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Google is updating its Google+ social network with more than 42 new features. Most of the features are designed to improve the overall user experience and include: new hangout applications that let you save each conversation as a history and sync notifications across devices so you can dismiss a notification on one device and have…
Google announced its long-rumored music streaming competitor to Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio called All Access. Much like other music providers, All Access lets users hear new and favorite music when they want and not ask them to upload their personal libraries of existing songs. All Access brings a unique feature called “Listen Now,” which offers…
Google Vice President of Product Management, Hugo Barra, unveiled some exciting new services in his segment of the I/O keynote. In particular, he unveiled the much rumored Google Play Game Services. These New Google Play services and APIs will be rolling out today to all Android devices Froyo and up! Barra began his presentation talking about…
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is Android’s flagship phone, but some people balk at Samsung’s TouchWiz interface. Purists that enjoy the pure flavor of Android will appreciate the newly announced developer edition of the Galaxy S4. Unveiled at Google I/O 2013, the new S4 will run the latest version of Android and will receive updates through Google. This…
Google just unveiled some improvements to the Google Play Store at the Google I/O 2013 keynote today. Engineering director of Android, Chris Yerga, took to the stage to boast about the new features. The main addition to the store that’s most beneficial to users is personalized recommendations. From now on, when you’re browsing Google Play,…
Google not only introduced Android Studio, a new development suite to make coding easier, it also added some improvement to its Google Play developer console that’ll make it easier for developers to rollout and monetize their apps. One of the biggest enhancements is the support for beta testing and staged rollouts from within the Google…
Google announced at the Google I/O 2013 keynote this morning that it has officially reached 900 million Android activations. That’s an incredible achievement for a platform that’s only been around for a few years. Google’s Sundar Pichai took the stage to reveal the news. Last year, activations passed 400 million total, which means growth has…
That magic spring event is upon us yet again. Google I/O draws near and as the flowers blossom and the warming spring breeze blows outside, the nerds of the world are glued to their screens waiting on any tidbit of news. Google’s big day out is coming tomorrow and the whole shindig will be kicked…
Google I/O 2013 is just a day away and the search giant will soon be filling us in on what it’s been cooking up since this time last year. As you could expect, Android will most definitely showcased, along with Chrome, but Google will also likely have a few tricks up its sleeve that we…
No Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie at Google I/O? NOOOOO! Google, why? According to Gadgetronica, it seems that Google’s next version of Android, known as Key Lime Pie will not be revealed to us at Google I/O this year, reportedly to give OEM’s some breathing room to adapt to the new version of the Android…