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Google Currents in Canada: Scan through your favourite categories, editions and breaking Canadian news
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Keeping up on the news out there can be overwhelming. That's where
Google Currents
comes in—an app that allows you to discover, share and read your favourite news outlets, blogs and online magazines (what we together refer to as “editions”) on your smartphone or tablet—even when you’re offline.
Today, we’re bringing Canadian publications to Currents. We have great editions from publications like The
Toronto Star
,
CBC
,
iVillage Canada
,
Canada.com
, and
Cottage Life
. You can scan through all your favourite categories and specific editions with just the swipe of a finger. And, we use some of the technology behind Search to bring you breaking stories on those celebrity scandals, news that shakes the business world, or latest and greatest sports moments.
Scan through categories
Keep track of your existing subscriptions and discover new ones grouping editions into categories. Check out editions related to your interests through categories like Entertainment, Sports, Lifestyle and more. All of your content will be grouped in these categories, accessible from a sidebar. And you can organize your editions in each category with favourites on top.
It’s easy to quickly browse through top articles from all your favourite editions in a category—just swipe horizontally. If you subscribe to more than a dozen News editions like
The Toronto Star
,
Huffington Post Canada
and
CBC News
, you can quickly swipe through the entire category and dive into editions with articles of interest.
Scan through editions
We’ve also made it easier to scan headlines in a particular edition—just swipe vertically. Want to see what’s new in
CBC Sports
news? Just swipe through through the headlines. After you view a story we’ll mark it as read, so it’s easier to see new content each time you use Currents.
Scan through breaking stories
To help you stay up-to-date with the latest news, Google Currents uses some of the technology behind Search to deliver the hottest breaking stories in categories such as World, Entertainment, Sports, Science and more. You’ll find new articles from hot topics that interest you, while discovering existing Currents editions you can subscribe to. Breaking stories are customized to Canada —so we’ll only show you relevant news.
Read in your preferred language
To help you enjoy content in your preferred language, we’ve integrated
Google Translate
into Google Currents. Just press the globe icon while reading an edition, and you can automatically translate that edition to one of 38 supported languages.
Currents optimizes editions to look great on whatever type of device you're using. Articles shine, with large images and layouts that are intelligently optimized for your device, whether you're on a phone or a tablet.
Millions of people around the world have downloaded Currents, reading over
700 publisher editions
and tens of thousands of self-produced editions. The updated app is available for
download
on Google Play and
iOS
. Finally, if you’re an international publisher you can use
Google Currents Producer
to add local content for people in Canada and the other countries where Currents is available. You can even enable auto-translation and choose in which countries you want your content available.
We hope that today’s updates make keeping up with the latest news fast, easy and fun no matter where you are or what device you’re using.
Posted by Mussie Shore, Group Product Manager
Canadian museums continue to go digital with Google Art Project
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Have you ever wanted to explore the art world without having to travel far and wide? Or to have a particular piece of art in front of you to talk about and share when you’re miles from where you saw it?
Google Art Project
is a unique online platform for museums from across the world letting visitors inside their doors and into their galleries with a little help from technology. People across the world who might otherwise never see the real thing, are accessing masterpieces, antiquities and other artifacts that are part of our cultural heritage, and the program continues to expand.
Today Google Art Project
announced that nearly 2,000 new works
are being added to
Google Art Project
from 29 new partners across 15 countries, including Canada’s own
Pointe-à-Callière
- Montreal’s Museum of Archaeology and History and the
Canada Council Art Bank
from Ottawa and has the largest collection of contemporary Canadian art in the world.. Both museums contributed a beautiful collection of Canadian art and artifacts and sculptures to be explored and learn about Canadian historical heritage, culture and beauty. Artists such as
Jean Claude Dupont
,
George Munro Grant
,
Meryl McMaster
,
Michael Snow
, and many others.
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Whether you browse the collection, or
curate your own
, enjoy this digital experience of some of Canada’s – and the world’s – most creative and beautiful art. Keep an eye on our Google Art Project
Google+ page
for more details about the new collections.
Posted by Wendy Bairos, Google Canada
Bringing Chromebooks Home
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Yesterday the Chrome team took a big step to
expand Chromebooks to Canada
, and
5 other countries
. We're very excited in Google Kitchener-Waterloo. We've been working on Chrome OS for a while and now our family and friends can experience
Chromebooks
too.
Chromebooks are fantastic, we use them for just about everything both at work and at home: emailing, sharing and collaborating on Google Docs; and surfing and reading sites on the web. I came to Google to work on Chrome and its been very fun. The team here started working on Chrome as 20% project and we have now become a big integral part of the global Chrome team.
We're really looking forward to see how Canadians will use Chromebooks. Its very motivating to know that people all over the world will see and use the work we've done here in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Posted by Rick Byers, Software Engineer, Google Kitchener-Waterloo
Trekker takes on Canada’s Arctic Winter
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Editor’s Note: Today's guest author is Chris Kalluk, a resident of the Nunavut territory and mapping expert at
Nunavut Tunngavik
, the nonprofit organization we’re working with to collect imagery and build more comprehensive maps of the Canadian Arctic.
There’s a saying we have in the north: unless you’re the lead sled dog, the view is pretty much the same. Today, I’m wearing a Street View
Trekker
- a backpack outfitted with a camera system - and walking the streets of
Iqaluit
, ready to explore Canada’s incredible Arctic and putting you at the front of the pack.
Here, in the capital of Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut, the average temperature is below freezing eight months of the year. The roads are covered in snow, the bay is frozen and polar bear sightings are a frequent occurrence. Winter up here is a way of life. And the only way to truly understand it is to see it for yourself.
Chris Kalluk, Nunavut resident, hiking the streets of Iqaluit with the Trekker
This is the first Trekker expedition in Canada for Google Maps. I’m wearing the backpack to collect Street View imagery as I walk to the shore of Frobisher Bay, where the wind is the strongest and you can see the tide piling up mountains of sea ice. On the way I’ll pass sled dogs tied up outside houses, yapping in anticipation of their next trip. And I may stop to check out an igloo, built by Inuit craftsmen using methods passed down over a millennia.
As part of its commitment to build a comprehensive and accurate map of Canada’s north, Google visited my home,
Cambridge Bay
, last August and published
imagery of the trip
that fall. But this visit to Iqaluit marks the first time the Google Maps team has ventured into an Arctic climate during the winter months, where average temperatures can dip below -30°C [-25°F].
Raleigh Seamster, Project Lead for Google Maps, surveys Iqaluit while collecting Street View imagery with the Trekker
At the end of the day, when it’s time to warm up, our community will gather around two dozen computers at the local library to conduct a
MapUp workshop
. I’ll work with Iqaluit’s elders, local business owners, political leaders and high school students to show them how we can use
Google Map Maker
to add the streets, shops and points of interest - those places that make Iqaluit home - to Google Maps.
Hiking Iqaluit with the Trekker and working as a community to make the map more complete offers us a unique opportunity to share our people’s land and culture with the rest of the world. And, in just a few months, when the Street View panoramas become available on Google Maps, you’ll have a chance to virtually walk these snowy streets for yourself. I like to think of it as our chance to give you the lead sled dog’s view.
Posted by Chris Kalluk, GIS and mapping expert with
Nunavut Tunngavik Inc
Chromebooks for Canada
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
A few years ago, we set out to
build
a computing experience that would be faster, simpler, more secure, and more affordable. With
the Chromebook
, we want computers, and the wealth of online content, to be accessible to everyone around the world. So today we’re pleased to announce that our latest Chromebooks from
Samsung
,
Acer
and
HP
are
now available in Canada
.
Acer C7 Chromebook Samsung Chromebook HP Pavilion
Over the past few months, these Chromebooks have become a part of everyday life for many people - a computer for the kitchen, for on the go, or for sharing with family (or not). In the U.S. the Samsung Chromebook has been at the top of
Amazon’s best-selling laptop
list for 149 days since launch and in the U.K., Dixons says Chromebooks make up
more than 10 percent of laptop sales
in Currys and PC World stores.
All Chromebooks deliver a
hassle-free
computing experience with speed, built-in security and the simplicity of automatic updates. They’re
easy to share
with others because each person can have a separate account where all of his or her stuff is kept safe. Chromebooks also come with 100 GB of free storage on Google Drive*, so you can get to all of your stuff anytime, anywhere. And finally, if you’re an active Google user of products like Gmail, Drive, Search, Maps, YouTube, or Google+, everything just works seamlessly.
In Canada, the Samsung ($269.99) and Acer ($249.99) Chromebooks will be available at both
BestBuy.ca
and
Futureshop.ca
online and will soon be available in stores. The HP Pavilion Chromebook ($329.99) will be available at
HPshopping.ca
. These Chromebooks are also available to schools and businesses in Canada.
It’s been rewarding to work with our partners to make Chromebooks available in Canada, and we’re looking forward to launching more Chromebooks in the future.
*You will have 100 GB of free storage for 2 years, starting on the date you redeem the offer on eligible Chrome devices.
Posted by Caesar Sengupta, Product Management Director, Google
Google for Seniors takes off in Toronto
Monday, March 18, 2013
Accessing public services, participating in elections, and even finding basic community information can be difficult for many seniors, particularly when English is not their first language. As the Member of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina – a federal riding known for its cultural and linguistic diversity –
Olivia Chow
knows this first hand.
Here at Google Toronto, where Ms. Chow is our local MP, we’re really passionate about bridging the digital divide, so we thought there was a great opportunity to work together to help improve the web literacy of seniors in our neighbourhood.
Getting started with Google Translate.
Photos courtesy of the Office of Olivia Chow.
That’s why, on Friday, we co-hosted our very first
Google for Seniors
event. We invited Portuguese- and Chinese-speaking seniors from our local community to learn how Google’s translation and mapping services can help them explore the web.
Surfing the web in Portuguese
Each Senior arrived with a ‘buddy’ to help guide them through the training. Sessions were held in both Portuguese and Mandarin. We had a great time teaching seniors how they can translate phrases, emails and even entire websites through
Google Translate
. We also demonstrated how to use
Google Maps
to get directions to your grandchild's house or the doctor’s office. We even had some fun exploring their hometowns across the world, revisiting their journeys to Canada.
MP Olivia Chow with Googlers and guests.
The training ended with a tour around the Google office, and plenty of photos as everyone enjoyed going behind the scenes at Google for the morning. Hopefully we’re a few steps closer to helping everyone, regardless of age, location or language discover the wonders of the internet.
Posted by Lauren Skelly, Google Canada
Ladies Learning Code includes Google in their March Break activities
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Google’s Canada’s Women@Google hosted a groups of 40 girls who were part of a March Break camp with Toronto non-profit organization
Ladies Learning Code
yesterday. It was great to see such enthusiasm and interest in technology from this group of girls. They had some informed questions for our panel that lead to an interesting discussion about cloud technology, YouTube trends, UI design and how to get hired at Google.
The girls were among some of the first to experience the new
Google Pixel
, not yet available in Canada.
Posted by Wendy Bairos, Google Canada
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