Google’s Google Ideas is helping in launching a new online network aimed at connection those who have been affected by violent extremism. Dubbed as “Against Violent Extremism,” AVE in shot, the network was created by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, with partners Google and the Gen Next Foundation. AVE is aimed at a very specific subset of the population...
With the ongoing Oracle and Google trial actual dispute over Java and Android is said to be extremely small as Sun wanted just $30-50 million for a Java license, by Eric Schmidt’s estimation. The question surrounds here why Google is not paying? According to Andy Rubin email which he had wrote to Eric Schmidt in a 2006 suggesting that he could “smell...
Asus has started sending out free GPS dongles to Transformer Prime owners affected by the tablet’s location-fixing woes. A Droid Life reader has already received a GPS Extension Kit. The kit should fix what successive firmware updates weren’t able to but it is a pretty bulky add-on and you won’t be able to use the Prime’s keyboard dock or...
Advertising executives for Xbox Live are currently in talks with unspecified political campaigns to get targeted election ads on the platform. “Addressibility is the big opportunity bringing digital to the television,” Honey said in an interview with Beet TV. “What we provide advertisers is the opportunity to target very specific demographics and...
The name of Samsung flagship “next Galaxy” phone is still in under vein as different sources states that “Galaxy S III” is still not the final name – this is what we all are thinking from quite longer time that Samsung moving the Galaxy family with the next phone name as Galaxy S III. The secrecy in the name even appeared yesterday with the release of Samsung...
Last week Verizon updated Motorola Droid 4 with screen fixes, backlighting, this was already out. The patch updates the device’s firmware to version 6.13.219 and includes improvements to keyboard backlighting, battery life, and touchscreen performance — reducing lockouts and sluggishness. The update is approximately 18MB and can be downloaded and installed...
The phone that we’re waiting for quite long time – the one that help RIM to strengthen its position in the international market – the BlackBerry Curve 9320 – the image of the device surfaced again on Sohoa, Engadget reports, following an appearance on BGR.in and CrackBerry. The phone specification includes a 320×240 2.44-inch screen, 512MB of RAM, Wi-Fi,...
Kodak earlier plan to sell its Gallery online business to photo-sharing service to Shutterfly for $23.8 million is finally taking step to final stage. The company has announced that since there were no competing bidders to Shutterfly’s $23.8 million stalking horse bid to purchase certain assets of Kodak’s Kodak Gallery online photo services business. As soon as the final approvals by the bankruptcy court take place both the companies promptly close the acquisition. “I’m excited to welcome Kodak Gallery’s customers to Shutterfly...
With Acer’s February announcement that its dual core Iconia Tab A100 and A500 would be getting Android 4.0 update somewhere around on April 27th, but what it seems that some A500 users may already got the yummy ICS in their tab. Several users over at the Android Central forums have indicated that they began receiving the update starting early yesterday. There hasn’t...
Google’s Google Drive made its debut on Tuesday but now what we all are expecting in what way it will integrate with as many as operating systems as possible. What at the top we all are looking for is that how it will get integrated with Chrome OS? In a recent interview with Wired, Sundar Pichai, the person who oversees development of the company’s Chrome products...