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Bradley Horowitz takes over as Product Head at Google Plus

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Google+ is currently being going by Bradley Horowitz (a long-lasting VP of item for Google+), taking over David Besbris. The social network is likewise being part into Photos and Streams. Besbris just assumed control Google+ not as much as a year prior, in April 2014, after Vic Gundotra — who had begun and driven Google+ since its initiation — left the organization (Source: ReCode ).   The declaration comes only a few days after Google's senior VP of products Sundar Pichai said in an interview to Forbes , "I think progressively you'll see us concentrate on correspondences, photos and the Google+ Stream as three vital zones, as opposed to being considered one region."   "Some incredible remarks from Sundar Pichai about future item heading for Google+, Photos, Hangouts," Horowitz composed on his G+ page. "We've been buckling down on these progressions and I'm truly amped up for what these will mean for our clients." Notwith

Google launches Android for Work

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We've thought about Android for Work for a long while, after Google announced the program at Google I/O 2014. Presently its official, and Google has partnered with various organizations to make the workplace an inside and out more secure spot for everybody. Android for Work is based on four key technology parts: work profiles, the Android for Work application, Google Play for Work, and in-build productivity tools. Every client needs to set up their own particular work profile on a Lollipop-running device, and will then have admittance to work information because of improved SELinux security implementation. When set up, your IT expert can send or evacuate work-sanction applications to associated devices. In the event that your device is running Ice Cream Sandwich through KitKat, you can download the Android for Work application. It will convey secure mail, contacts, events, documents and a great deal more, and can be totally overseen by your IT proficient. Here's the full rundo

Google Buys Softcard's Technology, Gets Deal With U.S. Carriers

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Google Inc. has acquired technology and patents from Softcard, a mobile-wallet service sponsored by the three-greatest U.S. remote suppliers, as the Web organization tackles Apple Inc. to offer more payment peculiarities on smartphones. Softcard is a joint wander between AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to support NFC based mobile payments in the United States. While Google's unique post on the Google Commerce web journal depicted it as something closer to a partnership, the announcement discharged via Softcard affirms that Google has acquired Softcard's technology. The deal will see Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AT&T pre-install Google Wallet on their Android phones in the U.S. not long from now. Google Wallet permits shoppers to tap their phones to pay at checkout in some block and-mortar stores similarly Apple Pay does. The move likewise includes Google purchasing some protected innovation from Softcard, once known as ISIS. It doesn't give the idea that any Softca

Google launches YouTube Kids on Android and iOS

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It's been rumored for some time, yet now its official: Google has launched YouTube Kids. The organization says its been working with parents over the previous year to make an all the more family-friendly version of YouTube . The new application is intended to be easier for kids offering a brighter and greater interface. As you may expect, the choice of features on the platform is restricted for what Google considers "appropriate for the entire family." Parents and kids can skim four channel and playlist classifications: Shows, Music, Learning and Explore. Obviously, you can basically look for substance you're searching for too, and it backings voice seek, on the off chance that your kid can't spell or type. Some illustration substance incorporates DIY arts and specialties, math lessons and youngsters' shows. Furthermore clearly, a great deal of train features . The application additionally offers various parental controls, including: A timer that gives yo

Google Glass - A Failure? Ebay selling at half price

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Following two years of popping up at prominent occasions donning Google Glass, the contraption that changes eyeglasses into spy-motion picture commendable engineering, Google fellow benefactor Sergey Brin walked out and out into a Silicon Valley celebrity main street occasion on Sunday. He'd cleared out his pair in the auto, Brin told a journalist. The Googler, who heads up the top-mystery lab which created Glass, has scarcely abandoned the product — he as of late wore his pair to the shoreline. In any case Brin's timing is not favorable, nearing as numerous designers and early Glass clients are losing enthusiasm toward the greatly built up, $1,500 test form of the product: a cam, processor and stamp-sized machine screen mounted to the edge of eyeglass edges. Google Inc itself has pushed back the Glass take off to the mass market. While Glass may discover some particular, even lucrative, utilizes as a part of the work environment, its prospects of turning into a purchaser hit

Sundar Pichai takes control of Google's crucial products

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That being said, we figure congrats are in place. As indicated by Re/code , Sundar Pichai, the senior VP at Google who used to simply be in charge of the Chrome, Android, and web applications teams now essentially has control of very nearly every other Google product division of note. Look? Google+? Advertisements? Indeed the organization's framework? The majority of that has been obviously left CEO Larry Page's plate and onto Pichai - not an enormous astonishment considering his uplifted conspicuousness inside Mountain View over the previous months. Pichai, a nine year Google veteran, was even supposed to be one of the main decisions for Microsoft's new CEO, however the part inevitably went to long-term organization insider Satya Nadella. In any case, that is a considerable measure of force in one man's hands, particularly considering that the publicizing division Pichai inherited fundamentally pays for the various peculiar, astounding things Google gets to do. It&#