Google has updated Chromecast app for Android and iOS that allows users to select and set a custom backdrop. Backdrop support enables users to customize the content that shows up on the Chromecast-connected screen when it is not in use.
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Google has announced a bunch of new features to enhance its Chromebook offerings for Work. For starters a new $50 per year subscription is launched for businesses. Users can either pay a one-time fee of $150 in order to access the advanced Chrome OS support and management features or opt for the $50 per device/year option instead.
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Google has introduced its ‘News & Weather’ app for the iPhone and iPad. The app provides local news as well as headlines from a variety of categories and sources in one app along with the weather info.
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Google is stating that it will remove the camera bug from the Nexus 5 in next update on Android. Currently, the camera bug dubbed as mm-qcamera-daemon is causing battery drain in some of the Nexus 5 devices.
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Google has updated Play Game SDK with many features and improvements. The company has added features like real time multiplayer, material design UI and so on in the latest update.
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Nexus 6 aka Motorola Shamu is in the news again and this time it is being benchmarked at Geekbench. The phone that has made several appearances in photos and leaks since past several weeks has now appeared on the benchmarking site.
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Months after updating the Play Store with Material Design UI, Google has updated the Google Play Newsstand app with the new Material Design user interface. This brings bigger images, more contextual headers and smoother transitions. It has more than 2,000 free and paid, full length publications. Continue reading “Google Play Newsstand updated with Material Design UI”
A recent report revealed that mobile internet adoption is increasing in India. Today Google has announced that it has released a streamlined version of Google Search that would enable Indian mobile internet users search faster even with slow data connection such as 2G. Continue reading “Google rolls out lighter search for mobile users with slow connections in India”
In a bid to enhance its Apps for Education service, Google has launched the Drive for Education initiative. Under this latest initiative, new and existing customers can take advantage of many new features.
Google had announced couple of weeks back that it will tweak few things in the Play Store. Today, the company has started listing price ranges for in-app purchases.
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Chromebook users can now access Adobe Photoshop as it is now available on Chrome OS. Google has teamed up with Adobe to offer a special cloud-based version of Photoshop to students and teachers who use Chromebooks. Dubbed as Project Photoshop Streaming, it is currently in beta.
Google’s Project Ara will run on modified version of Android L, revealed Paul Eremenko, the head of Project Ara. He added that customized version of Android L will support hot swapping of components, with the exception of the CPU and display.
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Google turned 16 over the weekend on September 27th. The tech behemoth celebrated its birthday with a cake that has lollipops instead of candles on top of it thereby hinting that the next Android OS might be dubbed as ‘Android Lollipop’.
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Google updates its Google Now digital voice assistant with new and improved cards from time to time. Today, the company has added a new card that shows changes in the price of the flights that you are searching on your device.
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