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Taking A Spin With Joyride, Which Aims To Liven Up Your Commute With Its Android App

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ANTHONY HA Last month, a startup called Joyride came out of stealth mode and announced that it has raised $1 million in funding. Since the company is building a platform for creating entertaining drivetime experiences, we decided that the best place to see the Joyride app in action was on the road. Co-founder and CEO Jeff Chen described Joyride as an attempt to “make drive times more fun and more interesting” — instead of…

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: The S Stands For Super, Not Simple

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK The Galaxy S4 has an easy mode, and more importantly, the Galaxy S4 needs an easy mode. This necessity is a double-edged sword. It means that the technology built into Samsung’s latest generation smartphone does things you’ve never seen before, and maybe couldn’t even imagine. However, really using that technology isn’t as simple as you might think, and could be downright overwhelming to a novice smartphone user. This is the theme I kept…

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Google Now Could Arrive On The Web, Making The Timely Assistant Truly Cross-Platform

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Google Now is one of the best things to happen to Android in a while, and now new code discovered in a sample page taken from Google itself suggests it could arrive on the desktop, not just via Chrome but through the Google homepage itself. Code snippets includeprovisions for letting a user set their home and work location, “Discover Google now” and change their current location, all in support of…

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Adobe Introduces Lightroom 5 Public Beta, With New Features For Enthusiasts And Pros Alike

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Adobe’s Lightroom is probably the best software available when it comes to a photographer’s digital darkroom needs. The company has been putting lots of time and effort into building it into something that appeals to both pros and enthusiasts, and now it’s releasing Lightroom 5 beta, representing the fastest turnaround for a major point release in the app’s history. One big change is the new flexibility of the spot removal tool. Now…

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Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks. App deletions hit a record high in February, with 60,000 apps removed during the course of the month – the largest round of app deletions to date. The news of this massive app removal comes just ahead of therumored launch of a revamped version of Google Play…

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Quickoffice on Android and iPhone now free for Google Apps for Business users Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos Quickoffice for iPad became a free perk for Google Apps business subscribers back in December, and now Mountain View has extended the offer to its Android app, and made its iPad application iPhone-compatible. By wielding the office suite, users can edit, create and view Excel, Word and PowerPoint files that reside on Google Drive. In addition to going gratis, the software has been tweaked to show Drive folders such as Recent, Shared…

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Facebook’s Android Homescreen Could Expose Apple’s Inflexibility

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE The mainstream has had little reason to care that Android gives developers much more customization freedom than iOS. But if Facebook’s fabled Android homescreen is a hit, the stubbornness of Apple’s closed mobile platform could be framed as a drawback after years of its cohesive design and ease being seen as assets. Cheapness and handset/carrier choice are two of the biggest factors convincing people to pick up Android phones today. There’s…

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Google Updates Chrome For Android, iPhone And iPad With Focus On Speed, Search And Sharing

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Ever since Google launched its Chrome browser on multiple mobile devices, more people have been getting used to syncing their desktop browsing experiences for on-the-go usage. Being able to have one browsing experience wherever you go is handy, but when a browser doesn’t move as fast as, say, Safari on the iPhone, it’s hard to dedicate yourself to making the switch. Google knows that and has pushed updates to its…

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Chrome for Android build may tout a proxy-based speed boost Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas A fast smartphone will only go so far toward improving browser load times if the connection isn’t there to back it up. If a discovery within a recent build of Chrome for Android is any hint, Google may have its own solution to that bottleneck. New code flags reference Google-run proxy servers that would squeeze pages using SPDY, improving performance at least slightly for the bandwidth-deprived. While there’s not much more to…

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Kantar Worldpanel: Android And Verizon Back On Top In U.S. Smartphone Sales, Android At Nearly 50% Of Sales

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN Kantar Worldpanel, the WPP firm that analyses how well smartphones are selling with consumers (not shipping to sales channels) across key worldwide markets, has picked the week of a major mobile show in Europe, Mobile World Congress, to shift some of the focus back to the U.S., today releasing numbers on smartphone sales for the 12 weeks to the end of January, which show that Android was the top smartphone…

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