Google to begin offering first Ara phones in Puerto Rico this year

The team behind Google's Ara phone, a modular handset with click-on components, plans to run its first market test of the concept device in Puerto Rico later this year.

If Ara becomes a commercial reality, it might upend today's specs-focused smartphone market. Ara consists of a base

Google’s phone-free Android Auto system could be in your next car

Following Apple’s lead with its planned CarPlay infotainment system, which optimizes a compatible console unit for the iPhone OS, Google already has something similar in the works debuting in 2015 called Android Auto.

The current software requires

These Were The Top 10 Most Popular Searches On Google In 2014

Each year, Google releases a list of the topics we’ve collectively searched for the most over the past 12 months. Each year, I try and see how many I can guess beforehand.

This year, I got about half. How many can you get? [Pro tip: remember, people generally search for depressing/scary stuff more than pretty much

Google Brings Museums To Mobile Users, Armchair Travelers With New Technology Platform

Google announced today it’s making a platform available to museums that enables them to build mobile applications that take advantage of Google technology, including Street View and YouTube, to bring their exhibits to anyone with a smartphone. Through partnerships between museums worldwide and the Google Cultural Institute, there are

Google’s quirky Cardboard VR viewer now has its own corner of the Play Store

Google updated its quirky Cardboard virtual reality viewer. The question is, how do you update something made out of cardboard? Well, the viewer remains the same, but everything around it has been given some love. Revealed at Google I/O, more than 500,000 viewers have since been shipped, and the unusual build-it-yourself VR device is

KitKat is catching Jelly Bean as the most widely used version of Android, Lollipop yet to register

Google has released the latest statistics showing which version of its operating system is the most popular. While Jelly Bean is still at the top of the list, KitKat is gaining quickly, while the newly released Lollipop has yet to even register on Google’s graph, showing the size of the mountain it must climb to catch up with existing versions of the operating system. The figures are collected using information

European Parliament votes to split Google search from its other businesses

The European Parliament voted on Thursday in favor of a resolution that would see search engines being "unbundled" from their other commercial services.

The resolution, which was approved by 384 votes to 174 (with 56 abstentions), focuses on the online search market

European Parliament calls for Google's breakup to end ongoing antitrust probe

The European Parliament is expected to call for the "unbundling" of Google's search business from the rest of its commercial operations.

The move is aimed at reducing the search giant's search and advertising monopoly in the 28 member state bloc, amid concerns spanning more than three years over the company's business practices.

Google’s new Messenger app lands in Play Store with Material Design

If messaging via Hangouts fails to float your boat, or you’ve simply chosen to steer clear of Google’s communications app for reasons you’d rather not share, then the Web giant is hoping to tempt you with its overhauled standalone messaging app, which landed on the Play Store on Wednesday.

Google’s Nexus 6 Is A ‘Big’ Change For The Nexus Line, Ships In November

Google has done what many predicted it would, and ventured into phablet territory with the Nexus 6, its latest Android reference smartphone. The Motorola-made gadget has a 5.9-inch display, and 1440×2560 resolution, resulting

Google may let you video chat with a doctor while you search

You know how it is. Feeling a little under the weather, you start Googling your symptoms to find out exactly what it is you’ve come down with. Before you know it, you’ve diagnosed yourself with a terminal illness, leaving you to wonder if you’ll make it to Christmas.

While jumping onto Google can

Google Launches Hangouts Desktop App and Polls for Google+

Google Hangouts users can now chat and make calls from their desktops without opening their browser.

The company rolled out a new desktop app for Chrome OS and Windows users Thursday and announced new social polling features for Google+.

Google Unveils 3 Budget Smartphones for Android One

Google announced the first three smartphones that will be part of Android One, the company's initiative to bring affordable Android smartphones to developing markets.

Each of the three devices, manufactured by Micromax, Spice and Karbonn, has a 4.5-inch display and will first ship in India.