Android has reached an impressive milestone for it’s App Market– 10-billion downloads. To celebrate, the Google and select partner developers will be offering 10-cent apps for the next 10 days! According to the Google Mobile Blog: To celebrate this milestone, we partnered with some of the Android developers who contributed to this milestone to make [...]
Motorola’s top brass has voted in favor of selling their mobile unit, Motorola Mobility to the search Giant. “We are pleased and gratified by the strong support we have received from our stockholders, with more than 99 percent of the voting shares voting in support of the transaction,” Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said in [...]
In the midst of the legal battles that Google is waging, Google has revealed it’s plan to acquire Motorola Mobility, (Motorola’s mobile phone division). If the $12 billion acquisition pushes through, Google will have at it’s disposal, Motorola’s patent folio to help safeguard against lawsuits from it’s competitors. Larry Page, the current CEO of Google [...]
Heads up Android folks, Google is rolling out an update for the official Market app bringing in a UI overhaul and new features. The new market app will be automatically rolled out to phones with Android 2.2 and higher (sorry Eclair users). So what’s with all the fanfare for the market update? For one Google [...]
Google has finally opened it’s new social network project, Google+ to users by allowing users to invite people into the service. We have a couple of accounts already in the network and as a result, The Daily Blend has quite a few invites to give away (word is that the invite limit is set to [...]
Google is looking into cracking the social networking market again by unveiling the Google+ (Google Plus) Social Networking project. Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With a smile, a laugh, a whisper or a cheer, we connect with others every single day. Today, the connections between people [...]
Google’s search engine provides more than just search results. Sometimes it even shows you an Easter egg or two like this popular one for Nag a ram. If you try searching for the word anagram, Google will ask you if you searched for nag a ram instead . If you still don’t get why this [...]
Happy Birthday Youtube! Youtube is celebrating it’s sixth anniversary (U.S. time) with some bragging — more 3 billion page views a day and more than 48 hours (two days worth) of video is uploaded to the site every minute. That’s a staggering increase from their numbers in 2010. The company (Youtube) was founded on February [...]
To celebrate the rollout of Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread for the Nexus S smartphone, Google is giving away several of these smartphones. All you need to do is follow their Nexus twitter account (@googlenexus), wait for the puzzle of the day and submit your answer. As per contest rules, only your first submission is valid. To [...]
Have you ever wondered how fast is the internet speed for those working at Google? This… fast. According to Ookla’s Net Index, the average speed for the Philippines is a paltry 2.2 Mb/second. Just how fast is 500Mb/s that in real world terms? 32 megabytes per second. That’s a FLAC encoded song in around 2 [...]
