October 13, 2016
Add Google Assistant to your phone by tweaking two lines of code
Want Google Assistant, but don’t want to spend your allowance on a Pixel? I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is you can get it…
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October 12, 2016
Google’s new Sprayscape app is purposely imperfect
With Android Experiments, Google is giving itself the freedom to experiment with quirky little apps that show off some interesting technologies but don’t really have any other real…
Read articleOctober 6, 2016
Pixel’s best features aren’t coming to the new version of Android
At Google’s hardware event this week, the new version of the Android operating system, Android 7.1 (Nougat 7.1), was barely mentioned. As it turns out, there was a…
Read articleOctober 5, 2016
The mobile wars are over
It’s time to call it: The mobile wars are over. The mobile market was once vibrant and variegated, a virtual coral reef of odd devices aimed at specific…
Read articleOctober 3, 2016
Google gets more time to respond to EU antitrust charges
Alphabet (né Google) has been given yet another extension to file its respond to charges in Europe that it has misused the dominance of its Android mobile platform…
Read articleSeptember 30, 2016
Here’s how you can stop jumping back and forth between Google’s calendar and map apps
Logistics are difficult, especially when every day you’re trying to keep track of 9 meetings, 13 phone calls, a dinner, a post-dinner, and a post-post-dinner. In a recent update,…
Read articleSeptember 28, 2016
Blackberry bows out of making its own hardware
Former smartphone giant Blackberry has said it will no longer manufacture its own devices. Instead it intends to outsource hardware making to development partners, although the core focus…
Read articleSeptember 23, 2016
Microsoft’s Bing mobile apps get support for Google’s AMP
Bing, the search engine Microsoft pays you to use, is jumping on the AMP bandwagon. The open source AMP format is essentially Google’s version of Facebook’s Instant Articles and its…
Read articleSeptember 21, 2016
Allo brings Google’s smarts to messaging
Google first announced Allo and Duo, its new messaging and video chat apps, at its I/O developer conference earlier this year. Duo launched about a month ago and today it’s…
Read articleSeptember 8, 2016
Digit, a simple app to help you save, launches Android app
Whether you’re working out of a dorm room or running a billion-dollar company, a little pivot can go a long way. At their worst, pivots can derail a company’s…
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