This afternoon Google has released an update to their popular wearable device – popular though it remains extremely limited in its release scope at the moment – complete with the ability to browse the web. This update brings what you can call “Google Glass”, “Glass”, or “Project Glass” up to a point where you’ve got
Google has delivered a steady stream of Glass updates since the Explorer Edition launched, but its new July upgrade may be the biggest yet — it addresses several of our earliest gripes. Wearers can now answer phone calls or have messages read aloud. It’s also now possible to call or message any Gmail contact, not just the top ten. Oh, and that hidden web browser? It’s now public: Glass owners can ask to see a favorite page and navigate using the touchpad. If you’re one of the precious few to sport Google’s eyewear, you should automatically receive the much-improved firmware in the next few days; we’ve already heard of at least one user getting the upgrade today.
Update: We now have screenshots of how browsing works in the update — check them out below.
Gallery: Google Glass July 2013 update
Filed under: Wearables, Google
Source: Project Glass (Google+)
With the Eye-Fi Mobi, the company has become wise to the power of the instant web connection. Where before this specific solution, a step or two between the initial photograph and the point at which you can share it with the web were required – and a desktop computer worked best – here the user
Over the past two years, the United States has seen a return to American manufacturing by some of the biggest names in tech. In 2012, Google introduced the ultimately failed Nexus Q, while Apple’s Tim Cook teased an American-made Mac. One year later, Lenovo cut the ribbon on a new plant in North Carolina; Motorola announced plans for a Made in the USA flagship; and Apple made good on Cook’s promise with its latest Mac Pro. However, even with President Barack Obama backing a return to American production and moves from big players like Apple and Google, the fear of skilled labor shortages persists. In the lead-up to July 4th, we’ll bring you four stories in four days that explore what innovation in the United States looks like today and what that means for you.
In our first installment, Jason Hidalgo sits down with theoretical physicist Michio Kaku to talk about the dangers of a Silicon Valley brain drain and building the Death Star. On day two, Darren Murph takes a tour of Babcock Ranch, the once-hopeful site of “America’s most sustainable city.” On day three, we’ll bring you Jamie Rigg’s look at tech’s reshoring efforts. And on the Fourth, Brian Heater will explore how one non-profit harnessed the power of big names like Bill Gates and Jack Dorsey to help bring coding to classrooms nationwide.
For more from the field and the factory floor, keep it locked here as we explore what it means to be Made in the USA.
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Sure, the Chromebook Pixel is expertly constructed, but you won’t find more than a sentence about that here. Nope, we’d rather talk about its blazing fast LTE speeds. As for our copy editor Philip, he doesn’t write for Engadget often, but when he does, it’s about camera gear.
Skype’s not the only Microsoft app that’s getting a major mobile redesign this week. The company announced today that the iPhone, iPad and Android versions of its OneNote note-taking software are also getting a ground-up overhaul. At the top of the list of updates is a more consistent rich editing experience across devices, with formatting like text, tables and layout carrying over, regardless of platform. The redesign also brings syncing across SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint, as well as an end to that 500-note limit imposed by the app. And if you download the new version for the iPad, you’ll get access to the Office Ribbon UI. The new OneNote is available now via the App Store and Google Play in the US and other “select” markets. More deets on the updates can be found in the source link below.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Mobile, Apple, Microsoft, Google
Source: Office News
When you’ve got a device on the market that the public appears to take interest in, especially when you’re making smartphones, it’s become the trend to stick with that excellence as much as possible rather than coming clean with a whole new machine each season. What Sony appears to be doing with the device code-named
This week Google Reader says its final goodbye, sending itself off in a wave of suggestions for replacements from the news media. It would appear at first that groups like Feedly and Digg have taken early leads in the war of potential, but what else is out there to work with? And what bits and
RSS isn’t rocket science. And while Google Reader is gasping its last breaths—after this weekend, it’s gone forever—there’s already a veritable army of newcomers vying to replace it. There’s even a good chance one of them will be better than the dead-end Google Reader ever could have been. That’s great and all, but even the perfect RSS reader can’t fill the void. Google Reader wasn’t just a service; it was a place, and I’ll miss being there.
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Smart TV providers who wish to use HTML5 for their streaming ecosystems have been running into a wall with YouTube, according to Korea’s ETNews. It said Google has insisted TV makers place the app on their systems’ main page and pass a Smart TV “browser conformity test” at its US headquarters, too. As a result, companies like Samsung have had to wait up to three months for YouTube certification. A key part of this allegation is that that TV makers who opted for Mountain View’s Android-based Google TV instead of HTML5 wouldn’t face such problems, but meanwhile, we’ve contacted Google for its take on the matter.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Google
Source: ETNews
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