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Motorola’s Flagship Smartphone “Moto X” Is here
Motorola, which had been taken over by Google recently has already showed off it’s the Moto X in a series of leaks. Today, It has officially been launched. It has some of the high end hardware and also runs on almost stock android. There has been few Motorola induced changes to the OS. The most interesting…
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Everything About Android 4.3 JellyBean
Google finally announced Android 4.3 , a sweeter version of Jelly Bean.It includes great new features for users and developers. Android 4.3 powers the new Nexus 7 tablet that’s coming soon to Google Play and retail outlets, and it’s rolling out now as an update to Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, and Galaxy Nexus…
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Google Webmaster Tool Gets An Update With Easier Navigation
Google finally decided to update it’s Webmaster Tools platform with a update to make all the webmaster’s lives easier with easier navigation. The previous UI was really confusing and one couldn’t find what existed where. New Search Appearance pop-up Beginner webmasters will appreciate the new Search Appearance pop-up, which can be used to visualize how your site…
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Tech News Round Up – Week 4
Google Given 35 days to Delete Old Street View Data Some of you may remember about the whole Street View data collection fiasco a while back. As the Street View cars were driving around taking pictures, they were (mistakenly, according to Google) collecting information about unsecured WiFi networks. This meant that people could be located…
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Tech News Round Up – Week 3
Google Loon Project Google’s “Project Loon” is definitely something a little out of the ordinary. It’s a plan they’ve had for a while that has finally come out to the public. Whether you think it’s cool, loony or just outright stupid, you can’t deny that it’s awesome. Google is launching huge (15m/50ft in diameter!), super-pressure…
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Google Announces Offline Disk Import For Google Cloud Storage
Transferring large data sets (in the hundreds of terabytes and beyond) can be expensive and time-consuming over the public network. Google now offers a service that let’s you Disk Import offline ! Google announced via blog post saying : To use offline disk import, write your data to HDDs and then ship them to a Google importcenter…
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Google’s Unified Storage Rolling Out Slowly
Google’s unified storage is finally here for almost everyone (it’s gradually being rolled out). The 25GB plan is no longer available and the entry level plan offers 100GB for $4.99/month. You get 15GB of free storage for Gmail, Google Drive and Google+ Photos and you can buy additional storage (100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB, 16TB). Until now, the…
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Google’s Loon Project : Balloon Powered Internet Access
So what is Loon Project ? Loon Project is a latest moonshot from Google[x] which aims to provide cheap internet to the two-thirds of the world’s population who do not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill…
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Get All Chromium Assets In One Place
If you’re a designer or just an avid fan of assets, you can go right now to (link no longer available) and start to skim more than 1300 assets live. The cool thing is that you can also share some of your favorite assets. (link no longer available) (link no longer available) (link no longer available) (link no…
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4 Reasons To Upgrade To Nexus 4
The phone which was released in November last year, was the first Nexus phone created by LG. Like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 was packed with several special features including swift software updates, Vanilla Android and Unlocked Boot loader. Jelly Bean 4.3 coming soon Nexus 4 phone has already been spotted with Android 4.3…
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Google Chrome Voice Search
Google’s Chrome has had the ability to do voice search for about two years now, but the latest version of Chrome is different. Now, when you ask Google certain questions about the weather, sports scores, stock prices, directions and calculations, you get a spoken answer. You can download the latest Google Chrome from here. I did not…
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Chrome Message Center Arrives with Chrome Canary for Mac
Mac users now have access to Chrome’s new ‘Message Center’ in Canary builds. The feature, already available to ChromeOS and Windows Dev Channel users, provides a centralised place for viewing and responding to various alerts from services, apps, and extensions. At present the feature isn’t too fancy; a status bar item has been added to the…
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The New Google Maps: Hands On
One of the key announcements from Google at the Google I/O this year is the maps. Redesigned from the ground up, it has a lot of features to get excited about. We at Techzei have done a hands on in-depth review of all that has changed and all the new features of the new Google…
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Google Mapathon 2013
Mapathon 2013 — which starts on February 12 and culminates on March 25, 2013 — is an India-wide mapping contest open to just about anybody who lives in India. Inviting Google Maps users from all over the country to help create better maps for India by adding knowledge of their neighborhoods through Google Map Maker.…