Articles tagged "Online services"

After many years of stagnation, Google has finally decided to do something cool with Google Earth. So on the eve of Earth Day, Google has released a new version of Google Earth for the web and Android. Google Earth was always about...

Android Pay's list of supported banks/financial institutions has been growing at a rapid rate. Last month, the service's list of supported banks in the US crossed the 600 mark. And now, some more names have been added to the list. In total,...

Google has launched a new service called Areo, which will let you order food as well as arrange for home services. The service is available only in India for now (that too only in Mumbai and Bengaluru) and the app is only available on...

LastPass has announced that it is working on adding support for the Autofill feature in Android O. No dates were given as to when this feature will be incorporated within the final build but it should likely be done before Android O starts hitting...

If you don’t know what’s going on between Twitter and the United States Government right now, grab some popcorn and take a seat. We’ll try to make it as simple as possible, as there is quite a bit of meat on this bone. Twitter is suing the United...

Facebook Messenger has released a new assistant called “Messenger M”. We’re actually quite glad it was not named “M assistant. But anyway, the premise of M is: you can receive suggestions to take actions (right from the message screen) based on the...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is finally throwing its hat in the online payment system, starting first with India, its biggest market in the world. The company is said to be working on a system based on India’s UPI or Unified Payments Interface to...

Google has launched the Google Play Music ‘All Access’ service in India. Although the ability to purchase music was launched in September last year, the All Access streaming service was not available until now. Being late to the market...

YouTube TV was originally announced back in February, and today it has finally gone live. It's a streaming video service that delivers live TV from major broadcast networks such as ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC, alongside "popular cable networks". The...

The YouTube Go app has arrived in India. You can get the beta version (no stable release for any market yet) of the app from Google Play in the Asian country. YouTube Go is trying to improve video watching experience in regions with...

Apple has pushed out a new update to its Music for Android app, bumping it to version 2.0. The update includes an all-new design which the company says brings "greater clarity and simplicity" to the application. As per the official...

Back in November last year, Google announced that it will pull the plug on its Map Maker service sometime March 2017. Inline with that, the crowdsourced editing tool for Google Maps has been retired - the service was closed on March 31. Google...

Google has announced a new service called Reserve with Google, which, for now, will be able to help you book your next fitness class from your Google Search or even Google Maps app. With this service, you can look up places around you. If...

Twitter's 140 character rule still exists, but the company has been taking some steps to mitigate it somewhat recently. The newest such move comes today, when it's announced that usernames aren't counted towards that 140 character tweet limit...

Telegram has introduced voice calling feature in its popular messaging application. The feature is now live in the latest update released on iOS and Android, but is only available in Western Europe. The company has promised that it will soon be...

Google has pushed out a new update to its Docs application's Web client, making it easy for users to convert text to uppercase and lowercase. The new features can be accessed by choosing Capitalization sub-menu from the Format menu. As you...

Truecaller has announced version 8.0 of its caller ID service and it is the biggest one yet. The company outlined the new features that will be coming with this update, some immediately and others at a later date. The first one is the...

Months after revealing that its video calling app Duo will soon start offering audio-only calling as a feature, it was last week when Google finally announced that the functionality has started rolling out. While only Brazil was getting it so...

Microsoft has started pushing out a new update to its OneDrive's iOS client, bumping the app to version 8.12. The update brings along a couple of changes, including improved conditional access support. The new version also addresses a Wi-Fi...

For all its infinite wisdom in crawling, indexing and finding information online, Google seems to be employing a rather odd "bate every line an see what bites" strategy when it comes to its other services. This has been a trend for a few years now,...