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The Amazing Google Spaces

May 29, 2016 By Carol Harper

The Amazing Google Spaces

At this year’s I/O conference, Google announced their new services, products, and other projects. Most of the new apps are the developer’s updated versions of other products that are already on the market. This affirmation is true to all of them, except Google Spaces.

What is Google Spaces?

Another social networking app, Google Spaces is ingenious and gives the user an efficient control over conversations and messages.

The feature that differentiates it from other social network services is the focus on personal space. Therefore, users do not feel compelled to devote more time than necessary in the online.

Google designed it to be a place to share experiences. Therefore, the app can be used for book clubs, weekend trips, creating new friends, house hunts, and much more. Google Spaces seems to be the best place to share small projects.

The app has an inbuilt Youtube, Chrome and Google Search that completely improve the user’s experience. A person can search and share information in a smooth manner, without having to switch apps.

Another advantage of the app is that a user can have five or even more sites set on their page – which may prove to be useful at times. Every site is separated from the others. Only a single personal portal is available, but within it, a user can activate as many sites as they like.

The most amazing fact is that the app does not even require a sign-up.

Comments and Criticism

Google already has a lot of social apps and social services that were offered to the public. Hangouts, Google+ and even YouTube have seemed to have covered all existing social situations and communication needs for the company.

Users are overwhelmed with the number of apps developed for their social life.

Another commentary was that the interface is unusual, and sometimes conversation threads were difficult to find. It remains to be seen if Google will take time in dealing with this issues. For the moment, the app is just in testing.

Google Spaces is strictly connected to the Gmail account. The app is available for web, Android, and iOS users.

Because it’s trying to bring forth an entirely new concept of social networking, Google Spaces may be considered difficult to use in the first trial.

However, the company seems to have high hopes for its new project and will make sure to provide tips and tricks that will simplify things for their users and convince them of the new app’s advantages.

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Find My Phone App Says All Lost Phones Are At One House

January 24, 2016 By Carol Harper

For both iOs and Android, the Find My Phone app says all lost phones are at one house in Atlanta, belonging to a couple who are not unfamiliar with the issue. In this day and age, it’s not at all safe to deal with someone who believes their smartphone was stolen. It’s their lifeline and, if you took it, things could potentially get really messy.

Michael Saba and Christina Lee have been taking the brunt of the technical issue with phone-tracking apps. For the past year, they have received several visits from angry owners demanding that their phones be returned to them. However, the couple was innocent in the matter, but it wouldn’t be like a guilty thief would admit to stealing it either. That turns matters into a potentially dangerous problem.

Find my Phone and Device Manager both share the problem

The confusion started in February, 2015, when the couple began getting knocks on their door by people searching for their phones. In one month, it occurred four times. All those who arrived claimed that their phone-tracking app has directed them to their house. Some arrived in groups of frantic owners, some even with the police.

According to Saba, they even became persons of interest in the case of a missing teenage girl. Her phone was tracked to their home, and they were forced out of it for one hour while the police searched for both the girl and her phone. Neither was found, in spite of the fact that the app tracked the device down. It becomes something difficult to clarify, and not all worried owners will take a polite explanation at face value.

It could lead matters to escalating. Saba claimed that his biggest fear is that someone more violent and dangerous will show up at their house. There is no telling what they would do, so they can only hope that the person behind their door will accept their explanation. This year has barely begun, and the couple already had two visits at their house.

Since there has been no solution found or help from government agencies, they plan on filing a complaint with their local senator and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Experts believe that there might be issues with the mobile tower triangulation, which the apps use. It could also be a problem with their WiFi router or simply bad data received from the third party app. Whichever the problem is, Saba underlined that this truly shows how unsafe and unreliable such technology can be. They have been getting visits at all hours during the day and night.

At one point, matters could escalate, which places them in danger. However, experts have not been able to offer them an explanation and a solution, so perhaps a ‘For Sale’ sign would be safer.

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Puerto Rico chosen by Google as a Testing ground for its Modular Phone

January 14, 2015 By Cliff Jenkins Scott

Google is surely one of the most innovative tech firms in the modern era. After revolutionizing the Android handset market, the company continues to provide the most cutting edge innovations to the smartphone world in Google’s project Ara smartphone or more commonly called as the modular phone is all set to be previewed before the end of this year after the tech giant takes it into commercial market some time during the next year.

The modular smartphone is all set to be tested in the Puerto Rico, a new testing ground for Google. The announcement was made at a Project Ara developer’s conference held in Mountain View, California. Regina Dugan, the Googler in charge of one of the most ambitious attempts in order to design and market a fully customized swappable modular smartphone running on Android, made the inspirational announcement.

The phone would be displayed to the public via food trucks, while Claro and Open Mobile are the two cellular networks on the island that are also partners in the pilot. Google also released that it would have released over 20 modules for people to test and use when customizing their modular phones by the time the pilot launches.

This would present Google the shortcomings of the phone as well as would also present opportunities as to what type of problems may arise and how to tackle those issues as well, before taking it to the next level.

These types of projects are often hyped with uncertainties, but if the phone gathers audience and makes a mark, then it would possibly alter the way in which we look at phones as of now, because modularity can bring with it a lot of opportunities. It would completely revolutionize the way we look and expect of our phones because these customizations would possibly usher the smartphone market into the future of ubiquitous computing.

Google To Release New Real-Time Voice Translator

January 14, 2015 By June Harris

Google is glowing a bit closer to Star Trek’s universal translator with the latest version of its Translate application.

Rolling out over the next few days for ioS and Android clients, the recent edition of Google Translate comes up with two key features – the capability to immediately talk with somebody communicating in a different lingo and the ability to interpret road signs and other pictures into your local dialect.

Both features have been accessible in the Android application to some degree. For instance, Google Translate for Android has since quite a while ago offered real-time translation of conversations. However, Google’s objective behind the recent edition of the application is to improve and streamline the peculiarities so they work all the more rapidly and smoothly without any slack time.

As Google Translate item lead Barak Turovsky wrote in a blog posted on Wednesday: “When chatting with somebody in a different dilect, conversations can… get… realllllllly… sloowwww.”

The recent edition of Google Translate intends to change that. To talk with somebody conversing in an unfimiliar dialect, a user picks his dialect and that of the other speaker. He then taps the microphone icon in the application, begins talking in his local or chose dialect, and afterward taps the mic icon once more. The application will distinguish which of the two dialects is being talked, and afterward the two speakers can carry on their discussion without needing to continue tapping the mic.

In a test of the application’s immediate translation, The New York Times said it did end up being a breakthrough; however, its not sci-fi simply yet. The application fared best with short sentences that did exclude slang, and it worked better when the users gapped between every translation.

Google also has beefed up the application’s capability to translate road signs. Formerly, you’d need to take a photograph of the foreign text to get a translation of it. Now, you just point your cam at the sign and the translated content seems overlaid on your screen – though you’re not connected with the Internet. This feature is made possible courtesy of Quest Visual’s Word Lens application for iOS and Android, which Google acquired when it obtained the company last May.

This feature supports English translated to and from French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Google says its trying to include more dialects.

Since early Wednesday, the overhauled application had not showed up in the App Store or Google Play. Google guarantees that it will pop up throughout the next few days. This additionally will be the first time the iOS version will be furnished with both the conversation mode and the cam translations.

“More than 500 million individuals use Google Translate every month, making more than 1 billion translations a day to more effectively converse and access data across dialects,” Turovsky said. “Today’s overhauls make us one step closer to transforming your smartphone into a universal translator and to a world where language is no more an obstruction to finding data or connecting with one another.”

Microsoft also is probing into the region of automated translation with the newest sample version of Skype Translator. The new version will have the capacity to translate conversations and, eventually, texts in close real-time. At first Microsoft is intending the recent release just at Windows 8.1 Pcs and tablets and just in Spanish and English, so it won’t offer the profundity of Google Translate. However, Microsoft aims to expand Skype Translate to other gadgets and platforms over the long run.

Much needed update to Google Translate mobile app coming soon

January 11, 2015 By June Harris

According to insider reports from Google, the tech giant would be releasing an update for its Google Translate mobile app pretty soon as the app currently performs below par in much of its tasks.

Google Translate as of now is more of an antique app rather than the everyday use app for most of the users in the present real world scenarios. Speech conversion as of now employees the app to start recording and then wait for a few moments after the app finishes translating and displaying translated text which the other person said in a foreign language. This as most of us found was not the most helpful way to cross the language barrier.

However, a new app is in on the making scenes by Google which would considerably speed things up a bit, which obviously what we want if we happen to be touring Europe especially Paris where a beautiful French brunette is waiting to be asked out and we do ask her, but don’t understand a word coming out of her mouth.

Furthermore the update would certainly make things go much smoother. According to inside reports we could certainly listen, or read in this case, to what the pretty French dame has to offer just by merely letting the app run while we held our phone up to the person speaking and the rest is up to the app as it automatically detects the speech and translates it on the fly, displaying the result on our screen.

This concept of instantaneous translation is not new in the market and services like Skype and DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile carrier, offer these kinds of services as well. But the Google app would be different, firstly because it would be backed by the search engine giant’s cloud computing power, and secondly it would be secure as there are reports that both incoming speech would be saved on a different file location as well outgoing text.

Microsoft Set To Launch Windows 10 With A New Browser, Spartan, Would Retain IE

December 29, 2014 By Denise Ehrlich

Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 10 would launch with an entirely new web browser code-named Spartan, according to an anonymous report.

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley has reported that this new browser is a total departure from the Internet Explorer mindset. She said that the “lightweight” browser would have a look and feel similar to that of Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers. But her sources also suggested that the new Spartan browser will be offered alongside IE when Windows 10 debuts next year.

While Chrome and Firefox lead on desktops and Apple’s Safari along with Chrome and Android’s default browser are smartphone browser leaders, Internet Explorer is no longer the force it once was. Once there was a time when IE handled about 90 percent of all web traffic on desktop and laptop machines, but according to research outfit Net Applications, its share has now dropped to 58 percent. On mobile, its share is less than 2 percent.

Spartan attempts to address both of these worlds, smartphone and desktops. Windows 10 is designed to be cross platform and would run across a wide range of devices and therefore, the new browser Spartan will be available on phones and tablets as well as laptops and desktops. It’s not clear up till now that whether Spartan will run on Android, Apple’s iOS or any other operating systems that compete with Windows, but there is a good chance that it might.

MSN App Is Now Available Android, iOS & Amazon Platforms

December 11, 2014 By June Harris

Microsoft has ported some of its purchaser applications to run on ios, Android and Amazon devices, completing on its late vow to make select applications accessible on contending versatile stages.

MSN News, Food and Drink, Weather, Sports, Health and Fitness, and Money can be downloaded for free from Google Play and the application stores worked by Apple and Amazon, Microsoft said Thursday, including that the climate application will be accessible to ios users “in the advancing months.”

These applications have been accessible to Windows 8 and Windows Phone users since September, when Microsoft said it was reviving the MSN brand. That recovery included taking Bing applications and providing for them the MSN moniker. The MSN entry was likewise patched up to incorporate simpler access to Microsoft administrations like Skype and Outlook and substance from media organizations like The Wall Street Journal and CNN. Around then, Microsoft likewise said that before the year’s over a few applications would be revamped to run on other versatile Oses.

The applications were based particularly to run on every stage, Microsoft said. A few applications utilization gimmicks found in their local Oses. Case in point, the Fitness application permits iphone users to track workouts utilizing Apple’s Healthkit technology. Other application gimmicks incorporate the capacity to get to news stories from an assortment of productions through the News application and permitting people to redo the Money application with data on their stocks and speculations.

Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has become more open to building renditions of its product for contending stages. Microsoft’s updated Dynamic CRM application that consolidates the Cortana individual colleague is one late illustration. Windows Phone users were offered access to this peculiarity to start with, with accessibility for ios and Android to follow in six to 12 months.

Nadella’s vision likewise underlines creating items that concentrate on portable and cloud advances, with Thursday’s news fitting this subject. At the point when a user gets to the MSN applications with their Microsoft account, any progressions they make or data they store will be recorded in Microsoft’s cloud and reflected in whatever device they utilization.

The applications open extra people to the MSN gateway, Microsoft said. Msn.com positions number 32 among the top worldwide destinations went by, as per Web movement examination organization Alexa. The one-month rank is ascertained utilizing a mix of normal every day guests and site hits over the previous month.

BLACK FRIDAY: IOS OUTRUNS ANDROID

November 30, 2014 By Cliff Jenkins Scott

On the day of “Thanksgiving” remarkable lead in purchasing has been shown by the devices having iOS, on the devices running on Android. The iOS users made more purchases on Black Friday as compared to the Android users. One of the pioneers and leading company in the world of Computers, “IBM” reported a sale of 20 percent made by the iOS users leaving the Android behind with the sale of 5.6 percent only.

In spite of a leading market holder of 80 percent, Android users spent an average of $101.8 while the iOS users made up to an average of $127.3 purchase. The statistical data collected by the IBM also showed that the iOS users acquired 35.7 percent of the online traffic for the shopping websites while Android stands at 15.9 percent.

On this statistical data, Mr. Jay Henderson, director of IBM Smarter Conference said “Apple has a strong hold on online shopping. iPhone and iPad buyers tend to be slightly more affluent and more comfortable with technology.”

Google Presents Inbox For Gmail: A Thread Based App For iOS & Android Users

November 8, 2014 By Marlene R. Litten

Google Corporation. has launched a brand new email client application for Android and iOS that will redefine the way we will email. Mailbox by Gmail application allows you signal and receive emails much like threaded text conversations. The application is yet only provided on invite basis, and it is likely to achieve the planet customers soon. Gmail, that has half a billion customers on its booty and an ever increasing user rate of just one million each week, always keeps customers up on and on with accumulated additional features.

You will find a large quantity of features that Gmail has introduced directly into this update. Memory joggers could be set very easily about this application. You may also setup occasions to transmit within the mail. There’s lots of scope for arranging mails according to the preferred time using these additional features around the application. The brand new tag to which emails could be effectively organized and clustered is known as ‘bundles’. With bundles, customers can segregate the mails in sections for example promotions, travels, or something that suits the benefit from the user. We have seen the application is extremely focused to user convenient design.

There’s additionally a further step taken when it comes to the custom keyword search within the mailbox. Now you can explore for something, and obtain associated with Google to locate particulars. To have an instance, if you are planning to choose a celebration, you can type the title from the event inside your mail application, and obtain memory joggers about this from Gmail, also other relevant details about the big event for example address, or timings, with the Google internet search engine. The internet search engine will be from the Gmail application.

Because the primary utilisation of the application would be to serve mails, in and outgoing, there’s more enjoyable put into the mailing services. It can make the procedure much more simpler compared to previous Gmail. On invite, this particular service could be received after queuing up by delivering a mail to mailbox@gmail.com.

Release of iOS 8 Encryption Made Apple’s Products BulletProof, Google Thinking On It

September 29, 2014 By Andreas Petersen

Apple is using a new higher encryption technology for protection the personal data of its users and the National Security Agency and the nation’s law enforcement agencies have concern that the smart phone is the first of a post-Snowden generation of gadget that will interrupt their investigative capabilities.

The latest IPhone6 encrypts emails, photos and contacts based on a difficult numerical algorithm that uses a code generated by, and distinctive to, the phone’s user and that Apple says it will not get from anyone.

The consequence, the corporation is basically saying, is that if a court order demanding that the materials of an iPhone 6 be given to intelligence agencies or law enforcement, it will turn over garbage, along with a note saying that it is impossible to crack the phone’s emails, contacts and photos so get the code from the phone’s owner.

Criminals will figure this out, and maybe the terrorist will use this phone to protect their data, in this case it is very difficult to get any information from this phone.

On the other side, the company said that Apple has never worked with any government organization from any state to make a ‘back door’ in any of our inventions or services and that is why we have also never permitted any government access to our servers and in the future we will never desire to do that because we are different from our opponents; Apple cannot spread your pass code and therefore cannot entrance this data So it’s not theoretically possible for us to react to government warrants for the taking out of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.”

No doubt this is not the final news we will hear on this dispute because recently, Google announced that the company is preparing to allow an encryption system by default in the next version of Android.

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