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No big surprise here, but Eric Schmidt just told the crowd at Mobile World Congress that Google “certainly tried” to convince Nokia to pick Android as its future platform over Windows Phone 7. Schmidt said Google “would’ve loved” having Nokia on board, and that although they’d been rebuffed this time around, the offer to adopt Android later “is still open.” Look like Vic Gundotra might have to get down with a turkey after all.

Eric Schmidt: ‘We certainly tried’ to get Nokia to use Android originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ballmer and Elop were quite the pair during the Microsoft keynote yesterday, so let’s say the bar’s been set pretty high for Eric Schmidt. But that’s fine, the now-former CEO of Google has a knack for lively (if not downright controversial at times) speeches. This is the first time we’ve seen him talk since he stepped away from Babysitter (his words) to Executive Chairman, and the Android of today is a few flavors improved from the 2.1 Eclair that had launched a little before his MWC 2010 keynote — so needless to say, we’re excited for what he has to say today. We’ll be reporting live from Fira, so stay tuned — the fun should start around 11:45AM ET!

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Live from Eric Schmidt’s MWC 2011 keynote originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, well — what have we here? That up above is LG’s Revolution, a Snapdragon-powered Android superphone. What’s inside is no normal Snapdragon, though. It’s actually a newfangled chip that isn’t shipping to consumers just yet, which includes DRM libraries at a hardware level that serve to satisfy paranoid movie execs. The good news is that Qualcomm has actually whipped up a solution that’ll finally bring Watch Instantly to Android; the bad news is that existing smartphones — even existing Snapdragon devices — will not be able to utilize the app. Without new hardware, the Android version of the Netflix app simply won’t function, and no one at Qualcomm was willing to tell us when these Netflix-friendly Snapdragon chips would begin to ship out.

Whenever that fateful day arrives, though, Snapdragon devices with HDMI sockets will be able to beam that content right to their HDTV — the company’s hardware is HDCP-approved, so there’s no sweat when it comes to watching content on the big screen. On-site representatives made clear that both the phone and the app were for demonstration purposes only, but we’d be shocked if LG’s handset shipped without this compatibility. The demo we saw was smooth as butter, and the app itself looked glorious on the Revolution’s 4.3-inch touchscreen. See for yourself in the video just past the break.

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Android-powered LG Revolution caught streaming Netflix at MWC (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on May 04, 2007 by CyberNet.

If you’re a user of Google Calendar, now you’re able to create multiple reminders for your event. This is a feature that’s been requested by many users who aren’t always at their computer for that email reminder when they need it.

Once you enter in an event, you can select to receive one reminder via email, another via SMS, and another as a pop-up reminder, or as many as you’d like.  This will help ensure that you don’t forget or miss the event! You’re also able to set the intervals for each of the reminders so that you don’t get them all at the same time, unless you want to.

The image below shows what the notification feature looks like, and to add another reminder, all you have to do is click “add another reminder.”

There were a few additional features that were just launched as well:

• Expanded printing options (formatting options like font size, orientation, color, black, white, etc.)
• Send to a friend: Now you have the option of sending a direct link to your friends if you’d like them to add your calendar to their calendar list. If they don’t have Google Calendar, they can view yours in HTML format.

If you use Google Calendar, are there any features you’ve been wanting but haven’t yet seen?

Source: Googliefied

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Tired of waiting for Google and its algorithms to filter content farms and other shady sites out of your search results? Then you can now finally take things into your own hands thanks to an “experimental” extension that Google has just made available for its Chrome web browser. That works about as straightforwardly as you’d expect — once installed, you’ll simply see a link to block a site along with each search result, and you’ll also be able to unblock sites at any time if you go a bit overboard. What’s most interesting, however, is that Google says it’s going to study the feedback it gets from extension and that it will consider using it as a potential ranking signal for its search results.

Google rolls out Chrome extension that lets you block sites from search results originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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