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It's goodbye to Google Cloud Print service on December 31, 2020


Google has officially announced that they will be shutting down their Cloud Pint services on all operating systems on December 31, 2020. In the statement released by Google, they will no longer support their cloud based printing service from January 1, 2021. The tech giant has hence requested it's users to find an alternative solution and carry out a resettling strategy. Google also states that they have improved the native printing experience for Chrome OS and will keep adding more features to native printing platform.

 Source: Google Chrome Enterprise Help

Google Play Store now offers Google Glass Explorer Edition



Google's wearable headset, Google Glass Explorer Edition was already made available for any 18 years or above United States resident, who's ready to pay a hefty an amount of $1500, for a product that is still undergoing development in all forms, from their official website, back in May. Yesterday, the American multinational corporation, Google, has finally opened the way for the Google Glass to their  digital distribution platform, Google Glass, now selling the Explorer Edition for the same price of USD 1500, in America.

 Alongside the headset, Google Play is also offering prescription titanium frames, shades and Earbud (earphone) for the new wearable, enhancing your experience using this Google's new expensive product. Remember, this is not yet the final consumer launch, we are waiting for, as the device is still an Explorer Edition, meaning it to be the late Beta stage, but it still can provide a niche to the dedicated application developers, and for those who want's an early headheld practice using the gadget, well literally.

 Source: Google Play, THE VERGE

Google and HTC offers free 100GB Google Drive storage for their listed devices



Starting today, the lucky owners of HTC One 2014 (M8) smartphones, as well as users of their previously announced Desire 816, Desire 610 and One Max should receive a new email in your Gmail inbox, notifying that you about the new promotional gift from the manufacturer and Google. The company is now offering it's customers with an extra 50GB, that  makes it a total of 100 gigabytes of free Google Drive cloud storage for two years from activation date. The new offer will basically double your amount of Google Drive storage allotted for the handset from purchase, which now hikes more 50GB to round the numbers at 100 gigs. Accordingly, HTC's official website also tells us that, folks with new the One Remix will also be a part of the 100GB promotional offer from Google. So, to basically redeem your new package, all you need to do is to launch the pre-loaded Google Drive application on your smartphone and click on the "Redeem" tab and follow the screen prompts to complete whole the redemption setup. Lastly, Google also acknowledges that, the HTC models including the One (M7), HTC Butterfly S, HTC One Mini and HTC Desire 601 will be offered with an additional 25GB free storage on Drive, when these models are updated to HTC Sense 5+ and Sense 6.

 Source: Google, HTC

Google's Press Conference to go live in India on September 15



Google has got scheduled a new Press Conference in India, and the Mountain View based search giant has already started sending invitations to the media for their event on 15th of September, that will kick-off 12:00 noon, local time. As far as the rumors are taken to concern, Google is reportedly said to debut their Android One powered smartphones in the country as they have already partnered with the countryside smartphone manufacturers including, Micromax, Karbonn and Spice, as launch OEM's back in June at the Google Annual I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco.

 Accordingly a week earlier, we also heard speculations on the company's plans to introduce their new Android One initiative in India early this month, where this new event invitation from Google all falls in line with what we read from the past. The new report also confirms that a number of new companies from India have already joined Google's list of Android One partners, since it's launch at Google I/O. Though the American firm's plans are to make their mobile operating system available to more customers at a really low price point, but not compromising on the hardware by pre-selecting components, for OEM's and running over stock version of Android operating system, also by receiving automatic updates for the system applications, posts in the past suggests us to see the Android One devices come out in the markets for a price range between ₹ 7000 to 10000, that makes it around 116 to 166 United States Dollars, which is more than the $100 (₹ 6035), what Google had mentioned previously. We also have all chances of seeing the man himself, Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President, Android, Chrome and Apps at the September 15 event in India, as reported by NDTV.

 Source: NDTV

Android One powered smartphones launching early next month in India



Guys and girls waiting for Android One empowered smartphones, we have got some good news for you people. THE ECONOMIC TIMES, couple of days back reported that, Google and smartphone manufacturers based in India, like Micromax, Karbonn and Spice will be soon launching their own devices running Google's new part of mobile operating system, announced back in June, at their year's Google Annual I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco.

 The phone originators are expected to price the new smartphones in a range between ₹ 7000 to 10000 ($116 to 166), that's definitely more than what Google promised us in June, where it should have been under $100 (₹ 6035). It is also said that, the success of Android One platform is very critical for Google at this point of time, as it should bring more budget-friendly seeking consumers to their low-level software system. "Android One is setting minimum hardware and software standards for the three vendors, who are adding or improving upon them in future devices under the Android One umbrella," people directly involved in the development of the smartphones said. "The operating system on the Android One devices will be upgraded to Android L in October. This upgrade will allow users to have better browsing and gaming experience at affordable prices, making the smartphones attractive buys for first-time buyers and those wanting to replace their existing phones." To learn more about the brand new Android One system, click here.

 Source: THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Factory images and binaries of Android 4.4.4 Release 2 posted by Google for LG Nexus 5, backed by an OTA update



Google is currently updating their LG Nexus 5 smartphone with the new build of Android 4.4.4 KitKat version. The new software update roll out is only limited to a number of countries, from Australia, New Zealand to India, as reported. Users in the region will be receiving an over-the-air update to their Nexus 5 handsets, which will bring the new refurbish, with build number, KTU84Q, bringing new radio image and fixes to the networks in the aforementioned regions. This version of Google's build is dubbed as Android 4.4.4_r2.

 Alongside, Google has also posted factory images and binaries for the new build on their official Google Developers webpage, that'll some in handy for the use of restoring your Nexus 5's original factory firmware and binary hardware support files, for users of Android Open-Source Project. Factory images and binaries for Nexus 5 "hammerhead" (GSM/LTE) is read as Android 4.4.4 Release 2 (KTU84Q).

 Source: Google Developers 1, 2, Android Police, Pocketnow

DVF collection of shades and frames are now available



Earlier this month, Google collaborated with American fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, to announce DVF collection of five new frames and eight new shades for the company's Google Glass, wearable. The new frames and shades are exclusively made and designed for women/girls, than like the ones Google announced back in January.

 The new frames and shades from DVF has now arrived on NET-A-PORTER's official webpage and Google Glass's domain address for the public, planning to buy a pair of fashionable wearable from Google and Diane von Furstenberg. Currently they have the DVF made for Glass in Brown frames with Rose shades, Teal frames with Blue shades, Charcoal frames with Black shades, Plum frames with Bronze shades and last but not the least, White frames with Green colored shades. If you are willing to look through the DVF collection of Google Glass, it will cost you $1800. You can also check these products out at dedicated DVF stores nationwide, on 27th and 28th of this month, listed here.

         

Source: Google Glass (Google+), GLASS, NET-A-PORTER, Google Glass (YouTube)

Google Glass is coming to United Kingdom, for £1000



Google had recently made their Glass Explorer program available to any US resident above 18 years old, ready to pay a hefty amount of $1500, last month. Following this, now the company is finally crossing the United States territories, and coming to the United Kingdom for the first time with their Glass. Moments back, the Google Glass team on Google+ has let us know that the American company has decided to fulfill their customers wish, indeed making their high-tech wearable Glass available in Great Britain, starting today.

 "Beginning today, we’re extending our open beta Explorer program to the UK. The world sees the UK as a center (actually, a centre) of innovation. It has produced some of the greatest technology inventors and inventions of the last century, and people on the ground are always excited to explore new products and ideas," said Google Glass.

 Google is extending their open Beta Explorer program towards UK, so the interested Brit's with heavy pockets can bag one pair of Google's advanced Glass for themselves from Google Play for £1000 ($1702). Also, Google has planned to demo their units in the London city, exactly at 9-10 Stable Street, London N1C 4AB, on 27th and 28th of this month, between 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM, local time, where they have already began accepting RSVP's from interested people in town, through a new dedicated webpage. To request a RSVP, click here.

 Source: Google Glass (Google+), GLASS

Google brings up Android 4.4.4 KitKat factory images and binaries for Nexus devices, OTA updates rolling here and there



Google has posted binary images and hardware support files of Android's version 4.4.4 KitKat in their Google Developers domains, for the use of restoring your Nexus model's original factory firmware and for users of the Android Open-Source Project, respectively. The new update is here with the build number, reading as KTU84P. The lately release fresh images and drivers are available for Google Nexus devices including, LG Google Nexus 5 or "hammerhead" (GSM/LTE), ASUS Nexus 7 2013 or "razor" (WiFi), ASUS Nexus 7 2013 or "razorg" (Mobile), Samsung Galaxy Nexus 10 or "mantaray", LG Google Nexus 4 or "occam", ASUS Nexus 7 or "nakasi" (WiFi) and ASUS Nexus 7 or "nakasig" (Mobile).

 So, whats new in this build of Android KitKat? As reported by Android Police, this brand new update will deal with security fixes, which is related to CVE-2014-0224, that is an OpenSSL bug, basically allowing a man-in-the-middle attack. This is something much alike the Heartbleed bug, which is already fixed in the Android 4.4.3 KitKat update, earlier. We also hear some of the members from the XDA-Developers forum reporting on receiving a 2.5 megabytes light OTA update of the build on their Nexus 5 smartphones.

 Source: Google Developers 1, 2, Android Police, XDA-Developers

Google announces DVF collection of shades and frames for Glass



Google yesterday announced DVF collections of five brand new shades and eight new frames for their wearable, Glass, in collaboration with the American fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. According to them, Google Glass Explorers will be able to purchase the new upgrades by the 23rd of this month exclusively from NET-A-PORTER and the company's official domain.



Source: Google Glass (Google+)
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