Digital Lifestyle How Google Geeks Party: After-Hours Images from Google I/O The Google I/O Developers Conference is hardly a button-down affair. Even during the day, attendees sport more T-shirts than ties, more shorts than suits. And at night, after the “serious” business is done, the 6,000 attendees take tech to its funky party extreme. Check out these images of the scene. Fredric Paul View comments
Android Google Nexus 7 Makes Amazon Kindle Fire Irrelevant Google announced the Nexus 7 Android tablet Wednesday at the Google I/O developers' conference. Manufactured by Asus, the Nexus 7 costs $199. That price will make it extremely attractive to consumers. The best-selling Android tablet is the Kindle Fire from Amazon, which also costs $199. Yet, putting the two tablets side by side on paper, there is… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Apps Why Every New Android or iOs Feature Is an Opportunity for Facebook From Google Events to the Nexus Q home entertainment device, Google announced some really cool new social-oriented mobile features and services on Wednesday at its Google I/O developers conference. Apple did much the same earlier this month at WWDC, its World Wide Developers Conference. Ironically, though, the more impressive the proprietary… Hack Fredric Paul View comments
Apps Google Play: Developers Make More From In-App Purchases Than App Sales In 2012, developers using Google Play have pulled in more revenue from in-app purchases than from the sales of the apps themselves, a validation of the "freemium" model and digital purchases. Hack Mark Hachman View comments
Digital Lifestyle Top 10 Tech Moguls Who Could be James Bond Super Villains Bill Gates is wiping out deadly diseases and Nicholas Negroponte is bringing technology to remote corners of the globe. That’s great, but when was the last time either of those guys wound up on TMZ? Play Cormac Foster View comments