Google News on a Nexus 7
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Starting today, Google will be improving the Google News webpage reading experience on 7- and 10-inch tablets. Rolling out over the next few days, the new interface provides a more intuitive navigat...
NY Times
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
The official New York Times app for Android has been updated to version 3.0 today with a substantial improvement in UI and usability. The big news is that this new application is responsive to man...
Google Play Books
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Google is continuing its expansive rollout of content to different countries today by offering Google Play Books and Movies to the Russian market. On the Books front, Google Play will be offering ov...
Intel Logo
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Intel is hoping to become more competitive in 2013 with new manufacturing processes that will shrink chip circuitry from 32 to 22 nanometers (nm) in size. The chip maker has been trying its bes...
Instagram
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
Instagram is having a little spat with Twitter right now, but that's not stopping it from coming out with an update today. The update is bringing a new black & white filter called "Will...
Pandora
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
Pandora has been trialing its service in Australia and New Zealand via a web-only trial, and now it has launched the service fully in both countries. Users down under can now sign up and have fully-...
T-Mobile SIM
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
With all of the big T-Mobile news that hit last week, one story that may have been buried was the carrier's continued rollout of 1900MHz HSPA+ markets. We like when carriers can give us a good i...
Google Play Logo
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
Bango, a mobile payments and analytics company, works with carriers (and other companies) as a middle-man to help set up payment systems and has now started offering Google Play billing as well. Car...
Hardware 1
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 10, 2012
HTC’s fourth-quarter refresh of the One X is good, but is it good enough to keep you from waiting for the next tier of hardware? When first holding an HTC One X+ (or any One device, for...
LG L-Series
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 09, 2012
LG is announcing today that since the launch of the "L-Series" group of handsets, it has sold 10 million units worldwide. When LG started rolling out the L-Series as the mid- to low-range ...
Google Entertainment System
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 08, 2012
If you've been drooling over the thought of having Google Fiber service where you live, you're surely not alone. Since Google official rolled out the service to residents of Kansas City, peo...
Apps of the Week
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 08, 2012
We've got the usual great set of app picks for your enjoyment this week, covering all genres. You can add a watermark to a picture, keep those pictures safe from unwanted eyes, check out some cl...
Chrome
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 08, 2012
Google just keeps on closing the gaps between its products, as today we're seeing that the Chrome team is getting ready to put Google Now into the Chrome browser. An eagle-eyed user spotted code...
PadFone 2 Jelly Bean
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 08, 2012
  The PadFone 2, ASUS' successor device to that weird interesting phone inside a tablet inside a laptop contraption, is finally grabbing an OTA to Jelly Bean starting today. We were surprise...
T-Mobile SIM
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 07, 2012
There's no shortage of big T-Mobile news out there right now, and this one seems to fit in with what we're hearing the last couple of days. After announcing that it will no longer be subsidi...
Google Now
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 07, 2012
If you've got a Jelly Bean device -- say a shiny new Nexus 4 -- and open up Google Now today, you'll likely be greeted with a notice about Google's location policy. The notice reminds us...
Samsung Galaxy Camera
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 07, 2012
We saw a Samsung Galaxy Camera go through the FCC just a week ago with Verizon LTE on board, and now a Samsung product page has confirmed the device. The spec page only lists 700MHz as a suppor...
Kindle Fire
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 06, 2012
We take time to applaud companies whenever they bring new accessibility features to their devices. Amazon has just announced today that it will be bringing two new features for visually-impaired use...
T-Mobile Network Logo
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 06, 2012
We're hearing a ton of interesting information about T-Mobile's plans for the future today as part of Deutsche Telekom's analyst conference, and this may be the biggest yet. Starting in ...
T-Mobile SIM
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 06, 2012
T-Mobile rolled out 10 new markets with 1900MHz HSPA+ service just two weeks ago, and now the nation's fourth-largest carrier is adding another three markets. Users with unlocked handsets that o...