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Google unveiled a brand new version of Google Maps at its annual I/O developers conference on Wednesday, this will be the biggest redesign since Google Maps was launched eight years ago. As with most of it’s new products, Google is only letting a few people try the new Google Maps initially. Users can request an invite  here. The new Maps features will be available for the Mac and Windows, along [...]

You can now attach money to your email using Gmail. Google today  announced on its commerce blog that it will soon be integrating Google Wallet features into Gmail to allow users to send and receive money. The feature will be available to those with a Google Wallet account and will initially be available to users in the US. “While sending money in Gmail is currently only available on desktop, [...]

Google today announced that it’s combining the storage for three of it’s products, Google Drive, Google+ Photos and Gmail, instead of 5GB each, users will get 15GB of space for free. Google is also scrapping  away the $2.50 plan that had 25GB of space, instead, the lowest paid plan is $5 for 100GB of storage. ” With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about [...]

Google launched  Google+ mobile recommendations on Monday, the new feature allows websites to include a discovery feature in any mobile website. The discovery features already do exist in native apps, this is Google’s attempt to keep users around to read more than a single article. Google detailed the feature in a blog post : “When you help someone find a great article on your site, you’re [...]

The Windows Phone marketplace now has 145,000 apps up from Microsoft’s figure of 120,000 apps in October 2012. The fact was mentioned by Microsoft in  a post announcing the Nokia Lumia 928. Windows Phone has taken nearly 11 months to add 45,000 apps, after Microsoft announced 100,000 apps in June 2012.  The 50,000 apps before this took only 6 months, though the first 50,000 took around 14 [...]

Google has introduced push alert support for apps in Google Chrome browser or Chrome OS. The protocol called Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome is designed to let apps receive notifications from outside Chrome and respond to them more efficiently. Earlier apps that wanted to respond to an outside trigger would have to keep checking back with a server, using more data and power. Now, developers can have [...]

Nokia Releases Video Touting Lumia 928 Camera’s Superiority Against  Galaxy S III And iPhone 5

HTC’s First smartphone which was the first flagship Android phone for Facebook Home, now is priced at less than one US  Dollar. US carrier AT&T has discounted the price of the HTC First from $99.99 to $0.99, with a two-year agreement. Facebook has tied up with HTC to launch a midrange smartphone preloaded with Home, the heavily modified Android experience. User reviews for Facebook Home [...]

Apple may be launching a second generation iPad mini with Retina Display during the second half of 2013 and a few months after that the third generation device will arrive according to NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim. “We see two refreshes coming. One in the second half of this year, then one in Q1 [first quarter] of 2014. The Q1 [2014] device will have a Retina display plus an updated [...]

The European Commission had made a preliminary antitrust finding against Google’s Motorola Mobility,it has sent Motorola,  a list of complaints on how it had abused its market position by seeking and enforcing a patent-related injunction against Apple. The EU Commission takes step to ensure that companies with huge patent chest do not prevent competitors from using technologies that are crucial [...]