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Android: Google Maps now available for 8-bit NES (humor)

It's almost April 1 and Google is known for everything from the closet. Some legendary jokes included Google Translate for Animals (2010), calls for Google Adsense (2008) and Google Pigeon Rank (2002). The first Google-joke for April 1, 2012 has also been surfaced and it shows an 8-bit version of Google Maps for NES to be. Complete with hilarious home video that you can view below. Google Maps for the 8-bit NES, Game Boy soon, is a cartridge that the older gamers among us will be familiar. This stop you in the NES and persecute you can use Google Maps, complete with 8-bit graphics, rousing soundtrack and samples. So you can look up places and plan a route on a slightly different way than usual. One of the funniest moments in the video is the tip to fix mistakes by blowing into the cartridge. Even speech recognition is supported. Google Maps 8-bit is probably not the only product that will be introduced around this time so keep your eyes open. If you do not have 8-bit cartridg...

Facebook and Twitter fit Google 'Search Plus Your World' to

A group of developers of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have joined beaten to a personal search, using social media to improve. According to these parties pressed their mark too by Google include Google + pages and "+1' s" to give priority to more relevant pages and websites such as Facebook , Twitter, IMDb, Flickr, Tumblr, and LinkedIn . Focus on the user Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are not agree that Google's own services which pulls search results from Google "Search Plus Your World" no longer the most relevant, butmeritoriousrelevant to Google. To Google - but search users - to make clear what the difference is, there is a website called founder: Focus On The User. Do not be evil Focusontheuser.org allows real-time does Google Search Plus Your World and the way the social media world want to see. By the bookmark " Do not be evil "to install in your browser, you can yourself see the difference between the version of Googl...

Google takes leave of the Android menu button

In a lengthy blog post , Google's developers recommended that the menu button no longer use. Since Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Google has said goodbye to physical menu buttons. These buttons are now replaced by an action bar, the menu button with three small dots on the right in the picture above. These three buttons are a temporary solution, preferably Google sees it completely disappear. The action bar is like the replacement of the physical buttons. Since over 95 percent of the number of Android devices still use physical buttons are the most apps not yet optimized for virtual buttons only. Google recommends the action bar now possible to avoid when choosing these options are necessary as actual buttons in the action bar to implement. The blog post makes clear why that indirectly menu button is so small compared to other virtual buttons. Google sees the bud is a stopgap that hopefully soon will disappear completely. However, it seems quite a time before this button will ha...

Google deletes opt-out option for use of private data give

Google has announced a policy change with far-reaching consequences for the use of Android. As of March 1, the search giant's terms of use more than sixty of its services like Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube combined into one comprehensive document. This also means that the user data may be used for all services. The new "privacy policy" lacks the ability for you to sign this off. By combining the user data of the various Google services, the search giant better able to provide information. For example, you may be awakened when it appears that Google Calendar is an important meeting as you according to your GPS location even in bed. Also, Google ads you better tune. The data on your Android phone are part of the user data for other Google services can be used. Google has also made ​​a video for the new privacy words to explain. The objective would be to Google's more obvious to the end user to provide. Many Google users react surprises in the absence of t...

Google Maps gets minor update soon and the first Google Maps Game

Google Maps has once again received a small update. So you now have more options to choose from if you travel by public transport planning. It would also map data faster to load and the app would be a little less power. The most striking feature is the soon to be expected. It is a new social game that will be released next month + and Google is using Google Maps. It is still unclear exactly how the game will look like, but the first movie in which the game is announced looks promising. Google Maps update Now, if you need directions that uses public transportation, you have the option of four route options look rather than three. If you come by public transport and you do not have access to temporary GPS Google Maps can now measure the speed of the vehicle and use it to gauge where you are around. There is also a new menu added to Google Maps Navigation. Google Maps Game How the Google Maps game will look like exactly is still unclear, but probably has to do with your ...

Google will launch its touch pad

Google does not compete or iPad or the Galaxy Tab but the Amazon Kindle (which also had a very good start). This new tablet under $ 199 price (rumored) should be 7 inches at 4.0 will run on Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Google may strike hard when it launches on the market shelves because the U.S. giant will surely want to take revenge on the "flop" of his smartphone. The release date of the tablet Google is scheduled for March.

Facebook, Google and Twitter sites threaten to turn black

Maybe you in the media ever heard come over, but in America they are working on a antipiraterijwet, called SOPA. All this seems a far-from-our-bed-show, introducing SOPA means nothing less than the end of the Internet as we know it today. Several major Internet companies including Facebook, Google, Twitter, PayPal, eBay and Amazon are totally against the SOPA legislation and are now threatening to protest their sites set on black. This Markham Erickson of NetCoalition reported by the American news Fox News. NetCoalition is a collaboration of several Internet companies and scientists who oppose the bill SOPA times. How, where and when the action will take place, is not yet known. What's SOPA SOPA, an acronym for Stop Online Piracy Act, the U.S. government the right without the intervention of a judge to put on black Web sites if they infringe on the trademark and copyright. This applies to both U.S. and foreign sites. "Great Firewall of America According Te...