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Feb 27, 2015

Visa partners with financial instituions to bring its mobile payment services to Android

Visa today announced its partnership with many financial institutions from around the world to offer a new mobile payment service. Using Visa's new mobile payment service is pretty easy, and only involves consumers downloading

GOOGLE

Feb 26, 2015

Sundar Pichai talks about Android, Google’s focus on innovation and more

Google's Sundar Pichai has climbed the ranks at Google, and made waves when he became one of the most prolific individuals at the company when it comes to products. Pichai's catalog of products

GOOGLE

Feb 26, 2015

Google to display sponsored apps in search results on Google Play

Google today announced that it will start showing sponsored app in search results on the Google Play app for Android in the coming weeks. The ads are aimed at allowing developers to better market their

GOOGLE

Feb 26, 2015

BlackBerry to work with Google on securing Android devices

BlackBerry announced today that it will be working with Google on developing a software that will make it easier to manage and secure Android devices. After being reduced to a no one in the mobile

APPS

Feb 26, 2015

Google now lets Play Music users upload 50,000 tracks and stream them for free

Google has increased its Play Music upload limit to 50,000 tracks, allowing users to upload and stream more than double the number of songs they could before, absolutely free. One of the best things

GOOGLE

Feb 26, 2015

Google to launch Android Pay at Google I/O

A source of Ars Technica has revealed that Google is working on a new in-store and in-app payments API for third-party applications. The API will be called Android Pay and is slated

APPS

Feb 26, 2015

Google Calendar for Android update brings 7-day week view, Google Drive integration and more

Google has started rolling out a new version of Google Calendar for Android with a lot of improvements and enhancements. Firstly, the update brings the much requested 7-day week view and pinch-to-zoom

GOOGLE

Feb 23, 2015

Google strikes deal with Softcard for tech and preinstall Wallet on all U.S. major carriers

As mobile payments continue to rise in influence, companies are finding ways to make sure that their own options are seen by the masses. Google's latest deal may be one of the biggest for

GOOGLE

Feb 21, 2015

Google Play Store update brings a Google Now like Search bar

Google has started rolling out an update for Play Store that makes the action bar smarter. The action bar will now automatically act as a search bar when you open the Play Store first and

GOOGLE

Feb 20, 2015

Google hopes to launch revamped Wallet service in May

Google's doing all it can to deliver a convincing Apple Pay competitor, which it hopes to launch this May at Google I/O, The Wall Street Journal reports. But the company is currently having

GOOGLE

Feb 20, 2015

Google Search will display search results in a new carousel interface from a single source

Starting from today, when you do a Google Search on mobile, Google will bundle the relevant and freshest news from one website into a "carousel" so that you can easily scan through it. The carousel

ANDROID 5.1

Feb 17, 2015

Google launches Android One devices running Android 5.1 Lollipop in Philippines

Google today announced that it is expanding its Android One program to Philippines. The company had unveiled Android One and the first batch of devices from Indian OEMs at an event in September last year,

GOOGLE

Feb 13, 2015

Google Maps gets navigation lane guidance in 15 new countries

Google has announced a nice new Maps update that brings its navigation lane guidance feature to 15 new countries throughout Europe. The feature, which made its debut last May, is now available in 23 countries

GOOGLE

Feb 12, 2015

Square developing its own Android tablet as Google reinvents mobile payments to counter Apple Pay

Square and Google are both making efforts to counter the threat of Apple Pay, new reports claim. While the former is said to be developing its own Android tablet that could replace iPad-powered Square

APPS

Feb 11, 2015

Top 5 nature-themed live wallpapers that won’t drain your phone’s battery

Live wallpapers were introduced to Android with the Nexus One and v2.1 of the OS, back in 2010 - so we've had four years of data to work with in clearing up a few

GOOGLE

Feb 10, 2015

Make sure your Google Drive account is secure, and you’ll get an extra 2GB of storage

Security is an important aspect of our mobile devices, and especially for the information those devices have access to. Google wants to make sure that your Drive account is secure, and for those who are

GOOGLE

Feb 6, 2015

The rise and fall of Google Glass

When Google announced that it was killing Google Glass as we know it last month, it was a big surprise to all of us; we weren't expecting the company to abruptly pull a device

APPS

Feb 5, 2015

Chrome 41 beta includes flag to reduce referrer information from HTTP headers

Tracking data from one website to another is pretty common, especially for those who don't alter any security settings in the browser of their choice. For anyone that's looking to get a bit