Category: Software

Google Maps with Voice search

Voice Search with Google Maps in Google Chrome

Google Maps supports voice search for a long time now, but until now this service was only available to owners of mobiledevices based on Android or IOS, enabling the conduct of search without using the keyboard or screen, receiving verbal instructions for navigating through hands-free system. Although its usefulness is limited to PC, voice search function is now available for users of Google Chrome browser. Availabilityof the voice search function is announced by the presence of the microphone symbol on the right search box. Voice search function was promised to Windows platform users since June, with a similar operating principle as Google Goggles system, able to extract the terms used to search directly from the images provided.  

New Android Ice Cream Sandwitch

Google announced Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Ice Cream Sandwich is the first unified operating system of  Google Android series, compatible with both tablets and smartphones. Ice Cream Sandwich Android uses a singleUI interface, which can be scaled for both screen sizes. Change comes in order to help software developers, enabling the creation of applications which can run on both types of [...]

Mozilla Firefox 4

Firefox 4 postponed for 2011

The final version of Firefox 4 has been postponed to early 2011. The release date was set for December this year. The official announcement belongs to Director Firefox (Mike Beltzner). In his statement, Mike Beltzner says that stability problems have occurred , which led to a setback in the development of the software. Among the [...]