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SPPL India launches Google TV powered Thomson QLED smart TVs: Details here

The launch makes SPPL the first Indian manufacturer to produce Google licensed QLED TVs in the country

Google Doodle: Music maestro Dr Bhupen Hazarika 96th birth anniversary

Google Doodle celebrates the music maestro Dr. Bhupen Hazarika's 96th birthday. Read this detailed report on who he was. What is he famous for and what makes him relevant

Google pilot allows local fantasy sports, rummy games on India Play Store

Google is set to run a pilot test for the local developers to distribute their daily fantasy sports (DFS) and rummy games apps on Play Store in India, as e-sports become big in the country.

Google to launch Pixel 7 smartphones, first smartwatch on October 6

Called 'Made by Google,' the hardware launch event will see new devices as shown by the company at its I/O developer conference earlier this year

Google 'pro-competitive', says Sundar Pichai, sees vibrant tech market

Pichai made the remarks late Tuesday at the Code Conference in Los Angeles. He said the company is "pro-competitive" and named companies including Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. as competitors.

Apple breaks Meta-Google's ad monopoly with new iOS privacy changes

Apple Search Ads (ASA) joined the duopoly of Meta and Google at the top table of advertiser adoption as it grew adoption nearly four percentage points (year-on-year) to 94.8 per cent

Google issues Android 13 patch to fix wireless charging, battery issues

Google has issued a first security patch to fix bugs in Pixel phones running Android 13 to address issues like increased battery drain and disabled wireless charging.

Google warns users to quickly update Chrome to avoid hacking risk

Google has advised its users to immediately install a security update in its Chrome browser to safeguard themselves against a serious bug being actively exploited by hackers.

Dixon Tech to manufacture TV sets on Android and Google TV platforms

Electronic goods manufacturer Dixon Technologies on Monday said it has entered into an agreement with global tech giant Google and got sub-licensing rights for making LED TV sets on Android and Google TV platforms. Android and Google TV are two operating systems developed by Google to power various smart TV models. This will help Dixon to provide cost-effective smart TV and further strengthen its market leadership in the LED TV category, Dixon Technologies said in a statement. Dixon "is the first contract manufacturer in India to get the sub-licensing rights relating to Android and Google TV," it added. Dixon Technologies is the largest manufacturer of LED TVs in India with an annual capacity of 6 million units at it plants. "This new partnership will enable the company in offering a cost-effective, consistent, high quality and out-of-box experience to our existing customers and potential new brands, which will further strengthen the company's market leadership in the LED TV ...

Recovery tracker: Workplace visits at record high; air traffic declines

There were around 314,000 air passengers as of Sunday, September 4, based on a rolling seven-day average. It was around 331,000 as of Sunday, August 28

New update in Google Pixel Buds Pro to make it easier to change ANC

Google's Pixel Buds Pro is likely getting a new update that will make it easier to change Active Noise Control (ANC) with the Pixel Buds app, and they are set to get a "Volume balance" feature

Google working on satellite communication support for Android 14 phones

Spacecraft engineering company SpaceX and T-Mobile recently announced a partnership that will enable smartphones to connect directly to satellites.According to GSM Arena, this will be supported by upcoming Starlink V2 satellites but will work with existing phones because it will use an existing band in the PCS spectrum.Google SVP of Platforms & Ecosystems Hiroshi Lockheimer announced on Twitter that the company is working on building satellite communication support into the next version of Android (v14).While the existing radio hardware in the current phone will do the job, it's not yet clear what software updates will be required, as per GSM Arena.T-Mobile and SpaceX are expected to start beta testing the new satellite in late 2023 when Android 14 will arrive. Though early on it will give coverage for the US, the companies plan to expand the service to cover the entire world.It will be slow, around 2 to 4Mbps per cellular zone, but that is enough for hundreds of thousands of ...

Google removes record 137,657 pieces of bad content in India in July

Most of the content it removed were related to copyright violations (135,341), while other categories included trademark, court order, graphic sexual content, circumvention, and others

Google to extend third party billing to developers in India, other nations

A reasonable service fee will continue to apply to support investments in Android and google Play

Trump's 'Truth Social' app fails to get Google nod to arrive on Play Store

Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump to counter Twitter, is yet to get approval from Google Play Store

Amazon, Google slam Microsoft over changes in cloud computing rules

Amazon, Google, Alibaba, and Microsoft's own cloud services will be excluded from the deals

Google proposes Rs 25 lakh award to spot bugs in its open source projects

Google has launched a new bug bounty programme where it will award up to $31,337 (nearly Rs 25 lakh) to researchers who spot vulnerabilities in the company's Open Source projects

Ambani announces 5G launch by Diwali, Rs 2 trn investment for digital play

Jio is working with Google to develop an affordable 5G-enabled phone and also tied up with Qualcomm to build solutions and infrastructure for 5G services in India and abroad

Reliance to develop new smartphone with Google in $25-bn 5G push

Phone being developed with Google would be "ultra-affordable", says Mukesh Ambani

Google launches Meet's new feature; users can now mute, unmute easily

The company said it changed how the "Hey Google" voice control works for Google Meet hardware devices