Google’s popular Google Glass project is all set to be re-branded as “Project Aura”. The Google Glass team is now hiring consumer electronics experts from Amazon’s secretive Lab 126.
Google is going through their apps, giving them a fresh look to match the company’s new identity. Having earlier updated the Google Admin mobile app for Administrators, they have now released an update to the Google Now app.
Visa-Payments
Visa on Thursday announced that it has partnered with Google through the new Android Pay platform, opening up new secure Visa payment options to financial institutions and merchants around the world working within the Android eco-system.
Coordinating care for people with complex, chronic conditions is a difficult process. Historically providers have not been reimbursed or rewarded for care coordination efforts by payers. Starting in 2015, Medicare has paved the way by offering reimbursement for documented care coordination activities.
Google Hangouts provides an end-to-end chat solution for Google Apps customers, allowing people within an organization to securely communicate with one another across all devices and platforms. Google has now added two new policy options for Apps admins to give them greater control of how Hangouts chat is used in their domains, as well as introducing Google Apps Vault for Hangouts.
Google has lost a Court of Appeal battle to stop UK consumers from suing it in the UK for breach of privacy. A group called Safari Users Against Google's Secret Tracking accuse Google of bypassing security settings on Apple's browser to track their online browsing and to target them with personalised advertisements.
Google has opened its first Google Shop in London. Based at Currys PC World on London Tottenham Court Road, the shop will sell Google's latest range of Android phones, tablets, Chromebook laptops and Chromecast TV services.