Hasta La Gadget!

If Google announces something new and potentially groundbreaking on April 1st, one might instantly chalk it up as an April Fools’ prank. That’s because the company takes part in this frivolity, cooking up ingenious pranks to catch us all by surprise. But on April 1st 2004 Google wasn’t pulling off a prank. It issued a press release that day announcing the launch of Gmail, its webmail service. Some might have thought of it as a prank, but soon they’d find out that Gmail was in fact very real, and here to stay.

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This April Fools’ Day, the elite leaders of Google Maps are looking for the very best, like no one ever was. They need your help to catch Pokémon scattered all over the world. The winner gets a chance to officially become Google’s Pokémon Master. Or not. But it can’t hurt to try.

To join the fun, all you have to do is download and open the latest version of Google Maps on your iOS or Android device. Tap the search bar and you should see the words “Press Start” with a Pokéball icon right below the search text field. Tap the words and you’ll launch straight into hunting.

To hunt, just scroll through the map until you find a Pokémon and then tap it. There’s even a Pokédex to make it easier to see how many more you have to catch. The last time I checked there were 150 creatures on the list, coming from the different games in the series.

Will Google really hire the winner? Probably not. Then again we just saw a flashy commercial that must have cost a pretty penny to create. Google can easily afford your services, even just for a day.

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About a couple of weeks ago, we reported that the Google Chromecast was set to launch in several international markets and that the UK market was one of them. Well it turns out that many people in the UK have been eagerly anticipating the Google Chromecast because according to reports, the Chromecast is selling like hotcakes.

According to one retailer, the Dixons group, it seems that demand for the Chromecast has been so great that they are selling on average one unit every 4.5 seconds on the launch day of Chromecast itself which has since resulted in the device going temporarily out of stock. (more…)

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