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AT&T is continuing its LTE roll out throughout the country, as the number two wireless provider just announced seven new markets. Here’s the seven new locations that made the list: Sussex County, Delaware Columbia, Missouri Vallejo, California Merced, California New London, Connecticut Greenville, Alabama Troy, Alabama At this point, AT&T is just filling in the…
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,…
You may’ve heard that Canonical has turned to crowd-funding to get the cash needed to put its phone into production. In an Indiegogo campaign, the company is looking to raise no less than $32 million to bring convergence to life, and finally allow us to have just one device for all our needs. There are…
Samsung has started making 3GB LPDDR3 mobile DRAM modules for smartphones (and tablets). As you would imagine, this will be the industry’s first 3GB DRAM made for mobile devices and could be found in the soon-to-be-launched Galaxy Note III (as we’ve already heard before). The Korean company is using six 20nm class 4Gb LPDDR3 chips…