Google will be updating the Android Market on devices running Android 1.6 or higher to introduce a number of changes that will affect users and developers alike. The biggest change in the new Android Market isn’t necessarily in the look and feel, but in the new policy that only allows refunds within a 15-minute time limit rather than the previous 24 hour window for refunds.
Read MoreGoogle announced that it's finally bringing Google Instant for mobile to iOS and Android users around the globe. Back in November, Google unveiled Google Instant beta for mobile just for the US, but finally the moment is there and it now supports 40 countries and 28 different languages.
Read MoreGoogle unveiled new features for its Chrome browser and offered a sneak peek at what’s coming with Chrome OS, a new Web-only operating system that was first announced last year and will be launched in notebooks from Acer and Samsung by mid-next year.
Read MoreAndroid 2.3, codenamed Gingerbread, was revealed by Google this
morning. It will ship first on the upcoming Nexus S smartphone, which
was built by Google in collaboration with Samsung. According to an
Android developer it is an update for Nexus One handsets and will be
released in America in the next few weeks.
Google Earth 6 is out and it has some fancy new features for those of us looking to really immerse ourselves in the digital atlas. Google have taking the realism to the next level with two new features: a truly integrated Street View experience and 3D trees. They also made it even easier to browse historical imagery.
RSS Live Links unleashes feed reader powers to Google Chrome. It can always show you a list of a website's most recent headlines with a nice extra feature: instant notifications. Live Links can be registered as an RSS reader with the "RSS Subscriptions" and "RSS Subscriptions Plus" extensions, or use the built-in feed detection facility to subscribe to feeds found in current tabs.
Google announced the availability of the official app, nearly a year and a half after it first submitted Google Voice to Apple. Apple's reluctance to approve Google Voice-Google claimed that Apple actually rejected the app while Apple said it was evaluating it-led to an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission into Apple's App Store approval policies, and a deepening of the rift between the two formerly close partners.
Google plans to support Android phones with near-field communications chips in the next version of Android, which CEO Eric Schmidt said would arrive in the next few weeks. Schmidt, kicking off the Web 2.0 Summit at the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco, held up an "unannounced product" that appeared to be the Nexus S, which leaked out on Best Buy's Web site last week.
Google’s introduced their newest search tool - Google Preview. While Google Instant gives you the most accurate search results as soon as you type your search query, Google Preview on the other hand offers a new kind of visual search result to make it even faster for you to choose the right search result.