Google is sitting on Android adoption data
Published in Mobiles


What is it hiding?

Google has been accused of sitting on the adoption data of its various mobile operating system versions.

Employee activists complain that Google retaliates against them
Published in News


Doing evil

Two employee activists at Google say they have been retaliated against for helping to organise a staff walkout.

We don't need no regulation
Published in News


Schmidt says you just have to trust tech companies to self-regulate

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has rejected the idea that big tech companies need to be regulated as the world would be a much better place if we trusted big corporations to self-regulate.

Google teases big announcement in May
Published in Mobiles


Most likely all about new Pixel phones

While we already know that new Pixel smartphones are coming, Google has now launched a dedicated page which both promotes the upcoming Avengers: Endgame movie as well as promises something big coming to the Pixel universe on May 7th.

Google wants to put adverts on your Android TV
Published in Mobiles


Sony Smart TVs, Mi Box 3 from Xiaomi, Nvidia Shield TV, and others

Search engine outfit Google is hoping to stick adverts on Android smart TVs because you can never have too much advertising.

Apple headhunts Google AI boffin
Published in AI


Needs more live brains

Fruity cargo cult Apple is desperate for new ideas and has hired one of Google's top minds in artificial intelligence to help out.

Oracle blames Google for shutting it out of the smartphone industry
Published in Mobiles


Oh those pesky applets

Oracle has made the bizarre claim that the only reason it is not the king of the smartphones is that Google used applets in its software.

Google execs ponder censored search in China
Published in News


Shush its is secret

Google executives are conducting a secret internal assessment of work on a censored search engine for China.

Google reveals Stadia bandwidth requirements
Published in Gaming


25Mbps for 1080p at 60fps

Earlier last week, Google has officially unveiled its game streaming service called Stadia, and while there are still a lot of unknowns, Google is slowly revealing a bit more information, including the bandwidth requirement needed to stream those games at 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second.

Google fined $1.7 billion for search ad blocks
Published in News


Adsense costs Google 1.49 billion euro

Google has been fined 1.49 billion euro by the European Commission which said that the case focused on the company’s illegal practices in search advertising brokering from 2006 to 2016.