Google Play for Education — the program that leverages certain tablets and educational apps for K-12 classrooms — now has a setup app that should make it relatively easy to initiate the program. School administrators who want to enable their bulk-purchased tablets to receive content from the Education Store can configure the tablets using the […]
The contents of your wallet are under attack. Earlier this month Coin swept in threatening to eliminate the need for all of your beloved non-cash payment methods and now Google Wallet is making it even easier to capture your plastic with its latest Android update. Along with the introduction of its very own physical debit cards, Google added the ability to upload your debit and credit cards to Wallet by simply snapping a picture with your smartphone — similar to the recent addition to the Dropbox Android app. Instead of entering your card numbers manually (such a drag, we know), those users who see a camera icon in the “card number” field of the Wallet mobile app, can capture both the card number and expiration date with a photograph.
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This week you’ll have a new Google service available to you straight from Google itself, one going by the name of Google Play Newsstand. This interface allows Google Play to roll with Magazines, Newspapers, and even Blog Feeds in a single centralized location, one that’s available to the masses just as the Google Play store’s […]
Google is overhauling its approach to serving you articles and news. With "Newsstand" Google’s taking another shot at building a one-stop app for all the different stuff you might want to read online. It’s a bit like Flipboard meets your magazine subscriptions in a single application for your phone.
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After jumping aboard the WebKit train and launching a dedicated browser for the iPad, Opera’s now turned its attention to Android tablets. With the release of Opera 18 for Android, the company is quick to note that it didn’t just update and scale up its smartphone browser: navigation and menu buttons have been strategically placed to where your fingers naturally rest and its improved Discover feature lets you swipe between newspaper and magazine content that has been matched to your interests and location. Like with all its browsers, Opera’s Android tablet app comes complete with data-saving capabilities. Off-Road mode is designed to help you stay online when you’re on a public Wi-Fi connection or trying to reduce your data usage, basically when connectivity is less than ideal. Underpinned by Google’s Chromium 31 framework, Opera’s big-tablet app is available on Play Store right now — check the source to grab it.
You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past seven days — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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Today Google has released its own Google Play Music app for iOS, working on the iPhone and iPod touch with a unique iPad version coming in the near future. At the moment you’ll find this version of Google Play Music missing the “I’m feeling lucky” option to roll the dice and listen to music based […]
‘Ok Glass, listen to Atari Teenage Riot’…
Google’s augmented reality specs, Google Glass, are getting a new set of features focused on audio. The new functionality gives Glass users the ability to ask Glass to pull up a track from Google Play Music or All Access and play it by telling it to ‘listen to’… plus the name of the band.
“Your favorite songs from Google Play Music, including millions of tracks from All Access, are coming soon to Glass,” notes Google on its Glass website.
As well as adding audio control commands, Glass users can also query what song is playing around them by asking ‘Ok Glass, what song is this?’ – and using Google’s Sound Search feature to hunt for the answer.
Google has also designed a dedicated pair of earbuds to pair with Glass, which plug into the side of the headset and nestle in your ear – displaying the distinctive, stylised ‘A’ of the Glass logo.
“With these new features, we’re now building a great music experience on Glass, whether you’re a classical music professor, an acclaimed sound engineer and hip-hop producer, or someone who wants to listen to their favorite tunes anytime, anywhere,” said Google’s director of Glass marketing, Ed Sanders, in a statement.
Google has gradually been building out the functionality of Glass, even though the user-pool remains strictly limited to its U.S.-based Explorers program.
As well as the new ‘listen to’ feature, Glass’ standard voice commands include the likes of ‘take a picture’ and ‘send a message’. Other Glass features include the ability to record video, view directions, translate something you’ve said, and view Google Now notifications such as when your flight is departing and whether it’s on time.
Adding audio controls is a pretty fundamental feature for any mobile device but one that’s likely to be used a lot – adding a key string to the Glass bow. Getting people talking to Glass to control such a mainstream habit as music listening may also be one way Google is hoping to normalise the experience of speaking to a pair of specs.
Or it might be when Mountain View (eventually) opens up Glass to the mainstream. In the meantime Glass users remain an exclusive club, comprised of fashionistas, curious minds, early adopters and Robert Scoble.
Google has got one of its Explorers, DJ Young Guru, to flaunt Glass’ new audio smarts on video (below).
The new Glass audio features were reported earlier by The New York Times.
Just a few days ago, the Internet went completely bonkers from what appeared to be a screenshot of the Google Play Store running on a BlackBerry Z10. The image made many believe Google Play would soon be headed to BlackBerry devices, although BlackBerry would like you to proceed to hold your horses. (more…)
BlackBerry: ‘No Planned Support For Google Play’ original content from Ubergizmo. 
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The newest BlackBerry OS build, 10.2.1, could allow the Google Play Store to be installed, letting users download and install Android apps to run on BlackBerry devices–if the four leaked photos shown below are to be believed. PhotoShop is always a suspect, but the images are plausible. As long as they represent a genuine near-future […]
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