Topic: Google
Google Calendar gains native Apple iPad interface with latest iOS update
03/29/2017, 02:03 pm
Google on Wednesday released a long-awaited update to its Calendar app for iOS, finally introducing a native iPad interface that makes use of the extra screen space on Apple's tablet.
Google's Top News results for 'Great Barrier Reef' directs to fringe political commentary
03/23/2017, 04:03 pm
Google's algorithmic efforts to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" are again facing a critical failure, calling into question confidence in the search giant's unfinished, buggy artificial intelligence that's currently stomping all over its mission statement.
AT&T, Verizon join firms pulling millions in ads from Google, YouTube over hate, terrorist content
03/22/2017, 05:03 pm
The U.K. advertising backlash against Google is spreading to the United States. Mobile carriers AT&T and Verizon, Enterprise car rental and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline are among the major ad buyers acting to distance their brands from the offensive and extremist content that saturates YouTube.
Google Maps gets location sharing for Apple's iPhone & iPad
03/22/2017, 03:03 pm
Google will soon start rolling out real-time location sharing for users of its Maps app for iOS and Android, offering a feature similar to Apple's Find My Friends, or Google's own defunct Latitude.
Hands On: Google Calendar on iOS continues the trend of 'fiddly but powerful'
03/18/2017, 08:03 am
Google Calendar could be better designed but it's hard to beat on features. AppleInsider investigates how well Google's calendar integrates with Apple's own.
Corporate brands, UK government pull ads from Google's YouTube over extremist hate group videos
03/17/2017, 08:03 pm
A series of major brands have pulled ads from Google's YouTube following reports that their ads are being shown next to terrorist, hate group and other offensive or controversial videos.
How to use Google's Motion Stills app to be more creative with Apple's Live Photos
03/17/2017, 03:03 pm
Google this week updated its Motion Stills app -- which stabilizes Apple's Live Photos, and enables quick creation of GIFs and short movies -- with support for exporting back to the Live Photos format. Here's how to do that and use the app in general.
Chrome 57 for Mac throttles background tabs for better CPU use & battery life
03/15/2017, 03:03 pm
The desktop versions of Chrome -- including the Mac edition -- now throttle the performance of background tabs, according to Google, reducing CPU demand and hence the browser's power consumption on MacBooks.
Google adds Safari-like 'Reading List' feature to Chrome for iOS
03/14/2017, 05:03 pm
Google on Tuesday updated its Chrome browser for iOS with the "Reading List," a feature mimicking an identically-named counterpart in Apple's Safari.
Apple & others back Google in opposing FBI warrant for overseas emails
03/14/2017, 11:03 am
Apple has reportedly joined Amazon, Cisco, and Microsoft in signing an amicus brief in support of Google, which a Pennsylvania court recently ordered to hand over emails from foreign servers in compliance with an FBI warrant.
Google launches Uptime collaborative YouTube viewing app exclusively for iOS
03/13/2017, 09:03 am
Google's "Area 120" incubator project has developed Uptime -- an iPhone app for watching YouTube videos collaboratively with other users of the app.
Google radically scales back glassy new HQ plans, unveils conventional corporate building instead
03/09/2017, 04:03 pm
Less than two years ago, Google unveiled plans to build a new campus project as a vast open air city replete with greenery, inside of a massive glass greenhouse atrium. Now, the company is forwarding plans to build a basic tent-shaped building.
How Google's lack of human curation spreads and monetizes fake news
03/06/2017, 08:03 pm
Google search is developing a credibility problem that could be blamed on artificial intelligence. In a statement, the company said its algorithms for generating "featured snippet" answers can cause "instances when we feature a site with inappropriate or misleading content," resulting in false answers. However, Google is also the source--and funding--behind much of the fake news on the Internet, thanks to a similar lack of curation for YouTube.
Google Keep for iPhone and Mac disappoints, imposes profound limitations on users
03/03/2017, 01:03 pm
Even with Google's powerful search, the company's Keep service is too lightweight for serious use, but AppleInsider squeezes the most out of it that we can.
Google's second-gen Pixel due in 2017, will tackle Apple iPhone in 'premium' segment
03/03/2017, 10:03 am
Riding off the success of its first self-designed phone, the Pixel, Google is at work on a second-generation model that will continue to challenge Apple's iPhone in the "premium" smartphone market, the company's hardware chief revealed on Friday.
Google director hints at advanced Assistant tech coming to Apple's iPhone
03/02/2017, 02:03 pm
Google Assistant -- the chief rival to Apple's Siri -- could be coming to the iPhone and iPad in the future, a Google director hinted on Thursday.
Google's Chromebook Pixel ends up another F for Alphabet
03/01/2017, 04:03 pm
In a meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress, Google's senior Vice President of hardware Rick Osterloh reportedly described the "end of the line" for the company's premium notebook bearing the Pixel brand, after shipping just two editions of the product since 2013.
Microsoft adds Google Calendar & Contacts support to Outlook 2016 for Mac
03/01/2017, 03:03 pm
Microsoft on Wednesday launched preliminary support for Google Calendar and Contacts data in Office 2016 for the Mac, filling in a significant gap in the email and scheduling app. Along the same lines, Gmail accounts can now make better use of Outlook features.
Google Meet video conferencing app goes live on iOS, pulled from App Store
03/01/2017, 02:03 pm
A new video conferencing service for business users from Google called Meet has partially gone live before an official launch, with an iOS app for the enterprise-focused meeting tool briefly appearing in the App Store before being pulled.
YouTube TV to offer live TV from four major networks this spring for $35 per month
02/28/2017, 04:02 pm
Google on Tuesday announced YouTube TV, a live TV service launching this spring that will compete with other internet-only providers like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue.