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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Improvements in design highlight the latest music subscription service
At today's massive Google I/O keynote, one of the bigger announcements was centered around music. Not only did we get t...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Google's new cross-platform group messaging service is pushing out to devices
Hangouts, the long-rumored messaging service from Google that pulls together text, photo, video and group cha...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Send money to anyone for free from a linked bank account; with small fees via credit cards
It wasn't a headline part of the Google I/O 2013 keynote, but the Google Commerce Blog has just dro...
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by Sean Brunett
May 15, 2013
Google has shown off what's new in search at Google I/O and during the keynote they announced improvements to conversational search, Google Now and the Knowledge Graph. We've had conve...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
Reminders. Music albums. TV shows. Public transit. Books. Video Games.
Update: The newest version of Google Search has just been pushed out to the Play Store
In among the host of other search f...
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by Sean Brunett
May 15, 2013
Google announced a music subscription service today called Google Play Music All Access. It provides unlimited access to music for $9.99/month (or $7.99/month if you sign up for the free trial befor...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
New look, new features for Google's mobile mapping software
At the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco, Google showed a sneak peek at the "next major version" of Google Maps for An...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
Google launches subscription music service, $9.99 per month, 30-day free trial
We're live in San Francisco for the Google I/O keynote presentation, where the search giant unveiled its new mu...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Save substantially on your mobile data usage when using Chrome and Youtube
As the Google I/O 2013 keynote gets moving along, Google is getting into some of the new technology it is using to save...
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by Sean Brunett
May 15, 2013
Earlier in the still-ongoing Google I/O keynote, Google announced Google Play Music All Access, a new subscription service aimed at providing any music you want for a monthly fee of $9.99 ($7.99 if ...
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by Richard Devine
May 15, 2013
Google making strides into the classroom with new education focused Google Play service
Google is making a push to get technology, more specifically tablets into schools with the announcement to...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
A unified design across different screen sizes provides a better experience
In working to unify its different platforms, Google is rolling out updates to Google+ on the web and mobile apps to...
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by Richard Devine
May 15, 2013
Much rumored service becomes official, available today for Android, iOS and the web
Messaging has been one of the hot topics leading up to Google I/O, and today Vic Gundotra took to the stage an...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
At the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco, Google VP Vic Gundotra demonstrated a ton of new features for the company's social network, Google+. Among these is a bevy of photographic capabi...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
At the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco, Android and Chrome head Sundar Pichai has just revealed that Android has passed the milestone of 900 million activations, up from 400 million in 2012 and ...
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by Richard Devine
May 15, 2013
Hugo Barra just took to the stage in San Francisco at Google I/O 2013, and the first thing he talked about was some extremely impressive statistics for Google Play.
Google Play has now s...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Save battery life and improve location data for every app
We're live here at the Google I/O 2013 keynote, where Google has started off with talking about APIs for Android. As one of its firs...
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by Sean Brunett
May 15, 2013
We're at Google I/O, where they just announced improvements to their Google+ Sign-In API, which is cross platform sign-in. What does that mean? If you find a cool website that you like (they dem...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
Upstream messaging, sycnhronized notifications and persistent connections
Google's Hugo Barra has just taken the wraps off new features for Google Cloud Messaging, at the Google I/O keynote ...
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by Richard Devine
May 15, 2013
The worst kept secret from Google just became officially official. Google Play Game Services has just been formally announced by Hugo Barra in San Francisco. We'll be taking a more detailed look...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Developers get ready for the latest in Google Play Gaming features
Google has just rolled out a huge number of features related to gaming at Google I/O 2013, and even on day 1 over a dozen devel...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Carefully manage app updates for a small set of core users to squash bugs
Google I/O 2013 is plugging along today, and one of the biggest features from a developer point of view is that they can...
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by Richard Devine
May 15, 2013
New developer tool to take away the difficulties with language barriers
During the Google Play developer console presentation in the Google I/O 2013 keynote, a fantastic new tool has been unveil...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
Brand new Android IDE to make it easier to build and preview apps
Google has launched a brand new IDE (integrated development environment) for building Android apps at today's Google I/O key...
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by Richard Devine
May 15, 2013
Android tablets are growing in popularity, and Google recognizes this and is setting out to make great tablet apps more visible in the Play Store. Starting today, there will be a new "designed ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 15, 2013
Full coverage of all Google's announcements, live from San Francisco!
OK, boys and girls. This is it. We're live from the Google I/O developer conference this week in San Francisco, for ...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
It's turning out to be the worst-kept secret of this year's Google I/O -- 'Google Play Games' has cropped up once again in game changelogs ahead of its presumed launch during to...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
We'll probably learn more about the mystery checkbox at today's Google I/O keynote
Well here's an interesting development. Head to the Android sync options for your Google account ri...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
Four million shipped in first four days, Korean press reports
With strong brand recognition, an colossal marketing budget and plenty of anticipation among smartphone buyers, it was almost inevit...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
Paid version also half-price for a limited time
Popular keyboard replacement SwiftKey has hit version 4.1, and the new version is now rolling out through the Google Play Store. SwiftKey 4.1...
