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| Hugo Barra / Official Android Blog: |
Android@I/O: Just press Play — As our developer audience knows, Android is more than simply a phone or tablet. It's a platform, an ecosystem, and an opportunity for developers around the world to build exciting services and apps that reach millions of people every day.
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google takes on Spotify with Google Play Music All Access subscription service, priced at $9.99 per month — Google has formally announced its new subscription music initiative at the 2013 I/O conference. Rumors first broke that Google was working on the service earlier this year … | Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Google Play game services aims to integrate gaming across Android, iOS and the web, available today — Google Play game developers and players alike are getting a quartet of game changing additions today: real-time multiplayer, leaderboards, cloud saves and achievements.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Coming Soon From Google: A $649 Samsung Galaxy S4 Running Stock Android — While not a new Nexus phone, Google said on Wednesday that it plans to start selling an unlocked version of Samsung's Galaxy S4 through its Google Play store. — Like Nexus devices, the unlocked Galaxy S4 will be able …
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| Vic Gundotra / Google+: |
New Google+: Stream, Hangouts, and Photos — Technology works best when it gets out of the way, and lets people do what makes them happiest: living, learning and loving. That's why, when we started the Google+ project nearly two years ago, we aimed to bring real-life sharing to software.
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Google unveils Hangouts: a unified messaging system for Android, iOS, and Chrome — Can Google catch up to the world of seamless mobile messaging? — After years of waiting for Google to tie its disparate communication services together, the company has today announced …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Google+ Gets a Bit More Pinteresting — Google introduced yet another design revamp for its Google+ social product at its I/O developer conference on Wednesday, the second visual overhaul for the service in about two years. — And guess what? Like many other startup visual layouts today …
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| Amit Singhal / Inside Search: |
A multi-screen and conversational search experience — Search has always been about giving you the best answers quickly, regardless of what device you use. At Google I/O today, we gave an update on where we are in building the search engine of the future—a search engine that can answer your questions … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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Meet the new Google Maps: A map for every person and place — What if we told you that during your lifetime, Google could create millions of custom maps...each one just for you? — In the past, such a notion would have been unbelievable: a map was just a map, and you got the same one for New York City …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google previews next version of Google Maps for iOS and Android, including an iPad app coming this summer — Today, at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google announced a major update to its flagship Google Maps product for mobile. — The updates were announced by Daniel Graf … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft killing off Xbox Points in favor of currency and gift cards system — Cards will work across Xbox, Windows, and Windows Phone — Microsoft is killing off its Points system that's primarily used for its Xbox console. The death of Microsoft Points has been a long time coming … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google CEO Larry Page speaks at I/O about competition and negativity in innovation — “I was really lucky growing up,” said Google CEO Larry Page at the I/O conference today. “My dad was really interested in technology. One time we drove across the country to go to a robotics conference …
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| Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
Google Chrome: 750 Million Active Users, Synchronized Web and Mobile Browsing — Chrome, Google's homegrown Web browser, has seen a pretty big uptick in users in recent months. And, increasingly, those users are coming from mobile. — That was the gist of the Chrome-focused presentation given …
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| Alan Levin / Bloomberg: |
Turning Off IPhone Critical to Pilots Citing Interference — The regional airliner was climbing past 9,000 feet when its compasses went haywire, leading pilots several miles off course until a flight attendant persuaded a passenger in row 9 to switch off an Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone.
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U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing — WASHINGTON — The e-mail, from Steve Jobs of Apple to James Murdoch of News Corporation, reads as if one old sport were trying to cajole another into joining a caper: “Throw in with Apple and see if we can all …
| Travis Green / Google Commerce: |
Send money to friends with Gmail and Google Wallet — Paying back your friends is now as simple as sending an email, whether you're chipping in for lunch or reimbursing your roommate for your share of the rent. — Google Wallet is now integrated with Gmail, so you can quickly …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
The New Yorker Launches Strongbox, an Open-Source Anonymous Tip Tool Built by Aaron Swartz — Technology gives journalists unprecedented power to track down information. And technology gives lots of other people the ability to follow journalists' footprints. Just ask the Associated Press.| Kevin Poulsen / News Desk: |
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