If you are an Android user with an Android 4.0 device, you’re in for a treat as Dropbox for Android has recently been updated. If Dropbox’s cloud storage service is one that you use often, the app has been updated with a feature which offers “custom-tailored video streaming for ICS users”. What does this mean? In case it wasn’t obvious, this will now allow Android users to upload videos to their Dropbox acc ...

With 3-D imagery, expanded street view, and offline access, Google Earth and Google Maps got a pretty major boost this week. Rumor has it that Google is beefing up their services before Apple launches its own competing map app.   Google’s digital mapping service will get several new features in hopes of becoming more convenient, comprehensive and compelling as it braces for a potential loss in traffic ...

Google is escalating its rivalry with Microsoft with the purchase of Quickoffice, the maker of a widely used mobile application for working on documents created in Microsoft's programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. The deal announced Tuesday gives Google Inc. a new weapon to foil Microsoft Corp. as more people get work done on smartphones and tablet computers. Quickoffice makes those ...

The WiiU's controller has also been modified since last year's announcement. Picture: Nintendo Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime announced that the Nintendo Wii U will stream video from Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu and Youtube. Details on specific territories have not yet been announced beyond the United States. The Nintendo Wii already streams content from Netflix and Hulu, but this wil ...

The 'intelligent' goggles use computer algorithms to help the partly-sighted navigate Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M), Spain, have developed a pair of “intelligent” goggles that make getting around a bit easier for partly-sighted people, by providing them with Terminator-style vision. Using a pair of cameras mounted on a virtual reality headset connected to a tiny computer, the de ...

Google Chrome now lets users sync open tabs across devices Google has updated its Chrome browser, adding the ability to sync browser tabs across multiple devices to make a single session of Chrome accessible as you move from desktop, to mobile, and back again. The update has also come to the Chrome Beta for Android. The update marks a milestone for Chrome on Android, which is quickly overtaking the original ...

Google Drive offers 5 GB of free cloud storage that can be accessed anywhere on the web Google has finally released Drive, a new cloud storage option for all Google account holders, offering up to 5 GB worth of free storage. While it may be easy to draw comparisons to Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive, or Amazon Cloud, Google Drive represents the final element of a powerful cloud platform, with services that ri ...

If you like the idea of living completely in the cloud, but you’re not sold on bringing a Chromebook around with you, the Google Chromebox could be the answer for you. It’s basically the same idea as the Chrome OS-powered Chromebook, except it comes as a desktop PC package. The Google Chromebox itself is built by Samsung and it has much of the same specs that you’ve already seen with the current generation ...

Google is all set to buy web-based instant-messaging service Meebo in a move to expand itself to reach out to its audience. "We are happy to announce that Meebo has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google!" the Meebo team wrote on its blog. "...Together with Google, we're super jazzed to roll up our sleeves and get cracking on even bigger and better ways to help users and website owners alike," L ...

Reacting to the antitrust complaint Google filed against it and Microsoft, Nokia said that Goggle’s suggestion is wrong, according to Reuters. "Though we have not yet seen the complaint, Google's suggestion that Nokia and Microsoft are colluding on intellectual property rights is wrong," Reuters quoted Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant as saying. "Both companies have their own intellectual property rights portfo ...