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Apr

11

2012

Google Rumored To Be In Talks To Sell Motorola Mobility Handset Division To Huawei

by Roy Alugbue
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  When people think of the biggest story for 2011, Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility immediately comes to mind. The initial thought was Google may have had plans to use Motorola to create a new line of Nexus premium devices, but really the more likely theory for Google’s major purchase has to do with MOTO’s vast number of patents— 17,000 to [...]

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Apr

10

2012

Android Given New Design Guidelines, Addresses The Dreadful Menu Button Issue And More

by Joe Sirianni
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  It’s no big secret that sometimes developers can create apps that aren’t as consistent with the intended Google design look and feel as we’d like.  And so in moving forward, Matias Duarte, Director of Android User Experience, announced way back at CES that there were official Android design guidelines coming.  The effort is to [...]

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Apr

10

2012

Ding Ding Ding, Survey Says – Google Is More Popular Than Facebook, Apple And Twitter As A Tech Brand

by Joe Sirianni
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These are the days when a giant company who’s bread and butter is “search” has enough backing in both monetary and production as a brand to become more popular than tech companies like Apple and social media giants like Facebook and Twitter.  It’s anyone’s game these days and it certainly seems like a cutthroat business to stay [...]

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Apr

10

2012

Android 4.0 Factory Images Officially Available For The Google Nexus S 4G Smartphone

by Roy Alugbue
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  Happy days continue for owners of the Google Nexus S 4G smartphone. The much-anticipated Android 4.0 update is officially on its way and now the “soju” factory images are officially available as well, which officially brings Sprint’s version of the Nexus S current with the GSM versions of the device. Android AOSP wunderkind Jean-Baptiste Queru [...]

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Apr

6

2012

Google CEO Larry Page Gives 2012 Update For Android, Highlights 850,000 Devices Are Being Activated Daily

by Roy Alugbue
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Google’s head honcho Larry Page took some time recently to give his formal update on all things Google for 2012, including the Android platform. In an unsurprisingly bright outlook, Page expresses his excitement for Android specifically by sharing how the platform is not only on fire, but: “ The pace of mobile innovation has never been [...]

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Apr

6

2012

Google branded tablet now pushed back to July as a result of design changes

by Robert Nazarian
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We’ve been hearing rumors of a Google tablet lately, which could be called a Nexus or possibly even the Google Play. Everything seems to point towards ASUS being the manufacturer of choice (ASUS Memo 370T pictured above), and we’ve also heard that Google may sell it on their own from either their own site or possibly [...]

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Apr

6

2012

Google’s own Sergey Brin spotted in the wild sporting Project Glass prototype

by Chris Stewart
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Perhaps the future really is now. Just hours after Google gave the world a glimpse of the future with the Project Glass announcement, the augmented reality glasses have already been spotted out in public on none other than Google co-founder Sergey Brin himself. Sergey showed up to the ‘Dining in the Dark’ charity event at [...]

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Apr

5

2012

500 Paramount movies coming to Google Play and YouTube thanks to a new licensing agreement

by Robert Nazarian
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Google just announced a new licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures, which will bring approximately 500 new movie titles to both Google Play and YouTube. Paramount is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and has been responsible for titles such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Hugo, Transformers, and the Godfather. With the addition of Paramount, Google [...]

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Apr

4

2012

Gmail App Gets Updated For Froyo, Gingerbread And Honeycomb Devices

by Roy Alugbue
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Gmail is certainly among the most important apps we use and has to get updated periodically. That’s why Google went ahead and updated the Gmail app for all Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb 3.2 devices. The majority of Froyo and Gingerbread users will see some performance improvements, while Honeycomb 3.2 users will be treated to a sample [...]

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