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With Sights Dead Set on the Living Room, Google Debuts A Streaming Media Device — The battle for your living room rages on. Touting consoles, boxes and premium content delivery services, companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon continue to jockey for digital supremacy.| Jon Phillips / Wired: |
Nexus Q Teardown: Dissecting Google's New Streaming Media Orb — Splayed out on an operating table with its innards on full display, Nexus Q loses all of it pop-art panache. But who can resist cracking open the ball to see what makes it tick? Surely the destruction of one specimen was worth the sacrifice, right?| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Google Nexus Q lets Android owners stream media from the cloud, shipping for $299 in mid-July — ...And the Nexus Q is official. Google's first consumer electronics product is a small, sphere-shaped device that will work with the Nexus 7 tablet and other Android devices to stream media from the cloud.| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Google Tries Something Retro: Made in the U.S.A. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Etched into the base of Google's wireless Nexus Q home media player, introduced on Wednesday, is its most intriguing feature. — On the underside of the Magic-8-ball-shaped device reads a simple laser-etched inscription: “Designed and Manufactured in the U.S.A.”| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google makes the Nexus 7 tablet official: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a $199 price (video) — Some of the mystery has been taken out of it, but Google has officially taken the wraps off of the Nexus 7, its first reference-grade tablet. The 7-inch slate is the first and currently … | The Verge: |
Asus Nexus 7 tablet hands-on video and photos — There's not that much left to know about the Nexus 7, because all the details leaked out in grand fashion this morning. Most importantly, the 7-inch tablet will come pre-loaded with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google's latest operating system.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, and Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 — As expected, Google unveiled its own 7-inch tablet today at the start of the company's I/O conference. Asus is helping Google build its tablet, co-branded once it's available in mid-July.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google+ Now Has A Tablet Version, Events, 250M Users, 75M Daily, More Mobile Than Desktop — Today at Google I/O, Google announced it has 250 million total users, 175 million monthly users, and 75 million daily users. It released an Android tablet version too, and an iPad version is coming soon.| Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog: |
+1 — A year ago we started a small project called Google+—to bring friends and family closer together, and to inspire new connections through meaningful conversation. Today more than 250 million people have upgraded to Google+, and we want to give thanks. To you.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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Sergey Brin demos Project Glass on stage at Google I/O — It's hard to ignore Google's X Lab-born Project Glass. News of the slim-lined, scifi goggles' existence first surfaced this past February and it wasn't long after that Mountain View's own elite began to flaunt the heads-up display in public.| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean coming in mid-July with Project Butter UI, Google Now, richer notifications — The notifications tray is seeing a pretty major overhaul, too, with expanded Gmail notifications that include a richer preview of unread messages, while also giving you access to more options without needing to open the relevant app.| Angana Ghosh / Android Developers Blog: |
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Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App — Facebook's iPhone app is slow. Often painfully slow. — On the iTunes app store, out of 38,000 reviews, more than 21,000 customers have given the app a measly single star. Users repeatedly describing the app as: slow, crashes, stinks, fail and “is always loading.”| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Google Play starts selling movies, TV shows (single episode or full season) and magazines today — The Android Market became Google Play to focus on how it pushes media, and now it's adding a few new options. On stage at Google I/O 2012 the company just announced it's adding support … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Suddenly Resigns — Philipp Humm, the CEO of T-Mobile USA, has suddenly resigned, according to the company. — Jim Alling, T-Mobile's COO, will take over his duties while a search is under way. — In a statement, the company said that Humm is going to pursue … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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Google Now: A Smarter, Mobile Search Offering Tailored To Your Life — So far, searching for content on a phone has been designed around the experience of searching for content on a desktop. Google's search bar still leads you to a list of text links. And it's proven to be a pretty lousy solution … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Android Reaches 400 Million Device Activations, Adds 1 Million Per Day — Here are some big numbers for Google's Android platform out of the company's developer conference today in San Francisco: Android has seen 400 million device activations and is adding 1 million per day.| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
With New “Inbox” Feature, Asana Is Looking More Like That Email Slayer We're All Longing For — Email. Everybody hates it but no tech company has figured out how to replace its old post-office metaphor with something more intuitive for the modern world. But Asana, the high-profile task … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iOS 6 Beta Allows Reordering of Icons on Apple TV — As noted by MacMagazine.com.br, the latest beta of the iOS 6-based Apple TV software now allows users to reorder the icons on the main menu page. — The feature is accessed by holding down the center Select button on the remote for several seconds … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple Has Shipped 250M iPhones, Made $150B In Revenues In The Past 5 Years — We know that Apple has been making a killing from the iPhone, with the device reigning as the single-most popular smartphone in a number of markets — despite Android-based handsets collectively having a bigger lead.| Jiabei Lei / Google LatLong: |
Go offline with Google Maps for Android — Having an Internet connection has always been a key requirement for using Google Maps for Android... until now. — A few weeks ago we told you that offline Google Maps for Android was coming. Now, you can download the latest version of the app in Google Play … | Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat: |
Google's Cloud Messaging service promises to cut down on developer data use, battery drain — At Google's I/O conference today, Google unveiled Cloud Messaging, a developer service aimed at improving app performance and decreasing data consumption. — With the move, Google is phasing … | Mark Milian / Bloomberg Tech Blog: |
Waze to Drive Its Social GPS Software Into Cars This Year — Waze's free app for iPhones and Android devices has 19 million users. — Waze, which makes one of the most popular GPS applications for smartphones, is planning to break into a platform it hopes will provide greater fuel for its business: the car.| Benjamin Jackson / BuzzFeed: |
What Developers Thought About WWDC — A look at what Apple really did last week. — Image by AFP / Getty Images — It's been a couple weeks since the close of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (depending on who you ask, also known as the World Wide Denny's Conference or World Wide Drinking Competition).
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hive 0.11, Stinger and SQL-Compatibility — The release of Hive 0.11 is exciting and represents a big step forward to delivery of Project Stinger and SQL-IN-Hadoop. There is still some work to be done however.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:05 PM ET, June 27, 2012.
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