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Android Market is now Google Play Store

Google is rebranding Android Market as Google Play. Google Play will bring all Google’s entertainment products under one roof. Google Music, Google Movies, Android Market, Google eBook Store are now called Google Play combined, the move is to unify all the services into one to make it easy for ... Read More →

Google Syncs Recent Local Search from PC to Mobile

Google has added a little feature to its home page that will allow us to see the recent searches on other devices. A Recent icon will appear on the Google home page clicking on that will show the recent local search you did on your computer. The feature is useful when you search for some local ... Read More →

iGoogle Full Page Themes with iStockphoto Images

iGoogle, yeah if you are still using that start page, here is some news that gets you excited. Google introduced full page themes for iGoogle in partnership with iStockhoto. Google introduced several new themes for Gmail few months back, these themes came with HD pictures from iStockphoto. This is ... Read More →

Android 5.0 Jelly Bean to come this fall

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich released in November 2011 is not yet fully loaded to the devices, in fact at the moment there is only one phone, Google Nexus being sold with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich pre-installed. There are rumors two weeks back that Android 5.0 Jelly Bean will release this ... Read More →

Set Gmail as the default Email client in Chrome

Some of us use Gmail most of the time and don’t use desktop Email application at all, in this situation if you click on a mailto: link in web pages or in applications it will take you to the system default client like Outlook which you don’t use. ... Read More →

Google Offers $1 million to find Exploits in Chrome

Google Chrome is racing ahead to become the most popular browser in the world, currently it holds second position in the browser war. Google Chrome is also most secure browser, one of the reason is the sandbox technology it uses to isolate browser from the operating system. ... Read More →

Google Chrome Password Generator

Google is working on a password generator for Chrome that will generate strong passwords automatically when a user attempts to register at a site. Google says passwords are not a very good form of authentication and one way to solve this problem is through browser sign in and OpenID, but convincing ... Read More →

German Federal Agency recommends Google Chrome

Google Chrome is the second most popular browser worldwide behind IE and just ahead of Firefox. It is one of the safest browsers out there. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (Known as BSI in German Initials) recommends Chrome for Windows users in its best practice guidelines for ... Read More →