New Delhi: Today's doodle celebrates the 96th birthday of American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. Ella Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. The doodle features Ella Fitzgerald giving a stage performance. Replacing the second 'G' of Google, Ella Fitzgerald appears in the foreground. Other accompanists playing a saxophone, trumpet, double bass and drums are seen in the background. Ella Fitzgerald was also known as the "First Lady...
10:32 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Commemorating the 96th birthday of American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, Google has posted a doodle on its homepage. Ella Fitzgerald, who was also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. The doodle features Ella Fitzgerald giving a stage performance. Replacing the second 'G' of Google, Ella Fitzgerald appears in the foreground. Other accompanists...
05:02 PM, Apr 24, 2013
San Francisco: Google Inc has acquired Wavii, the Seattle-based startup behind a news summarisation app, for roughly $30 million in cash, a person with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday. Google's successful bid came after Apple Inc had expressed interest in buying Wavii to incorporate the startup's natural language technology into Siri, Apple's voice-activated personal assistant feature, said the person, who declined to be named because the deal has not...
08:25 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Melbourne: Internet search giant Google may soon revamp its iconic homepage, personalising it for each user by adding relevant information about weather, traffic conditions and even your favourite stocks. The current Google homepage comprises a white screen, a search box and a pretty logo. Google is reportedly working on bringing 'Google Now', its personalised homepage feature of its Android phones to the web and to its search page. The tech...
05:25 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Frankfurt: A German privacy regulator has fined Google for illegally recording signals from Wifi networks while it was taking photographs for its Street View service. Google's roving Street View vans picked up large amounts of personal data such as e-mails, passwords, photos and online chat protocols, said the commissioner for data protection and freedom of information in Hamburg city state, Johannes Caspar. Caspar fined Google 145,000 euros ($189,700), close to...
11:07 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Washington: Apple Inc scored a win on Monday when the US International Trade Commission ruled that it did not violate a Google patent to make the popular iPhones. Apple had initially been accused of infringing on six patents for iPhone-related technology covering everything from reducing signal noise to programming the device's touchscreen so a user's head does not accidentally activate it while talking on the phone. If Apple had been...
10:06 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Seoul: Google's app store revenues are growing much faster than those of Apple Inc, but Apple still dominates overall sales, market research data taken from the first three months of the year shows. The app stores collectively raked in $2.2 billion in the first three months of 2013, according to Canalys, a market researcher. The firm says Apple's App Store generated $1.48 billion of revenue, accounting for 74 per cent...
12:38 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Google Mapathon event case, in which the US internet giant allegedly violated Indian mapping laws, has been sent to the home ministry with the recommendation of a probe by the CBI cyber crime cell, said BJP MP Tarun Vijay. "Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has informed that the case against Google India for violating Indian mapping laws has been recommended to be investigated by the cyber crime...
10:58 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: It is noon on a bright spring day on the Google Earth Day 2013 doodle. Clicking on the play button on the blazing sun sets the day and the doodle in motion. The sun moves westwards to set and the moon rises in the sky and the cycle of seasons that control so much on the planet is replayed on your browser. The animated Earth Day 2013 Google...
06:41 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Washington: Google Inc's core Internet business grew net revenue 23 per cent in the first quarter, softening the effect of a sharp decline in its Motorola mobile phone division. Shares of Google, which reached an all-time high of $844 in March, were up 1.5 per cent to $777.75 in after hours trading on Thursday. "Google eked out an acceptable quarter, but it wasn't easy," said Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan....
02:30 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New York: For the second time in three years, a US federal judge has dismissed Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube, saying the online video site doesn't have to police itself as long as it removes infringing videos when copyright owners give notice. US District Court Judge Louis Stanton in New York ruled on Thursday that Viacom never proved YouTube was aware of thousands of videos Viacom said were...
01:56 PM, Apr 20, 2013
San Francisco: Google's latest quarterly results provided further proof that the Internet search leader is figuring out how to make more money as Web surfers migrate from personal computers to mobile devices. The first-quarter numbers released Thursday show that a recent decline in Google's average ad prices is easing. That's an indication that marketers are starting to pay more for the ads that Google distributes to smartphones and tablet computers....
01:38 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Los Angeles: Messaging app WhatsApp now has more users than Twitter, company founder and CEO Jan Koum said at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference in New York. Declining to cite a specific figure, Koum said WhatsApp has more than 200 million monthly active users who generate an average of 8 billion inbound messages and 12 billion outbound messages per day. Twitter has 200 million monthly active users. The WhatsApp...
08:01 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Salt Lake City: Google will pay $1 for a municipal fibre-optic system that cost $39 million to build, according to terms of the Internet company's agreement with Provo. The deal is widely expected to be approved Tuesday by the City Council, making Provo the third city selected by Google for high-speed Internet and television service. Google is already operating a fibre-optic system in Kansas City, Missouri, and earlier this month...
07:36 AM, Apr 19, 2013
California: Google is starting to distribute its new Internet-connected glasses, something seen as the next breakthrough in mobile computing. Google has picked 8,000 people in the US who entered a contest. The winners will have to pay $1,500 apiece for a test version of Google Glass. The company also took an unspecified number of orders from computer programmers. Google said Wednesday it started making the glasses available Tuesday, though it...
11:43 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New York: Google Inc is experiencing a small outage of some of its popular applications such as Gmail and Google Drive, the search engine said on Wednesday. The company disclosed on its website that six of its 13 applications were having partial status disruptions. The issue with Gmail, for example, is affecting less than 0.007 percent of Google Mail users, who cannot access their accounts. Google said in a response...
09:15 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: Facebook Home, announced earlier this month, is now available on the Google Play store in India - but for select users. Facebook Home currently works on the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II. Home will also work on the forthcoming HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. The app will be available for more Android devices in the coming months....
04:44 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Taipei: Microsoft Corp and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd signed a global patent licensing agreement on Wednesday designed to protect Hon Hai clients from patent claims arising from their use of Google Inc's Android and Chrome operating systems. Google and Microsoft have been locked in patent battles, with Microsoft contending that the systems infringe its software patents. Microsoft has in the past chosen to pursue hardware makers rather than...
12:54 PM, Apr 17, 2013
San Francisco: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt predicted on Tuesday that there will be more than a billion smartphones in use featuring its Android software within the next six to nine months. Schmidt also noted that Google had no intention of blocking access to a new app from Facebook Inc, saying he was "phenomenally happy" with the app from Google's rival, which replaces the homescreen on Android phones. The new...
08:17 AM, Apr 17, 2013
