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Chrome for Android updated with tab history on slates, fullscreen for handsets

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Google’s like the gift that keeps on giving. Following earlier news of a Drive for Android update, the team from Mountain View today rolled out a new version of its Chrome browser for mobile devices. This update brings the same features we saw a l…


Google Drive for Android updated with card UI and refined scanner function

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Cards, cards, cards… that’s the refrain around the Google campus these days. Everything is getting turned into cards. That now includes your documents stored on Drive, too. The Google Drive app for Android was updated today with a whole new UI t…


NVIDIA enables full virtualization for graphics: up to eight remote users per GRID GPU

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You probably won’t have noticed the following problem, unless you happen to be the IT manager in an architecture firm or other specialist environment, but it’s been an issue nonetheless. For all our ability to virtualize compute and graphical work…


Pandora gets cozier with Facebook, makes it easier to share listening activities to Timeline

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Looks like Pandora isn’t quite done making announcements this week. Hot on the heels of the introduction of its Premieres music strategy, the streaming service is now releasing a feature perfectly fitted for Facebook users. Starting today, folks w…


LoJack for Android to be embedded in Samsung Galaxy S4′s firmware

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Since the Galaxy S4′s launch, Samsung’s been eager to make security one of the device’s stronger selling points. Through its partnership with Absolute Software, makers of LoJack for Laptops, Samsung will soon embed a theft recovery system right in…


Google’s conversational search goes live with latest version of Chrome

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After revealing it at I/O 2013 only days ago, Google’s new conversational voice search function is up and running on Chrome version 27. If you’ve got that version, you’ll now get a spoken response on top of a web page display when using the voice …


Google’s conversational search goes live with latest version of Chrome

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After revealing it at I/O 2013 only days ago, Google’s new conversational voice search function is up and running on Chrome 27. If you’ve got that version, you’ll now get a spoken response on top of a web page display when using the voice search f…


MessageMe chat app amasses 5 million users in 75 days across Android and iOS

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Between WhatsApp, Viber, Google+ Hangouts and a raft of others, the mobile messaging app space is crowded, but recent entrant MessageMe has still managed to make notable headway. After a mere 75 days since its launch, the application has amassed 5…


Xbox One installs discs to the HDD, friends list capped at 1,000

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The Xbox One’s 50GB Blu-ray discs will automatically rip to your 500GB hard drive, Microsoft tells us, and it looks like you won’t have to wait til they’re done to get going. That’s according to the Xbox One landing page on Xbox.com, spotted by ou…


Nokia adds sight recognition to Here Maps for Windows Phone 8

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Six months after promising to integrate sight recognition technology into its Here suite of apps, Nokia has finally updated Here Maps with LiveSight. The update is available today in the Windows Phone app store and requires Windows Phone 8. By tap…