Bradley Horowitz takes over as Product Head at Google Plus

Google+ is currently being going by Bradley Horowitz (a long-lasting VP of item for Google+), taking over David Besbris. The social network is likewise being part into Photos and Streams.

Besbris just assumed control Google+ not as much as a year prior, in April 2014, after Vic Gundotra — who had begun and driven Google+ since its initiation — left the organization (Source: ReCode).
 
The declaration comes only a few days after Google's senior VP of products Sundar Pichai said in an interview to Forbes, "I think progressively you'll see us concentrate on correspondences, photos and the Google+ Stream as three vital zones, as opposed to being considered one region."
 
"Some incredible remarks from Sundar Pichai about future item heading for Google+, Photos, Hangouts," Horowitz composed on his G+ page. "We've been buckling down on these progressions and I'm truly amped up for what these will mean for our clients."

Notwithstanding differentiating photograph management from Google+, the organization will likewise separation its Hangouts correspondence stage from the social network, and build up every one of the three freely.

It'll be intriguing to see exactly how the move changes the Google+ experience for clients in the days to come.

Nobody was asked to leave, no teams were transferred, yet few (if anybody) were offered incentives to stick around, the source says. Individuals communicated concerns to management yet while Google was thoughtful, there was endeavor to attempt to persuade individuals to sit tight.

It's not clear what part Besbris will be taking next. Like Horowitz, he has been with Google since 2008.

Google launches Android for Work

We've thought about Android for Work for a long while, after Google announced the program at Google I/O 2014. Presently its official, and Google has partnered with various organizations to make the workplace an inside and out more secure spot for everybody.

Android for Work is based on four key technology parts: work profiles, the Android for Work application, Google Play for Work, and in-build productivity tools. Every client needs to set up their own particular work profile on a Lollipop-running device, and will then have admittance to work information because of improved SELinux security implementation. When set up, your IT expert can send or evacuate work-sanction applications to associated devices.

In the event that your device is running Ice Cream Sandwich through KitKat, you can download the Android for Work application. It will convey secure mail, contacts, events, documents and a great deal more, and can be totally overseen by your IT proficient. Here's the full rundown of segments Google has worked into the new program:

1. Work profiles – We've based on the default encryption, improved SELinux security authorization and multi-client help in Android 5.0, Lollipop to make a committed work profile that segregates and ensures work information. IT can send endorsed work applications right nearby their clients individual applications knowing their delicate information stays secured. Individuals can utilize their individual applications knowing their manager just oversees work information and won't eradicate or view their individual substance. 
2. Android for Work application – For devices running Ice Cream Sandwich through Kitkat, or that don't run work profiles locally, we've made the Android for Work application. The application, which conveys secure mail, schedule, contacts, documents, searching and access to endorsed work applications, can be totally overseen by IT. 
3. Google Play for Work – It permits organizations to safely send and oversee applications over all clients running Android for Work, rearranging the methodology of conveying applications to representatives and guarantees that IT endorses each sent application. 
4. In-build productivity tools – For ordinary business assignments, we've made a suite of business applications for email, contacts and schedule, which backs both Exchange and Notes and gives report altering abilities to documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Google has likewise collaborated with various IT partners to make this all work, including Cisco, BlackBerry, Motorola, Samsung, Box and numerous others. Google clarifies that these partnerships bring a predictable administration stage that permits undertaking administrators to control all Android devices, old and new. These partnerships likewise bring more secure business applications and devices to the program

In case you're keen to know about the program, head to the Android for  Work site.

Google Buys Softcard's Technology, Gets Deal With U.S. Carriers

Google Inc. has acquired technology and patents from Softcard, a mobile-wallet service sponsored by the three-greatest U.S. remote suppliers, as the Web organization tackles Apple Inc. to offer more payment peculiarities on smartphones.

Softcard is a joint wander between AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to support NFC based mobile payments in the United States. While Google's unique post on the Google Commerce web journal depicted it as something closer to a partnership, the announcement discharged via Softcard affirms that Google has acquired Softcard's technology.

The deal will see Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AT&T pre-install Google Wallet on their Android phones in the U.S. not long from now. Google Wallet permits shoppers to tap their phones to pay at checkout in some block and-mortar stores similarly Apple Pay does. The move likewise includes Google purchasing some protected innovation from Softcard, once known as ISIS. It doesn't give the idea that any Softcard representatives are joining Google as a major aspect of the deal.

Google, which presented its digital wallet in 2011, is searching for better approaches to pull in clients as Apple's mobile-payments service makes strides with purchasers and retailers. Apple Pay as of now records for more than $2 out of $3 of buys utilizing contactless mobile-telephone payments over the three noteworthy Visa systems, Apple said a month ago.

"We've gotten awesome criticism from individuals who utilize this peculiarity and we've kept contributing to make it simple and secure for more individuals to pay with their phones," Google said. "An enormous piece of this is working with different trend-setters in the business to help give a consistent experience over an extensive variety of phones and stores."

While Apple Pay has made strides, EBay Inc's. PayPal payments service remains a top supplier for mobile and Internet payments. In November, Apple Pay represented 1 percent of digital-payment dollars spent, by Investment Research. PayPal, which has been around for a long time and is being spun off by EBay, had 78 percent, while Google Wallet had 4 percent.

The partnership takes after Samsung Electronics Co's. declaration not long from now of a deal to purchase LoopPay Inc. to pick up a bigger foothold in mobile payments. LoopPay makes cell phone frill that let 90 percent of Visa payment gadgets accept mobile payments, Samsung said.

LoopPay makes cell phone adornments that let 90 percent of Mastercard payment gadgets accept mobile payments, Samsung said.

Google launches YouTube Kids on Android and iOS

It's been rumored for some time, yet now its official: Google has launched YouTube Kids.

The organization says its been working with parents over the previous year to make an all the more family-friendly version of YouTube . The new application is intended to be easier for kids offering a brighter and greater interface.

As you may expect, the choice of features on the platform is restricted for what Google considers "appropriate for the entire family." Parents and kids can skim four channel and playlist classifications: Shows, Music, Learning and Explore.

Obviously, you can basically look for substance you're searching for too, and it backings voice seek, on the off chance that your kid can't spell or type. Some illustration substance incorporates DIY arts and specialties, math lessons and youngsters' shows. Furthermore clearly, a great deal of train features.

The application additionally offers various parental controls, including:

• A timer that gives you a chance to breaking point your kids' screen time
• Sound settings to turn off ambient sounds and sound impacts to keep things quieter
• The capacity to turn off hunt to confine features to only those on the home screen
• A committed feedback segment to permit parents to give conclusions on the application and its substance

The application was initially rumored to be Android-just at launch, however it will likewise be landing on iOS today, also kids' tablets Kurio and nabi later on. You can head on over to the Google Play Store or the iOS App Store to try the new applications out.

No statement on a desktop version yet we've reached Google and will redesign in the event that we hear more. 

Source: Youtube Official Blog

Google Glass - A Failure? Ebay selling at half price

Following two years of popping up at prominent occasions donning Google Glass, the contraption that changes eyeglasses into spy-motion picture commendable engineering, Google fellow benefactor Sergey Brin walked out and out into a Silicon Valley celebrity main street occasion on Sunday.

He'd cleared out his pair in the auto, Brin told a journalist. The Googler, who heads up the top-mystery lab which created Glass, has scarcely abandoned the product — he as of late wore his pair to the shoreline.

In any case Brin's timing is not favorable, nearing as numerous designers and early Glass clients are losing enthusiasm toward the greatly built up, $1,500 test form of the product: a cam, processor and stamp-sized machine screen mounted to the edge of eyeglass edges. Google Inc itself has pushed back the Glass take off to the mass market.

While Glass may discover some particular, even lucrative, utilizes as a part of the work environment, its prospects of turning into a purchaser hit within a brief span of time are thin, numerous designers say.

Of 16 Glass application producers reached by Reuters, nine said that they had ceased chip away at their projects or surrendered them, generally due to the absence of clients or constraints of the gadget. Three increasingly have changed to producing for business, abandoning customer projects.

A lot of bigger engineers stay with Glass. The almost 100 applications on the official web site incorporate Facebook and Opentable, albeit one noteworthy player as of late surrendered: Twitter.

"On the off chance that there was 200 million Google Glasses sold, it would be an alternate point of view. There's no market right now," said Tom Frencel, the Chief Executive of Little Guy Games, which put advancement of a Glass diversion on hold in the not so distant future and is taking a gander at different stages, including the Facebook Inc-possessed virtual-reality goggles Oculus Rift.

A few key Google representatives instrumental to creating Glass have left the organization in the most recent six months, including lead designer Babak Parviz, electrical building chief Adrian Wong, and Ossama Alami, executive of engineer relations.

Furthermore a Glass subsidizing consortium made by Google Ventures and two of Silicon Valley's greatest financial speculators, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz, quietly erased its website, steering clients to the primary Glass site.

There's no market as of right now

Google demands it is resolved to Glass, with many engineers and officials chipping away at it, and also new fashionista supervisor Ivy Ross, a previous Calvin Klein official. Several thousands use Glass in the pilot purchaser program.

"We are totally energized and as energized as ever about the open door that wearables and Glass specifically speak to," said Glass Head of Business Operations Chris O'neill.

Glass was the first extend to rise up out of Google's X division, the hidden gathering tasked with creating "moonshot" products, for example, heading toward oneself cars. Glass and wearable devices general add up to another innovation, as smartphones once were, that will probably require significant investment to advance into a product that clicks with consumers.

"We are as dedicated as ever to a purchaser launch. That is going to require significant investment and we are not going to launch this product until its completely prepared," O'neill said.
Brin had anticipated a launch in the not so distant future, yet 2015 is presently the probably date, an individual familiar with the matter said. 

GLASS SELLING…  ON EBAY

After a beginning blast of energy, signs that consumers are abandoning Glass have been building.

Google named the first set of a few thousand Glass clients as "Pilgrims." But as the Explorers hit the roads, they drew gazes and jokes. Some individuals saw the gadget, fit for surreptitious video recording, as an unpalatable protection interruption, criticizing the once-pleased Explorers as "Glassholes."

"It looks super geeky," said Shevetank Shah, a Washington, DC-based expert, whose Google Glass now assembles clean in a drawer. "I'm a card convey geek, however this was one card too much."

Glass now offers on ebay for as meager as half list cost, Buy now.

A few designers as of late have felt unsupported by financial specialists and, at times, Google itself.

The Glass Collective, the subsidizing consortium co-run by Google Ventures, put resources into just three or four little new companies by the start of this current year, an individual familiar with the statistics said.

A Google Ventures representative declined to remark on the quantity of ventures and said the Web site was shut for effortlessness. "We simply thought that it was' simpler for entrepreneurs to come to us specifically," she said.

The absence of a launch date has provided for a few designers the feeling that Google still treats Glass as an experiment.

"It's not an enormous enough stage to play on truly," said Matthew Milan, author of Toronto-based programming firm Normative Design, which put on hold a Glass application for logging practice and biking.
Portable amusement organization Glu Mobile, known for its prominent "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" title, was one of the first to launch a diversion on Glass. Spellista, a puzzler discharged a year prior, is still accessible, yet Glu has ceased chip away at it, a representative for the organization said.

An alternate designer, Sean Mccracken, won $10,000 in a challenge a year ago for making an outsiders themed video amusement for Glass, Psyclops, however Google never put it on the official center for Glass applications, making it harder to discover. He has stopped chipping away at updates.

Still, there are some energetic designers. Cycling and running application Strava discovers Glass appropriate for its clients, who need constant information on their workouts, said David Lorsch, VP of business advancement. Furthermore business visionary Jake Steinerman said it is perfect for his organization, Drivesafe, which discovers if individuals are nodding off at the worst possible time.

In April, Google launched the Glass at Work program to help make the gadget helpful for particular businesses, for example, medicinal services and assembling. So far the exertion has brought about applications that are generally tried or utilized at organizations, for example, Boeing and Yum Brands' Taco Bell.
Google is offering Glass in mass to a few businesses, offering two-for-one rebates.

Crowdoptic, which uses Glass as portable computers for specialists and other individuals out of offices, is presently being used at 19 U.s. hospitals and anticipates that that will develop to 100 hospitals right on time one year from now, said Chief Executive Jon Fisher.

Alex Foster started See Through, a Glass advertising analytics firm for business, after a wander firm recently withdrew its offer to back his shopper situated Glass wellness organization when it got to be clear no enormous buyer Glass discharge was fast approaching.

"It was obliterating," he said. "The majority of the buyer glass new businesses are either totally dead or have turned," to big business products or adversary wearable

Sundar Pichai takes control of Google's crucial products

That being said, we figure congrats are in place. As indicated by Re/code, Sundar Pichai, the senior VP at Google who used to simply be in charge of the Chrome, Android, and web applications teams now essentially has control of very nearly every other Google product division of note. Look? Google+? Advertisements? Indeed the organization's framework? The majority of that has been obviously left CEO Larry Page's plate and onto Pichai - not an enormous astonishment considering his uplifted conspicuousness inside Mountain View over the previous months. Pichai, a nine year Google veteran, was even supposed to be one of the main decisions for Microsoft's new CEO, however the part inevitably went to long-term organization insider Satya Nadella.

In any case, that is a considerable measure of force in one man's hands, particularly considering that the publicizing division Pichai inherited fundamentally pays for the various peculiar, astounding things Google gets to do. It's important that not every Google product falls under Pichai's recently opened umbrella, however. There's Youtube, for one; that still stays under Susan Wojcicki's control, which she assumed control recently. Goodness, and all the truly perfect stuff - Nest's developing web of-things group, the biotech advancements in the works at Calico, the moonshots under development at Google X - are all still immovably in Page's pocket. Actually, his adoration for the recent may be what brought about this seismic initiative move in any case. Re/code notes that Page has communicated an enthusiasm toward concentrating on the "greater picture" stuff that'll characterize what the Google of tomorrow will look like, coating up with prior reports that he's been tapping inward ability to evaluate what enormous, world-changing problems Google ought to truly be attempting to fix.

Source : Re/Code