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by Chris Parsons
Aug 29, 2012
For those of you making use of an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean device and wondering when Google Now might be updated with some new features, we now know. The latest update has gone live in the Google Play...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 29, 2012
Pretty much looks like my kids, actually.
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 29, 2012
Back in January, Cricket announced that its music service, Muve Music, surpassed 500,000 users. That number is about to increase as the wireless provider announced that the service will now come bun...
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by Chris Parsons
Aug 29, 2012
The latest Google Maps update has now appeared in the Google Play Store and shows the app has been bumped up to v6.11.1. After the last update, many HTC Rezound users had issues and were forced to d...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 28, 2012
Ah, the big guns. Google today has put the Nexus 7 tablet square in the middle of its homepage. That's a page that gets a wee mount of traffic, as you can imagine. It's also a page that, asi...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 27, 2012
"We work with our partners to give consumers innovative and affordable products, and we don't want anything to limit that."
The dust is still setting following Friday's $1.049 ...
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by Chris Parsons
Aug 22, 2012
Although many folks may not be aware of it, Google actually has a few offices in Canada. Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo and Montreal are all homes to Google in Canada and finally, they've gone ahea...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 22, 2012
The team over at iFixit has gotten their hands on one of the newest Google TV boxes, the Vizio Co-Star. They of course pulled it apart, looked at its guts, and showed them to the world. When Vizio a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 21, 2012
Some users with the 3.8.16 version of Google Play are seeing the "Redeem" entry show up in their menu, pushing us that much closer to live Google Play gift cards. This is happening with no...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 21, 2012
Google's just made it official. Google Play Gift Cards are rolling out in the next few weeks.
We've known these were coming for about a week now, of course, first with some code i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 20, 2012
Addressing the attendees of the Technology Policy Institute's conference today in Mountain View, Calif., Google public policy director Pablo Chavez made it plain that as a company, Google is fed...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 19, 2012
LG has announced that its newest flagship phone, the Optimus Vu (see our review), will be available globally in September. It has been available in only Japan and Korea thus far and will see a relea...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 18, 2012
More interesting news for open-source geeks this morning, as it's emerged Android Open-Source Project head Jean-Baptiste Queru has kicked off an “experiment” to bring AOSP suppo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 17, 2012
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Motorola has filed with the International Trade Commission (that's the same one that blocked the HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE for a spell) to sue Apple over...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 17, 2012
BrianKeith513 asks in our forums a pretty important question when it comes to purchasing a tablet for kids.
I'm asked a lot about mobile devices from friends and families, because I've w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 17, 2012
Behold! The DODOcase Hardcover for the Google Nexus 7 Android tablet. We're in search of the perfect case for the Nexus 7, a task that's as daunting as it is fun. This latest offering brings...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 17, 2012
The football season is upon us. Whether or not you’re a college fan, a pro fan or both, the excitement has been building and the first games are not that far away. The NFL has started prese...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 14, 2012
Pinterest finally has an official Android app. The popular social network is currently in the middle of an event where they're showing off brand new mobile apps for their platform. The network t...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 14, 2012
Playstation users have been able to watch YouTube videos on their consoles for some time, but the experience just got much better as the company announced a brand new app.
The app brings a complete...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 14, 2012
Google this evening confirmed in an SEC filing that it plans to cut some 4,000 employees from the recent acquisition of Motorola -- about a fifth of the company's workforce. And it's going t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 13, 2012
Google's already helping you find out where to go -- now it's going to help you get there. Publisher Wiley & Sons has agreed to sell the travel publication to Google for an undisclosed s...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 13, 2012
The Google-owned Motorola Mobility will undergo a major restructuring in the months ahead, according to reports from The New York Times. The paper reports that the Motorola mobile device ...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 10, 2012
Google's continuing to transform its search product into a knowledge engine, as evidenced by the new Google Search app on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and its Google Now features. Today some of that ...
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by Chris Parsons
Aug 09, 2012
Back in June Google announced they would be improving Google Earth substantially by adding 3D mapping to the mix and we even managed to get a good look at it during Google I/O. Now, only a few short...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 09, 2012
Amazon has been busy making improvements to its Cloud Player. The company recently announced the ability to scan and match music and now it has made the service available on Sonos. So now if you sto...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 08, 2012
Google Listen is officially dead. It was fun while it lasted, but the app's demise hardly signals an end to podcast listening on Android. See, much like the Nexus line of phones and tablets, Goo...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 08, 2012
Great news for all of you T-Mobile customers as the Samsung Galaxy Note (see our review), myTouch and myTouch Q are all available starting today.
If you've anxiously been awaiting the Galaxy No...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 07, 2012
When the ASUS MeMo 370T appeared, and then swiftly disappeared at CES, rumors suggested that the $250 7-incher had been poached by Google as the basis for its Nexus tablet. Fast forward six mon...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 07, 2012
Your Google account holds your e-mail, apps, music, books, documents, cloud storage, credit cards and more. It’s time to protect that stuff with more than a simple password.
If you’v...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 07, 2012
Head to Google's homepage on your computer and check out today's Olympic-themed doodle, the hurdler. Mash the right and left arrow keys to run, tap the spacebar to jump. Go forth and wa...
