either Yahoo’s or Microsoft’s web-based email then now you can. Google has...
Google’s think tank Ideas has become Jigsaw
Google has announced that its think tank, Google Ideas, has now become a new technology incubator called Jigsaw.
Jigsaw's mission will be to use and utilise technology to help tackle and solve the toughest geopolitical...
Google is adding a “people” icon to shared Google Drive folders on the web
Google is changing the way you see shared folders in Google Drive's web interface in an attempt to make group sharing easier and more transparent.
The main change will be the addition a new "people"...
My Maps gets a Material Design update and becomes much better
My Maps is pretty cool, allowing users to label and make notes on top of Google Maps. As you can see above, we've been using this to create a custom map for our trip...
Google Clock app gets an update to allow you to resize its widgets properly
Look, if you thought this morning's update about Google's Text to Speech service was mundane, you might find this equally dull. Google's Clock app is surprisingly popular, and probably one of the most popular...