Google has announced an update to its Mobile search feature for smartphones and tablets. The update makes certain information to be presented in a New way that resembles Google Now Cards for a richer, more interactive way for the user.

 

 

When you ask for information like flight times, currency conversion, unit measurement comparisons, local time, financial records, sunrise times and dates of holidays, you will immediately notice the new format.

 

One of the major advantages to using the new format is the way that responses become interactive. For example, if you're converting 10 meters to miles and you want to see how many miles in 14 meters, simply tap on the "card" and the full unit converter will appear.

 

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For a while, Google Now was an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Only app, then it was hacked to work partially, then in full on Ice Cream Sandwich devices, and now it looks like it has been hacked for use on any ARMv7 device, which is a pretty lengthy list.

 

As always, the news comes from those wonderful lads over at XDA Developers, specifically it looks like Mikeyxda's M6 is the best option out there.

 

According to the post, you should be good to go as long as you have a rooted device with ClockworkMod Recovery, and an ARMv7 processor, which includes most Archos tablets, the Asus Transformer series tablets, and many of the premier handsets from HTC, Motorola, and Samsung going back a couple years.

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College Humor have new funny clip for us today... this Time its a sketch about Google latest products. The short sketch pokes fun at more than a few Google products you must have heard of, such as Google Glass and Google's self-driving cars.

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The Chrome team has just announced the release of Chrome 21 to the Stable Channel. 21.0.1180.57 for Mac and Linux, 21.0.1180.60 for Windows and Chrome Frame. Chrome 21 contains a number of new features including a new API for high-quality video and audio communication.

 

 

Chrome 21 also adds Retina display support for the Mac OS X for Ultra-clear sharp text and images whil browsing on a Retina Macbook Pro.

Chrome v21-m Stable Change-log:

• [Linux only] [125225] Medium CVE-2012-2846: Cross-process interference in renderers. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Julien Tinnes).

• [127522] Low CVE-2012-2847: Missing re-prompt to user upon excessive downloads. Credit to Matt Austin of Aspect Security.

• [127525] Medium CVE-2012-2848: Overly broad file access granted after drag+drop. Credit to Matt Austin of Aspect Security.

• [128163] Low CVE-2012-2849: Off-by-one read in GIF decoder. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

• [130251] [130592] [130611] [131068] [131237] [131252] [131621] [131690] [132860] Medium CVE-2012-2850: Various lower severity issues in the PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.

• [132585] [132694] [132861] High CVE-2012-2851: Integer overflows in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.

• [134028] High CVE-2012-2852: Use-after-free with bad object linkage in PDF. Credit to Alexey Samsonov of Google.

• [134101] Medium CVE-2012-2853: webRequest can interfere with the Chrome Web Store. Credit to Trev of Adblock.

• [134519] Low CVE-2012-2854: Leak of pointer values to WebUI renderers. Credit to Nasko Oskov of the Chromium development community.

• [134888] High CVE-2012-2855: Use-after-free in PDF viewer.

•  Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.

• [134954] [135264] High CVE-2012-2856: Out-of-bounds writes in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.

• [$1000] [136235] High CVE-2012-2857: Use-after-free in CSS DOM. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

• [$1000] [136894] High CVE-2012-2858: Buffer overflow in WebP decoder. Credit to Jüri Aedla.

• [Linux only] [137541] Critical CVE-2012-2859: Crash in tab handling. Credit to Jeff Roberts of Google Security Team.

• [137671] Medium CVE-2012-2860: Out-of-bounds access when clicking in date picker. Credit to Chamal de Silva.

Those of you who live in New York City and have Android phones are bound to experience joy with the next improvement of Google Maps. Whenever you search for one of NYC's 468 subway stations now, or your directions include it, Google Maps will show you service alerts for the place, such as schedule disruptions or planned maintenance.

Google Official Blog explain the New feature on Google Maps :

 

"Have you ever arrived at a subway platform only to find that the train you intended to take is skipping stops, rerouted on another line, or isn't running at all due to scheduled maintenance? Now when you click on any of the 468 New York City subway stations labeled on Google Maps, you'll see whether any planned service changes are expected to affect that station at the time. In addition, the relevant alerts will be included in the step-by-step transit directions pointing you wherever you're going." - Google

 

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Google Earth 7 has just been released on Apple store for all iOS devices, the Mountain View tech firm has beaten Apple to the punch. The latest version of Google Earth bring to iOS a huge feature that Apple is adding to its own mapping app with iOS 6: 3D images. iOS 6 will offer a New Apple 3D Maps but it's away from what google is offering right now.

Google announced on thursday that the 3D functionality of Google Earth 7 for iOS brings 3D to the same 14 regions that Android users were able to access starting in June. Those 14 regions include L.A., the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston and others. As Google adds 3D to more regions for its Android app, it will add the same regions for the iOS variant.

 

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Yesterday, was a big day in Kansas City, as Google introduced "Google Fiber + TV", and their 1000MB/sec broadband internet service that also offers a monthly HD TV service that will compete with cable and satellite providers. While this in and of itself won't have a direct impact on mobile users the services being offered promise to increase the utility of smartphones and tablets within your household.

 

Perhaps the most obvious impact will be the ability of the TV service to drive the adoption of tablets even further; subscribers will get a Nexus 7 tablet included in their package, allowing the device to be used both as a remote and as a way to view TV. Phone will also be able to act as either remote controls or as viewing devices. With the ability to store up to 500 hours of recorded content and simultaneously record up to Eight 1080p video streams at once, there will be little to stop every member of a household from consuming the content they want whenever they want it.

 

Whether Google Fiber + TV itself catches on, or even if it merely inspires other broadband carriers to up their game, it could transform the role that our phones and tablets play in our daily lives, and also make home automation via mobile devices even more intuitive as we naturally get used to controlling everything from tablets and phones. It could also help make tablet computing even more ubiquitous, which would be an impressive feat, considering that tablet computers are currently on a trajectory to replace smartphones as the most rapidly adopted technology in history.

 

Just Today, Google announced its financial report for the Q2, 2012. The total revenue is $12.21 billion, representing a pretty huge increase of 35% compared to the second quarter of 2011.

Operating income was $3.20 billion, compared to $2.88 billion in the year-ago quarter and the net income stood at $2.79 billion, compared to $2.51 billion in the second quarter of 2011. This means that despite the stagnating markets in some of the developed countries Google's business is still on the rise.

 

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Marissa Mayer, first female Rngineer in Google, is Now Yahoo's new CEO, the company announced on Monday. Mayer's appointment comes after a revolving door of chief executives at the company including, most recently, Scott Thompson, who stepped down in May after a scandal involving his doctored resume.

Mayer, 37, was employee number 20 at Google and was a crucial asset to the search giant, introducing more than 100 features and products to the site during her tenure. In October 2010, Mayer, who held the title VP of Search Product, began overseeing location and local services at the company.

 

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A patent filed for in 2010 and recently granted to Google suggests one hardware concept they might be considering to pull it off. The patent covers numerous ways to design a hybrid tablet and notebook that would feature a touch-sensitive virtual keyboard and touchpad on a second screen.

 

 

The device could shift between tablet and notebook mode easily. This Google device may also the first to be merging Chrome OS with Android. Here is Google Official Patent Statement:

 

"The computing device could also be configured to operate based on one or more platforms (e.g., one or more similar or different platforms) that could include one or more types of hardware, software, firmware, operating systems and runtime libraries."

 

What other two operating systems do you think Google would want to put on a device? For over two years now Google has been working on hybrid hardware that can also run hybrid software, allowing the same machine to run different firmware operating systems.

 

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