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15 Nov

Google launches Health Connect in beta version

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American technology giant Google launched the Health Connect app on Monday. Aimed at health and fitness enthusiasts, the app allows users to connect with different fitness apps to get holistic health insights in a single app. Google Health Connect is currently in testing and its beta version is available for download on the Google Play Store. In collaboration with Samsung Google has developed the Health Connect app. Google says the app will help users centralize the management of all their fitness apps. Health Connect enables across Android devices users to share health and fitness data. In order to get credit…

30 Oct

Vi Business Offers Google Workspace

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Vi Business, has partnered with Google Cloud India to offer collaboration solutions for SMEs and start-ups. Aiding the right balance between business objectives and employee flexibility, Google Workspace will equip Vi Business Plus customers with a set of productivity applications like Google Meet, Gmail, Drive, Sheets, Slides, Docs, and Calendar at no extra cost.Commenting on the partnership and offering, Abhijit Kishore, Chief Enterprise Business Officer, Vodafone Idea Limited, “Our partnership with Google Cloud for Google Workspace will aid collaborative and productive remote working environments in an efficient and secure manner. Small & Medium Enterprises and Start-ups will find these solutions…

04 Sep

Google locks Afghan government accounts as Taliban seek emails: Source

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Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter, as fears grow over the digital paper trail left by former officials and their international partners. In the weeks since the Taliban's swift takeover of Afghanistan from a U.S.-backed government, reports have highlighted how biometric and Afghan payroll databases might be exploited by the new rulers to hunt their enemies. In a statement on Friday, Alphabet Inc's Google stopped short of confirming that Afghan government accounts were being locked down, saying that the company was monitoring the situation in…

16 Aug

Google Doodle celebrates India’s first woman Satyagrahi Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s birth anniversary

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Google today released a striking doodle to honour the life and achievements of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, a trailblazing writer and freedom fighter whose work rose to national prominence during a male-dominated era of literature.On the occasion of the Indian activist and author's 117th birth anniversary, the doodle recreated the iconic image of the trailblazer, sitting with a pen and paper, in a saree. The doodle is created by New Zealand-based guest artist Prabha Mallya. Her evocative nationalist poem "Jhansi ki Rani" is widely regarded as one of the most recited poems in Hindi literature. On this day in 1904, Subhadra…

18 Jul

Google Doodle celebrates Kadambini Ganguly on her 160th birth anniversary. Who was she?

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Google is honouring its special doodle section to Kadambini Ganguly - India's first female doctor. On Kadambini Ganguly's 160th birth anniversary, the search engine included a sketch of Ganguly, a doctor's stethoscope and Calcutta Medical College where she studied to become a doctor in 1886. As per reports, the Google Doodle has been illustrated by Bengaluru-based artist Oddrija. So who exactly is Kadambini Ganguly? She was born on 8 July, 1861, in Bhagalpur British India, now Bangladesh. Her father, who used to run a women's rights organisation, enrolled her into school at a time when education for women was an…

10 Jun

On Sundar Pichai’s birthday, here are some interesting facts about him

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Sundar Pichai is an Indian-American business executive. He is the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. He was born on 10 June, 1972. Today on his 49th birthday, we bring you 10 interesting facts about him: 1. Sundar Pichai was born in Chennai, India. 2. Pichai grew up in a two-room apartment in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and had a Hindu upbringing. 3. He has a degree in metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur. 4. He worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company. 5. He joined Google in 2004, where…

04 Jun

Karnataka State Government plans to send legal notice to Google

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After Google search with the keywords of "ugliest language in India" showed Kannada as the top result, India's Karnataka state says it plans to send a legal notice to Google. On Thursday, Google released a statement apologising for "the misunderstanding and hurting any sentiments". Many, including leaders from the southern Indian state, expressed their outrage at the search result on Thursday. It has fixed the search results following a massive outrage. Karnataka minister Aravind Limbavali demanded an apology from the tech company saying that this was an attempt by Google to insult the pride of Kannadigas [Kannada speakers]. "The Kannada…

19 Aug

Google says, how to get useful information on flood

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This monsoon season has seen some of the most devastating floods in many parts of India, with many people in states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam continuing to grapple with the effects of the flooding. Over the past several months, along with the Central Water Commission (CWC), Google India has deployed its flood forecasting initiative and sent numerous public alerts to people in impacted regions across India. These alerts provide timely, updated, and critical information that can help users make informed decisions on their safety. Any user in the affected region with an Android smartphone with location services enabled…

22 Jul

Reliance-Google Smartphone Deal Threatens Chinese Firms’

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A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet's Google will collaborate with Reliance Industries on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world's second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say. Reliance boss Mukesh Ambani, announcing the partnership at his company's annual meeting last week, said Google would build an Android operating system (OS) to power a low-cost "4G or even 5G" smartphone that Reliance would design. The new phone is set to pose a major challenge to Chinese vendors such as Xiaomi and BBK Electronics, owner of the Realme, Oppo and Vivo brands, which currently dominate a $2 billion market…