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When some people say they expect iOS 7 to be completely re-imagined, they’re not kidding. Take for instance Jürgen Ulbrich of Apfellike.de. He sees iOS 7 as a radical departure from what we know to be Apple’s mobile operating system. Granted, Jürgen’s concept doesn’t re-imagine the ... |
17 May 2013
09:20 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Google Search application is now available for download for the owners of Android devices, bringing along some appealing new features, including the option to set voice reminders. The feature is available only for the owners of Android 4.1 and newer devices (where the app is known as Google Now)... |
16 May 2013
02:27 GMT |
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Google keeps on expanding the search experiment in Chrome. The company has been working on building the search engine, complete with Google Now, into the browser, albeit via an API rather than actually making it an integral part of Chrome.
The built-in Google homepage and search box is only available in the dev chan... |
15 May 2013
10:22 GMT |
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Some recently discovered code in Chromium points out that Google Now is headed towards Apple’s desktop platform.
After arriving on iOS not too long ago, it seems that Macs are the next on the list for the new Google Now feature.
A developer was the first to point out the update. He underlines a Chromium iss... |
8 May 2013
09:14 GMT |
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A Google employee is informing the masses that “Reports that Google Now on iOS drains battery life are incorrect.”
A Google staffer named Krisztina used the Macworld forums the other day to refute claims that the company’s Google Now service is a battery hog on iOS devices.
Krisztina wrote, &ldquo... |
3 May 2013
04:32 GMT |
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Numerous iOS device owners using the latest version of the Google Search app have discovered that the newly included Google Now service is draining their batteries fast. A location-aware service, Google Now constantly talks to its servers, even when the app is in the background with the customer using another app. ... |
2 May 2013
02:58 GMT |
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As expected, Google Now has become available on iOS, as part of an update for Google Search. The fact that Google Now was coming to iOS wasn't a secret. It was an obvious move, for one, and a video describing it leaked a few weeks back.
Google itself didn't make it a secret, and Executive Chairman Eric Sch... |
29 April 2013
11:21 GMT |
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Google’s handy search app for iOS customers, Google Search for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, has been promoted to version 3.0. The new iteration brings Google Now to Apple users. Released minutes ago in the iTunes App Store, Google Search 3.0 lets you “get just the right information at just the right tim... |
29 April 2013
10:13 GMT |
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Google is betting big on Google Now, that much is obvious from all of its recent moves, though it's not something that the company advertises and for good reason; Now is not ready yet.
What you get on Android phones is just a very early version, the first experiment. It's useful as is, but it's got a ... |
22 April 2013
09:01 GMT |
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Motorola kicked-off the Jelly Bean soak test for DROID Bionic about a week ago and it looks like the update is almost ready to be pushed to general public.
The DROID Bionic is a pretty old smartphone, but that did not stop Motorola from offering this Jelly Bean upgrade.
According to AndroidCentral, Verizon and Moto... |
13 April 2013
09:31 GMT |
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Google has been upgrading its OneBox features to a new updated, card-style design, first introduced on the mobile version of the site. One by one, all of the boxes were upgraded, but there are still a few obscure ones that needed to make the jump.
Google has now upgraded its translation OneBox to the new card design... |
10 April 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Google is working on bringing Now to Chrome and iOS, but for the moment, it's still exclusive to Android. And, while there's plenty of work being done expanding the reach of now, there's also work on improving it as is.
Google Now is great, not necessarily for what it is but for what it could be. It&... |
4 April 2013
10:43 GMT |
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Google is on a roll, as the company released new updates for some of its most popular applications, including Chrome and Google+. Google Now or Google Search, as the application is now listed on Google Play, has just received a major update as well. With the latest version of the application users will be able to r... |
4 April 2013
01:58 GMT |
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Google is making some progress in bringing Now to the desktop. There's been a Google Now flag in Chrome for weeks now. It doesn't do anything, it most likely only works for Google employees and trusted testers.
It still doesn't do anything in the latest Chrome Canary builds, but having it and the rich... |
3 April 2013
08:53 GMT |
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Major carrier AT&T has just announced Samsung Galaxy Express users will now be able to upgrade their phones’ software to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system.
According to AT&T, the update is pushed OTA (over the air) in waves, so those who have yet to be notified on availability can manually check for it b... |
26 March 2013
11:09 GMT |
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It looks like Google Now for iOS is turning into yet another Google – Apple saga, or rather another of the "he said, she said" spectacles unfortunately typical in the tech world. Google's Eric Schmidt hinted that Google Now for iOS is ready and that its arrival is dependent solely on Apple.
This seemed to indic... |
22 March 2013
08:21 GMT |
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It's no secret that Google is working on bringing its Google Now search app to more platforms. It's being built into Chrome and, it seems, an iOS version is in the works as well.
The video ad for the iPhone and iPad version of Google Now was apparently leaked to YouTube and then pulled, but not fast enoug... |
13 March 2013
05:53 GMT |
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Google is moving ahead with the integration of Now into Chrome. In a sense, it's been working on this for months, it's part of the effort to integrate the Google homepage deeply into Chrome, making it a part of the new tab page. Those efforts now include Google Now. In the latest Chromium builds, you can e... |
12 March 2013
08:41 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has been long touting the Google Now feature in its latest flavors of Android, and has released a new video ad to further showcase the benefits that it can provide users with.
In the new commercial for Google Now, the company shows how Google Voice can provide a family with ... |
8 March 2013
02:59 GMT |
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Google's ads are rarely about the products, more often than not, the company will focus on how its technology is supposed to make you "feel," how it improves your life and so on. That's a worthwhile strategy, though it wouldn't hurt to actually show the stuff you're advertising once in a while. ... |
6 March 2013
14:21 GMT |
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It’s been less than two weeks since Google kicked off Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean rollout to Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 devices and the search giant finally released the full changelog of the update.
We reported about a week ago on some security improvements included in this update, but most of them were aimed... |
21 February 2013
02:46 GMT |
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The Google Now widget that has just been introduced today was spotted on Google’s website a few days ago, but the search giant quickly pulled the information after reports on the upcoming change spread online. Well, it only took Google a few days to make it official, so the previously leaked widget can now be ... |
14 February 2013
01:36 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a new Google Now widget for its Android users, one that would expand the functionality that users can enjoy.
There’s little information available on this at the moment, but it seems that users will be able to access relevant ... |
12 February 2013
02:10 GMT |
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Mountain View-based internet giant Google has published a new video ad with the Nexus 4 smartphone, this time aimed at showing to the world the capabilities of Google Now.
For those out of the loop, we should note that Google Now was designed to deliver pieces of information at user’s fingertips in no time.
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11 February 2013
02:44 GMT |
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We reported about a week ago that Motorola had started the push of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Intel-based RAZR i smartphone.
However, the upgrade was only available in France, though we expect it to be rolled out in other European countries pretty soon.
Today, the folks over at AndroidPolice have just le... |
6 February 2013
01:46 GMT |
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Google is moving fast with the Now integration into Chrome, it's now laying the groundwork with a new style of rich notifications which will eventually contain Google Now cards. The latest dev channel release comes with rich notifications support, though the feature is hidden behind a flag ("Enable rich notifi... |
5 February 2013
04:13 GMT |
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Google Now is one of the standout features in the latest Android and it's a glimpse at the future of search as Google sees it. You can search from it, of course, like you have for more than a decade and you can do voice searches, but those aren't new either.
The app also pushes information, it notifies you... |
31 January 2013
08:32 GMT |
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US Cellular has just announced that customers with the Samsung Galaxy S III would be able to upgrade their smartphones with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean starting this Friday, December 21.
According to the carrier, the long-awaited Jelly Bean update will be pushed through OTA (over the air), in stages, as well as via Samsu... |
18 December 2012
00:57 GMT |
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AT&T has just confirmed it has started to deploy the hotly-anticipated Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for Motorola ATRIX HD.
The smartphone was released back in July with Ice Cream Sandwich onboard, but Motorola announced at that time that ATRIX HD would receive a Jelly Bean upgrade.
According to the carrier, the up... |
14 December 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Google Now, the much lauded search app for Android is venturing beyond the mobile realm.It seems that Google is working on bringing Now to Chrome, making it possible for desktop and Chromebook owners alike to get a taste of the future of search, as Google envisions it.For now, all we have to go on are some hints in t... |
8 December 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Google has just announced a new version of Google Search application brings lots of new goodies for Google Now users.First of all, Google Search is now faster for Android 4.1+ devices. In addition, users will get lots of new features that will improve the overall user's experience.The latest update for Google Se... |
6 December 2012
01:06 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Google Search application is now available for the owners of devices running under Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, with brand new features packed inside, the same that were announced for the new Android 4.2 platform release.
Following the update, users will notice that the Google Now application works w... |
30 October 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Although Google's latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system adoption on current devices still lags way behind Ice Cream Sandwich, the search giant is very close to launching another version of the mobile platform.
The name of the new version of Android is unknown, but for the time being Android 4.2 will su... |
5 October 2012
21:01 GMT |
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One of the coolest new features, well an app really, of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is Google Now, Google Search on steroids. The app is an answer to Siri in a way, but it's less flashy and more useful. The app just got updated, so the few Jelly Bean users out there are now getting more functionality out of it.
The ... |
30 August 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Mountain View-based internet giant Google has made a series of changes to its search on mobile devices, bringing it in line with the Google Now feature present in its latest Android release, Jelly Bean.
Through the latest improvements that mobile phone and tablet users can take advantage of, Google was aiming at pr... |
10 August 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Google Now, the feature that the Internet giant has made available for the owners of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean-powered devices, is now available for more users.
The software was packaged in a flashable .zip and made available for download with support for Android phones and tablet PCs that run on an ARMv7 architecture... |
9 August 2012
04:50 GMT |
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One of the appealing features that Google has included in the new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system is related to various pieces of info that users can access fast and easy from their devices.
Called Google Now, the feature provides these snippets of info in the form of cards that are arranged in accordance w... |
1 August 2012
10:56 GMT |
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Apple managed to ban Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus in the United States, and Google has already made a move in accordance with this decision: the smartphone is no longer available for purchase through the Google Play Store.
Users who head over to the official product page for Galaxy Nexus on that website will be inf... |
4 July 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Last week, Google announced a nice range of enhancements set to arrive on Android devices along with the new 4.1 Jelly Bean platform release, and some of these already got ported to older platform versions. Among them, we can count Google Now, the app and service that are meant to keep users productive at all times... |
4 July 2012
04:00 GMT |
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