Google’s Revamped Nexus 7 Spotted In Newly Leaked Press Image

Google Nexus 7

In just a few days now, Google’s Chrome and Android chief Sundar Pichai will be joined by a slew of journalists and media types to nosh on some breakfast and show off the newly-revamped Nexus 7. If you haven’t yet had your fill of leaks, none other than @evleaks has come through with one final (seemingly press quality) image of the updated tablet and its gigantic bezels ahead of its July 24 unveiling.

Yeah, the new Asus-made tab doesn’t look too different from the version we’re all so used to, though the dimples that flecked the back of the original are gone, and that front-facing camera has finally found a friend in a 5-megapixel sensor that sits on the device’s rear. One of the bigger gains here is the addition of a much higher resolution 7-inch display — the updated 7′s screen will run at 1920 x 1200, a big leap from the 720p panel we saw the first time around. As usual, we can’t discount what’s ticking under that redesigned hood, and the new Nexus tab is expected to pack a quad-core chipset running at 1.5GHz, 2 or 4GB of RAM, and dual rear-facing speakers.

Google’s Revamped Nexus 7 Spotted In Newly Leaked Press Image | TechCrunch

Google reportedly prepared to spend $500M marketing Moto X

Motorola promises the "first smartphone that you can design yourself."

Google is apparently going all in to support the Moto X, the first flagship handset released by Motorola Mobility since being acquired by the Web giant a year ago.

Google is expected to allow the unit to spend up to $500 million marketing the highly-anticipated smartphone in the U.S. and overseas, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. The device is expected to be available on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless this fall, sources told the Journal.

Google reportedly prepared to spend $500M marketing Moto X | CNET News

Google is retiring its Latitude location-sharing service on August 9th

Google is retiring its Latitude

As part of its announcement of the new-look Maps app for Android today, Google slipped in some other news. Latitude, the social location-sharing service that launched in February 2009, is to be retired on August 9th 2013. Its features will be split between the Google+ mobile app and the Android OS – but it appears that iOS users will no longer be able to maintain a location history with Google.

An information page on the Google website explains that Latitude has been removed from the latest version of Google Maps for Android, and that the Latitude app for iPhone will be removed from the App Store. Additionally, the Latitude API will be withdrawn, meaning any apps that use it to access your location and location history (such as the recently-launched Esplorio) will no longer be able to do so

Google is retiring its Latitude | The Next Web

Chrome 28 arrives with Blink, rich notifications for apps and extensions on Windows; Mac and Linux coming soon

Google has released Chrome version 28 for Windows and Mac. The new version features a notification center, although it’s only available on Windows (in addition to Chrome OS of course, which has had it for a while now). You can update to the latest release now using the browser’s built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome.

Google has released Chrome version 28 for Windows and Mac

This is also the first release of Chrome that ships with Blink instead of WebKit. You can check the Blink ID yourself tag by navigating to chrome://version/.

Google has released Chrome version 28 for Windows and Mac | The Next Web

How Google is Killing Organic Search

Google won search by providing the best organic results users had ever seen. Ever since then, organic has been fading from the SERPS, losing ground to revenue generating Google products.

13%

That’s the amount of real estate given to true organic results in a search for “auto mechanic" when Tutorspree representative is logged in at the Tutorspree office in TriBeCa.(1)

Google Search

Google killing organic search | Tutorspree Blog

Google Is Developing Android Game Console

Google is developing Android game console

Google Inc. is developing a videogame console and wristwatch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet company seeks to spread the software beyond smartphones and tablets.With the game machine and digital watch, Google is hoping to combat similar devices that Apple Inc. may release in the future.

Google is also preparing to release a second version of an Android-powered media-streaming device, called Nexus Q, that was unveiled last year but not sold to the public.

Source | The Wall Street journal

Google Removes All The Clouds From Google Maps And Earth

Google has just rid the earth of clouds. Well, Google Earth, at least. They’ve just pushed an update to the satellite imagery found in Google Earth and Google Maps, offering a higher-res (and now cloud free) view of the earth than ever before.

By tapping the tools they built for the Planetary Time Machine project they showed last month, Google was able to process and combine all of the photos they had for each region of earth — that’s hundreds of terabytes of data — until they had an almost completely clear shot of the entire globe. Go, now, Brave Adventurer! Explore the world from the comforts of your five-wheeled vessel, the SS Herman Miller!

Central Papua, Indonesia — Before And After The Cloud Patch

Source: Google Removes All The Clouds From Google Maps And Earth | Techcrunch

Google Trends - Hot Searches

A visualization of the latest hot searches from Google Trends.

Google Trends Visualization

Google Glass Teardown

What's Inside Google Glass?

Google's latest and hottest gadget needs little introduction. Since its public unveiling in April 2012, the tiny head-mounted Android computer has been collecting controversy and sociological analysis. It is currently available in limited beta to eminent members of the tech community and to a selection of "Glass Explorers". As members of the latter program, we are delighted to be able to explore Glass.

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