Smart Screenshots essentially makes it easy for users to search using screenshots taken via the Google Lens. Google is working on a few abilities to bring to its upcoming Pixel phones, Google Assistant, and more. The search giant might be about to pair up two mobile screen-related features, "Edit & ...
Internet giant Google has updated its Gmail app for iOS devices by adding a new image blocking feature to prevent email tracking from automatically loaded images that come as attachments. Numerous email tracking clients use small, invisible images as a means of tracking when an email has been opened and ...
Google has now updated the Working Hours feature on its Calendar app making it easier for you to manage your work-life balance. In short, your boss will be reminded of when not to assign you tasks cos you're out of office. Better yet colleagues will avoid scheduling meetings for you ...
The latest version of Google's mobile operating system has started rolling out. Here's what you'll see when you upgrade. Google has just released the latest version of its new operating system for Android phones, Android 10. The OS version has been available as a beta release under the name Android ...
Google is shutting down its job search site Google Hire a little over two years after the product officially was launched. This was mentioned by the company in a support article on Tuesday, adding that the decision was difficult but will allow them to better focus their resources on other products. Hire by ...
Most of Android's releases have had dessert-style code names but the very first version of the OS (1.0) which was publicly released on Sept. 2008 did not have a code name at all. Either internally or publicly. Sept. 2008 also saw the announcement of the very first Android smartphone, the T-Mobile ...
Android 10 is the official name for Q instead of a dessert Android 10 is the official name for the next major version of the OS, which previously has been known as “Android Q”, and is expected to launch in the next few weeks. This sadly means that the era ...
Google revealed yesterday that the transition for G Suite has been postponed and that the new deadline for Hangouts shutdown is June 2020. The Tech-Giant confirmed back in December that it will replace Hangouts with Chat and Meet, and announced that the transition will start in October 2019. The decision to delay the ...
Android Auto was released over five years ago by Google and has only received minor tweaks and updates in that time, and the first major redesign of the platform is here now. In case you had no idea, Android Auto is a mobile app developed to mirror features from an Android device to a car's compatible ...
Gallery Go is a 10MB new app from Google that helps organize your photos offline. It is designed to let people with unreliable internet connections organize and edit their photos. Just like Google’s regular Photos app, it uses machine learning to organize your photos. Gallery Go also offers some simple-to-use editing ...
Google is rolling out a major update to Gmail giving users the ability to send and receive dynamic emails from July 2, 2019. The service, which is currently available in a beta version to G Suite customers, uses the accelerated mobile pages (AMP) framework to load web pages within the ...
Google is offering USD 2 million grant to Kenyan nonprofits and social enterprises that have a compelling technology-based project that can improve society on a local or national scale. The USD 2 million will be shared across four winners and eight runners up in the country. Applicants in what will ...
Google has today announced the launch of Google Go, a new app that provides a lighter, faster, way to search, with everything you need just a tap away. As more Kenyans use mobile phones as their primary and sometimes only internet device, online is not somewhere they ‘go’ anymore, it’s where they live ...
In their continuous bid to keep empowering start-ups around the world, the 5th class of Google launchpad accelerator is here. This class includes start-ups from various countries including Nigeria, Brazil, South Africa, Bangladesh, India and more. Launchpad Accelerator which was just extended to Africa, is a program by Google which ...
Google's parent company, Alphabet is in talks with the ride-sharing app and Uber rival-Lyft, to invest up to $1 billion. Interestingly, Alphabet has previously invested in Uber, but that relationship has recently nosedived as Alphabet's self-driving car unit, Waymo, has sued Uber claiming that an engineer who left Waymo for ...
Google has launched a new digital payment app named Google Tez for the Indian market. The app supports English and seven Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. It is available for both Android and iOS platforms. Google Tez links user’s bank account to Apple Pay, Android ...
From searching for news and information, to finding answers to the simplest of questions, Google has become a go-to-place for billions of people around the world. According to Smart Insights, an average of 4,464,000,000 Google searches are made per day. On Friday, Google crunched its search data and compiled a global top ...
Applications are now open for the next cohort of Google's Launchpad Accelerator. The six-month zero-equity acceleration programme is aimed at growth-stage startups from emerging markets. The programme is now open to more countries around the world. Before now, it included African startups in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa, but this has ...
Google has announced plans to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable The U.S. technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa according to a company spokeswoman. This pledge ...
Sundar Pichai, The CEO of Google is presently in Lagos Nigeria for #GoogleForNigeria event presently holding. This unannounced visit of the CEO of one of the biggest tech companies in the world shows their interest in Africa and particularly Nigeria. Recall that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, also recently visited ...
Google through its Google News Lab and the World Bank are working with Code For Africa to empower journalists in Africa by giving them the necessary support to better understand the Web and how to use the online tools available to them. The Code For Africa Digital Journalism initiative will ...
Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) and Google for Entrepreneurs, have launched PitchDrive, a three week, five-city European tech hub tour across London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich and Paris to bring 15 elite African tech companies together to pitch to investors, explore international opportunities and learn about frontier technology markets. Starting in London on ...
For a long time, surfing the web has been accompanied by a "I'm not a robot" feature that tries to verify that you are human. This feature might have come off as a nag to many but it is a necessary evil that is meant to protect automated software from ...
Google’s Android is challenging Microsoft Windows as the world’s most popular operating system (OS) in terms of total internet usage across desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile combined, according to a new research by StatCounter, the independent web analytics company. According to the report, in February 2017, while Windows remained top ...
Online ride-hailing service, Uber has of late been trying to weather the storm with attacks from seemingly all directions. The company which is valued at over $60 billion has been suffering a barrage of attacks and criticisms about its modus operandi. From accusations of blatantly flouting laws governing taxis, to ...
Google is expanding its Launchpad Accelerator program to two more continents. African and European countries have been added to the lineup. They include Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary. The Google Launchpad accelerator is a program that was introduced by Google in late 2015, to give select startups from around the ...
One Africa Media-backed real estate platform Buyrentkenya.com which has remained at top position despite Rocket Internet's Lamudi (Jumia House) marketing spent has gone premium allowing serious property owners and agents get their properties verified. The first to launch personally inspected verified listings in Kenya's property scene, the firm says the feature ...
Google's VP of Product Management, Brian Rakowski, yesterday announced Google's Pixel and Pixel XL, the firm's first hardware and software smartphones made in-house, putting an end to the Nexus brand which was launched in 2010 in partnership with a number of OEMs. The phones have a 2.5D Corning® Gorilla® Glass ...
With the iPhone 7 hype slowly dying down, there couldn’t be a better time for Google to introduce its new line of phones. So why the change? Many reasons indicate that Google wants to build a smartphone business similar to what Apple has with its iPhone, one where Google controls ...
Google Drive is getting an upgrade, being that its search tab will work similarly to Google’s search engine. The upgrades include a natural language processor, allowing you to search for files when typing more realistic wording, similar to how you speak. That said, it doesn’t seem Google will just automatically ...
