Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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Google I/O Developer Conference scheduled for May 15-17, 2013

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 11:08 AM PST

Google has traditionally held its annual Google I/O Developer Conference in May, but the event was pushed back to June this year in order to accommodate schedule conflicts and a desire to extend the event into a three-day affair. Google I/O 2013 will once again be a three-day event, but the conference will return to its usual May calendar apperance next year. Google today announced that Google I/O 2013 will take place May 15-17 at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco. More details will be released in February as the registration period nears.
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Gmail for iOS 2.0 redesign adds new UI, multiple accounts, and search predictions

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 11:02 AM PST

Google today announced a new version of Gmail for iOS, with a new design and key new features, that it hopes will address all of the problems that users have had with the app since it launched last year.
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Court rules that Verizon must continue offering roaming for mobile data

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 09:14 AM PST

Verizon Wireless has lost its appeal to a U.S. court that sought to overturn an FCC ruling that requires the carrier to offer mobile data roaming to customers of competing carriers.
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Facebook Messenger will no longer require a Facebook account for group messaging app

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 07:46 AM PST

Facebook today announced that it will remove the requirement that users of its Messenger app have a Facebook account. While Messenger has attracted millions of users because of the ability to send free messages on Android and Apple iOS, it has not attracted as many users as other mobile messaging clients like WhatsApp. Eliminating the Facebook requirements has the potential to expose Messenger to a larger audience that can take advantage of the app's group messaging and photo sharing features. Removing membership requirements is not available in all countries yet, but an update to the messaging app should arrive today to increase access for others.
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AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III gets Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 07:31 AM PST

Less than 7 percent of Android devices run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but owners of the Samsung Galaxy S III on AT&T can join that elite company beginning today.
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Apple hiring former TI employees to work on its chipsets

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 06:44 AM PST

Texas Instruments announced earlier this year that it would ease out of mobile chipset development because of increased competition and clients who began designing their own chips. According to The Next Web, Apple is scooping up some of TI's laid-off talent to work on its mobile processors.
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Android stats show 50 percent of devices still running version 2.3 Gingerbread, only 6 percent have 4.1 Jelly Bean

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 06:00 AM PST

Google has struggled to encourage Android smartphone manufacturers to update consumer devices to the latest version of Android, and new statistics from Google predictably show that not much progress has been made in those efforts.
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Nokia will sell then lease Espoo headquarters to raise cash

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 05:46 AM PST

Nokia today announced that it will sell its head office building in Espoo, Finland for 170 million EUR (US $222 million). Nokia won't need to contact any moving companies because it has agreed to lease back the property.
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