Consider it a frivolity or a useless tradition, fact is that a lot of people around the world spend time and money trying to prank each other on April 1st. Even big companies get in on the fun. Google is well known for its pranks, and is joined by the likes of Samsung, HTC, Sega and more. In this post we look at some of the best April Fools’ 2014 pranks.
April Fools’ 2014 Pranks Roundup original content from Ubergizmo. 
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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.
Gmail Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary Today original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Its no secret that Yahoo wants to take on YouTube. The Google owned video site is the largest in the world, boasting over 12.6 billion views in January, according to stats released by comScore. Obviously catching up to it will take a lot of time. Yahoo has tried acquiring stakes in major online video sites in the past but it hasn’t exactly been too lucky. Apparently now it has set its sights on video syndication service News Distribution Network. According to the Wall Street Journal, people briefed on the matter claim Yahoo may pay as much as $300 million for NDN.
Yahoo’s Charge Against YouTube May Be Fuelled By $300 Million Acquisition original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Tomorrow is April 1st, the day when folks around the world try to prank each other. Google has been taking part in this tradition for quite a while now, and it has created some of the most talked about April Fools’ pranks on the internet. Google April Fools’ 2014 is going to be a bit different. This time around, the company has leveraged augmented reality and its popular mapping service, Google Maps, to let us catch Pokémon. The game is loosely tied into Maps.
Google April Fools’ 2014 Is All About Catching Pokémon original content from Ubergizmo. 
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At its Exchange Conference in Austin today, Microsoft detailed some smart new features that it is going to add to the Outlook web app for Office 365 in the near future. Corporate vice president of Office Service and Servers group, Jeff Teper, said that the company is now moving forward with the “cloud-first, mobile-first communications,” strategy. The features will be based on Office Graph, which Microsoft announced a month ago.
Microsoft Details Smart Features For Office 365 Outlook Web App original content from Ubergizmo. 
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About a week ago, Turkey announced that they would be blocking Twitter. Naturally this did not sit well with many of its residents and people overseas but apparently the ban did not help. In fact it actually increased the number of tweets, not to mention many found ways around the ban by downloading and using VPNs as well as utilizing Google’s DNS to bypass it.
Turkey has since lifted the ban but now that it has been revealed that Google’s DNS could be used to bypass bans, Google has found that Turkey has started to block Google’s DNS and that Turkish internet service providers are actually masquerading as Google DNS, reportedly to spy on its users. (more…)
Google Claims Their DNS Has Been Intercepted In Turkey original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Texting while driving is a big no-no and we’re sure that despite most of us agreeing with that statement, there are still plenty of us who are guilty of doing so. There have been many initiatives in the past attempting to stop texting while driving, but a new initiative hopes to put an end to that nasty habit by shaming drivers into stopping.
This is according to a website called TWITspotting which basically posts photos taken by others of people who are texting behind the wheel. Based on the angles that most of the photos are taken, it would appear that the people taking the photos appear on the bus, so we guess for the most part the photographer isn’t being a hypocrite. (more…)
Website Shames Drivers Who Text While Driving original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Imagine its a beautiful day and you’re out exploring a new city. Suddenly you’re hit by an urge to take a nap, but you don’t want to travel all the way back to your hotel. In your home city you’ll probably know what the best places are to sleep, one can often find people snoozing in the park. If you’d like to know what those places are in a totally new city, “Google Naps” has you covered. Its a website that lists best places to sleep in a city, with the places being submitted by the users.
‘Google Naps’ Finds You Places To Sleep original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Amazon already has a video streaming service, but its only open to Prime subscribers, who now have to pay $99 per year for the privilege. It has been reported countless times that the company might be working on a music streaming service. While that particular claim hasn’t been denied as yet, Amazon has flat out denied a recent report which claimed that it is developing a free video streaming service.
Amazon Denies Working On Free Video Streaming Service original content from Ubergizmo. 
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It has long been rumored that Yahoo is interested in taking on YouTube. Apparently the company was looking into acquiring a major chunk of Dailymotion, but the deal is said to have been blocked by the French government. Yahoo might have given up on purchasing a majority stake, but its ambitions of taking on YouTube haven’t died down. Re/code reports that Yahoo is building its very own YouTube rival, and it may hurt Google’s video giant where it hurts in the process.
Yahoo Poaching YouTube Stars, Working On Rival [Report] original content from Ubergizmo. 
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