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Yahoo updates search with Google-like redesign

, Jun 5th 2013 Discuss [0]

With Google's dominance in the search engine realm, it's hard to compete, but Yahoo's trying their best and they think a redesign will do the trick. The company outed a new look for their search page in the US, claiming that it "puts your results front and center," getting rid of a bit of clutter and introducing a new Google-like navigation bar at the top. Read The Full Story

Google Glass gets XE6 updated ClockworkMod Recovery

, Jun 5th 2013 Discuss [0]

While the official Google Glass team is embroiled in a bit of controversy over which apps will and wont be allowed on the device's official build this week, the folks behind ClockworkMod Recovery push forward with a new release for hacking the device. As it is on Android, so too does this software allow for a user-friendly look at the back end of the Explorer Edition of Google Glass, the iteration being pushed by developer Brint Kriebel (aka bekit) this week allowing for access with the just-updated Google Glass XE6 build. Read The Full Story

Google Glass update XE6 brings HDR camera feature

, Jun 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google has released this month's software update for Glass, bringing with it a handful of features and improvements, the most notable of which are changes to the camera. In particular, photographs taken with Glass are now more detailed with less over- and under-exposure issues due to an HDR feature, which snaps multiple images and combines them into a single exposure. Read The Full Story

That’s no HTC One tablet, it’s an NVIDIA Tegra 4 developer platform

, Jun 4th 2013 Discuss [2]

Earlier today an NVIDIA demonstration at Computex revealed a bit about their upcoming tablet processor Tegra 4, doing so on a tablet that looked - if we had to guess - like something HTC would deliver to the masses. Instead of this 7-inch tablet being the HTC One slate we've always dreamed of, NVIDIA has confirmed that it is, instead, simply a demonstration device made by NVIDIA for NVIDIA use only. Read The Full Story

Android falls slowly as Apple rises in US reports through March

, Jun 4th 2013 Discuss [7]

As it has been for the past three months, so it is again here in the March research coming from comScore showing mobile device usage in the USA. While comScore shows Google as the top smartphone platform in the three-month-average ending in April 2013, it remains the fourth month in a row that, while Google's share falls, Apple's rises. BlackBerry, on the other hand, continues to fall with Microsoft's Windows Phone platform while Symbian rests at the bottom of the stack with no change between periods, sticking with just half a percentage point. Read The Full Story

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 processor confirmed as Clover Trail+ with LTE abilities

, Jun 4th 2013 Discuss [1]

This week the folks at Samsung delivered news of two new Galaxy Tab 3 devices, each of them bringing with them the next generation of GALAXY S 4 aesthetics and wireless abilities. The 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 3 was delivered with a note that it'd be bringing a dual-core Intel processor inside, but only in a very general way - certainly not what Android addicts were looking for in their detail journals. Today though, Intel has come to the rescue with specifics. Read The Full Story

Google goes green with wind-powered Finnish data center

, Jun 4th 2013 Discuss [1]

Google's green ambitions continue, with the search giant announcing that it has signed its fourth deal for eco-power data centers. The new agreement, which will see Google's Finnish data center fuel its server racks with wind power for the next decade, will make the company carbon-neutral in the country. It's the latest in a series of similar Earth-friendly power schemes that Google has rolled out in the US, Germany, and South Africa already. Read The Full Story

Gmail “categories” update hits Android and web with one-click activation

, Jun 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the folks responsible for creating the Gmail environment for email on devices ranging from desktop all-in-ones down to the smallest smartphone have begun unrolling their previously announced “Categories” update. This version of Gmail allows users to employ a rather simple system for categorizing emails, most of this activated and sorted automatically where, in the past, all was based only on keywords and email addresses.

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Chrome iOS update brings chatty Google voice search

, Jun 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

While the Google Search app brought the voice recognition and smart responses of the most recent update to the Google Search engine to iOS, this week it goes in-browser with Chrome as well. The Chrome web browser update comes in with natural voice recognition and searching without typing - sort of like what you get with Siri. Here voice recognition gets a boost, quicker recognition with text streaming as you chat, and responses spoken aloud. Read The Full Story

Windows 8.1 Miracast tap has Microsoft join the wireless display party

, Jun 3rd 2013 Discuss [3]

This week the folks at Microsoft have let it be known that Windows 8.1 hasn't yet spilled all of its details, coming in with Miracast wireless display support standard. This is an implementation of the standard technology that Google introduced with Android 4.2, also working with Miracast, here bringing the technology to every PC able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 - with implementation of the software as made real by the manufacturer. Read The Full Story

Google Play app downloads to surpass iOS by October

, Jun 3rd 2013 Discuss [3]

While Apple recently boasted surpassing 50 billion app downloads, the Google Play store isn't that far behind it seems, and at the rate that Google Play downloads are at, it's said that Android app downloads will overtake iOS app downloads this year, possibly as soon as October, according to a report. Read The Full Story

Verizon HTC One official: coming “later this summer”

, Jun 3rd 2013 Discuss [9]

This morning the folks at Verizon made the HTC One official for their 4G LTE network in the United States, ending weeks of rumors and tips aimed at the point. This device will work with the same specifications as it had on other carriers in the United States and internationally, carrying the HTC One hero name as it does so. At the moment, Verizon has only specified that the HTC One will be coming later this summer.

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