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The Google+ Platform Roadmap From Director Of Engineering David Glazer
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It won’t stop with Google Search Plus Your World. When asked if we should expect more integrations of Google+ into Google products, G+ director of engineering David Glazer said at today’s Inside Social Apps 2012 conference, ”Yes, where it’s good for the user. I think there’s more places to make people...
Sony launches web store for e-Books, Android app also gets refresh
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Sony has decided to join the web-based shopping party, launching an online reader store for its e-inked devices and companion apps. Any e-Books purchased will arrive ready-to-read on the Reader app or other suitably wireless device, with titles also working on any Adobe DRM-supported apps and devices. Sony's Reader...
Any.DO expands outside of Android, brings its handy To-Do tools to iOS and Google Chrome
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Chances are some members of Team Android won't be too pleased to share the any.DO goods with the iOS squad, but for what it's worth, you'll always be able to say you had it first. After being a success on Google's mobile OS, any.DO has decided to test out...
Google Close To Launching Google Drive, Foxconn Servers Hacked, Google Wallet Security Snag Demoed
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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Google Launching Cloud Drive Soon? Google's Drive, a cloud storage service powered by the search giant, may be close to launch, the Wall Street Journal has heard. Such a cloud storage service (if free) could directly challenge reigning Web...
Mozilla shows off web apps accessing phone sensors with WebAPI
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We've been pretty impressed by Mozilla's powerful HTML5-based phone OS, Boot to Gecko, which can do anything from send messages to play Cut the Rope with the equivalent of web apps and bookmarks. A similar project is WebAPI, an attempt by Mozilla to help developers standardize web content to...
Currently: A beautiful Chrome extension that tells you the time and temperature on new tabs
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What would you really like to see when you launch a new browser tab in Chrome? A blank page? Google? Tiles of your favorite websites? Or what about the time and weather where you currently are? If it’s the latter, then this Chrome extension has you covered. Currently offers a...
MymCart builds you a mobile-optimized Web store in minutes
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While we’ve seen plenty of startups offer quick and easy ways to convert content from websites into a mobile-friendly form, there hasn’t been quite the same rush with mobile commerce. Now MymCart is offering a quick, easy, low-cost solution for any business that wants to sell its goods via a mobile-optimized...
Google+ profiles now integrated into Play Store reviews
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Google has made a major change to the way that app reviews are implemented on its Play Store. From now on, users posting reviews on the web store will have to sign in with their Google+ profiles, attaching their real name and associated data to their opinion. It looks...
Google continues its focus on Indonesia with the launch of a local Chrome Web store
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Google is continuing its efforts to ramp up its services in Indonesia with the introduction of a local Chrome Web store to the country featuring creations from local developers, according to a report from Daily Social. So far this year, the company has dedicated significant effort to increasing its services...
Upcoming Mozilla Marketplace lacks Linux support; open-source fix in the works
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Back in March, Mozilla outlined plans to further integrate web apps into Firefox to complement its upcoming Marketplace. And while the web store will launch with Windows and OS X compatibility, the browser has -- at least for the time being -- snubbed Linux. Given that Firefox is the...
Facebook Testing “Offers” Discounts For Ecommerce Sites, Not Just Brick+Mortar
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Facebook has a plan to squeeze more ad dollars out of ecommerce sites and anyone else selling products on the web. It’s quietly testing a new version of its Offers coupons that can be redeemed at online stores, not just at physical shops. Sources clued us in and Facebook has...
Google's Language Immersion Chrome extension translates random text to teach foreign lingo
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Berlitz may be the best way to learn a foreign language, but most of us have neither the time nor the ability to fully immerse ourselves in the vocabulary of another country. Hot on the heels of Gmail's automatic translation feature hitting the big time, Google's Translate team has...
Chrome Web Store to start surfacing apps that your friends have +1′d on Google+
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I’ve always felt like app discovery should be as social as possible, even though Apple has never really done much when it comes to this. For example, Crosswa.lk launched an entire social network around app discovery before Apple purchased Chomp to socialize the App Store itself. According to Google, its...
Samsung launches its first online store in India, strengthening its bid to overtake Nokia
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Samsung India has quietly introduced an online store in India, as the company looks to further increase its retail presence and market share in the country’s growing telecom and consumer technology markets. The Korean electronics giant has gone live with samsungindiaestore.com, as first reported by Pluggd.in. Although it is initially short on...
Zoho's Office suite gets Google Drive integration, keeps its freemium status
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Zoho's been offering its handy Office suite for quite some time on the web, but now the company's making it even better by integrating its productivity applications with Google's cloudy Drive. Naturally, this includes the full set of internet-based apps, such as Zoho Writer for word processing, Zoho Sheet...
Pinterest-Like Web Store Wisemarkit Pays Members For Sales
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We've seen the numbers: Pinterest is turning out to be a real driver of purchases on the Internet, and Pinterest users spend more cash on average than members of other social networks. So why doesn't Pinterest have an affiliate program so that you get paid whenever someone buys a product...
RIP Android Market, long live Google Play
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The Android Market has been Google’s content store for apps since 2008, and more recently for books, movies, and music as well. Now, all that has changed with the announcement that the Android Market was being retired, and in its place users will get Google Play. This new brand will...
Google Drive extension lets you save pieces of the web to the cloud
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Earlier today, a new Google Drive extension was released to the Chrome Web Store. This productivity tool provides users with a new way to capture and store web-based content. By clicking the extension's icon, you can save a copy of a webpage, its HTML source code, or a web...
Russia’s Fast Lane flips again with Shopping Live sale
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Just two years after launching its incubator for Russian web companies, Moscow-based Fast Lane Ventures is making its second significant exit with the sale of TV and online retail service Shopping Live. According to local reports, Fast Lane and other investors are selling up their stake in the company —...
How To Unlock Google Drive's App Potential For Music, Image Editing, And More
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Google Drive doesn't do anything exciting--at least at first. Here's a guide to the apps that make Drive worthwhile.Google Docs was turned into a general purpose cloud storage dropbox called Drive back in April. But in classic Google fashion, no one explained what you could do with your free 5GB of...
Real Bad Guys Create Fake Bad Piggies Game: Infect 80,000 Angry Birds Fans
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People love to play the bad guy, so it's no surprise that Bad Piggies, the spin off of Rovio's popular Angry Birds game franchise, has done very well worldwide, earning the top spot in the iPhone App Store hours after its release in late September. But that popularity has...
Google updates Chrome Web Store with offline badges, subcategories and trending apps
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With Google tasking itself to organize all of the world's information, you'd think its own Chrome Web Store would be a bit easier to navigate. Apparently this revelation dawned on someone at the company, because it's just introduced several enhancements that should help users find new and useful extensions...
Chrome Remote Desktop comes out of beta, adds real-time audio feed for Windows users
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After a year of living in beta, Chrome Remote Desktop is finally ready for primetime. Similar to other screen sharing services like LogMeIn and Splashtop, Chrome Remote Desktop lets you access other computers remotely. Of course, it is special to the Chrome browser, and by extension, the Chrome OS....
Hover For A Rec: Google Updates +1 Button To Show Related Content
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Well it looks like Google just can’t wait for the start of its Developer Conference tomorrow to begin sharing news. It’s been a while since we’ve seen any development of the company’s now ubiquitous “+1″ button, but beginning soon, your +1s are going to get a whole lot more useful...
Facebook Scammers Host Trojan Horse Extensions on the Chrome Web Store
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Cybercriminals are uploading malicious Chrome browser extensions to the official Chrome Web Store and use them to hijack Facebook accounts, according to security......
Launching Google +1 Recommendations Across the Web
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Working on +1, we often hear people say they want to see more of what their friends recommend. Likewise, when we talk to site owners, they ask us to help them show more relevant content to their users. Today, we are rolling out a new feature of the +1 button...
Google Has Given Us The Gift Of One Click Access To Docs, Sheets And Slides...Oh My!
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I use Google products for pretty much everything, including documents, spreadsheets (ew) and slide presentations (double ew). Now that these products are safely nestled under “Google Drive”, they’ve been renamed to Docs, Sheets and Slides. Yay for that. But what’s really interesting, and something that I missed during the Apple...
Google promises a unified social and mobile game platform
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Within the year, Google will unify its different game platforms into a single, unified platform that developers can target. That’s the promise made today by Punit Soni (pictured second from right), the group product manager for the Google+ social layer for the search giant. Soni made the declaration as part...
New York Times launches experimental HMTL5 web app for iPad
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The New York Times today announced it is launching a new HTML5 based web app accessible to iPad users at app.nytimes.com. While called an “experimental web app” in the press release, the move mirrors a switch by other publications such as the Financial Times, which released an HTML5 web...
Meet Pokki: Bringing the power of mobile apps to your desktop
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That headline isn’t exactly right, in that it’s not completely correct. Pokki is a platform that I’ve spent a good part of today trying to decipher, and haven’t fully unlocked; there is something to the service that I haven’t fully grokked yet. So let’s define it together, in pieces: Pokki is a...
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