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| Jon Phillips / Wired: |
It's a Sphere! The Inside Story of Nexus Q, Google's Music Hardware Gamble — SAN FRANCISCO — Sharing music with friends used to be intimate, even messy. We visited each other's homes with stacks of records, and plundered album sleeves until vinyl littered the floor.
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| 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.”| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
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.
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| Scott Lowe / The Verge: |
Nexus Q can't be used standalone, powered exclusively by Android devices on the same network — With the Nexus Q, Google is planting its flag in the living room, allowing users to share media from Google Play with their home entertainment center. But unlike its closest competitor …
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| 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 …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Google's Andy Rubin and Asus' Jonney Shih on How They Cooked Up the Nexus 7 — Building the Nexus 7 tablet was no easy task, says Asus Chairman Jonney Shih. — First off, Google gave the company only four months to build the product. Then there was the task of building a high-end tablet that could sell for just $200.| 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.
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| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
Project Glass Is The Future Of Google — Over the last few years one could easily say that Google had lost their way. They were no longer known for search. Somehow they'd turned into a company that acquired a series of nonsensical entities, launched half baked products that eventually hit … | Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
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| Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps: |
Google rolls out Android PDK with an eye to fixing fragmentation issues — Google is looking to fix Android's platform fragmentation by giving device manufacturers earlier access to upcoming versions of the Android OS. Starting with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, selected OEMs will receive … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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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.”| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Google to merge Hangouts, Talk & Messenger — Google is working on unifying its various real-time messaging applications across all devices, and the result could be a unified messenger that allows you to do one-on-one chats as well as group video Hangouts. That's the major news out of a session …
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| John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal: |
News Corp. Board Approves Split in Principle — News Corp.'s board approved a plan to split the media conglomerate in two pieces, separating its lucrative entertainment operations from its publishing business, said a person familiar with the situation. — The board made the decision … | Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
EXCLUSIVE: Google+ History API will bring in your past updates from around the web — Stop the dadgum presses! Googler Louis Gray just told us about a new Google+ feature that you won't read about anywhere else. — Called Google+ History, this new API will let you add past statuses …
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Android devs, you can now get your app running on a Mac — Get ready to get nekkid and sing kumbaya, because the lovefest is starting. — On the eve of the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago, we told you about a new tool that brought iOS apps to Windows-using developers.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Among Backers Pumping $6M Into Photo-Editing Start-Up Aviary — Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions and other strategic investors have poured another $6 million into Aviary, a photo-editing tools company. — Aviary said it is used regularly by eight million people across …
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| 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 …
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