Google Held Motorola Back From Creating A “True” Google Phone, According To Report

Google Held Motorola Back From Creating A True Google Phone, According To ReportWhen Google first bought Motorola Mobility, many were wondering what Google had planned for the company. Many assumed that Google would then start churning out its own phones instead of relying on third-parties like Samsung, HTC, and LG, and apparently that’s what Motorola had in mind as well.

However it seems that they were met with resistance from the likes of Google’s Larry Page and the Google engineering team which might have explained that apart from the Moto X and the Moto G, we did not really see anything else from the company. (more…)

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    ASUS Reportedly Drops Plans And Halts Sale Of Dual Booting Products [Rumor]

    ASUS Reportedly Drops Plans And Halts Sale Of Dual Booting Products [Rumor]Earlier this year at CES 2014, ASUS unveiled an interesting device called the ASUS Transformer Book Duet. What made it particularly interesting is that it could dual boot both Windows 8 and Android, sort of like giving users the best of both worlds.

    However a follow-up report suggested that Google was putting pressure on ASUS to kill off the product because they did not like Android having to share the same device as Windows, especially since both are competing against one another. (more…)

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    ASUS may shelve dual-OS as Microsoft and Google deny support

    Earlier this year we had a glimpse of the device known as the Transformer Book Duet TD300 at the CES 2014, a device that was destined to run Android and … Continue reading

    New HTC One details leak in Nordic e-stores: black, silver, gold

    This week we’re ramping up towards the launch of the New HTC One (aka the M8, successor to the original HTC One from 2013), set to be revealed on the … Continue reading

    More Project Tango Specs Revealed, Showing Two Wide-Angle And One Depth-Sensing Camera

    Google’s Project Tango smartphone is a 3D environment sensing hardware experiment, which the company is hoping to ship to developers soon (today is the anticipated ship date Google stated, in fact) had some of its specs revealed in a Chrome issue tracker spotted by Myce this morning. The new specs give us a closer look at how exactly Google does its 3D context sensing magic. The key… Read More

    Republic Wireless Moto G readied for off-contract push

    In what appears to be an effort to snag every single wireless provider in the universe, the Motorola Moto G has – again – appeared with a new brand this … Continue reading

    WSJ: Microsoft and Google Are Crushing the Dual-OS Dream

    WSJ: Microsoft and Google Are Crushing the Dual-OS Dream

    A report by the Wall Street Journal claims that Intel’s grand plans to stuff Android and Windows into the same tablet have hit a brick wall: neither Google nor Microsoft want hardware to sport the competitor’s OS alongside their own.

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    Google Play update gives users option of forcing password for every purchase

    One of the biggest complaints that Android and iOS users have about the way the iOS App Store and Google Play works is with how purchases are made. While an … Continue reading

    Google Does Away With Banner Ad Experiment

    Google Does Away With Banner Ad ExperimentIt is safe to say that banner ads can be pretty intrusive, but unfortunately that is just one of the ways websites survive, through these banner ads. In fact Google had recently attempted at introducing gigantic banner ads of their own on their search results page.

    As you can see in the image above, a Google search for “southwest airlines” will result in a giant Southwest Airlines banner splashed across the top of the page. Naturally this is great for advertisers who want to ensure they get the top view and pushing other results further down the page, but thankfully that experiment has come to an end. (more…)

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    Explore the Colorado River with Google Street View

    Google has had its Street View imagery in the Google maps application for a long time. At first, this information was a street level view of what you would see … Continue reading