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Google+ designed a landmark move and uncovered itself to users who are over the year of 13. Google+ didn’t originally aim the younger crowd and kept itself available just for users above the year of 18.

Additionally, uncovering up to youngsters over the year of 13 the social network also enhanced increased safety features to maintain the younger crowd safeguarded. Now it features more rigid default settings for person but, they can be overridden none the less.

Vice president Product management at Google+, Bradley Horowitz, in a Google+ post told that, “With Google+, we want to help teens build meaningful connections online. We also want to provide features that foster safety alongside self-expression. Today we’re doing both, for everyone who’s old enough for a Google Account.”

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Sony P Tablet

Sony has released its Sony P tablet device in the United Kingdom, at a more advanced rate than the Apple iPad.

The Tablet P comes with a clamshell design, offering two 5.5″ touch screens. It gets on the Android Honeycomb version 3.2 and is powered by the dual-core Tegra 2 processor, according to SlashGear.

Sadly, the Tablet P gets on an older version of Android while Google has already released Ice Cream Sandwich, that’s indicated for both Android smartphones and tablets.

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Microsoft is trying to block the sales of Motorola’s Android phones in the U.S., because it combats Android via litigation.

According to an article in Bloomberg, the Microsoft states that Motorola defied seven of its copyrights proposed with the US International Trade Commission.

Microsoft has requested the ITC to block the import of Motorola devices in the U.S. covering Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq XT, Devour, Backflip, and Charm.

Motorola, on the different side, is “vigorously defending”its interests against Microsoft’s copyright litigation strategy.

“We have a responsibility to our employees, customers, partners and shareholders to safeguard our intellectual property,” David Howard, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for litigation told through e-mail.

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Android Apps for Google TV

New reports have declared that Google is eventually announcing Android app support to its Google TV platform, something which Google has been planning from long, but failed to apply on for whatever cause.

The year was 2010, and the world watched Google, the Mountain View based search behemoth delivering its best shot at carrying your home entertainment experience to a fully new dimension with the release of the Google TV – a product which was made to offer users with good blend of web and TV content, and so make a revolution in the television industry! The product failed miserably, at least by the standard of Google, and needless to state, that aimed revolution never happened.

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Google Realtime Search

Google is aiming to take back its Real-Time search feature, that was for a short while stopped a while back.

Google available Realtime Search that presented with live stream from micro-blogging platform Twitter. Google Search changed into a center of live Twitter messages at any time some world occasion used to happen.

When Twitter’s deal with Google to offer it with the data came to an end, the 2 firms were not able to update it due to specific differences and Google was commanded to stop the service.

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On Thursday internet search giant Google announced a Gmail Labs feature prepared at allowing an email preview pane, a function which has already been included in nearly each the leading Webmail programs including competitor Microsoft’s MS Outlook.

Google introduced which users can start this new feature by only going into the Gmail Labs tab under Gmail.

“When I check my email, I often rely on the message snippets to figure out which messages to open first,” Maciek Nowakowski, a Google Associate Product Manager cited on his blog post.

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Google Firefox Toolbar

Google Toolbar for Firefox has long been a unlimited add-on for the well-known open base browser, but Google determined it is no longer necessary.

“As we all know, over the past few years, there has been a tremendous amount of innovation in the browser space. For Firefox users, many features that were once offered by Google Toolbar for Firefox are now already built right into the browser. Therefore, while Google Toolbar for Firefox works on versions up to and including Firefox 4 only, it will not be supported on Firefox 5 and future versions,” tells a message on the Google Toolbar help blog.

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Google News Mobile

Google News for mobile is receiving more place-aware, presently applying your place to deliver news points right to your whereabouts.

Friday, Google launched the new display, named “News Near You,” to Android and iPhone owners applying the U.S. English version of Google News for cellular.

“Now you can find local news on your smartphone,” Google News Product Manager Navneet Singh tells of the statement. “We do local news a bit differently, analyzing every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located.”

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Google Nexus S

Almost all worth having in this world arrives in knock-off shape, and it would look which Google’s Nexus S is worth having, as a knockoff named the K1000D has appeared in Shenzhen Huaqiangbei district in China. Like we’d expect, the K1000D is not as powerful as the Nexus S, but it is only as beautiful.

The K1000D sports a 4-inch 800×480 WVGA resistive touchscreen, a 3.2 MP camera (rear) that comes with a LED flash, and a o.3 MP front camera for video calling. The handset also displays support for GPS, Wi-Fi and has double SIM card slots. Sadly, the guts of the phone can not actually consider with the Nexus S, as the K1000D is powered by a 460MHz MTK 6516 processor, and operates Android 2.2 Froyo, whereas Google’s smartphone operates Android 2.3 Gingerbread powered by a 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor.

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Logitech Revue Google TV

Searching for a right deal on the Logitech Revue? Amazon has you closed. While I had remind most from going the Google TV route — particularly with the new GTV hardware and alterations on tap — there’s no questioning a 33 percent price drop is giant. Amazon’s new cost, thinking it’s not a limited time sale, places the Revue at the equal price point as the Boxee Box.

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Google Chrome

Google’s Chrome Web Store only create its premiere in 41 languages.

The Chrome Web Store is Google’s try to renew the experience of Apple’s App Store for the web. It lets users to install and download web-based applications via the Chrome web browser with advanced web technology like HTML5.

Since its unveil in December, Google’s web-based app store has just been ready for use in the U.S. Wednesday at the Google I/O developers conference, Google SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai introduced which the Chrome Web Store provides for all Chrome users.

Google has been making efforts toward the Web Store’s international launch for the past few months. In February, Google unveiled a preview of the developer dashboard for the U.K., Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, France, India, Japan, Netherlands and Portugal.

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Google introduced Tuesday its Google TV devices will presently be able to access adjusted apps via the Android Market.

Google TV will also be operating on the new 3.1 version of Honeycomb after summer this year.

Produce-for-TV websites have been segment of Google TV’s value proposition since its release, as have onboard apps involving Twitter, Pandora, Napster, Netflix etc. Yet, right now demonstrates the first time any dev can produce and offer apps for Google TV via the Android Market.

Google first launched Google TV at its I/O event last year. In spite of stunning demos, the firm was told to be delaying a launch since of software tweaks in December last year. And delivered the firm’s underwhelming marketing and education attempts for the product — and stiff rival from the user-cooperative and dead cheap Roku — a lot of have repeatedly asked whether Google TV might flop.

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