Google today announced that it is adding 20 more languages including Chinese and Korean for Gboard to Android. With this new addition, a total number of languages that Gboard supports reached over 300 covering 74% of the world’s population. Continue reading “Google Gboard for Android gets 20 new languages including Chinese and Korean”
Google Drive is always clumsy with shared files especially if you are using G Suite business applications. Google with the latest update is aiming to clean up the mess by using its artificial intelligence. It will now organize the “Shared with Me” section so you can also see people listed, along with files they’ve shared with you. Continue reading “Google Drive will use AI to intelligently organize “Shared with Me” files”
Google app for iOS is getting major improvement and new features including deeper iMessage integration, drag and drop to search, save, or share on iPad and more. iMessage extension lets you search, share GIFs, restaurants, and videos whenever you are messaging. Continue reading “Google app for iOS gets iMessage integration, drag and drop to search and more”
Generally, Google has a trend of rolling out new Android version as developer preview before the official introduction at the I/O event. Following the same trend this time as well, it is widely anticipated that Google might release the first developer’s preview later this month according to popular leakster Evan Blass. Continue reading “Android P first developer preview expected to release mid-March”
Dropbox today announced that it is partnering with Google to bring native integration of G Suite and let users make better use of the cloud collaboration company’s toolset which will bring the ability to create and save Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly from Dropbox. Continue reading “Dropbox partners with Google to bring native G Suite integration”
Google Search featured snippets are a great way to get information quickly, and today the company is introducing multifaceted featured snippets for search queries. In a way, Google is solving the nuanced queries with more actionable results. Continue reading “Google now shows multifaceted featured snippets for multiple search queries”
Google just announced that it is introducing Hangouts Chat as a core service in the Gsuite. The Hangouts Chat service will launch by default on unless you’ve chosen to opt for new services manually. Gsuite users can have direct and group conversations to collaborate easily and efficiently. It was announced back in March last year and takes on Slack. Continue reading “Google launches Hangouts Chat for businesses to take on Slack”
Iris Scanner which first debuted on the most controversial Galaxy Note7 though failed to create an impact has opened up to a new biometric authentication. With Apple implementing the Face Unlock feature, Android OEMs have developed their own version of the facial unlocking system and made it a mainstream feature. Continue reading “Android P said to have native support for Iris Scanner”
According to the International Data Corporation’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments worldwide have declined 0.5% in 2017 making it the first year-over-year decline in the market since the evolution of smartphones. A total of 1.46 billion devices were shipped in 2017 including both Android and iOS. Continue reading “Worldwide smartphone shipments decline 0.5% first-time in 2017, expected to return to growth in 2018: IDC”
Google at the MWC 2018 event has announced the first beta of Flutter which is a new mobile UI framework that helps developers in designing high-quality native interfaces for both iOS and Android. It lets developers to create native apps in record time. Continue reading “Google Flutter beta launched for faster cross-platform app development”
After briefly going on sale in January, Google Clips is now officially available in the USA just in time for the promised March shipping time frame. Clips is Google’s A.I powered camera was introduced back in October at the Pixel event. Continue reading “Google Clips goes on sale in the US for $249”
At the MWC event, KaiOS Technologies announced that it is partnering with Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA, Airfind, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Doro, HMD Global, Micromax, NXP, Qualcomm to integrate with newest chipsets and offer advanced functionality on lite phones. Furthermore, KaiOS is already supported on high-performance LTE chipset platform Spreadtrum’s SC9820A which is now running on JioPhone.
Google with an aim to offer healthcare related information quickly in search results, rolled out the Health Cards with over 400 health conditions back in April 2016. Today it announced that it is adding information about commonly searched symptoms like common cold, acute bronchitis, flu, pneumonia, chest infection and Hindi language support. Continue reading “Google Health cards get common symptom search in India in Hindi and English”
Google today announced a strategic partnership with SBI to deeply integrate SBI bank on the company’s digital payments app Google Tez. This partnership lets users create SBI UPI Id; @oksbi and get access to exclusive offers for SBI customers and enable wider adoption of digital payments and growing the digital payments ecosystem in India. Continue reading “Google Tez now lets SBI bank users create SBI UPI IDs”
At the Mobile World Congress, Google shared some major developments in Actions on the Google Assistant; it will now be available in seven more languages including Hindi, Thai, Indonesian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch bringing the total supported languages to 16. Continue reading “Actions on Google Assistant gets 7 news languages, deeper app integration, available to more developers”
