headless 曰く、Google は 23 日、Google Play におけるアプリとゲームの評価を国別・デバイスタイプ別にする計画を発表した(Android Developers Blog の記事、 9to5Google の記事、 Ghacks の記事、 Android Police の記事)。
Google では Google Play の評価とレビューの改善をユーザー・開発者の両方から要望されていたそうだ。とりわけ、特定の国のユーザーにのみ悪影響をもたらすアプリのバグで全世界での評価が…
YouTube has issued a cease-and-desist order against the creator of Groovy, who has agreed to shut down the widely-popular music bot on August 30th. PC Gamer reports: Effectively a tool for adding background tunes to a chat room, Groovy worked by pullin…
Speaking of Google killing a product, ArsTechnica has a rundown on the company’s 16 years long effort to dominate the messaging space to no success. From the report: Google Talk, Google’s first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 20…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google is infamous for spinning up products and killing them off, often in very short order. It’s an annoying enough habit when it’s stuff like messaging apps and games. But the tech giant’s ambitions stretch into m…
Google is infamous for spinning up products and killing them off, often in very short order. It’s an annoying enough habit when it’s stuff like messaging apps and games. But the tech giant’s ambitions stretch into many domains that touch human lives these days. Including, most directly, healthcare. And — it turns out — so […]
Bright, a live video platform that lets fans engage in live conversations with their favorite creators and celebs, has raised $15 million in new funding, the company announced today. The round was co-led by co-founder and talent manager Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures, the fund he founded with Ashton Kutcher. RIT Capital and Regah Ventures also […]
Tech giants Apple, Google and Microsoft have pledged billions to bolster U.S. cybersecurity following a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday. The meeting, which also included attendees from the financial and education sectors, was held following months of high-profile cyberattacks against critical infrastructure and several U.S. government agencies, along with a […]
グーグルがスマートフォンの最新モデル「Google Pixel 5a（5G）」（以下、Pixel 5a（5G））を発表しました。8月26日発売で、Google ストアでの価格は5万1700円（税込）。また、ソフトバンクで…
A milestone for Jolla, the Finnish startup behind the Sailfish OS — which formed, almost a decade ago, when a band of Nokia staffers left to keep the torch burning for a mobile linux-based alternative to Google’s Android — today it’s announcing hitting profitability. The mobile OS licensing startup describes 2020 as a “turning point” […]
Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica walks down memory lane and covers Google’s various messaging app offerings over the past decade and a half. It’s even more of a mess than you think.
