Now  you can make phone calls from Gmail without visitng  your Google Voice page. Google is bringing Gmail and Google Voice together with the launch of phone call integration within Google Chat and Gmail, the goods news doesn’t stop here – the calls are free to US and Canadian landlines only.
The initial testing with Skype showed that the new Google’s …

Facebook Places is in the news since it launch yesterday, its popularity has rubbed off on Foursquare , who have yesterday seen a highest number of signups, thanks to Foursquare and its ilk, location based services have been around for quite some time now, even Yelp.com has joined the fray, nevertheless, this feature has now got tremendous exposure with Facebook’s …

Google’s  annual developer conference held in May bought news of  an all new web apps store for its Chrome web browser. Chrome Web Store is designed to be a central location for buying and selling HTML5-based web apps.  In that direction, Google has launched the first developer preview, developers can access the developer preview of the Chrome Web Store …

More than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps wrote Vic Gundotra, Google’s Vice President of Engineering,  Gundotra blogged about the evolution of Google Maps over the past five years, which has become immensely more valuable with the rise of mobile apps and GPS-enabled smartphones. It does help that the now top selling Android based …

Trojans and viruses may be soon a security threat of pasts. The smudges, mostly due to the oily residue left behind by fingers on your touchscreen mobile device may help an attacker deduce your password according to a study  by the University of Pennsylvania.
The researchers studied two different Android smartphones, the HTC G1 and the HTC Nexus1, …

Google’s Android mobile platform has a come a long way in the past two years, it has been winning users, developers and fans with its open-to-all approach. Android mettle may have been proven for smartphones, nevertheless, its gaming capabilities are yet to be put to test. Sony Ericsson seems to be taking that plunge. Sony Ericsson is …

Gmail’s contacts manager had a outdated and jaded look and a cumbersome functionality – but, that’s history now. Google has given a makeover to the UI ( user interface) of Gmail. Major changes are done to the contacts manager with keyboard shortcuts support and custom labels for phone numbers. Some of the …

A Trojan horse began appearing on phones running Google’s Android software in Russia. The malware was detected by security firm Kaspersky, who reported the file is named “Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a” and is downloaded as a .APK Android app. This is the first known Android specific trojan.
Once the file is installed the Trojan horse begins sending text messages to premium-rate phone numbers …

Last year at Google I/O, Google has launched Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser (character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop). Google said yesterday that they “don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone …

Give way, iPhones and BlackBerrys, smartphone customers in U.S. have voted with their wallets and picked Android as their favorite in the second quarter of this year according to NPD , a market research company. Earlier NPD survey has shown Android-based smart phones outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in …