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Wednesday, 27th June 2012

Google I/O: Google Introduces Nexus Q, Its First Ever Device Designed From The Ground Up

Google I/O: Google Introduces Nexus Q, Its First Ever Device Designed From The Ground Up

Photo by Eliot Weisberg/ReadWriteWeb. Creative Commons licensed. At Google I/O Wednesday, Google took the wraps off of Google Q, a mysterious, spherical, Android-powered computer for home entertainment and software designed by Google from the ground up. It doesn't stream media from another local device like Apple's AirPlay. All its content comes…

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Google I/O: Introducing the Nexus 7-Inch Tablet Running Android Jelly Bean

Google I/O: Introducing the Nexus 7-Inch Tablet Running Android Jelly Bean

Photo by Eliot Weisberg/ReadWriteWeb. Creative Commons licensed. At Google I/O on Wednesday, Google and Asus revealed the new Nexus 7 tablet. It has a seven-inch, 1280-by-800 pixel screen. It runs the new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and it is built for Google Play and its new movies, TV shows and magazines announced at the same time. The new Nexus…

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Google I/O: Introducing Google Now - Jelly Bean's Knowledge Graph-Based Search

Google I/O: Introducing Google Now - Jelly Bean's Knowledge Graph-Based Search

Photo by Eliot Weisberg/ReadWriteWeb. Creative Commons licensed. A new feature in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean called Google Now builds on Google's new Knowledge Graph search, which recognizes the things, people and places you're searching for, and pulls up a card full of informative answers. The voice search also worked quickly and more reliably than…

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Google I/O: Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, Will Have Responsive Widgets, Offline Voice Typing

Google I/O: Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, Will Have Responsive Widgets, Offline Voice Typing

Photo by Eliot Weisberg/ReadWriteWeb. Creative Commons licensed. Barra introduced engineering director Dave Burke to demonstrate the new features of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. He showed off Project Butter, Google's effort to make the transitions and animations in the operating system run at a smooth 60 frames per second everywhere. A new feature…

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Music Piracy Debate Reignites Despite Evidence That Digital Distribution Pays

Ten years ago this month, Napster filed for bankruptcy. The peer-to-peer filesharing network succumbed to an all-out legal war waged by major record labels, but not before popularizing downloadable digital music and sparking a heated debate about music piracy and its consequences. Today, that argument rages on, at times just as loudly as it did a…

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