Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Google+ Now Available for iPhone

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Google Plus Logo

A Google+ app is now available for the Apple iPhone in addition to the Android app:

“Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in.”

To get the most out of Google+ there are already a lot of Google+ extensions to change the look and feel as highlighted at lifehacker.

Nokia kills Nokia Sports Tracker

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

The best thing to come out of Nokia in the last few years was the Nokia Sports Tracker (Beta). An old Nokia N95 with a free download could then map your walking, cycling, running, etc using the phone’s A-GPS and display a moving map trail. In addition there were graphs for distance and speed against time and stats about pace and lap timings.

This could all be uploaded to the Nokia Sports Tracker website and display your routes, or those of others on a Google Maps view. Much the same as WalkJogRun.net but the beauty was that it worked on a 3 year old phone and hence delaying the Android or iPhone move.

Nokia have killed the Beta and bizarrely then launched a Sports Tracker site which didn’t take all those beta users with it. The new app is now in the Ovi store as a free download.

Google Chrome for Mac in Beta

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Google have launched the Google Chrome web browser for Mac.

Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team:

73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
29 developer builds
1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests
8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed
4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten

Sounds like not very many soft drinks or mini-wheats (whatever they are?)

Google’s Chrome on new Sony Vaio Laptops

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Google have done a deal with Sony to put it’s year old browser Chrome onto new Sony computers. Chrome currently has around 3 percent of the browser market and is looking to follow the trend of Microsoft IE and Mozilla Firefox by getting manufacturers to pre-install the browser on new machines. The assumption being that people do not switch from what comes with the PC.

Google’s Chrome OS as rival to Windows

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Google Chrome Logo

Google Chrome Logo

Google’s Chrome internet browser that was launched last year is being turned into an operating system for laptop and desktop PCs. The move coincides with Gmail and Google Docs coming out of perpetual Beta.

A Chrome OS would remove the requirement for any Microsoft products in the stack with OS, browser and web applications all being provided by Google.

Google Streetview goes live in UK

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Google Street view has launched in the UK and got the best publicity going – news headlines on both BBC and ITN news!