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Oracle Ordered by Judge to Pay Google’s Legal Fees In Latest Patent Battle Loss

Tim June 7, 2012 38

Poor Oracle. After suffering a loss in a battle against Google concerning Java and Android patent fun-stuff, the court is ordering the company to pay Google's legal fees, totaling no more than $300,000. To sum it all up, at the beginning of the trial the court...

TomTom for Android Coming This Summer, Will it Give Google Maps a Run for Its Money?

Eric June 6, 2012 112

In the Android ecosystem, once Google Maps got the ability to navigate via GPS, most people moved over and used that as their go-to navigation system. Before that, TomTom was big and now they are looking to regain some of their market share by releasing their...

Google Patents Their Own Smart Action Technology, Location Based Settings Coming to Android?

Eric June 6, 2012 23

Motorola made a big splash during the launch of the DROID RAZR about Smart Actions, meant to save you battery by doing certain things with your phone based on where you are. Apps like Tasker have been doing it forever but it seems that Google is getting in on...

Google Earth to Feature Complete 3D City Renderings in Near Future

Tim June 6, 2012 21

During today's Google presentation on the Next Dimension of Maps, the company unveiled the next step for Google Earth - complete 3D renderings across the globe. Of course, such things do take time and Google will take baby steps in making this feature a true ...

Rumored Press Images of Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet Leak, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Reported By Another Source

Eric June 6, 2012 118

Is this the Nexus tablet that we will see at Google I/O this year? The 7" tablet is said to have a Tegra 3 quad-core chip inside and will sell for reportedly under $250. The folks over at Phone Arena have come across some alleged press image drafts of the...

Google Acquires QuickOffice, Probably Looking to Improve Drive

Kellen June 5, 2012 37

QuickOffice, one of the top office suites on Android, has been acquired by Google, the Mountain View based company announced this morning. Your immediate reaction is probably the same as ours - "Time for Google Drive to get some much needed love and polishing....

Google Acquires Instant Messaging Company Meebo to Bolster Google+

Eric June 4, 2012 22

There have been rumors of Google acquiring social-messaging company Meebo going on for a few weeks now and today the two companies made it official. Meebo started off doing instant messaging before everyone had an IM client and has since changed into multiple...

Google Drive Offline Coming Within the Next Few Weeks?

Eric June 1, 2012 28

Google Drive launched a couple weeks back and quickly got to work doing it's thing by managing everyone's files. Only problem with cloud-based apps like Drive is that if you have no connection you are left high and dry without your files. Fortunately for Drive...