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Software developers can breathe a massive sigh of relief — a jury found today that Google’s implementation of 37 Java APIs in Android qualified as fair use. If the jury had found in favor of Oracle, which owns the Java programming language, it may have scared developers away from using other companies’ programming languages in their work — a widespread practice in… Read More... →

The new iOS and Android app Wyper brings the swipe left-swipe right matchmaking magic of Tinder to car shopping. When I spoke with creator Aaron Rosenthal, the app had only been out of beta and available nationwide for about a week and a half, and there had already been more than 100,000 swipes. “We had the ‘Tinder for cars’ part done a year ago,” Rosenthal said,… Read More... →

Nintendo’s first smartphone application – the social game called Miitomo, which allows avatars to interact in a virtual world – may already be in decline, according to a new report. Following its launch earlier this year, it seemed that Miitomo found immediate success, shooting to the top of both the iOS and Android app stores. Nintendo also claimed in May that the… Read More... →

The Nexus Player may have been the best TV media player no one ever bought. Google and Asus introduced the Nexus Player back in November 2014. It was one of the first Android TV devices, and a more-than-capable device. And yet, despite Google’s weight behind this device, it hasn’t been a mainstream success, especially when you compare it with the Chro Read More... →

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Twitter анонсировал новый принцип работы лимита в 140 знаков и другие продуктовые обновления.   В ближайшее время в сервисе произойдут следующие изменения: Любые медиаприложения – фото, видео, GIF-файлы, опросы, цитаты твитов – больше не будут учитываться в лимите 140 знаков в пределах одного твита. Названия аккаунтов при ответе на твит другого пользователя со знаком @ также больше не будут учитываться в качестве символов. Таким образом, пользователям не нужно будет экономить место для текста при обращен... →

“This is Pebble Core,” Eric Migicovsky says with a smile. “It’s our first non-watch product. The simplest way to explain it is that it’s a computer that fits on your keychain. It’s a tiny Android computer without a screen. It has 3D, GPS, Wi-Fi, a little bit of memory and both Android and JavaScript apps run on Pebble’s JavaScript framework.”… Read More... →

Компания разрабатывает систему, распознающую пользователей по биометрическим данным... →

There have been many attempts to update keyboards for the digital era and speed up typing by rethinking the antique Qwerty layout. Problem is you’re going up against muscle memory, and resistance to change the habit of a lifetime. And that’s a very hard nut to crack. But a Swiss startup reckons they have done it with their Wrio keyboard. Read More... →

Attorneys for Oracle and Google presented their closing arguments today in a lawsuit over Google’s use of Java APIs owned by Oracle in Android. Oracle accused Google of stealing a collection of APIs, while Google suggested that Android transformed the smartphone market and Oracle sued out of desperation when its own smartphone attempts failed to launch. The case is expected to have… Read More... →

On Wednesday, Xiaomi is going to unveil a new product. While details are still thin, it looks like the electronics company is about to announce a drone. Xiaomi is a well-known phone manufacturer. But the company now also manufactures all sorts of devices, from Android TV set-top boxes to smart rice cookers. And then, there’s Read More... →

Google’s plan to eliminate passwords in favor of systems that take into account a combination of signals – like your typing patterns, your walking patterns, your current location, and more – will be available to Android developers by year-end, assuming all goes well in testing this year. In an under-the-radar announcement Friday afternoon at the Google I/O developer… Read More... →

If swiping left and right for your next adventure is starting to feel a bit last year, the team behind 3nder has a trick up its proverbial wizard’s sleeve. The app — arriving for Android imminently — assists its users in establishing less conventional relationships of the triangular persuasion, helping them find one or two additional participants for boudoir gymnastics. Read More... →

Opera Software встроила в свой браузер персональную новостную ленту. Новая функция доступна в десктопной версии Opera для разработчиков. Причиной её добавления стал рост количества людей, узнающих новости из интернета, и потребность в новых инструментах для их чтения. В основу нововведения легла лента «Рекомендации», которая представляла собой подборки сайтов и новостей по категориям на стартовой странице браузера. «Мы решили сделать её еще функциональнее, добавив больше персонализации и умных опций», - го... →

Microsoft is further opening up Skype to businesses. On Thursday, the company launched its Skype for Business SDK – tools which allow iOS and Android developers to integrate Skype’s messaging, audio and voice capabilities into their own mobile applications. The idea is to allow Skype to power the communications experience inside applications, so developers can focus on building… Read More... →

Интернет-гигант назвал 10 лучших Android-приложений за 2016 год... →

Richard Gingras from Google in his Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem shared two nice tidbits on AMP. The first is that they indexed 125 million AMP documents across 640...... →

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В рамках ежегодной конференции I/O компания Google провела награждение лучших приложений 2016 года для Android — Google Play Awards. Победителем был назван интерьерный сервис Houzz.... →

Новая версия Android, виртуальный ассистент и мессенджеры... →