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Google announces conversational Voice Search coming to desktop through Chrome
— Google today announced that it is revamping the Google voice search feature available in Chrome. While users have always been able to search with their voice through Chrome, Google is attempting to make the service work …
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Google announces Google Play for Education launching this fall
— Google today announced a new service called Google Play for Education that allows schools to easier find and distribute Google Play content to Android devices in schools. — The Google Play Education store will allow schools …
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MLB starts live streaming games on YouTube for international viewers
— According to a post on the YouTube Google+ page today MLB fans are about to get access to free live streams in addition to highlights and other content. The only catch is the free live streaming, which is limited …
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Google Glass tech specs: 5MP/720P camera, 802.11b/g Wifi 16GB storage (12GB usable), full day battery
— Along with today's Glass API release, Google now officially announced specs for the Glass Explorer editions. Notable is the camera which will take 5 Megapixel images or 720P video.
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Facebook Home offers a fresh take on Android UI (Photos)
— It should come as little surprise to industry observers that Facebook plans to unveil both a rich, skinned version of its Android app at a press event tomorrow, along with the first hardware to run that experience out of the box.
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Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon, ad campaign in the works
— Follow years of rumors and speculation, Facebook is finally readying an entry into the mobile phone market. The social network is again hooking up with HTC which will design the hardware.
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Gmail app for Android updated with reply/archive/delete from notifications, faster search & more
— Google announced today on its Official Gmail Blog that it has released an update to the Android app for Gmail that brings new features, faster search, and other enhancements for certain users.
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Google Glass app from Duke University recognizes people by what they wear
— Google Glass has yet to even land as the “Explorer Edition” for developers, but devs are already fast at work on innovative applications for Google's head-mounted computing platform.
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Google Translate to add dialects for text-to-speech feature?
— As noted by the unofficial Google Operating System blog, Google could soon add the option to select a dialect for certain languages in its text-to-speech feature within Google Translate. The option is currently hidden …
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To get products into more hands, Google will open its own stores by the end of the year
— An extremely reliable source has confirmed to us that Google is in the process of building stand-alone retail stores in the U.S. and hopes to have the first flagship Google Stores open for the holidays in major metropolitan areas.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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 …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.