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Google served up some piping hot numbers this morning at its “Breakfast with Sundar” event in San Francisco. The menu this morning included Android 4.3, the new Nexus 7 and a host of other services. The big news, however, were the numbers Google had to offer pertaining to tablet activations and Play Store app downloads.…
Earlier today, Google unveiled the new Nexus 7 tablet as well as Android 4.3 and a host of other innovations. Wasting no time, Google has started pushing the Android 4.3 open source code to AOSP. The code is listed under the android-4.3_r2.1 tag, and is expected to be available in full form within a few hours.…
At its Breakfast with Sundar event in San Francisco today, Google unveiled a service that will save starving students some money when it comes to textbook access, dubbed Play Textbooks. Starting in August, students will be able to purchase and rent textbooks from the Google Play Store and access them on Android devices. Google has…
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…
Besides a new Nexus 7 and Android 4.3, Google also unveiled Chromecast, a dongle that plugs into your TV’s HDMI port and allows you to stream media from Netflix, YouTube, Chrome, Pandora and Google Play. You launch and control playback of the content via your Android device, iOS device and laptops (Windows, OS X and…
Google held a press event today and used the occasion to unveil the next version of its mobile operating system, Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The latest version of Android is minor jump from Android 4.2 with a handful of tweaks and minor changes. Here is a run down of the new features below: support for…
Google held a press event today and used the occasion to announce the second generation Nexus 7 tablet. The new Nexus 7 will be a modest improvement over the current Nexus 7 model. It is lighter, more narrow and thinner than the previous version. The new Nexus 7 will fit better in your hands, especially…
Google is providing a live stream of its big breakfast with Chrome and Android chief Sundar Pichai. The press event is shrouded in mystery, but leaks suggest the company is ready to unveil its next generation Nexus 7 and likely Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Pichai is also in charge of Chrome, so seeing something new…
Back in March, NVIDIA showed off its roadmap of its Tegra SoCs and what we can expect from them. Well, it may be late July, and we may be still waiting on Tegra 4 devices to pop up, but NVIDIA clearly hasn’t stopped working. The company recently showcased some of the features in Project Logan,…
It looks like that in addition to the Galaxy Note 3, Samsung is also working on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600-powered Galaxy Note II variant. That’s the same processor that powers up such powerful phones as LG Optimus G Pro, HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 (with the exception of the new Korean version). A device…