Google Admits To Collecting WiFi Data
In a blog post, Google has admitted that it has been inadvertently collecting WiFi data through its Street View cars. Earlier Google has told the Data Protection Authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany that their Street View cars collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses; but no payload data. In the blog post,… |
Google Chrome 5 Beta – Now upto 30% Faster!
Google’s browser, Chrome has a new beta release, Chrome 5.0.375.29 Beta. While Linux and Mac users are already using the Chrome 5 Beta series, this is the first beta of the series for Windows users. Google is already boasting that this new release, with its V8 JavaScript engine, is 30-35% faster than the previous release…. |
GMail & Multi-Tasking: 3 Things That You Did Not Know
GMail is not only your best online email client (as well as offline?) but also as your online to-do list manager and much much more. Although present in GMail since it started, I am pretty sure you must have missed the multi-tasking features that are already available in GMail and can make you GMail experience… |
Google in EU’s firing line again! This time with Street View
Google seems to be having a very tough time in Europe this month. There was the case where their executives were convicted in Italy and their search engine algorithm was called into questioned. Now another trouble seems to be brewing with its Street View feature in Google Maps. Reuters reported about a letter from EU… |
YouTube to stop supporting IE 6 from 13 March
Google continues its crusade against Internet Explorer 6. They have already stopped supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps and are also said to be planning to stop supporting it by this year’s end in GMail and Google calendar as well. We all knew that they will be giving up the support of IE6 in… |
4 Powerful Tips To Get More Productive With Google Buzz
There already has been a lot of buzz in the webosphere about the Google Buzz – Google’s answer to Twitter. Although critics have constantly bashed Google Buzz saying there is nothing new to Google Buzz and most of the features are a copy of one or the other web service that has already existed, Google… |
Google demos Flash in Android device
Today, in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google product manager Eric Tseng announced that Google will soon add the ability to play Flash videos in its Android mobile OS. This is a very significant announcement from Google as it will give its Android OS a clear advantage over the iPhone OS and the new… |