Articles tagged "Online services"

Google Podcasts has always been a bizarre product. The app has been around for a while but is only available on Android and has barely any features to speak of, especially compared to excellent alternatives like Pocket Casts. The service...

In today’s Google Blog post, Google is celebrating its Maps platform’s 15th birthday with a new look for the Google Maps app, along with a whole new app icon. Google Maps first launched in 2005, back before Android and iOS even existed. Once...

Netflix has started rolling out AV1 encoded content on the Android platform. Users will be able to watch select titles encoded in AV1 by enabling the 'Save Data' feature in the app. Netflix currently streams its content in a wide variety of...

Here’s an amusing story about an artist, Google Maps, and a wagon full of smartphones. Simon Weckert, an artist based in Berlin, Germany, has gathered a lot of attention with his latest Google Maps Hack. 99 second hand smartphones are transported...

On Thursday, Apple Maps announced that it is now rolling out a new update to Apple Maps. The new update brings a new map design, and one that shows far more details than before. To start, users will be able to see far more details on land with...

Google Duo continues to expand its list of features with the latest addition of “Notes” to Android’s built-in Video messaging platform. Google Duo allows for voice calls, video calls, as well as the sending of recorded messages of either voice or...

Last year, an XDA teardown suggested that Google was working on a new file sharing protocol that would supersede Android Beam – the NFC and Bluetooth based file-transfer solution that was discontinued in Android 10. Thanks to XDA Developers we are...

Google Fi is an MVNO carrier in the US that runs on T-Mobile, Sprint, and a nation-wide network of Wi-Fi hotspots. Once you sign up for Google Fi, you need to either transfer your phone number over from Google Voice, or you must surrender that...

It's no secret that Google wants to bring Stadia to as many devices as possible and disclosed back in November that it's working to deliver the same experience to non-Pixel phones. And according to recent reports, the company is already working on...

Apple concluded a lucrative year and started the new one off with a huge bang on day one. The App Store revenue for 2019 was record breaking and so was the amount earned just between Christmas Eve and New Year - $1.42B. Apple paid developers...

Google decided to kill something to mark the start of the new year, and this time around it's surprisingly not one of the umpteen messaging services it has launched at various points. No, we're talking about print-replica magazines in Google...

Telegram has released a massive new update for iOS and Android that brings with it dozens of new features and changes. One of the major new additions is the Theme Editor 2.0. Telegram already has robust theme support, with ability to change color...

If you’re still using an old Android smartphone and rely on WhatsApp messaging, you might want to pay attention to this one. The popular Facebook-owned messaging platform has updated its support page to reflect that the app will no longer be...

In the wake of soured relations between Huawei and the US, life has been anything but easy for the Chinese tech giant. However, that doesn’t mean that acceptance or desperation have settled in. Quite the contrary, Huawei and its subsidiaries and...

Ookla, makers of the original Speedtest.net website and the subsequent mobile and desktop applications for testing bandwidth, has now introduced a VPN service. Called Speedtest VPN, the service is currently in beta and being offered as part of the...

The Huawei ban has heavily influenced the company’s strategy and movements, but it shows no signs of weakness. A new report from Economic Times cites that Huawei has been engaging heavily with Indian developers to create Huawei-alternatives to...

Last month, Google added support for a plethora of new banks across several countries globally. Today, Google has added a bunch more banks, mostly in Russia. You can check that list of banks here. Today, Google added 18 new banks across 5 countries,...

Google Assistant got its most recent makeover with the debut of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. The first countries to see the updated Assistant interface with a less obtrusive transcription prompts was the US in English. According to a new Google...

In the past month or so, Google has turned on RCS for all US carriers within its own Google Messages app. Users who haven’t already activated it should update both the Messages and Carrier Services apps. In addition to finally providing a viable...

Gmail's newest feature is definitely an interesting one, weird as it may sound. The email service will let you attach emails to other emails - without needing to download them first. Just drag and drop one or more emails into the Compose window...