YouTube’s paid subscription service ‘Red’ will be eventually merged with Google Play Music to give way to a new service, media reports said. Google is planning to merge YouTube ‘Red’, available in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and Mexico, and Google Play Music to create a new streaming service, Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s Global Head…
A few weeks ago, Google announced that they will eventually be migrating your Google Drive subscription to the Google Play Store billing system, but didn’t exactly give a timetable as to when this will happen. But now it looks like it has already started as some users are reporting that they’re seeing the change in…
Starting this week, Google introducing two new security warnings in Gmail to help you keep your email safer. On the web or Android, if you receive a message that can’t be authenticated with either Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or DKIM, you’ll see a question mark in place of the sender’s profile photo, corporate logo, or…
Google is working on ways to make sure that Gmail users get mails that they want in their inbox and the rest all the spam remains out of sight. “Less than 0.1% of email in the average Gmail inbox is spam, and the amount of wanted mail landing in the spam folder is even lower,…
New York: In a piece of good news for Twitteratti, Twitter has decided to increase the word limit for direct messages (DMs) to 10,000 characters from the present 140. Twitter’s product designer Sachin Agarwal informed developers of the news ahead of the change, which will be rolled out to users in July, Venturebeat.com reported. No…
Apple has announced its long-awaited music streaming service, promising subscription access to tens of millions of tracks. CEO Tim Cook revealed Apple Music – seen as a rival to the likes of Spotify – at the company’s annual developers conference. “It will change the way you experience music forever,” Mr Cook told the audience….
The Internet’s long-restricted virtual real estate market is open for business. Hundreds of new so-called top-level domains (TLDs) like .photography, .expert and .pizza are available now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the domain name system, has expanded access to suffixes. A handful of companies that prepared years ago…
IBM and Deloitte are betting that computers can understand reams of financial regulatory guidelines more thoroughly, and speedily, than humans. The two companies have developed a system that can parse complex government regulations related to financial matters, and compare them to a company’s own plans for meeting those requirements. The work is part of an…
Google Inc said it would launch an experimental portal that allows interested patent holders to sell their patents to the company. Patent holders can tell Google about the patents they’re willing to sell and the expected price through the portal, the company said on its blog. The Patent Purchase Promotion programme will remain open from…
One of Google’s most famous management philosophies is something called “20% time.”Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin highlighted the idea in their 2004 IPO letter: “We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google,” they wrote. “This empowers them…