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 '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 ...

Search engine major Google has come out with a ‘local’ product. A few days after Yahoo! launched Time Travel, a travel advisory portal built on Flickr feed, Google opened yet another window on Google+. The social networking initiative, which is yet to catch the imagination of web users, will now have a Local tab on Google+. This is a place where you get aggregated opinion of your friends and relatives on a ...

For the first time ever, Google's Chrome web-browser has overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer to become the most used browser worldwide over an entire week. Although Chrome has been overtaking IE for quite some time on weekends, this is for the first time that it has overtaken it for an entire week. This happened for the week of May 14th-20th, as recorded by popular web analytics site StatCounter. Asia a ...

It seems like Google Wallet is not going to be exclusive fro Sprint anymore as T-Mobile started showing off the full activity of the app just recently. A blogger who claimed to be a T-Mobile subscriber said to have downloaded the Google Wallet for Galaxy Nexus and used it just fine under his subscribed network. Apparently Google want to reach wider audience which it cannot achieve if it goes exclusive for o ...

Who has a Google TV? Do you love it and use YouTube? Today Google has just announced another update for GTV, although this is just for the YouTube app. It won’t do anything revolutionary but they are claiming the video playback with be extremely smoooooth, as well as a few other improvements and new features too. Read on below for full details. The update will bring YouTube on Google TV closer to what users ...

Good news for Australian Android fans, Google Play Store and YouTube now offers full length movies for sale or just rent. In an official blog post on Google Australia blog, it was confirmed that the movies that will be made available on those channels are the local and global films and anyone who want to rent or buy them could do so on those websites. This is still in line with Google’s bid to put up a good ...

Just recently, Google made a huge bump to Gmail by bringing in a message translator allowing users to translate messages to other language if they like. Google Translate has always been a helpful service to most of the users making it the most used translator on the web today. So basically Gmail users will automatically be able to use the translator right from their inbox and therefore, it is a lot more con ...

Google has launched a worldwide competition for students of photography for photographers. "The Google Photography Prize", + hosted by Google - the search giant social network service. Prizes will be awarded by a jury of professional photographers, as curators of the Saatchi Gallery in London. Over 100 phones Samsung Galaxy Nexus are given away as prizes during the competition and 10 finalists pre ...

Although no final product was in public view as of press time, The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is getting close to launching an online storage service, called Drive, which would keep files in sync between devices and the cloud (i.e., Google’s servers). Integration with Google Apps is likely, which means that Drive would have a business-oriented component, as well. It appears that Drive will also ...