November 3, 2015 Google smartwatch reportedly coming ‘sooner rather than later’ The smartwatch market is beginning to heat up, with several major tech companies already in the game. Two big hitters – Apple and Google – are yet to enter the space, although a report this week suggests the latter could be launching a device soon.
November 3, 2015 Google plans to use your face in advertising Taking a page out of Facebook's, well, book, Google is has changed its Terms of Service to allow it to use your profiles in advertisements. If you give something a +1 on Google+, it could show up in marketing materials.
November 3, 2015 Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter call for transparency on NSA spying Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft are part of a broad alliance of technology companies and civil liberties groups that will demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts.
November 3, 2015 Google is developing an Android game console Google is developing a videogame console and wristwatch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet company seeks to spread the software beyond smartphones and tablets.
November 3, 2015 Miss Google Reader? Facebook developing replacement news app Facebook is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tailored for mobile devices.
November 3, 2015 France threatens Google with privacy fines France is giving Google three months to be more upfront about the data it collects from users -- or be fined.
November 3, 2015 Google launches Internet-beaming balloons in New Zealand Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online.
November 3, 2015 Top 5 new features of Google Plus Google announced 41 new features for Google+ at Google I/O 2013. Here are five worthwhile features of Google Plus that rolled out yesterday.
November 3, 2015 Google Glass app offers facial recognition There seems to be no end to what Google Glass can do. The latest advancement to come to Google's futuristic headgear is an app that gives Glass facial recognition capabilities.
November 3, 2015 Google Glass is the future – and the future has awful battery life Smartphone growth is slowing and people need something to hold on to — but the early “Explorer” version of Google’s highly anticipated Google Glass headset has major problem that could be a big barrier for widespread adoption: Awful battery life.
