The relationship between Motorola and Verizon has been pretty successful, to the point that the Droid branding used by the two companies has reached almost Kleenex/Band-Aid ubiquity. Yet in recent years, the bulk of the Android market has belonged to other device manufacturers. Verizon hosted a press event earlier today to unleash three brand new […]
Google has finally taken the cool but creepy Google Now application and put it on a non-Android platform. Starting today, iOS users can download an update to the Google Search app that adds some of the amazing functions of Google predictive personal assistant. What is Google Now anyway, you ask? It’s a system where Google’s various services […]
There are a depressing number of non-Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) handsets in the wild, so it could be that many are unfamiliar with Google’s impressive virtual assistant, Google Now. While other virtual assistants require that you talk to them, Google Now passively collects data on you and learns a surprising amount. For example, opening Google Now on my recently […]
