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Google's Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is Here

Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, gets a more responsive user interface, a much more interactactive notification system, better voice transcription, overhauled search, and a major new feature called Google Now that tries to anticipate what a person needs to know at any given moment. Android has exploded in popularity, but the OS takes a lot of heat for allegedly being an Apple iOS copycat. Google is clearly trying to vault over that issue with new features detailed at its at its Google I/O show.

June 28, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google Unveils Nexus 7 Tablet

The Nexus 7 tablet was unveiled yesterday at the Google I/O Conference. As previously reported, the device was built by Asus and comes with a 7-inch 1,280-by-800 HD display. According to Google, it's running the Tegra 3 processor and has a front-facing camera for video chatting. Wi-Fi connectivity, as well as Bluetooth and near-field communication support are also included in the device. Rumors had been swirling for months that Google would offer the tablet.

June 28, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google TV from Sony Arrives in Store

Sony mentioned during CES 2012 that its Google TV-powered hardware would come to Europe this summer, and now it's official. Along with Google, it's announced preorders are available for the $200/£200/$199 NSZ-GS7 internet streaming set-top box in the US and UK showing a ship date of July 9th, Sony says it should hit stores July 22nd, with plans to launch in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico and Netherlands later this year.

June 25, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Chrome Metro Style Windows 8 Browser

Google was working on its Chrome Metro style browser, but the company has released an early version for Windows 8 Release Preview users. Chrome's Metro mode can be activated by installing the latest dev channel release from Google and switching it to the default browser in Windows 8 Release Preview. This switch enables Chrome to run in a Metro container, but not in the typical way you'd expect a Metro style app to function.

June 13, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google Drops A New Chromebook And Chromebox

If you haven’t paid attention to Google’s Chrome OS in a while, you might not recognise it after today’s update: the cloud-based OS UI has been revamped and now has multitouch trackpad support. Coinciding with that release is an updated Samsung Series 5 Chromebook and a Series 3 Chromebox. The emphasis here is nearly singular: speed, speed, speed.

May 30, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google to Close the Motorola Deal

Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility will finally close by Wednesday. Motorola Mobility announced in a Form-8K filed yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that now that the Bureau of the Ministry of the Commerce of China has cleared Google's acquisition, the companies will finalize the transaction "within two business days." China announced on Saturday that it had approved the acquisition, making it the last major regulator to give the deal the green light. Both the U.S. Justice Department and European Union regulators approved the acquisition in February.

May 22, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google Improves Search Engine

Apparently, Google has not forgotten its major product which catapulted the company to where it is right now. Arnold Zafra is referring to Google’s search engine which just received a bit of attention by way of the Knowledge Graph. According to Google, the Knowledge Graph aims to help you discover new information – quickly and easily. The Knowledge Graph enables fast searching for things, people or places that Google knows about including landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams and more.

May 18, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google Joins Mozilla in Windows 8 Browser War

Google has confirmed that it plans to join Mozilla in developing a next-generation browser optimized for the Metro style of Windows 8. It’s an important validation of the Windows 8 platform from the developers of two of the most widely used Windows apps around. First it was Mozilla. Now Google has tipped its plans to produce a version of its flagship Chrome browser built specifically for the Windows 8 platform.

March 14, 2012 Lubov Cholakova

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Google Docs for Android App Finally Gets Mobile Collaboration

Google updated its Google Docs app for Android devices and enabled real-time document collaboration and editing without having to launch a browser. The app also got some overall improvements that enhance the user experience while creating, editing, uploading and sharing documents on Android phone or tablet.

February 23, 2012 Daniela Vaseva

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Facebook’s ‘Don’t be Evil’ Google Fix Now a Chrome Extension

New bookmarklet called “don’t be evil” modifies Google’s code of the Search plus Your World feature and includes results from different social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, GitHub, Google+, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. The code of the bookmarklet was released as open source so that anyone can use it to create similar browser extension.

January 24, 2012 Daniela Vaseva

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