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Live from Google's ‘breakfast with Sundar Pichai’ event — Get ready for a new Nexus 7 Sundar Pichai, the new head of both Android and Chrome, has a few announcements to make. We're expecting a Nexus 7 and Android 4.3, but more surprises could be in store. It's “Breakfast with Sundar Pichai,” what could be more relaxing?
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Android 4.3 announced, rolling out to Nexus devices today — Google's famously breakneck Android update pace may have slowed in recent times, but that's what makes point upgrades like today's newly revealed Android 4.3 all the more interesting. Shipping with the new Nexus 7 and retaining … | Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Google announces thinner, lighter Nexus 7 with higher-res screen starting at $230 — When we reviewed the Nexus 7 last summer, we said it was the best tablet $200 could buy. A year later, that still might be true if it wasn't for the fact that there's a new Nexus 7 in town.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google hits 70M tablet activations, 1M apps in the Play Store — Live from Google's Android and Chrome event this morning, Google's Sundar Pichai just provided an update on some of the company's stats for tablet activations and Google Play content downloads.
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Google launches Android's answer to Apple's Game Center: The Google Play Games app — Following a slew of announcements, including a new Nexus 7, Google has announced the launch of Google Play Games, a separate app which highlights games and the friends you play them with.
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| Dan Frommer / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall. What Will Get It Started Again? — Apple's stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech. Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growth rate continued to accelerate, far surpassing its competitors.
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| Jeff Elder / The Technology Chronicles: |
Twitter fakes real users' tweets to promote ad platform — What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers' mouths to promote its new ad platform? — Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider release of an integration the company is doing with TV commercials.
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 1020 review — There was no shortage of stunned faces in the audience when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress 17 months ago. Who would have thought a Symbian-powered device would be a show-stealer — in 2012?| Ron Amadeo / Android Police: |
[APK Teardown] Google Play Music v5.1 - Beam Music To Devices With Chromecasting, And A Hack For SD Card Support! (A Download Link, Too) — Google jumped the gun just a little bit and shipped tomorrow's version of Google Music today, which means we've got about 12 hours to spoil … | Chitika Online Advertising Network: |
June Tablet Update: iPad Usage Share Surpasses 84% — Since Chitika Insights' last study on the tablet market, Apple iPad users' share of U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic has increased by nearly two percentage points, from 82.4% in May 2013, to 84.3% in June 2013 - now the iPad's highest share since the beginning of 2013.| CNET: |
Michael Dell ups buyout offer; shareholder vote pushed off to Aug. 2 — Dell announced today that its founder Michael Dell, along with partner Silver Lake, will pay $13.75 per share to bring the company private. — Dell founder Michael Dell, along with his partner, investment firm Silver Lake …
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| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
Facebook to Let You Say Why You Hide News Feed Posts — It's not exactly a dislike button, but Facebook soon plans to roll out ways to better understand why you don't like something in your News Feed. — Currently, when you hide something in your News Feed, Facebook begins feeding …
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| Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: |
The White House Blasts The ‘Amash Amendment’ That Would Hamper The NSA's Surveillance Powers — In a terse statement late Tuesday evening, the White House blasted the so-called “Amash Amendment” that would limit the National Security Agency's ability to collect data on personal phone communications …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Fox Loses Appeal Asking for Injunction Against Dish's ‘Hopper’ Ad-Skipper — An appeals court refuses to overturn a judge's decision over a technology that broadcasters argue will irreparably harm the television industry. — On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Fox's appeal …
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Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter — There are certain words Google doesn't want its users to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orientation and you'll notice that Google holds … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia Brings Kepler To Mobile, Offers Same Graphics Power As iPad 4 With One-Third The Battery Drain — At the SIGGRAPH conference going on this week, Nvidia has made a potentially huge announcement regarding the future of mobile gaming: the company is bringing its Kepler graphics architecture … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
BlackBerry's upcoming A10 flagship leaks in photos and video — BlackBerry is reported to be working on a bigger and faster flagship smartphone called the A10, and a new series of leaked photos have provided one of our best looks yet at the upcoming device.
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| Jeremy Kirk / PC World: |
Symantec spots two Android apps using ‘master key’ vulnerability — Hackers are now using a critical vulnerability in Android to modify legitimate smartphone applications, putting users at risk of being spied on. — Security vendor Symantec wrote on Tuesday that it found two applications …
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
LG sells a record-breaking 12.1m smartphones in Q2 2013, revenue up 10.1% YoY to $13.6b — LG announced today its second-quarter earnings of KRW15.23 trillion ($13.6 billion), up 10.1 percent year-over-year due to sales increases in most of its business units.
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NYT Reporter's Upcoming Twitter Book Hints at a Founding Tale of Palace Intrigue — Something Twittery this way comes. — The upcoming book detailing the backstory on Twitter, penned by New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton, was listed for preorder on Amazon this morning.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys — Whether the FBI or NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying. — Large Internet companies have resisted … Sponsor Posts
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