Advertisements Security research firm Palo Alto Networks has revealed the existence of a vulnerability in Android versions 4.2 and older (currently present on 42.5 percent devices), which allows an attacker to modify or replace an Android app with malware without user knowledge at the time of installation. Dubbed as Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTTOU) vulnerability, it […]
Advertisements Android co-founder Andy Rubin, who was leading Google’s robotics efforts until recently, is leaving the search giant to form an incubator for start-ups working on technology-hardware products. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, James Kuffner, who is a research scientist and part of Google’s robotics efforts, will be taking over Rubin’s […]
Advertisements To mark the announcement of Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google has set-up a statue at building 44 lawn in its headquarters in Mountain View. The tradition to erect statues for the new Android version goes back to Android 1.5 Cupcake, which was the first version of Android to reach the consumers. Google has since established […]
Advertisements Here is a quick recap of our Android 4.4 and Nexus 5 release coverage. Check out the news stories that you might have missed. Nexus 5 Google Nexus 5 official, now available in Google Play for $349 Google Nexus 5 coming to India soon for INR 28,999 Google Nexus 5 vs the competition Google […]
Advertisements Update: Turns out that Google has been using this flatter logo for sometime now in printed promotional materials. I just checked a mailer, which I received from Google sometime back and it has the flatter logo. You can also find this (so called new) logo in official Goople Apps icons & logos section. Also, […]
Advertisements Unless you were living in a cave for the last few months, you would have heard about the whole NSA surveillance scandal and how this US intelligence agency (and probably others too) has been doing mass surveillance without any checks. There have been reports on how they had direct access to some of the […]
Advertisements As every year, Google is playing several April fool’s day pranks on its users today. From YouTube’s shutdown, to Google Nose launch, there are bunch of surprises for you, but make sure you don’t fall for them. Here is quick guide of which of the Google’s pranks you can expect today while surfing the […]
Advertisements This is big! Google has announced that Android boss Andy Rubin will be stepping down from the helm of Android and will be replaced by Sundar Pichai, who also currently heads Chrome and Apps for Google. Andy will remain at Google and is likely to be involved in other projects, but specifics are not […]