Jun 28th, 2012
San Francisco – Google will launch a small tablet computer called Nexus Seven.
The screen of the tablet, which will measure 7 inches (13.5 centimeters), will be smaller than about 10 inches (25 centimeters) of the popular Apple iPad. It is therefore likely that the tablet will become a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle Fire, whose screen also measures 7 inches.
The Nexus Seven will work with the next version...
May 8th, 2012
After the robots designed to go into space and those that are developed to assist the elderly, this is simply an original prototype: KegDroid. This is a wizard whose sole mission is to distribute beer.
To be honest, KegDroid alias Betsy is not really a robot but a printer beer bearing the likeness of Bugdroid, the green robot representing the Android operating system. To operate, KegDroid must be associated with a...
Apr 6th, 2012
YouTube videos uploaded in high definition (HD 720p/1080p) will automatically be converted to be readable in 3D. This was announced on Google’s streaming site.
This is made possible by the power of cloud in the Mountain View company that accelerates the conversion. The process uses existing 3D videos on YouTube to learn the concepts like depth of field, colorimetry or translations. In forming out of...
Mar 9th, 2012
Google Chrome is no longer invincible. For the first, a hacker managed to circumvent its protections to take control of the computer it was installed. This performance took place in a contest organized by Google itself. Within minutes, the Russian student Sergey Glazunov managed to bypass the sandbox (security mechanism insulating the browser operating system) of Chrome. According to Google this system can in theory...
Feb 23rd, 2012
The application Android Google Docs has just been updated by Google. It brings new collaboration features, and the publisher is adorned even a video to promote it.
So users will notice a distinct change in the interface, which should be more convenient and intuitive. We also discover in this application document sharing with multiple users, and support for changes in real time by each of them. Finally, some details...
Feb 21st, 2012
A week after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Google has bypassed security barriers in the Safari browser, we learn that Google would do the same to track users of Internet Explorer.
In a blog post on Monday, Dean Hachamovitch, the vice president of Internet Explorer, explains that when he and his team have learned the practices of Google to Safari, they decided to see if such habits were on Internet...
Feb 9th, 2012
After several weeks of beta, Google Chrome continues its development cycle, and now in version 17 stable. It brings especially new under the hood, as the function of preloading pages which is improved.
The “Instant Pages” Google Chrome was previously limited to Google’s search results. The principle of this function is that the software preload search results of interest to the user as it types its...
Feb 1st, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google ensures that its changes from Wednesday to its policy of protection of privacy does not affect the user control how their personal data is collected and used.
Particular group on which the search engine the same name, the messaging service Gmail, the video sharing service YouTube and social network Google+ announced that it harmonises its privacy policy last week, so that it had...
