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Google has announced its Google Play Games Services, which comes to us in the form of a new Play Games app that incorporates a gaming hub and portal for the Google Play Games Services that we caught a glimpse of at Google I/O back in May. The app allows users to view leaderboards, friends that…
Google’s Play Music All Access app will be making its way to iOS, according to Sundar Pichai. Pichai, who is the SVP of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google revealed the news at D11 today. The app is said to arrive in a few weeks. Google unveiled its Play Music All Access service at Google…
Google has released some new Chrome Experiments today – two games called “Roll It” and “Racer.” The experiments let users play using multiple devices, such as smartphones, tablets and desktop computers running the Chrome browser. Both games utilize some nifty HTML-5 and WebSockets tricks to provide a super fun gaming experience. Racer is an 80’s…
In case you missed it, Google has released an archive of it’s 2013 Google I/O Keynote presentation on its Youtube channel. It’s all there in its full and magnificent 3 hours and 51 minutes of glory. If you haven’t seen it you can watch it right here. If you watched it yesterday, here’s your chance to relive…
While we didn’t see any substantial Android updates or a new Nexus phone at Google I/O yesterday, Android and Me was able to get its hands on the elusive white Nexus 4. Spec wise, the white Nexus 4 is the same as the black Nexus 4, and it will be available for purchase in the…
Though absent from the Google I/O Keynote, it looks like the search giant hasn’t ignored Google TV altogether. The TV service is set to get updated to Android 4.2.2, which should bring some nice improvements over the existing Android 3.x Honeycomb build found today. LG also announced that it will roll out the Android 4.2.2…
The anticipation for this year’s Google I/O has been pretty incredible. With rumors of a new version of Android, new devices in no short supply, the keynote today wasn’t exactly what we were expecting. It’s clear that this year’s focus was clearly on software and services. And we got a lot of them. For the…
At Google I/O 2013, Google unveiled an impressive new update to the Google Maps app for Android and iOS. It brings a ton of new features that truly blows the competition away. To start, it has a brand new user interface that, according to Google, is easier to use and faster. It’s nothing dramatic either…
It seemed strange when Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice-president and software engineer started his search presentation with talk of Star Trek and its incredible ship’s computer. But it made much more sense as the presentation advanced. Along with several other exciting features (which we’ll, of course, be looking at in greater depth as I/O goes on) “hotword”…
Google realizes that photos are one of the most popular items shared on social networks. To improve the photo-sharing experience, Google has introduced a series of new tools that’ll let you use Google as your digital darkroom. The new photo service will help you better manage your photos by backing up your photos (15GB of…