Google+ now has more than 400 million users, announces Google SVP Vic Gundotra.
The Googler unveiled the figures in a post on the search giant’s social network and added that about 25 percent of them are active users.
In the post, Gundotra seemed struck at the number of users Google managed to rack up in a very short time.
“This week we also hit an important milestone – over 400,000,000 people have upgraded to Google+. It was only a year ago that we opened public sign-up, and we …

Apple and Google will have such a dominant year in 2012 in the smartphone market that the market share of the two companies combined will leave almost nothing to rivals.
The prediction comes from Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at the financial research company Global Equities Research.
In an interview with eWeek, the analyst said that Apple and Google will be so prevailing in the smartphone market that there will not be a third place left in market share standings this year.
“There will not be any …

US citizens who had fallen victim for a work-from-home scam that took advantage on the Google name will receive refunds courtesy of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The committee will distribute over 90,000 refund checks worth about $2.3 million to Americans who fell for the fraudulent scheme and charged with hidden costs.
The FTC classified the names Google Money Tree, Google Pro and Google Treasure Chest as scams operated without consent and any relation to the search giant.

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Google has released a full-fledged YouTube app for iOS 6 nearly a month after Apple pulled out the app from its mobile operating system.
The online video streaming app was somewhat removed quickly from iOS 6 beta 4 version during its release early last month.
Apple said the app’s license term had run out, but added that YouTube could still be visited thru the iOS 6 native web browser, Safari.
“Our license to include the YouTube app in IOS has ended, customers can use YouTube in the …

Google now claims to have activated more than half a billion devices running on its Android mobile operating system.
The company revealed the data a few hours before Apple launched its new iPhone 5, with Android product manager saying this is a “big day” for the little robot.
“Today is a big day for Android,” he said in a post to Google+.
“500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day.”
For a while now, the number of …

Google is celebrating the centennial birthday of Alan Turing, widely considered as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, with a limited edition of Monopoly.
Apart from the search giant, Bletchley Park, where Turing worked for British codebreaking center Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS), is backing the Monopoly Turing Edition to celebrate the genius’s 100th birthday (23 June 1912).
“He might not be on a £10 note yet, but at least he is on some kind of …

Google has bought VirusTotal, a web-based security tool developer, to fortify the defenses of its Chrome web browser.
The search giant said it will uphold the maintenance of VirusTotal’s online malware scanning tool and keep its team operations a separate entity.
VirusTotal is an online security service that allows users to scan files and websites for potential malware infections through its web-based scanning tool.
The company said the Google deal will give pull in more resources and allow …

A new front opens in the smartphones war between the ICT giants – Google and Apple – this week, with the launch of the new operating system iOS, which will no longer include maps of the service engine, reports BBC.
This release is a blow to Google, the leading provider of digital maps for mobile devices.
Android, operating system made by Google, and iOS, Apple’s OS, are used in about 85% of smartphones shipped worldwide and on a higher percentage in tablets.

Google has launched the …

Those who are looking for an application that could create media streaming from an Android phone or tablet on a Samsung TV will be pleased to know that today we have a software recommendation for them: PlayTo Samsung TV, available for free on Google Play Store.
There is also a paid version, the PlayTo Samsung TV Pro version costs about $ 4.99 now, but this weekend was $ 2 cheaper. The PlayTo Samsung TV application allows playback of media content wherever you are on a Samsung TV or Blu-ray …

Google and Apple are discussing patents and a possible deal that may drastically alter the way the two companies are acting with each other in the courtrooms.
The information comes from Reuters which says that “people familiar with the matter” have told them that Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page are holding talks about patents.

According to the news organization’s sources, Cook and Page have had a conversation over the phone about …