Google is back with the monthly numbers for Android distribution. The numbers for the month of March reveals that Lollipop adoption has reached 36.1% making it the most widely used version of Android.
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Google announced the Project Fi, its own mobile phone network in April last year with Nexus 6. The service which was following an invite system until now is ditching it and now is open for everyone in the US to try it.
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Rajan Anandan, Google’s Managing Director for South East Asia and India has said that the company is initiating talks with telecom operators in India to pilot its Project Loon initiative, according to a latest report from the Economic Times.
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Google Photos is getting a much needed redesign along with performance enhancements. The update adds a new bar at the bottom that makes it easy to move between the Assistant, Photos, and new Albums view.
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Google has announced that it has piloted a new Hands Free mobile payment system in the US. The service allows users to pay for items by simply telling the cashier “Paying with Google”.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai had announced in January that the Google I/O 2016 will take place between 18th-20th May at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Now, the I/O 2016 site has gone live and is offering all the necessary information about how to attend the event.
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While a great many number of smartphones are releasing now with Android Marshmallow 6.0, quite a few are yet to receive the update. However, that doesn’t stop rumours and information regarding the next Android version from popping up. New images now give us a sneak peek at what to expect from the next major Android update especially with the notification drawer.
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It looks like this year we will not see LG build Nexus phone after all. The South Korean tech company said that it will not release a Nexus 5x successor in 2016.
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Google has added a new functionality to Docs that lets you edit and format text with your voice. The company is building on the voice typing feature it had introduced in September last year.
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Google has announced that it is launching Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for search in India. Unveiled in October last year, AMP is an open source HTML initiative which improves the performance of the mobile web and is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles.
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Google and a large number of global operators are collaborating to accelerate the availability of Rich Communications Services (RCS) on Android devices. The global operator include América Móvil, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, KPN, Millicom, MTN, Orange, PLAY, Smart Communications, Sprint, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, Telstra, TIM, Turkcell, VimpelCom, Vodafone, the GSMA.
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Google has introduced Gamer IDs, a new way for the gamers to create an identity while playing. At present, while playing a game via Play Games, you have to use your name and boy there is no fun in that.
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Google has added support for 13 new languages viz Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto and Xhosa. Launched 10 years ago, Google Translate says that it now covers 99% of the online population.
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Samsung has now announced the pricing for its new Chromebook 3 that was introduced during CES last month. Continue reading “Samsung Chromebook 3 with Intel CPU goes on sale for $200”
