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iPhones and Android Wear watches can now talk to each other

Android Wear smartwatches are now even more useful, thanks to its newfound compatibility with devices running iOS 8.2 and above. For all you iPhone…

YouTube Gaming: what to expect from Google’s game streaming service

We’ve come a long way, baby, from the early days of game streaming. Twitch, the now household-name game streaming platform, kicked us off back…

Android Wear update makes its smartwatches a little more useful

It’s easy for smartwatch companies to develop a face to indicate the time, but the device’s issues is its inability to show the plethora…

Android One arrives in Africa with the $90 Infinix Hot 2

Google is bringing its Android One programme to Africa, finally. Jumia, one of Africa’s biggest ecommerce players, has announced that it will be retailing…

Alleged leak shows-off Google’s upcoming Nexus smartphone

A photo of what’s said to be Google’s upcoming Nexus smartphone has been released into the wild. Originally posted on an Indonesian Google Plus…

Android M: a more secure, polished and friendly update of Lollipop

Keep abreast with all developing news as it happens on our dedicated Google I/O live blog. Google I/O 2015 kicked off in San Francisco’s…

Google I/O 2015 live blog: watch the keynote live here

It’s that time of the year again, when Google announces and reveals a few more goodies and coded surprises for its legion of devs…

Google serves up Ice Cream Sandwich, Galaxy Nexus

Google gave its customers two launches in one when it unveiled its highly anticipated Ice Cream sandwich operating system, along with an all new…

iPad app announcement at iPhone 5 launch event

The iPhone launch event looks as if it will be unveiling more than an array of new devices, it will also hopefully release details…

Google buys another 2^10 IBM patents

Google has added 1,023 more IBM patents to its technology arsenal to fend off legal attacks by rivals such as Apple and Microsoft. The…

Three reasons I love Android

Open source. Free information. The power to customise what I want, when I want. These are not simply words used to describe one of…

Intel looks for Google leg up in smartphone chips

Intel, left behind badly in the market for processors for mobile phones by comptitors like ARM, looking for a fast catch-up by teaming with…

Facebook automates picking your real friends

For those mystified by how Facebook chooses which of your friends to anoint as your nearest and dearest, the ones whose updates you most…

Google gives HTC patent ammo in Apple fight

Long accused of milquetoast support for its Android licencees when they’re attacked, Google has suddenly escalated the Apple-vs-Android patent war by providing HTC with…

Googarola and our four top predictions

As many words have already been written about Google snapping up Motorola as dollars changing hands in the deal. Here’s a Twitter-length analysis: “$12.5-b…

Gaming comes to Google+

Google has added games, including the hugely popular Angry Birds, to the fast-growing social network vying with Facebook to be the hub for people’s…

Google patent tantrum: Pot, kettle, black

In an acrimonious case of the pot calling the kettle a patent bully, Google’s top lawyer slammed Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and other companies, accusing…

Every day 500,000 more Androids active says Google

More than 500,000 devices running Google’s Android software are being activated every day, a senior Google executive said on Tuesday. Andy Rubin, creator of…

US lawmakers query smartphone ‘apps’ privacy

Apple, Facebook, and Google on Thursday fielded questions from US lawmakers concerned that smartphones and popular mobile “apps” were putting people’s privacy at risk….

Chromebook awesome if it wasn’t from Google

The Chromebook is slowly coming into focus. Currently manufactured by Acer and Samsung (what? no American laptop brands up for it?), key specs look…

Best of Android packed into “Ice Cream Sandwich”

Google said it is packing the best of its Honeycomb tablet computer software into a new “Ice Cream Sandwich” version of Android for mobile…

Google notebooks challenge Microsoft

Notebook computers powered by Google software are heading to market in a direct assault on the Windows operating system at the heart of Microsoft’s…

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