Google has announced that its desktop and mobile search will now include data gathered from Android app activity. Google's social network connects with a variety of its services and allows the search giant to mine data from its Android platform.
First launched as part of the Jelly Bean update, Google Now serves as the personal assistant for the Android platform, a role filled in iOS by the Siri application. The company is bringing the platform to Apple's mobile operating system as a...
Yahoo has yet to release an Android version. Using natural-language algorithms and machine learning, the app condenses news articles into 400-character dispatches for consumption on mobile devices. We're thrilled to introduce this game-changing...
Android PoliceGoogle Glass companion app has some interesting finds. The only noteworthy bits coming out it: Android is on track for 1 billion activations by year's end and he called Facebook Home a "tremendous endorsement" of Android.
Mobile App (Native): Native to the operating system (e.g.iOS or Android). Also, session tracking on a mobile app is primarily done through Unique Device ID (UDID) on Android and sessions on iOS. So if you're building an app for an iOS, Android...
With the introduction of Android 4, Google’s mobile OS is stripping keyword referral data as well, and will continue to do so as users upgrade and update. With Android’s 53 percent mobile market share we can expect the number below to get a lot...
Last week, FairSearch Europe – a group that includes Microsost, Nokia and Oracle – launched an attack on Google for alleged anticompetitive practices on its Android mobile operating system. The group claimed that Google favors its own apps over...
The Android software allows users to skin their smartphone with a Facebook overlay that puts social networking front and center. BIA/Kelsey projects that video and mobile social ads will be the prime motivators for the future growth.
Fairsearch's lead lawyer Thomas Vinje claimed that Google is using its mobile software as a "deceptive way to build advantages for key Google apps in 70 percent of the smartphones shipped today," adding that Android hardware makers have...
When it comes to global smartphone share, Android leads at 51.2 percent, followed by iOS at 43.5 percent, and Windows at 4.1 percent, Kantar Worldpanel reported. Safari was first at 61.79 percent; the default Android browser came in second with...
Because of Android’s open architecture, Facebook didn’t have to partner with Google on the Home project, but Zuckerberg explains that the process is entirely different with each mobile operating system.
Create platform-specific content – Android content for Android phones. The need to design and deploy a next-generation site architecture that maximizes your chances of findability, no matter where and how searchers look for you, is one of the...
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has squashed talk that the company will combine its Android and Chrome divisions, after recent boardroom shuffles had fueled speculation that a merger was on the cards.
Pros: ODIN provides standardization with an identifier that could be used across iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile. The Android Referrer provides reliable closed-loop attribution. Android Referrer Android Referrer is a standard method for tracking...
Unlike rival Evernote, though, Google has only released a Keep app for its Android mobile operating system, in addition to the web, although this doesn't come as too much of a surprise. Google surprised nobody yesterday with the unveiling of its...
Think about iPhone's Siri or Android's Google Now. Google's focus on the mobile front is largely on Google Now – a system that gets you answers through voice commands in natural language. It lies with two things: mobile and natural language.
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Google's Andy Rubin has stepped down from his role as the head of the Android mobile operating system to "start a new chapter" at the Internet giant. Rubin couldn't be leaving the role on more of a high, as the Android mobile operating system...
The Chinese Ministry of Technology has accused Google of unfairly discriminating against local firms by hindering the country's ability to develop its own mobile operating system against the might of Android.
During this year's Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference the firm said that the mobile browser for Chrome will now support Braille on Android 4.1 and over. Meanwhile Google also updated its Android Chrome app...
