Verizon Wireless has promised single-mode LTE devices in 2014, and 4G LTE-only smartphones may be included in the line-up by the end of the year. Single mode phones would use voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) and would not require CDMA for voice fall-back. Dual mode phones are compatible with more than one form of data transmission. Verizon says [...]
Google Play for Education marks an entirely new addition to the Google Play Store. Google Play for Education is like an app store designed especially for teachers with some powerful management tools built-in. Android Engineering Director Chris Yerg introduced it yesterday at Google I/O. The new store, which is scheduled to launch this fall, aims [...]
There were so many new things announced at Google I/O opening keynote yesterday, it’s hard to keep track of them. Let’s review the stories from C/Net, Engadget, The Verge, Android Authority, ComputerWorld, GigaOm, and TechCrunch. Engadget has a recap of the announcements: Android There have been 900 million Android activations, 48 billion app installs to [...]
Google I/O kicks off with a three-hour-long keynote address Wednesday morning. Here’s the live Google I/O 2013 Keynote. Among the rumored announcements are a new Google Maps interface, Bluetooth 4.0 support for the Nexus 4, tracking sensors, new subscription music services and Google Glass apps. According to a blog post from Google, the company will [...]
Gladstone, Missouri is the next city to get Google Fiber. Google announced Fiber would be coming to the nearby town of Shawnee, Kansas on May 3rd, and now has Sprint’s headquarters in Overland Park virually surrounded. Google also added Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah, to its Fiber-enabled communities in the past two months. Will they [...]
At Google I/O, May 15-17, a Google team will place hundreds of Arduino-based environmental sensors around the conference to track things like temperature, noise levels, humidity and air quality in real-time, reports TechCrunch. Google’s Cloud Platform lets you build applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google’s infrastructure. Networked sensor technology is in [...]
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