Pool Party - a new iPhone app for sharing images by Google

Google just launched it latest product stright inot the iOS market. This product was designed by people previously working for Slide, a small startup recently bought by Google. At the time being it is per invitation as it is still in testing phase. With this app you can share your photos with your circle of friends which use this app. It is not clear why exactly Google is offering multiple image sharing platforms, as Picasa and Google + are already doing the same thing. Perhaps Google releases several projects at the same time so users can choose the best one, in a kind of evolutionary struggle between apps?

Google launches a new social network

Google is launching it latest attempt to compete with Facebook. Google + is a new product for social networking which should according to the Search Engine Giant outperform and outsmart currently the number on in the social networking: Facebook. The main future of Google + which should make it distinctively better than Facebook are so called “circles”.

Google Unveils New ‘Tap To Pay’ System

At a press conference in New York, New York, this Thursday, Google unveiled its new ‘single tap to pay’ smart phone payment system, known as “The Wallet”. In a race that has been run by many other payment companies in the bid to offer Smartphone payment platforms, Google Inc. appears to be the first out of the gate with its trial of a single tap payment system.

Google Inc will be launching the trial run of the payment system in San Francisco and New York. MasterCard and Citibank are working in cooperation with Google and hope to open the system to consumers by this summer, and plan on expanding across the country shortly thereafter.

Google against Apple, Map apps

Google is again busy, this time they are trying to prevent Apple from getting too much from mapp apps. In a new effort Google has updated its HTML 5 Maps app for iOS and Android. We already know that iOS has built in mapp app which also uses Google powered maps as its source, but it appears that Apple isn’t upgrading their mapp app too eagerly. So it seems that in order to prevent this, Google is doing similar to what they have done with their other services Gmail and Youtube, they have decide to build and launch their own version of the iOS app.
So when you decide to go to the maps.google.com on your iPhone or iPad you can use almost the same features available on your desktop computer.

FaceTime copy: Google introduces video chat for Android devices

Google is again trying to counter Apple. This time Google tries to compete with Apple by creating a video chat app which is clearly similar to Apple’s popular Facetime app. This could be a start of awhole new wave of improvements for Google Android supported devices. We are sure that Apple wont be very happy about this but they wont be able to use a law suit against Google in this case as video chat isn’t something protected by patent laws.