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Android 6.0 Marshmallow passes 10 percent mark
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Eight months after its release

Google has published its latest statistics for Android platform showing that Marshmallow has managed to reach 10 percent mark eight months after it has been released.

Assange gets into Clinton bashing
Published in News
Wednesday, 08 June 2016 12:42

Assange gets into Clinton bashing


Google-Clinton alliance "revealed" 

Desperate to make sure he is not forgotten, Julian Assange has recycled a wonderful new conspiracy theory, which has Google working in a dark alliance with Hillary Clinton.

World's most innovative company is IBM
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Monday, 06 June 2016 14:24

World's most innovative company is IBM


Apple miles behind

Despite the Tame Apple press claiming that Apple is the most innovative company in the world, it is an also ran behind Samsung, IBM and Google.

Huawai building daydream phone
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 03 June 2016 12:40

Huawai building daydream phone


Dream catcher


Huawei has signed up to be one of the first phone makers to build a handset that works with Google’s new VR platform – daydream.

Lenovo confident it can turn itself around
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Net loss of $128 million – first in six years

Lenovo is not having a good time of late as the declining use of the PC and its underperforming Motorola unit continues to give its bottom line a spanking.

Oracle claims Google has killed Open Source
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Before Oracle could do it

Oracle claims that Google’s court-room win gaining fair-use rights over a thousand lines of java APIs in Android will mean that Open Source is dead.

Google shoots down Oracle case
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Friday, 27 May 2016 12:11

Google shoots down Oracle case


Java Applets were fair use

Google has won a major US court battle with software firm Oracle after a jury ruled it did not nick parts of the Java programming language.

MediaTek is a Daydream believer
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 20 May 2016 14:32

MediaTek is a Daydream believer


Qualcomm still keeping quiet

MediaTek has told some media outlets that it plans to support Google's new VR platform called Daydream.

Google releases more Home Speaker details
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No word on price though

Google is releasing a competitor to Amazon’s runaway speaker success the Echo later this year.

Google's Chromebook platform will not be "online-only" anymore
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Android app support comes to Chrome OS

On Thursday, Google announced that its Play Store will now be integrated into Chrome OS, giving all of Google’s Chromebook users instant access to the entire catalog of 1.5 million Android apps. This is a strategic horizontal decision that could potentially give much more value to the company’s cloud-centered OS for students, developers, low-income users and anyone interested in a lightweight, affordable computing option.