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May 22, 2013
(Reuters) - BlackBerry no longer owns the fast-paced, innovative smartphone world but the company, whose email-on-your-hip devices once revolutionized the industry, now aims to run it.
The powerful new Tegra 4 handheld by Nvidia that seeks to challenge rival hand-held gaming devices by Sony and Nintendo showed up in a surprising place. An episode of ‘Modern Family’.
(Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday told Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other business leaders that he expected their companies to pay their taxes in exchange for benefiting from low tax rates.
The Jolla phone is produced by a start-up of ex-Nokia developers. Can the new company compete in a tiny market of Microsoft phones without switching to Android OS?
With the Xbox 720 reveal coming tomorrow, Microsoft will have to seriously think about where to go from here in terms of reaching out to the smartphone and tablet market. Could we see Android and iOS games on the Xbox?
As Sundar Pichai promised the Google I/O 2013 conference ended up being heavily developer focused. Hardware enthusiasts had little new equipment to be excited about but the Google Glass and Android games stole the spotlight.
A classic 90's era game by Sega comes to smartphones and tablets. Sonic the Hedgehog is now available to Android users in the Google Play Store for $2.99.
There were three major things that the I/O conference has ignored so far: Android OS JellyBean 4.3, Google TV and Nexus haven't gotten any mentions. Will they before the conference ends?
Google announced several less covered but equally interested updates and changes to Hangouts, a stock Android version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, Google Wallet Integration for Gmail and a cool racing game called Racer.
Google rolled out a lot of new features for existing services. Major one's were for music, search, maps, education and Google +, read about what was added.
Attendee's of the Google I/O conference often walk away with thousands of dollars worth of free hardware. Today they got the Chromebook Pixel for free, a $1,299 value.
The Google Play Games Service Center was officially announced, it comes with a family of API's that include cloud game saves, leader-boards, achievements and multiplayer support.
Some remarkable figures presented in the Google I/O keynote are 900 million Android device activations and 48 billion app installs. Sundar Pichai also spoke of future markets.
As the I/O conference keynote speech draws near word is that Google stock prices have hit a milestone of $900 per share and that a Google Music streaming service will be announced along with the Samsung Galaxy S4 GE (Google Edition).
Yes, it is finally time. Today is the Google I/O 2013 conference. The keynote is scheduled for 9 AM PST, we'll be live blogging and providing constant coverage of the conference. Live stream is also available here.
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