Google to release Yellow and Red Versions of Nexus 5

Google to release Yellow and Red Versions of Nexus 5. It seems Google is planning to launch the new color versions of the Nexus 5 smartphone. The rumors said that the Red Nexus 5 spotted in the Vietnam and the company also thinking to launch it yellow sibling. Both the versions of the smartphonw will go on sale sometime in February and March.

There is no more information available right now. We will keep you inform about the latest happening, stay tuned……..

Nexus Accessories are available on Discount

Nexus Accessories are available on Discount. Google has come out with a stunning discount offer for the Nexus devices holders. Now the Nexus 7 tablet and Nexus 5 smartphone owners can enjoy the 25% of discount on the purchase of covers and cases via Google Play store. Item includes Nexus 5 handset Bumper case and Quick cover while the accessories for the Nexus 7 tablet include folio, sleeve and case.

This promotion is not valid on the Nexus chargers; you will have to pay the full price. There is no more information available regarding the end of this discount promotion.

For buying the Nexus accessories on the 25 % of discount visit Google Play here.

Microsoft starts offering overseas data Storage

Microsoft starts offering overseas data Storage. The tech giant, Microsoft has reportedly started offering the customers in the foreign countries to store their data outside the United State. The company has announced this plan in response to the concern of NAS data, which was using Microsoft networks to surveil citizens of Brazil and the European Union. Thus, Microsoft is the only major company providing clearly non-US data storage, despite the fact that the agency has broken into the private networks of both Google and Yahoo. On the other hand, this step needs extra protection because there is no guarantee that the NSA will not be able to reach the servers outside the US.

Now Google makes your Gmail ID expose to public

Now Google makes your Gmail ID expose to public. The new feature of Google’s Gmail raises the privacy and security concerns as the users are receiving emails from strangers due to the email addresses as well as names available on the Google Plus social network. The new feature such as extension of contact list, which is available to Gmail users to add them and as a result anyone can send email and SMS to friends and strangers, who use G+.

Google is constantly trying to make its Google + (which has almost 540 million active users) more effective. When a user switches one to Gmail he/she also gets the G+ account.

On the other hand the company said in a BlogSpot that if the users do not want to receive email messages from other people on social network they could switch the settings so that

Google to collaborate Audi to Put Android system in cars

Google to collaborate Audi to Put Android system in cars. It appears the Google is planning to Put Android OS in the cars. Google is to put the system will be rolled out in collaboration with car maker Audi.  The reports said that Audi and Google to declare the  infuse of the Android system in cars at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week.
It will be an in-car entertainment and information system based on Android. The Android system will run on the Hardware built rather than on your smartphone. The companies are also planning to collaborate with NVIDIA to make this system work better.
Audi has recently declared the LTE for its selected models and Google will make the Android operating system the bedrock of technology for vehicles in the future.

YouTube.com.pk will soon be accessible in Pakistan

YouTube.com.pk  will soon be accessible in Pakistan. There is a good news for Pakistanis that the YouTube.com.pk soon be accessible in Pakistan as Google is planning to localize the Video sharing website. Some Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) officials related to this matter have told  to media that YouTube is going to launch his sub-domain in Pakistan soon.
The Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunications Anusha Rehman said if they met the Google management requirements the chances of YouTube restoration in the country are bright. She told this at the Senate Standing Committee on Tuesday. She told that committee that the government had succeeded in convincing the Google management about religious sensitivities of Pakistanis and in this come into practice it would also be easier for the local search engine to block any blasphemous or objectionable content from the website.
She said that the Google management of YouTube is willing to localize the video sharing website in the country but will not be responsible if any objectionable content uploaded on the website as this will be a personal action of the individual.
She added that the PTA is working on a draft ordinance which will be practiced by the ministry for enactment as law. If the YouTube be localized in Pakistan to remove the objectionable content from the website would be easier, instead of installing expensive filtration softwares.
Google removed the Anti-Islamic content from the website at the request of different Islamic countries including Saudi Arabi,  Libya, Egypt and Iraq by allocating them special subdomain for their countries because they met the Google requirements. By Localizing the video sharing website Google would not be infringing its own company law of encumbering freedom of expression.  The officials of ministry of IT are demanding to eradicate profanity content first and also the endorsement of draft from both national assembly and senate for launching the youtube.com.pk in the country.

Google Pakistan Digital Media Consumer insights

Pakistani users are shifting their Internet into a new gear in 2014, which will be the year mobile Internet overtakes desktop Internet, according to a new survey sponsored by Google.While desktop is dominant with 91 percent owning a PC at home, 45 percent also own a smartphone or tablet. 18 percent cite the latter as their primary device. Mobile devices are gaining momentum: 86 percent use PCs to access the Internet daily, 77 percent use smartphones, 73 percent use feature phones and 59 percent use tablets daily.

This trend follows a decline in the prices of smartphones and tablets, and anticipated launch of 3G services. Internet-capable feature phones are expected to continue to play an important role, too. An additional factor is the unreliability of the electricity supply which is also helping to promote the usage of tablets and smartphones in Pakistan.

“We think 2014 is the year mobile Internet overtakes desktop Internet in Pakistan. Consumers are really starting to embrace smartphones and tablets,” said Tania Aidrus, Manager for Asian Growth Markets, Google Asia Pacific.

These findings come from a survey of over 1,000 Pakistanis by research firm IDC on behalf of Google. The “Pakistan Digital Consumer Study” conducted earlier this quarter took a look at the life of the connected Pakistani consumer.

Pakistani digital consumers are engaging more with the Internet than ever before: of those surveyed, 70 percent spend time daily on the Internet while 60 percent say it is also where they liked to spend most of their personal time. Watching TV (41 percent) and reading the newspaper (24 percent) combined ranked lower than the Internet.

The study revealed that home is the preferred location for Internet access — even for mobile-only users, who prefer to use their home wi-fi connection. The average hours spent on the Internet are 2.25 hours a day on weekdays and 3 hours a day on weekends.

The top three activities in Pakistan both on desktop and mobile Internet are: social media, email and general search. Interestingly, digital Pakistanis like to learn on their smartphones with educational content coming in fourth. Also popular on smartphones are online banking, researching financial services and investment, and bill payments -- pointing to a near future where digitally literate Pakistanis make the Web work for them.

The main challenge of Internet proliferation in Pakistan are the quality and reliability of connectivity -- including poor speed or bandwidth availability, perceived value-for-money, customer service quality, limited choice of plans and frequency of service interruptions. The unreliability of the power supply is also a factor.

With digital Pakistanis living more of their lives online, the main opportunities are related to the economic contribution of the Internet, especially for small-medium businesses, as well as nutritious and local Internet content: education, research, financial services.

There are over 2 billion Internet users today. Throughout the 2000s, the Internet has been defined by developed countries, but it is now being defined by massive, developing countries like Pakistan.

Crack Down of Google and Microsoft against Child Abuse imagery

Crack Down of Google and Microsoft against Child Abuse imagery. The Google and Microsoft, the two leading search engine companies in the world, have started a crackdown against child abuse imagery over the internet. Both the companies have joined hands to clean up the internet searches related to child abuse images. It’s a vital step of the companies to make internet searches more safe and effective.
To overcome the issue both the companies have blocked approximately 100,000 search results over the internet related to illicit child abuse. The companies also warned that the child abuse imagery is illegal. After the blockage of the illicit content online no one is any more able to search those keywords related to child abuse rather they will be told that the sexual abuse of children is illegal.
This step of tech giants is regarded by the Prime Minister of U.K. David Cameron, who appreciated the new move by Google and Microsoft, but to do more to prevent people getting access to illegal images are also the words of the PM.
The executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt said that his company has cleanup the google searches and block approximately 100,000 search terms that might be related to the sexual abuse of children.He said of the people looking for such type of abusive queries they they will find no results that link to illegal content.
The present step of cleanup abusive child imagery is limited to English countries only, but the companies will move further by blocking it on the global scale and 158 other languages in the next six months. Similar changes are also happening with Microsoft’s Bing. The company said that they are closely related with google to solve the issue and their Bing search engine will also produce effective results.
The two companies have introduced new algorithms (software instructions ) that will put a stop to searches for child abuse imagery and Google is also testing technology to recognize and remove illegitimate videos. In a groundbreaking move, YouTube engineers have created new technology to identify videos made by paedophiles. The tech giants also have asked the help of UK’s National Crime Agency and Internet Watch Foundation in this regard.
The communications director of Google, Peter Barron said that the cleanup system is extremely effective and it would make the searches much more difficult to find  content related to sexual abuse of children online. The company is also showing warnings at the top of its search results for 13,000 queries.
The blockage or removal of the illicit child abusive content by Google and Microsoft is criticized by the different online rights campaigners, who said these precautionary  measures were more about preventing damage to the companies' reputations, and would not be very effectual in protecting children.
Despite criticism the step of  Google is significantly better. The company is doing its utmost to make the internet a safer and more accessible place for the people. I think it is a good move of the governments and tech giants to work together to eradicate child abuse content from the internet.

Google’s Android OS at the Top, Windows Starts Getting Success

Google’s Android OS at the Top, Windows Starts Getting Success. A recent survey conducted by IDC has revealed that the Google’s Android OS Platform is leading and at the top while the Microsoft Windows OS is getting success gradually. It is unveiled that the Android based Smartphones are leading and four out of five smartphones sold across the world in the third quarter of this fiscal year.
Google's Android OS market share increased to 81 percent, which was 74.9 percent a year ago. It has surpassed the Apple’s iOS, used on its iPhones. Although iPhone sales rose to 25.6 percent from a year earlier, but the growth was slower than the overall market. Apple's share also fell down in the same period last year to 12.9 percent from 14.4 percent.
On the other hand the Windows Phone grabbed the number three position with the 3.6 percent market share, up from two percent a year earlier. The Windows Phone sales rose 156 percent, with more than 90 percent made by the Finnish company Nokia. Nokia’s handset division is set to be purchased by Microsoft.The downfall can be seen in Research In Motion Limited (RIM)s BlackBerry. The market shares of the BlackBerry fell from 4.1 percent to 1.7 percent a year ago. Although, RIM has introduced the new operating system BlackBerry 10 but the sale of its BlackBerry device fell 41.6 percent from a year ago.
Despite the rise and fall of market shares of different smartphone company’s market share the overall smartphone market rose 39.9 percent year-over-year in the quarter, to 261 million units. The IDC survey further revealed that the average sales price of a smartphone fell 12.5 percent in the quarter to $317. The IDC analyst Ramon Llamas said that the Android and Windows Phone start to make continued to make considerable trade, despite their difference in market share, in the third quarter of the year. He was of the view that Price is the significant key behind the success of both competitors. 
Both the companies Google and Microsoft have a wide range of collection available at the very low cost. These products are affordable enough for the mass market and role of mass market is most important in the prosperity of entire market.
Despite the introduction two new iPhones namely iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c in the month of September the market share of Apple was probably affected by the weak sale of products, at the end of the quarter of this year. The IDC survey said that despite the downfall in market share Apple sold nine million of the new devices in the first weekend, suggesting a strong fourth quarter.
The large devices namely Phablets’ sale up from the 3 percent a year ago, accounted for 21 percent of the smartphone market, said IDC report. The IDC's Ryan Reith said that the increase in the sale is most probably due to all the successful Android vendors, who have added one or more five- to seven-inch phablets to their product collections. He further mentioned that the inability of Apple in contributing the growing market is the absence of large screen devices in the third quarter of the current year.

Google brings Helpouts, for assisting you via Videos

Google brings Helpouts, for assisting you via Videos, Google  has  brought the Helpouts tool. It’s a unique tool or service launched by Goolge that assist you if you want to learn anything online. Google Helpouts is a new marketplace that connects people to experts who can help them in learning things. For instant if you want to learn a new language? Want to play an instrument? Want to learn how to apply makeup? Want to solve your tech problems?
Google Heplouts is here. It's a live video based helping service that offers you assistance in learning how to do anything you want. 
How Google Helpouts work?
It's a face-to-face personal interaction between you and someone who can hopefully teach you what you need to know. If you will search and browse through a number of topics. It will assist you and connect with an expert -- or Helpout provider, as can be called as the set up a one-on-one Google+ Hangout session.
Google described the Helpouts service as the latest way to get and give personalized help over live video.Google said that their goal is simple. They want to help people and want to enable everyone, no matter where they are or what time it is, to easily connect with someone who can help.
Using Google Helpouts service the users can select the providers based on availability, price, ratings, reviews or qualifications.
Its definitely a unique service by Google, though not free. Unfortunately you will have to pay for availing the service. But if the experts get late for 5 minutes for the start the session will be free. It is also a money back service, If the user is for any reason discontented with the session, Google will provide a repayment.
Google will take 20 percent of the money made at each session as a transaction fee, apart from for Helpouts related to health care. You can visit Google Helpouts here and select your desired category for having assistance in learning……

India to Have YouTube on TVs: Pakistanis still waiting for its restoration

It is a big regret for Pakistan not to have YouTube in the country. Numerous times we heard that government has made plans, devised policies or software to filter YouTube and it will soon be restored in the country. But nothing happened like that and now it’s more than a year our government and IT is unable to restore the social video sharing site in the country. It seems that our institution has not enough capability to address with the issue and they just made castle in the air. Look at our neighbor country namely India, who has done tremendous progress in almost every field. I think like our country they don’t prefer to ban the one that creates panic instead they try to solve the matter with technical expertise. It can also be said that our government has not enough power or you can say enough authority to pressurize the concerned authority (Google) to address the issue.

Google slashes the Nexus 4 price in the US and UK

 Google has slashed the price of its LG made Nexus 4 smartphone. Google gives a $100 Price cut on the device the 8GB version is now available at a price of $199 while the 16GB will can be yours in $ 249 in the US.

The UK version has also dropped down in cost, with an 8GB Nexus 4 now costing £159 while the 16GB version of the phone contains the $199 price tag for the unlocked version. The price drop is available in other countries as well including Germany, Australia, Spain, Korea and Canada. The price drop has only been applied to the play stores. The Google Nexus 4 designed by LG runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon (TM) S4 Pro Processor and a 1.5 GHz quad-core CPUs.

Google Unleashes Nexus 7 Having Latest Android OS Jelly Bean Version

Google has unleashed its new Nexus 7 tablet running on the new version of Android Jelly Bean OS. The Nexus 7 tablet is the world’s highest resolution device which provides a resolution of 1,920 × 1,200 pixel resolution and is powered by Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system. The Google Nexus 7 is a 7-inches tablet and is 6mm sleeker and 50 grams lighter and has dual stereo speakers, a faster, quad-core CPU. READ MORE

Restoration of YouTube: IT committee to Find Solution

Restoration of YouTube: IT committee to Find Solution. The newly appointed Minister of Information and Technology, Anush Rehman Khan has taken a step to solve the issue of the ban on YouTube in Pakistan.The 4 member committee of information Technology headed by Amir Malik will try to find solutions for the restoration of video sharing website YouTube.  The reports of a local TV channel said that the committee of IT will ensure the
non-accessibility of blasphemous content in the country by analyzing

Google developing Android power game console and wearable tech

Google developing Android power game console and wearable tech. It appears that Google is giving more attention towards Android OS.  According to sources Google is developing Android powered a video game console and a smartwatch. Google showcased the web-connected media playing console named Nexus Q last year but never launched for sale. Now it is expected that the gaming console by google  would be  the second version of

Ban on YouTube leads to a petition in Peshawar High Court

There were reports that the video sharing site YouTube would be restored in Pakistan in the first week of May but nothing happen like this.Now a lawyer from Peshawar has challenged the ban on YouTube in Peshawar High Court. He is of the view that PTA and MoIT have failed to block the blasphemous content on the YouTube. He said that the video sharing site should be un-blocked because that it’s in the larger interest of the general public to access the YouTube.

Google Pakistan introduces Elections 2013 Web Page

Google Pakistan has recently introduced Election 2013 web page. The aim of launch of this webpage is to keep Pakistani voters aware about the happenings on the election day 11^th May, 2013.You can get the latest updates, latest News, Search Trends, and other hot issues related to top parties and candidates by visiting the webpage. Google election webpage url is as follows
www.google.com.pk/elections/

Chances of YouTube restoration are Bright

There are bright chances of YouTube restoration in Pakistan in the first week of May, said reports. He sources claimed that the ban on video sharing website is probably to be lifted in the first week of May as the administration of Google has approached the Ministry of Information Technology in a bid to block the anti-Islamic content on the YouTube permanently. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked the access of YouTube in Pakistan due to the blasphemous movie content available at the website.

YouTube to stay banned

The ban on the Google’s video sharing website YouTube will remain continue till the removal of Anti-Islamic content from the website, said the interim setup. An official was quoted by the Express Tribune as saying that the negotiations are underway with Google Inc, and hope a breakthrough soon. The official further added that the video sharing website YouTube was being urged to at least
block the video in Pakistan if they could not overall remove it from the website.