Due to Google introducing Chrome for Android Beta which doesn't utilze, Adobe released the following statement:
"As we announced last November, Adobe is no longer developing Flash Player for mobile browsers, and thus Chrome for Android Beta does not support Flash content. Flash Player continues to be supported within the current Android browser.
Adobe is committed to innovating with Flash. We’ll continue enabling content developers to produce rich and immersive applications on mobile devices and PCs via Adobe AIR, and through PC browsers via Flash Player. Flash is uniquely positioned for creating and publishing advanced gaming and premium video content, and that is where we’re focusing our future investment. We recently released hardware accelerated support for 2D and 3D graphics for Flash Player on the desktop and will soon bring these same capabilities to mobile apps via AIR. Together with recent advancements in hardware accelerated video decoding, compositing and content protection, these capabilities provide the richest platform for game developers and video publishers to reach over a billion users across PCs and major mobile app stores, including the iTunes App Store and Android Market.
At the same time, we’re actively working to move HTML5 forward via our ongoing collaboration with Google and other members of the Web community. Adobe’s proposal for CSS Regions, which allows sophisticated, magazine-like page layouts on the web, is now shipping in the Chrome browser. We’re collaborating with Google and other members of the Web community on a proposal for CSS Shaders to enable cinematic, visual effects via HTML5 and we’re exploring the potential of its Shadow DOM proposal, which would enable the integration of rich user interface components in web pages.
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Google today introduced Chrome for Android Beta. Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but it also features seamless sign-in and sync so you can take your personalized web browsing experience with you wherever you go, across devices. (See video above). Speed With Chrome for Android, you can search, navigate and browse fast—Chrome fast. You can scroll through web pages as quickly as you can flick your finger. When searching, your top search results are loaded in the background as you type so pages appear instantly. And of course, both search and navigation can all be done quickly from the Chrome omnibox.
Simplicity Chrome for Android is designed from the ground up for mobile devices. We reimagined tabs so they fit just as naturally on a small-screen phone as they do on a larger screen tablet. You can flip or swipe between an unlimited number of tabs using intuitive gestures, as if you’re holding a deck of cards in the palm of your hands, each one a new window to the web. One of the biggest pains of mobile browsing is selecting the correct link out of several on a small-screen device. | |
Google today revealed a service they have developed, codenamed Bouncer, which provides automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience of Android Market or requiring developers to go through an application approval process.
The service performs a set of analyses on new applications, applications already in Android Market, and developer accounts. Here’s how it works: once an application is uploaded, the service immediately starts analyzing it for known malware, spyware and trojans. It also looks for behaviors that indicate an application might be misbehaving, and compares it against previously analyzed apps to detect possible red flags. Google actually run every application on Google’s cloud infrastructure and simulate how it will run on an Android device to look for hidden, malicious behavior. Google also analyze new developer accounts to help prevent malicious and repeat-offending developers from coming back.
Android malware downloads are decreasing
The service has been looking for malicious apps in Market for a while now, and betGoogleen the first and second halves of 2011, Google saw a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market. This drop occurred at the same time that companies who market and sell anti-malware and security software have been reporting that malicious applications are on the rise. While it’s not possible to prevent bad people from building malware, the most important measurement is whether those bad applications are being installed from Android Market - and Google know the rate is declining significantly. | |
If you ever wanted to access your Google Docs on your Android device but didn't have Internet connection, Google announced today that now you can. Now you can choose any file in Google Docs to make it available offline. Regardless of whether or not you are connected to the internet, you’re always connected to those files.
Additionally, Google Docs now will automatically update your offline files when you’re on Wi-Fi. You can also manually update files anytime you have a data connection by opening the file or tapping ‘Update’ from the Offline section of the app.
For Android tablets, Google also improved the Google Docs reading experience. Now, when you open a Google document on your tablet while online, you’ll get a high-resolution version of the document. Swipe left and right to flip between pages, or use the slider at the bottom to page ahead quickly.
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Google today announced an update to Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Google added the ability to set a custom signature for your mobile messages and a vacation responder, both available through the gear icon at the top of the menu view. Google also improved labels with support for nested labels (see below). Additionally, if you are using iOS 5, Google changed the notification sound so that it’s easier to distinguish when you've received an email.
Google also got another fun feature to make your language even more colorful (in a good way!). In the Gmail app and Gmail for mobile you can now open up a canvas and scribble a message that will be attached to your email. It's perfect for sending a quick sketch that is hard to express in words or adding a fun graphic to make your email more personal.
Scribbles support different colors, brush sizes, lines, erasers and spray paint.
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Google today announced Google+ Hangouts, which allows you to go beyond “status updates,” and connect with the people you care about using multi-person video for free. Google is rolling out a number of improvements that make it even easier to say hello to your loved ones, face-to-face-to-face.
Google+ is also available on Google+ Messenger on mobile devices. Simply tap the new hangout icon when the time is right, and you'll flip from text and photos to smiles and laughter. The new Google+ app will be available in Android Market within a few days, and is coming soon to the App Store.
For more information visit http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-hangouts-going-beyond-status.html.
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Google has made it faster and easier to discover movies, showtimes and theaters, from your smartphone. Now when you search for [movies] or your favorite theater like [century san francisco] on Google.com from your phone, you’ll see interactive results for movies in a new swipeable ribbon, with the most relevant information displayed at the top of the page.
For each movie, you’ll see the movie poster, a short summary, ratings and the nearest theaters and showtimes. Designed to help you quickly browse what’s playing in theaters now, this information instantly updates as you slide through the movie posters -- no need to wait for a page to load or to use the back button.
To learn more about a movie, tap the movie title to find details like the cast and a full summary. And if you see a play button on the movie poster, | 
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Google announced a new mobile app called Google Currents that allows you to enjoy free online magazines and other content optimized for your Android or Apple phones and tablets. See video above. For more information visit http://www.google.com/producer/currents. | |
One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it’s describing the speed at which something is growing, it’s simply amazing. This past weekend, thanks to Android users around the world, Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads—with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month. We can’t wait to see where this accelerating growth takes us in 2012.
To celebrate this milestone, we partnered with some of the Android developers who contributed to this milestone to make a bunch of great Android apps available at an amazing price. Starting today for the next 10 days, we’ll have a new set of awesome apps available each day for only 10 cents each. Today, we are starting with Asphalt 6 HD, Color & Draw for Kids, Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro, Fieldrunners HD, Great Little War Game, Minecraft, Paper Camera, Sketchbook Mobile, Soundhound Infinity and SwiftKey X. | |
Verizon Wireless reported that recent reports stating that Verizon is blocking Google Wallet on our devices are false. Verizon does not block applications.
According to Verizon Wireless, "Google Wallet is different from other widely-available m-commerce services. Google Wallet does not simply access the operating system and basic hardware of our phones like thousands of other applications. Instead, in order to work as architected by Google, Google Wallet needs to be integrated into a new, secure and proprietary hardware element in our phones." | |
Google announced today an update to Google Maps that features mapping for indoors.
“Where am I?” and “What’s around me?” are two questions that cartographers, and Google Maps, strive to answer. With Google Maps’ “My Location” feature, which shows your location as a blue dot, you can see where you are on the map to avoid walking the wrong direction on city streets, or to get your bearings if you’re hiking an unfamiliar trail. | |
Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. announced that at the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held today, stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposed merger with Google Inc..
Approximately 99 percent of the shares voting at today’s Special Meeting of Stockholders voted in favor of the adoption of the merger agreement, which represented approximately 74 percent of Motorola Mobility’s total outstanding shares of common stock as of the October 11, 2011 record date for the Special Meeting.
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Google has announced that its limited beta Google Music service will now be available in the U.S. to everyone. The service will be free for the time being and allows users to upload up to 20,000 songs and stream them back for free. No fees are required. See video above for more information. | |
Two weeks ago, Google introduced our Gmail app for iOS. Unfortunately it contained a bug which broke notifications and displayed an error message, so Google removed it from the App Store. Google has now fixed the bug and notifications are now working, and the app is back in the App Store.
In the short time the app was public Googe reported they received a lot of helpful feedback and feature requests whihc included requests for everything from bigger features like multiple account support to customizations like improved notifications and mobile specific signatures.
Google plans on bringing more features, including all the ones listed above plus many more. Based on user comments they have already improved our handling of image HTML messages - they are now sized to fit to the screen and you can pinch to zoom in. | 
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| Google announced that starting November 22, 2011, they will end support for the Gmail App for Blackberry (installed native app). Over this past year, Google has focused their efforts on building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser and will continue investing in this area. Users may continue to use the app, if installed, however it will not be supported by Google, or available for download starting November 22. BlackBerry users can continue to access Gmail through the mobile web app at http://www.gmail.com in their BlackBerry web browser. | |
Today Google announced their new Google Offers mobile app, that allows you to discover, buy and redeem your favorite deals on the go. The free app will notify you about all the great Offers that match your interests. You can purchase offers in just a few clicks and even redeem paperlessly with select merchants.
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Google has developed a new Gmail app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch combining your favorite features from the Gmail mobile web app and iOS into one app so you can be more productive on the go. It’s designed to be fast, efficient and take full advantage of the touchscreen and notification capabilities of your device. And it’s one more reason to switch to Gmail.
Below are some of the new time-saving features: - Get alerted to new messages with push notifications and sounds
- Find an email in seconds with search across your entire inbox
- Autocomplete email addresses
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Google announced that MMS has been one of the constant feature requests since they launched Google Voice. Today, Google announced that they have made the first step in their efforts to bring this feature to their users.
Google Voice users are now able to receive pictures and other multimedia messages from Sprint subscribers. The multimedia attachments will display on their mobile forwarding phone and in their email inbox when they enable text to email forwarding in their Google Voice settings. Google is also planning on making them display in the Google Voice inbox. | |
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