Announced as a feature last year and made available to Chrome beta users earlier this year, Google’s voice-based, hands-free search function “OK Google” is now available to all Chrome users. The feature has been more inclusive on the latest Android…
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Trying to figure out the future of Google’s line of smartphones and tablets is becoming something of an industry in and of itself. It’s impossible to know for sure what’s going to happen, but that doesn’t stop every tech writer and blogger from…
If you’ve got a Nexus device – that includes the Nexus 4 and 5 smartphones and the Nexus 7 and 10 tablets – then you might want to keep your eyes peeled on May 23. A new report suggests that Google will start rolling out the latest version of…
Motorola’s big claim to fame lately has been the Moto 360, the hotly anticipated Android Wear smartwatch that we’re hoping to hear more about before its scheduled summer release. But Motorola has been a phone maker for a long, long time, and today…
Hardware and phone manufacturer LG has been on the promotional uptick for its new smart watch, the LG G Watch, since its unveil earlier this year. As we near its forthcoming summer release, the company has released a minute-long teaser video for the…
The Gmail you know and use every day may soon look very different, if recent reports of a design overhaul are to be believed. According to Geek.com, Google has invited a select audience of users to test a wildly new, and oddly Android-like redesign…
We’ve been trying to converge all our technologies into one singular device for so long, it’s almost surprising that I had forgotten that Canonical, the developers of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, had been working on a project they liked to…
Over the last few months, there’s been talk of a new player called OnePlus about to enter the smartphone market. Today, OnePlus made its official entrance, and did so with a pretty huge announcement: the company’s first Android smartphone packs…
Today, technology company LG launched a teaser website for its forthcoming Android Wear-powered smart watch, the LG G Watch. The new promotional applet lets you spin, zoom and view the watch from all sorts of interactive angles, potentially satisfying…
When we got the invite to go to the HTC One M8 launch event in NYC on March 25, there wasn’t much left [feature wise] to surprise us with. But being the tech enthusiasts that we are (and that we know you are), we trekked on over to the event to…
This is pretty great: today, Google launched Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android devices that makes accessing your desktop PC or Mac remotely supremely easy. It’s exactly what it sounds like: any compatible Android device can access a PC or Mac…
In the weeks since its reveal, and just before it goes on sale to the public, it seems that the bloom has fallen off the Samsung Galaxy S5’s rose. Most tech writers and critics have thrown their interest behind the HTC One M8 in terms of Android handsets…
Last week Amazon finally ended months of rumors when the company unveiled Fire TV, a tiny black square box that plugs into your television and streams content from the web. As it happens, Amazon’s long-awaited entry into your living room space was…
Over the last couple of weeks, the conversation about wearables has shifted from our faces to our wrists. Samsung unveiled a new batch of Gear smart watches, while Google’s Android Wear platform will be making its way to store shelves via offerings…
Google has always held a fairly strict set of restrictions that manufacturers had to follow in order to be allowed to use some of the core features of Android as most people know it, including the Google Play Store, Chrome, Google Maps, and even the…
One of the highly touted features of HTC’s new $649 flagship phone, the (terribly named) One M8, was Sense 6, or “Sixth Sense,” the smartphone maker’s newest iteration of its proprietary Android OS ROM. Sense has been a mainstay of all HTC phones…
If you’re one of the thousands of people excited over last week’s surprise Android Wear announcement, then you probably aren’t Ravi Nookala, Sony Mobile’s head of the U.S. division. Because if we’re going to take him at face value, Sony isn…
By now you’ve probably read about HTC’s One M8 Android handset, which was finally and officially unveiled at a press event in New York City today. Armed with a dual camera, deep social and multimedia integration, and style for days, some believe…
You may not have heard of Skout but it’s actually one of the oldest and largest mobile (iOS and Android) social networks. The company is in its eighth year of operation and has 220 million users in over 180 different countries. Skout focuses on…
Back in December, news got out about Google’s big push to enter the field of robotics: former Android boss Andy Rubin was promoted to head the robotics division, while the company scooped up bunches of robotics companies in the United States and Asia…