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Update to Google Maps improves battery life, public transit options and more
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A new version of Google Maps has hit the Android Market today, which simultaneously brings fresher location tracking within Latitude and better battery life -- two welcome improvements that seem contrary to one another. There's also a couple goodies included for the transit-minded folks, as Navigation has been updated to better estimate location when GPS signal is lost, and the number of route options for public transit users has been increased from three to four. Sure, the changes are rather incremental, but who's honestly going to argue with greater battery life? Not us, that's for sure.
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Google's Schmidt: No Android fragmentation, only differentiation - SlashGear
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Google‘s Eric Schmidt has again denied there is any fragmentation problem within Android, claiming that the platform instead shows customer-friendly “differentiation.” Speaking at CES this week, where many manufacturers revealed devices running older versions of Android but promised Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades at some point later this year, Schmidt argued that “differentiation is positive, fragmentation is negative,” PCMag reports. The deciding factor, he claimed, was that apps ran across devices on different iterations of Android.
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Google Changes the Way Its Search Engine Works, Privacy Be Damned
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Google's great at finding pretty much anything on the Web—no matter how obscure—but has generally lacked social content thanks to itsongoing standoff with Facebook. But, according to the search giant today, the "most radical transformation ever" has just occurred to its search engine. But maybe not in the good way.
Google dubbed this metamorphosis, "Search, Plus Your World." It integrates Google+ content directly into search results in three ways. First, it now provides "Personal Results" which include media—photos, blog posts, etc—that have been privately shared with you as well as your own stuff. Any images you've set to share using Picasa will also be displayed. Second, Google Search will...
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Ice Cream Sandwich ROM leaks for the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY
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The official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY will not be out until later this spring, but if you are eager to have a taste of Google's latest and greatest, you can try out this early ICS ROM that just surfaced on the web, courtesy of the guys at XDA Developers. The ROM is based on Android 4.0.3 and retains most of the looks and feel of the stock Ice Cream Sandwich experience. Judging by what the folks are saying in the comments, albeit being an early build, the ROM is still stable enough to be taken for a quick spin. Of course, there are things that don't work yet, such as the smartphone's camera, the touchpads, and the Wi-Fi hotspot functionality, bu....
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NVIDIA embraces Ice Cream Sandwich with the Transformer Prime
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In a fully green-lit environment on the first full day of CES 2012, NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsng Huang outlined their 2012 focus, and all was quad-core. The event began with Huang speaking about how they’d be moving through Tablets, a secret additional feature of Tegra 3, and vehicle integration. As tablets are, as evidence shows, the quickest selling device category in mobile history, so too will NVIDIA continue to concentrate on the category for their hero devices.
For the tablets, Huang noted that a big moment in Android was the moment it was revealed that Gingerbread and Honeycomb were combined in Ice Cream Sandwich. All the devices now, he reminds us, are in one single platform. Content developers...
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Nuance brings its Dragon Go! voice assistant to Android
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Voice control is a growing mobile trend and Nuance is one of the leaders in this field. It has a variety of mobile products including Dragon Go!, a voice assistant that launched on iOS last year and is now available for Android.
Dragon Go! is a search assistant that lets you talk to your phone and find information. It’s like Google Voice Search for Android, but supports a lot more commands. You can ask it to find the times for a film that’s showing in a local theatre or name what plane is flying overhead. It uses Nuance’s refined voice recognition algorithm and a variety of back-end services including Google search, Wolfram Alpha, Yelp and more.
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Ice Cream Sandwich Tastes Pretty Good To Samsung
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When consumers are faced with the question of "do I get an iPhone or something else?" a greater percentage of them now associate the "something else" side of the equation as Samsung.
Changewave Research asked 4,000 consumers in North America who were planning on buying a smartphone in the next 90 days which manufacturer they would most likely choose.
Of course, Apple (aka, the iPhone) was at the top of the list. In the December study, more than half, 54%, of those surveyed said the iPhone was the next smartphone on their mind.
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Fujitsu teases quad-core Tegra 3 smartphone with Android 4.0
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Fujitsu distributed a flyer at CES teasing a quad-core Tegra 3 Android phone with a 12-GPU graphics accellerator running Ice Cream Sandwich. Quad-core tablets are only just starting to show up, so having that kind of power in a phone should make for some decreased battery life because there's less room for a big power cell. We'll get a look at Fujitsu's high performance phone as well as its water resistant gadgets soon.
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Garmin Android app uses your smartphone to update your nuvi GPS
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Garmin has launched a new app for Android users that allows them to piggyback off the smartphone's data connection to provide live services data like traffic updates to their up until now unconnected Garmin nüvi device.
The new app lets nüvi users access live services, such as traffic information, traffic camera images, weather and fuel prices to their navigation device using the smartphone's mobile data plan while on the
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Microsoft eyeing Xbox LIVE gaming on iOS and Android
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Microsoft is looking to extend Xbox LIVE to iOS and potentially Android and other platforms, according to a new job listing at the company, extending the company’s gaming reach beyond its current Windows Phone focus. The posting, spotted by LiveSide, calls for a software development engineer to ”define, design and implement Xbox LIVE mobile experiences on Windows Phone, iOS and other platforms” with the potential for location-based gaming, social networking-enabled titles and more.
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Google Maps brings indoor mapping to CES
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For those that might remember Google recently announced and released a new feature for Google Maps called indoor maps. Mapping indoors for big city shops and mainly malls, Home Depot, and other large traffic areas at first — we can happily say it works amazing in Vegas, and even more so for CES.
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Symbian^3 bootloader leak could see Android on N8 and E7
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The full sourcecode for Symbian^3 has been released, unofficially, together with the bootloader for Nokia devices running the OS, opening the door to other platforms being installed on the company’s phones. The source, shared at DailyMobile, means that enterprising hackers could eventually install Android, Windows Phone 7 or other platforms onto Nokia hardware.
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YouTube scam domains handed over to Google
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We reported a while back on Google taking legal action against a phishing scammer who'd registered misspelled YouTube domains such as youtub.com. Unsurprisingly, a single-member panel at the National Arbitration Forum has found in Google's favor, with the domain owner not even filing a response to the complaint. The ruling seemed inevitable from the start, and the panel upheld Google's complaint on every count: the domains were found to be "confusingly similar" to Google's trademark and being used in bad faith, with the owner not having any relevant rights or interests to the YouTube name. As such, the offending domains will simply now be transferred into Google's ownership, with no further ...
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Chrome 17 beta brings speed and security improvements
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Google has pushed a new version of Chrome into the beta channel that's designed around improving two of the browser's key aspects: speed and security. The first major change in version 17 is the ability for pages to start loading in the background before a user has even finished typing a URL into the Omnibox address and search bar.
"If the URL auto-completes to a site you're very likely to visit, Chrome will begin to prerender the page," explained Dominic Hamon, a software engineer at Google, while announcing the browser update. The pre-rendering makes the full site show up almost instantly, according to Google.
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Google fined, required to change unfavorable search results by French court
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French insurance company Lyonnaise de Garantie didn't take kindly to being associated with the French words for "crook" and "con man" in Google's search results, so it sued the search giant and won: a French court has fined Google $65,000 and required it to remove the offending words from its autocomplete results. Google argued unsuccessfully that it was not liable, since the word association was the result of an automated algorithm.
This isn't the first time Google's had legal woes in Europe, but this particular precedent could be troublesome for the company — if the rest of Europe emulates the French court, then Google could be faced with similar lawsuits from those with algorithmically ba...
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