Android TV- Google's Over Attempt to Enter Into Your Living Rooms

Hello, You there? Yes, Its Google knocking down your living rooms by its latest produced project called "Android TV". Google is hitting your Television Sets with Android TV. Google stated "Android TV is an Entertainment Interface, not a Computing Platform" 

The ambition behind Google's new innovation of its Android TV is much like its been easier to understand. Company is recruiting developers for building simple television applications for an simple Set-Top-Box. The interface of this android software will consist of "Well Scheduled Scrolling Tiles" which further enriched with "Apps", "Movies", and "Games" sections in this menu. A Remote Control is provided with this set-top-box furnished with four direction keys to navigate through the menu under the box.

Android TV will feature "Voice Input" like Amazon's new Fire TV and "Notifications" like features.  Users can press the button and just say the name of the movie or a TV show and Google will retrieve it for you. Android TV is just Android optimized for best living room experience on a TV screen. Basic motive of this project is to invent the new applications that reigns the big screen. But its been a great struggle for Google to put the effort again after the very bad failure of Google TV in late 2010. Google did have a instant hit called "Chromecast" last year, a device that is able to display the data of laptops that are further connected with Internet.
It will also feature Youtube, Google Play, Chrome etc. on the screen and much more. 

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Competition Commission of India Imposed A Fine of 1 Crore On Google

Google is recently slapped with a huge fine of 1 Crore by Competition Commission of India for being "fail to act in accordance with the directions given by Director General, seeking information and documents."

Google Fined

Google is being investigated by CCI for unfair and anti-competitive practices. On Thursday, it had also directed Google to Co-operate in the investigations by handing over the documents and information the DG may call for. 

An online matrimonial Portal in India also filed a complaint against google in 2012, reporting discriminatory practices by its adwords program. 

Google expressed on thursday that "We're disappointed by this development. While we are confident that our products are compliant with competition law in India, we continue to cooperate fully with the Competition Commission of India's extensive and ongoing investigation, later added that We've not yet received this procedural order, but will review it once we have".

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Google Public DNS Servers Hijacked, traffic deflected for more than 22 minutes

Network observance and Routing Security company BGPMON, on Sunday reported that Google's DNS servers were hijacked for approximately 22 minutes. 

Tweet By BGPMON Regarding The Hijack

Tweet by company- "Google DNS 8.8.8.8/32 was hijacked for ~22min yesterday, affecting networks in Brazil & Venezuela"

Basically, DNS translates its stored domain names to their numerical IP addresses for locating devices around the globe. This attack was done by exploiting Boarder Gateway Protocol (BGP). Google's DNS servers handles queries of around 150 Billion users a day, so the 22 minute deflection meant a lot to Google services. The originators of this attack are still under cover and much more information is hidden behind the attack. 

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Google's Acquisition Continues- SlickLogin Acquired [EXCLUSIVE]

The Israel based firm that is providing overwhelming security to its End Users that uses High Frequency Sound Waves as passwords, going to integrate with search giant Google's security mechanism known as "Two Factor Authentication" soon.

SlickLogin, the company behind the development of Smart Identification Technology has been acquired by Google to mount their technology over its two step verification security mechanism. 

For Google this is the Fifth acquisition in Israel after Waze.

So, wait for the time when you are having with Sound Waves as your Passwords, as Google is always enhancing the way for Security of its users. 

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