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Google Pay adds another financial institution
With more and more banks coming online it's getting longer and longer between new additions to the list of supported financial institutions. Today Zip.com, the company behind Zip Pay and Zip Money have added...
You can now grant access to Google Drive files from Gmail
If you're a user (work or personal) who spends a lot of time in Google Drive and Gmail then you know some of the hurdles in file sharing. As the connected world develops...
USA Federal Department of Justice is suing Google over alleged Antitrust violations
After months of speculation the US Department of Justice, along with eleven state Attorneys General, have filed a civil lawsuit against Google for "unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search...
Google is rolling out RCS for Messages Australia-wide, regardless of carrier
Google has bet hard on RCS, the next-generation of SMS and MMS that incorporates modern online chat features into the GSMA developed standard. Internationally Google was hoping that international carriers would support the technology,...
Google’s Portrait Light editing feature is rolling out to older Pixel phones
One of the headline features of the new Pixel phones release was a new editing feature for selfies called Portrait Light. At the time we were told by Google that it would arriving...
Google is rolling out a major update to Smart Displays, and it looks good
A few weeks ago we spotted a test of an updated UI for Assistant-powered smart displays, now Google has officially unveiled the update, and it's significant. The new UI, builds on the familiar look...
Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 OTA and factory images have been published by...
Google's own phones have a number of huge advantages to them: stock Android, long term OS updates and the availability of factory images. For users who've recently acquired one of the latest Google...
What’s that song? Just hum it to Google
Hey, what's this song, 'do a ditty, ditty dum ditty do'? No, don't know it? That's ok, Google might. At yesterdays On Search 2020 event, Google unveiled one of their more whimsical features, the...
You can now set Spotify as your default Podcast player on Google Assistant
As spotted a few days ago Google was rolling out functionality for setting up a default Podcast player in Assistant settings. Now Spotify has been added into that list, making Spotify the first official...
Google is promising a revolution in AI based search, and it looks like what...
Google Search is already the market leader when it comes to finding out what you want to know, we'd argue they got there by being the best. Well, the best is about to get...
Google Maps introduces live reporting of how busy business are in real time
Google quietly announced a search focus event yesterday called 'Search On 2020', an event for Google to discuss all of the search innovations they missed discussing at Google I/O this year. During the event,...
Google Play Points start rolling out in Australia
As first leaked and then confirmed: Google Play Points are now officially in Australia, coinciding with the retail availability of the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5.
Google Play Points is a loyalty point system...
Third-party podcast players may finally be coming to Assistant-powered speakers, displays and devices
If Google's smart device ecosystem is lacking one major thing, it's the ability to play your podcasts from your chosen service.
Today brings news we've awaited for a long long time - that feature may...
Google Play Music no longer works with your Assistant-powered speakers
We knew this was coming but that doesn't make it any easier. Google Play Music has been in the gun for quite a while and the full shutdown is now imminent, especially when...
Review: Google Pixel 5, a return to the Nexus days?
It seems like just yesterday that Google released the Pixel 4a, and it kind of was, such is the time warp of 2020. This year Google had their Made By Google event at...