Since the FCC proposed classifying telecom and cable services as Title II under the Telecommunications act, Comcast, and various other companies have been in up-in-arms at the proposal. This is not…
January 4, 2015 | 04:35 EST
Several major tech companies and social media sites have decided to stand up to Russian authorities who recently handed down orders to block content regarding an upcoming protest. The protest was in…
December 27, 2014 | 09:05 EST
Google has quietly rolled out a new little feature for Youtube that is still in the early stages of being fully integrated. Right now, Google's new GIF creator that is integrated with Youtube only…
December 12, 2014 | 09:19 EST
In response to a new Spanish law, Google has announced that as of December 16th, it will be shutting down Google News in Spain and removing all Spanish Publishers from their lists. The new law, which…
December 11, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Last May the European Court of Justice ruled that, because search engines are data controllers, they are subject to legislation for European data protection. This means that private individuals have…
November 27, 2014 | 12:42 EST
There have been quite a few announcements in the world of Google this week. They have announced the new Nexus 6, made by Motorola, which is now expected to be available for pre-order in late October…
October 17, 2014 | 02:35 EDT
Today, it was announced by the Twitch CEO, Emmett Shear, that Twitch has been bought by Amazon. Rumor had been flying around for a long time that Google was the one to buy Twitch, but a latecomer who…
August 25, 2014 | 05:29 EDT
Admist all of the craziness and backlash Facebook has received about making people split their time between two of their apps (and here's my opinion on it) someone is paying attention. If seems that…
August 14, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
Once again the team at Google took the stage and showed off a plethora of new features for the google brand. This year, the focus was heavily rested on synchronizing your devices while giving the…
June 26, 2014 | 01:28 EDT
Tech Raptor will be covering Googles annual press conference "Google I/O". Below you can find an embedded stream courtesy of the Google Developers.
June 25, 2014 | 12:58 EDT
Swiftkey is an extremely popular third-party keyboard for Android with over a million downloads from the Google Play store. The basis for Swiftkey is to replace the standard Android keyboard with a…
June 16, 2014 | 05:25 EDT
Variety is reporting, through their own sources, that Youtube is about to finish a deal with Twitch to purchase the company. This deal would be Google's largest since it purchased Youtube for $1.6…
May 18, 2014 | 09:37 EDT
This morning Google just released their newest app in the App Store called Chrome Remote Desktop out of beta to the public. This app works with the Chrome Remote Desktop program that is in the Chrome…
April 16, 2014 | 04:11 EDT
Prior to the unpacked 5 event , I was really hopeful for the Galaxy S5 and here is why. After the garbage that was the S4 conference, Samsung said they were taking a step back to realize what they…
March 20, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
After shaking up the cloud storage game almost 2 years ago, Google is about to do it again. Today on their blog, Google announced new pricing for Google Drive. You can still have the free 15GB of…
March 14, 2014 | 09:30 EDT
Google is trying to eradicate the online world from advertising fraud and in order to aid in their defensive effort they announced an acquisition of Spider.io. The London based start-up has been…
February 21, 2014 | 01:51 EST
Google has told early adopters of its Google Glass how not to use their highly anticipated wearable. Google Glass is currently undergoing “beta testing” through its Explorer Program, wherein…
February 20, 2014 | 09:30 EST
If you are experiencing any difficulty getting on various Google Apps it's because Google is having issues right now nationwide. Be patient; the services should be back up soon. You will see various…
January 24, 2014 | 03:35 EST
At CES this year, it was expected that Nvidia would likely show off a new member of the Tegra family, i.e. Tegra 5. Although we all knew this would be Kepler-based, we weren't expecting the behemoth…
January 7, 2014 | 04:19 EST
Maybe you have never tried Google Now (if so, start using it, now!) for anything. Maybe you're a Google Now power user. Either way I'm sure that you don't know everything that Google Now will do for…
December 3, 2013 | 09:00 EST
Recently CyanogenMod announced that it has voluntarily removed its app CyanogenMod Installer from the Google Play Store per Google's request. According to CyanogenMod's blog, it was contacted by…
December 2, 2013 | 09:00 EST
With Android 4.4 Kit Kat rolling out nicely and with the active voice search gaining popularity, the 'OK, Google' saying is growing. Google is helping this out by releasing the official Google Voice…
November 29, 2013 | 09:00 EST
Android 4.4, also known as “KitKat”, has been described by Google as a release for “everybody”. One of the defining features is to improve performance and efficiency to ensure KitKat could run on…
November 5, 2013 | 09:00 EST
That's right. Google is shutting down its Google Checkout product. Google Checkout was announced six months ago, with a firm date decided on recently. Fortunately, this won't have as much…
October 17, 2013 | 09:00 EDT
With the latest Google Play Update (ver. 4.3.10) it seems to be breaking some of the installs. Users, including myself, are getting "Package file is invalid" errors when trying to download from…
August 12, 2013 | 09:00 EDT
Earlier this week Motorola and Google officially released the Moto X phone. It’s the phone that you design and assembled for you right here in the good olde U-S of A. Note they said ‘assembled’, I’m…
August 5, 2013 | 09:00 EDT
Last year, when Google Drive was unveiled by Google as an alternative solution to SkyDrive (7 GB free), Dropbox (2GB, up to 16GB free with referrals), and various other online storage options, it…
May 17, 2013 | 09:00 EDT