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Apple Said To Prepare ITunes Changes To Improve Sharing — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans an overhaul of iTunes that would mark one of the largest changes to the world's biggest music store since its 2003 debut, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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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.| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review — The fact that Google launched a 7" tablet by ASUS isn't a particularly huge surprise, given that ASUS showed off the Eee Pad Memo back at CES. The story goes that Google liked that particular tablet so much, it became slotted in to become …
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Nexus 7 8GB coming to UK mid-July for £159, 16GB version arriving at retailers July 27th for £199 — We've just had word from ASUS that the 16GB variant of the Nexus 7 will arrive on UK shelves on July 27th — slightly later than the 8GB model, which will be sold exclusively through Google Play from mid-July.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts — June, it seems, is the season for new product announcements in Silicon Valley. At its annual WWDC shindig, Apple announced a slew of new products including its hot-new Macbook Pro with Retina display and iOS 6.
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Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court — A case that seemed, just 5 months ago, to be a veritable David and Goliath fight is certainly living up to its billing. — The battle between Megaupload (David) and the US Government and the MPAA (Goliath) started out with a flurry … | 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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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google Nexus Q media streamer: first impressions and video — One of Google's surprises yesterday was the Nexus Q media streamer, a product that sees the company expanding into the living room with its own branded hardware. The Nexus Q differs from competing devices in that it only serves as a conduit.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Rupert Murdoch Announces The News Corp. Divorce: The Full Memo — Here's Rupert Murdoch's official “internal” announcement explaining the News Corp. split. — The important stuff: — Murdoch will remain CEO of both the publishing business and the entertainment business.| 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 …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Android 4.1 preview for Galaxy Nexus leaked, available for download — A preview Jelly Bean ROM for the Galaxy Nexus has been leaked by RootzWiki. The release came just hours after Google pushed a Jelly Bean preview update over the air to I/O developers' Nexae.
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| 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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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Hands-on with new Google+ tablet app and events features (video) — Outside of the web interface, Google has brought its social network to tablets for the first time ever. The new app is available now (you'll need Android 4. or greater to get the full experience), and beyond including …
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Institutional Venture Partners Raises $1 Billion For Fund XIV, Its Biggest Yet — Angel investing may be hot, but it looks like things are not too shabby for the tech industry's most powerful late-stage venture capital firms either. — Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) …
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| 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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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Google's Play Store Now Lets Users Remotely Update And Uninstall Android Apps — All Googled out yet? I can't blame you if you are, but it seems that the company has been even busier than their two hour press conference let on. — In addition to pushing the Android version of their Chrome browser …
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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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The sledgehammer of usage-based billing — Brian Stelter's article today, “Sweeping Effects as Broadband Moves To Meters,” illuminates a part of the local cable monopoly story for high-speed Internet access and the consequences of this power for America's future.
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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 … | Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Said To Add Social Features To Digital Games For Tablet — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) will make it easier for developers to add social features to games for the Kindle Fire tablet, a person with knowledge of the matter said, working to narrow Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s lead in the market for tablets.
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Microsoft ‘Tango’ Windows Phone updates rolling out to Nokia users — Summary: It looks like the latest batch of updates to the “Mango” Windows Phone operating system are starting to roll out, commencing with Nokia handsets. — Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 users are starting to receive the updates … | Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google Expands Maps & Places APIs With Reviews, Transit & More — Google announced a few upgrades and new features to its Maps and Places APIs during the Google I/O developers conference on Wednesday. — On the API front, Google Maps' Product Manager Thor Mitchell announced that business reviews …
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Google Geo Developers Blog and VentureBeat
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Someone is Coming to Eat You — One of my favorite Apple product announcements happened on September 7, 2005. In an Apple music event announcement, Steve Jobs got on stage, gave the usual state of the business update, and then he did something I'd never seen before. He killed a wildly successful product.
| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Google App Engine gets more global — Google App Engine got some important feature updates Wednesday as well as new European data centers that could make the platform more attractive to developers outside the U.S. That should help prove to skeptics that Google is serious about its platform …
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googleappengine.blogspot.se, The H, Wired and OakLeaf Systems
| John Chan / CNET: |
Apps cannot be installed to microSD cards on WP8 — Support for microSD cards was announced last week and included “installing apps” as a feature. — AMSTERDAM, Netherlands—During the TechEd 2012 event, a session on the new features of Windows Phone 8 (WP8) clarified the use of microSD cards for apps.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Drive SDK version 2 supports Android and iOS apps, common file tasks — Virtually every corner of the Google universe is being touched at Google I/O, and that now includes Google Drive. A version 2 update to the Drive SDK gives Android and iOS developers the option of building … Sponsor Posts
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