A new virtual-reality system from Google and a way to use Android apps without downloading Android apps are among the highlights at the company's annual developer showcase in Mountain View, California.
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May 18, 2016
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YouTube is testing a messaging feature in its smartphone app so people can share and discuss videos without resorting to other ways to connect with their friends and family.
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May 13, 2016
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Google once famously adopted "don't be evil" as its motto. But the company is now being accused of acting a lot like Microsoft, whose anti-competitive actions gained it the mocking moniker of the "Evil Empire."
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May 5, 2016
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Google announced Wednesday an expansion of its program which delivers sped-up versions of news stories to smartphones and other devices.
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Apr 20, 2016
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Microsoft's Cortana is now answering requests on Google- and Apple-powered smartphones.
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Dec 14, 2015
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HopStop, a pioneer in offering transit directions in major cities, disappeared in October—not because it failed, but because Apple bought it and shut it down after putting its engineers to work building Apple's own transit-navigation ...
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Dec 7, 2015
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Almost 9 percent of popular apps downloaded from Google Play interact with websites that could compromise users' security and privacy, according to a study released in December by researchers at the University of California, ...
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Dec 3, 2015
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Google said Thursday that a VMWare founder was taking charge of its cloud computing business as it looks to close ground on rivals such as Amazon and Microsoft.
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Nov 20, 2015
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Google is retiring its Photo Sphere Camera app on iOS and the Street View feature from the Google Maps app on Android in favor of a new app for both operating systems: the Street View app.
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Sep 4, 2015
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Google announced Wednesday it was adding 20 new languages for its mobile translation application that reads text and instantly converts to another tongue.
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Jul 29, 2015
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