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Xoom 2 & Xoom 2 Media Edition Unveiled; Coming to the UK and Ireland
Today, Motorola officially unveiled the Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition tablets. They’re destined for the UK and Ireland, and will come out with Android Honeycomb 3.2. The Xoom 2 is nothing particularly special when compared to the tonne load of other Android tablets on the market. It features a 1.2GHz dual-core [....]
News
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Google Acquires Motorola Mobility – Why?
It was a shock to learn earlier on that Google purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. No one had an hint that it was coming, but the biggest question is why? Why did Google splash some money out their pocket?  Google CEO Larry Page released a statement upon the news earlier, which explained [....]
News
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New Gmail Calling Features
Today, amongst all of the Apple fan-fair Google updated their VoIP calling service included in Gmail. The Mountain View, CA based company released the original version of this sub-service back in August of 2010 and is following up today with the announcement of two new features. Simultaneous Multi-Line calls and Call Waiting. Both, [....]
Mobile, News, Updates
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How Long is it until Chrome Catches up?
I love the time of the month when the numbers of browser growth come in. The June figures are in, and Google’s Chrome shows another healthy month.       Interestingly Opera took a large knock. It went down to 1.73% from 2.03%, as they continue to go down through the year. Safari [....]
Mobile, News
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Push Gmail Notifications for iOS
If you use Gmail on your iPhone, you probably do not have push notifications. In a nutshell, push notifications allows the Google servers to automatically “push” all your emails directly to your phone once they are sent to your Gmail account. This is a very easy tip, so follow along and leave your [....]
Guides
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Acer Iconia Tab A500 Review
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a 10.1-inch Android-based tablet, designed to compete with the iPad 2 in terms of features. It’s not mine to keep, but since I had several days to mess around with it, I decided to do a review. Outward appearance The Iconia is a sleek glass and aluminum [....]
Mobile, Reviews
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Google’s CR-48 Gets Yet Another OTA Update
Those lucky owners of Google’s limited CR-48 know that the big man upstairs is in no way shy of releasing updates to fixes, minor changes to aesthetics, and the occasional speed bumps. In todays update, Chrome OS version 0.12.433.38-11.05.11 for those of you whom are keeping track, those same lucky owners are blessed [....]
Mobile, Software / Hardware, Updates
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Google’s Instant WebSurf
Late last year Google released a very helpful tool to the world via it’s very own search engine: instant search. I don’t remember life without it, having to smash that ‘Enter’ key at the very end of a long string was a very satisfying feeling but not having to is pretty nice too. [....]
Mobile, Software / Hardware
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Google to roll out Voice Search for Google.com
While trolling around the internet late at night, I got that happy little green update notifier on my CR-48′s Setting icon and was more than happy to install the update. I didn’t think much of it, as Google is always updating something on these things, so I didn’t go out of my way [....]
Mobile, Software / Hardware
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Google Celebrates Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd Birthday
Yesterday, everyone who searched for anything from Pasta to Tech Cores got a nice little doodle from Google. Google is known for their different ideas to celebrate peoples’ birthdays to holidays by posting creative artwork to spruce up their homepage in commemoration. Today is Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd Birthday, so Google couldn’t miss the chance to do [....]
Entertainment
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Google is Locking Down Android Customization
When Android was released back in 2008, many mobile phone creators wanted to get their hands on this brand new open source software. With the upcoming increase of Android devices being sold, Android won’t be going away anytime soon. The biggest thing that mobile phone creators loved, is that Android is heavily customizable. [....]
Mobile, News, Software / Hardware
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HP now supports Google Cloud Print OoB
Awhile ago we did a review and announcement of Google Cloud Print. An alternative to Apple’s AirPrint, that allows you to print from anywhere with an internet connection. This is all fine and dandy but the thing is you need a computer to be on and connected to your printer (as well as Google Chrome) for [....]
News
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Atrix 4G’s 4.1.57 Update Might Come Tomorrow
Is this the HSUPA update that we’ve been looking for? Nope. This new update brings many enhancements such as call quality, battery improvements, and little tweaks such as the screen turning off when charging. If you would like to see the full list, look up and you’ll find a handy chart containing the [....]
Mobile, News
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EXCLUSIVE: First look at Honeycomb on HTC Evo
The T3hH4xx0R team has done it again, bringing a very early port of the highly anticipated Honeycomb OS. Now of course Honeycomb is suppose to be for tablets only, but that never stops developers from cooking some half edible treats. The UI is there, working lock screen, and pretty much the eye candy you want [....]
Previews