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Apr

20

2012

Share to Google ‘Drive’ Spotted on Today’s Android Developers YouTube Video

by Stacy Bruce
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If you have a subscription to the Android Developers YouTube page you would have noticed an invite the past two days to watch Google interview select successful Android developers. What you may have missed is that today’s developer who was being interviewed accidentally showed the world the option of share to ‘Drive’ while giving a [...]

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Apr

20

2012

Barclaycard introduces PayTag utilizing NFC stickers, what about Google Wallet?

by Robert Nazarian
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Mobile payments utilizing NFC is still in it’s infancy and in fact really hasn’t grown all that much. Part of the reason is the lack of devices that support Near Field Communications. Google announced their program nearly a year ago and kicked it off this past fall, but one thing that’s lacking from the announcement [...]

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Apr

19

2012

New Infographic Suggests the ‘Strengths of Google’s Project Glass’

by Stacy Bruce
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Many of you are probably excited, at the same time curious, about the possibilities of Google’s upcoming Project Glass. While we have already seen the prototype worn in public by Google’s Sergey Brin and demoed in the Project Glass announcement video, we still can’t help but wonder what endless possibilities may lie in the device’s [...]

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Apr

19

2012

Google Cloud Printing Now Supports Printing To ICS Devices, FedEx Office Locations, and Canon Printers

by Ed Caggiani
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Remember when we had to install print drivers when we got a new printer, or look for a print driver online if you lost the disks? Remember when printing to a printer on a network seemed magical, like some sort of electronic teleportation of ones and zeros at light speed to generate an honest-to-goodness real [...]

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Apr

18

2012

PSA: The Google Play Store Actually Has 24 Hour Phone Support

by Stacy Bruce
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For those of you who may not have already known this (I sure didn’t) the Google Play Store actually offers 24 hour technical support over the phone. Pretty slick, huh? If you ever have any difficulties with purchasing/downloading an app, movies or music you can simply fill out an online form and a Google Representative [...]

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Apr

18

2012

Get $50 In Your Google Wallet When You Activate A Sprint Galaxy Nexus

by Joe Sirianni
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Sprint pre-orders are well under way for new Galaxy Nexus device however, the carrier forgot to add one little tidbit that should make new Sprint G-Nex owners even happier.  If you shelled out the $199.99 for the device you’ll be happy to know that you can get a little return on your investment in the form [...]

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Apr

17

2012

Google and Reliance team up to offer free data to new Android users in India

by Chris Stewart
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Is this a blue android I see before me? It certainly is as it’s the figurehead for the ‘Blue Bot’ campaign launched by Google and Reliance. Both parties have significant interest in the success of this campaign, for Google it looks to drive interest in the Android OS in India and for Reliance it’s all about [...]

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Apr

17

2012

Tax Day sale in the Google Play Store, 33 albums for $2.99 today only

by Tony Rosario
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What better way for music lovers everywhere to spend their recently acquired tax return dollars than on some cheap jams from the Google Play Store. Today only, Google will offer 33 albums for only $2.99. Some of the artists featured include Weezer, Sublime, Coldplay and other various popular performers of different genres. We can look [...]

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