Google’s populate translator app will soon be landing on your smartwatch for you to use. Over 500 million people use Google Translate each month across all platforms (Desktop, smartphone, and tablet). Once the Android Wear update arrives you can run the translate feature on your smartwatch without needing the standalone app on your smartphone. To start translating, first speak into your watch what you want to say. Flip your wrist to show the translation to your friend. After your friend responds in their native language, flip your wrist back and you will see their speech translated into your native language.   TalkTask© Team Task Communications – Beyond your work with […]

Does that sound creepy? It should. It has us thinking whether we should buy next gen computers with Intel’s new Skylake processors. Intel’s new processors are always listening to your voice. You can speak “Hey Cortana or “Cortana, wake up!” and your computer will wake up from its low power state. This technology isn’t new as we have seen this with Motorola’s Moto X smartphone where you can set a custom nickname to the assistant and speak out to it with the phone screen off. Now, what is uncertain is whether this “always listening” feature will drain battery on your PC or laptop. Intel has not given much detail if […]

No, this isn’t Google’s answer to Amazon’s Echo product. This device will strictly be used to manage your Wi-Fi connections in the house and control any smart enabled device in your home. Google’s Onhub router will go on sale August 31st. The aim for the router is to simplify your experience. From the initial setup, to sharing your Wi-Fi with friends at your place, to prioritizing one or two devices to stream your Netflix. Most routers are ugly and people tend to tuck them away in a corner so they can’t be seen. Google says this reduces Wi-Fi signal and causes unstable connections. Making a beautiful router design, Google hopes […]

Google has finally given Hangouts its very own website. No longer does it require you to go into your Gmail account or Google+ to access the chat system. You can start using Google Hangouts on the official website here: https://hangouts.google.com/ to stay in touch with your contacts. It looks like Google has been on a roll lately with Hangouts. Previously we reported a refreshed UI look to Google Hangouts for iOS and Android and shortly after we have this. Does this make things easy for you? Let us know in the feedback forms!

Google has unveiled the name of its next Android OS update. This coming fall, Android M will rollout to Google Nexus devices first and then out to other OEMs. It will become Android 6.0. Every update that Google names usually follows some sort of delicious treat. Android’s current OS system is named Android Lollipop. Before Lollipop came KitKat and before that was Jellybean. As funny as it may sound naming your next OS update after sugary treats, Google takes Android very seriously. In the last 2 years, Google has deemed its future OS name with by calling it Android L or Android M. Test versions of these are released for […]