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		<title>Google Play Game Services Is Just What Android Needs, but Who Will Use It?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/google-play-game-services-is-just-what-android-needs-but-who-will-use-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of all the things Google announced at its I/O developer conference this week, Google Play Game Services is the one new product I started using right away. Think of it as the Google equivalent of Xbox Live. For games that support it, the service lets you earn achievements, find and host multiplayer games and compete in online leaderboards. It also supports cloud saves, so you can continue your game across multiple devices&#8211;not just on Android, but on iOS and web-based games as well. As someone who owns multiple Android and iOS devices, that last part is crucial. In the past, I&#8217;ve avoided playing lengthier games on my phones, because I didn&#8217;t want to bother re-doing everything on my tablets. So far, I&#8217;ve tried Google Play Game services on my HTC One and my Nexus 7. Cloud saving works as well as it should. Some games, such as Beach Buggy Blitz, will detect an online save and ask to replace your local device&#8217;s data. Others, such as Riptide GP, replace your local progress automatically. When you unlock an achievement, a slick notification bar pops in, providing a little addictive kick. I also tried a few rounds of Riptide 2 multiplayer at a Google I/O demo booth. This is also pretty straightforward. You can either join a quick match, and get paired with anyone in the world, or invite specific friends to play with you. Google Play Game Services supports both real-time and asynchronous multiplayer. So far, I&#8217;m satisfied with the service. If game developers do nothing but support cloud saves, it&#8217;ll be a useful addition to the Android platform. I wonder, though, how many normal users will take advantage of the service, for several reasons. Jared Newman / TIME.com First of all, the name &#8220;Google Play Game Services&#8221; is targeted at developers. To players, the service is branded as &#8220;Google+,&#8221; the name of Google&#8217;s own social network. Games that support the service present a Google+ logo on their title screens, but it&#8217;s not obvious what this logo does. The average<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162997&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Opens Up About Glass Privacy, Zombification</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/google-opens-up-about-glass-privacy-zombification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, Google has stayed eerily quiet on the privacy implications of Google Glass, seemingly content to let the tech world debate the issue among themselves. But during a &#8220;fireside chat&#8221; about Glass at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, Google employees opened up. Their responses represent the company&#8217;s most thorough take yet on the privacy issues surrounding Google Glass. Google Glass, if you&#8217;re unaware, is a pair of mock spectacles with a mounted display, camera, microphone and touch panel. So far, Google has only sent out Glass to a couple thousand developers, along with a few members of the press. And over the last few weeks, there&#8217;s been a lot of discussion about whether society would be better or worse off with head-mounted displays and cameras. Steve Lee, the product director for Google Glass, offered a few responses to the criticisms so far: Google purposely mounted the display for Glass just above the eye, forcing users to look up at the screen. &#8220;Once you&#8217;re around someone with Glass, you&#8217;ll know they&#8217;re paying attention to you because they&#8217;re looking at you,&#8221; Lee said. Later in the session, Lee said the screen&#8217;s high placement makes it hard to look at for long periods of time, encouraging quick sessions instead. That was also by design. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to create zombies staring up at their display for long periods of time,&#8221; Lee said. Regarding the potential for surreptitious recording, Lee said Glass purposely requires &#8220;social queues&#8221;&#8211;that is, tapping the side of the device, or speaking&#8211;to snap a photo or start taking video. Engineering director Charles Mendis added that &#8220;you kind of notice&#8221; when someone&#8217;s staring at you. &#8220;If you walk into the restroom, even without Glass, and someone&#8217;s just looking at you, I don&#8217;t know about you but I&#8217;d get out of there,&#8221; Mendis said. Lee pointed out that when you use Glass, the display lights up, so other people will always know when Glass is active. Google won&#8217;t allow Glass apps that don&#8217;t light up the screen while the device is in use. Granted, a lot<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162942&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the Point of Chromebooks Isn&#8217;t Chromebooks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/maybe-the-point-of-chromebooks-isnt-chromebooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, it&#8217;s safe to say that many attendees entered yesterday morning&#8217;s keynote expecting that it would involve the announcement of at least one or two major new gadgets. It didn&#8217;t, unless you count the pure-Android version of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 that Google will begin selling on June 26. And the one gadget which was doled out to attendees, the Chromebook Pixel, wasn&#8217;t an I/O debutante: it was announced back in February. Some of the folks I chatted with after the keynote were disappointed by its lack of gadgetry. I wasn&#8217;t. As my colleague Jared Newman explains, this year&#8217;s keynote was mostly devoted to building out existing Google services and software &#8212; search, Android, Google Maps, Google+ and more &#8212; in ways which aim to make them more useful and appealing. The stuff the company has in store looks meaty and ambitious; add it all up, and it matters more than a new tablet or phone would have. And even though Google didn&#8217;t announce any new Chromebooks, I think I left the keynote with a better understanding of why Google thinks Chromebooks matter. Almost four years after Google unveiled Chrome OS, it&#8217;s had, at most, a modest impact. Chromebooks are hits on Amazon.com and have gained at least some traction at brick-and-mortar stores. There&#8217;s a market for these things, but they&#8217;re not going to drum conventional PCs out of business anytime soon. I wonder if Google might be perfectly fine with the possibility that Chromebooks will wind up occupying a niche rather than changing the world. When the company announced at the keynote that conference attendees were getting Chromebook Pixels, it said that the idea was to encourage development of great apps. But there really aren&#8217;t such things as Chromebook apps &#8212; that&#8217;s the whole point of a Chromebook, which offers a browser as its user interface and the Internet as its back end. If a developer uses a Chromebook to create something cool, it&#8217;ll be a web app &#8212; one which will also work in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162924&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Play Music All Access Review: It&#8217;s Not a Spotify Competitor After All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/google-play-music-all-access-review-not-a-spotify-competitor-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get this out of the way: Google Play Music All Access is a terrible name, rolling off the tongue like a mouthful of marbles. I&#8217;m not sure what Google was thinking here, adopting such a clunky moniker for a fledgling streaming music service whose media-decreed rivals go by punchier handles like Pandora, Spotify, Rdio and Grooveshark. Why not something simpler like Google Music, leaving &#8220;All Access&#8221; to describe one of the subscription tiers? Even the name Google Play sounds catchier and more appropriate for something that dishes up tunes, but then Google already uses those two words (somewhat incongruously) to describe its entire digital distribution platform, from Android apps, devices and games to books, magazines and music. Google Play Music All Access it is then, and I&#8217;ll henceforth be referring to it as GPMAA for sanity&#8217;s sake (or, as I&#8217;ve been pronouncing it out loud, &#8220;gup-mah&#8221;). Google unveiled GPMAA yesterday at its annual I/O conference during an over three-hour developer-focused keynote, though of that time, the company only devoted a few minutes to touch on the service&#8217;s basic features. As suspected, GPMAA represents Google&#8217;s attempt to offer a subscription-based music service, streaming &#8220;millions&#8221; of songs &#8212; intermingled with up to 20,000 more, uploadable or song-matched from your personal library &#8212; for $10 a month ($8 a month if you sign up by the end of June). Chris Yerga, Google&#8217;s engineering director who steered this part of the keynote, explained that GPMAA would include common music streaming features like curated playlists, album recommendations and a build-your-own-radio-station feature. In other words, GPMAA isn&#8217;t a wildly new product so much as another limb stitched into an existing framework. Google hopped into the music game in late 2011 with Google Music (later, Google Play Music), the company&#8217;s answer to Apple&#8217;s iTunes music store, the twist being that you could also upload up to 20,000 of your own songs and stream all of that to multiple Android devices. The service never really took off, though, and no surprise: Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you’re<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162884&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragic Beauty of Google+</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/the-tragic-beauty-of-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google likes to use the word &#8220;beautiful&#8221; a lot when describing its own products. That would be grating if it weren&#8217;t for one fact: more and more, the company is building beautiful stuff. And I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s ever built anything more beautiful than the new version of its Google+ social network which debuted on Wednesday during the Google I/O keynote. The service, which was already pretty darn slick, is now among the most attractive and engaging web apps I&#8217;ve ever seen. Streams of activity are now laid out as one, two or three columns of tiles, depending on available screen real estate, with some oversized photos spanning the whole width. (Judging from my stream, some Google+ aficionados like the old format better &#8212; they can switch back to one column &#8212; but I find the new one less claustrophobic.) The left-hand toolbar which used to hog space now disappears until you need it; throughout, the level of visual polish is high, with pixel-perfect design and subtle little animations as you click on different controls. Google+ can now auto-hashtag your items, a feature which is useful because you can click on any hashtag and then flip through related items shared by other people, without leaving the page you&#8217;re on. When it figures out a hashtag based on words in your post, it&#8217;s neat. But in some cases, it can also analyze a photo to determine a relevant hashtag, a feat which can be downright dazzling. I uploaded a shot from Disneyland and a drawing of Superman; it correctly identified both and linked appropriately. The photo features, already practically a service unto themselves, get a thorough makeover. In a feature which reminds me a bit of Everpix, Google+ gives you a page of &#8220;highlights&#8221; which it chooses algorithmically: shots with family members, shots with smiling people, shots which it just deems to be aesthetically pleasing. There&#8217;s an auto-enhancement feature, which would be nice, but no big whoop except that you can tell Google+ to apply it to all your photos<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162860&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google I/O 2013 Is All About Cleaning Up the Mess and Filling In the Gaps</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/google-io-2013-cleaning-up-the-mess-filling-in-the-gaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google’s I/O conference keynote was, in many ways, the opposite of what we expected. Google did not announce any new hardware — no new Nexus 4 phone, upgraded Nexus 7 tablet or new Chromebook — nor did the company reveal a new version of Android. Wilder rumors about an &#8220;X Phone&#8221; from Motorola and an 11-inch tablet from Samsung did not materialize. (The only semi-new hardware announcement was that of a Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android, coming in late June for a cool $650.) Instead, Google spent about half of its annual developers conference focusing on, well, developers, and the tools they need to make better apps. The rest of the time, Google spent announcing improvements to core Web services, such as Search, Maps and Google+. The biggest new product launch was arguably Google Play Music All Access, a competitor to subscription services like Spotify and Rdio. In other words, Google was less interested in wowing the crowds with flashy hardware and software news, and more interested in making itself look good. What&#8217;s New for Google Users Here&#8217;s a quick overview of all the new, consumer-facing things that Google announced at the show: Google Play Game Services: Google&#8217;s answer to iOS Game Center and Xbox Live lets users start playing a game on their phones and resume progress on their tablets. It&#8217;ll also have achievements, online multiplayer and leaderboards tied to your social circles on Google+. Surprisingly, Google will let developers add its game services to iOS devices and Web-based games, not just Android. Google Play Music All Access: Google is getting into the subscription-music business, with a service that resembles Spotify and Rdio. For $9.99 per month — or $7.99 per month if you sign up by June 30 — you get millions of streaming tracks on Android devices and Web browsers, along with artist-based radio stations and personalized recommendations. No word on apps for iOS or other platforms. Maps for Mobile: The smartphone version of Google Maps lends drivers a hand with warnings when a traffic jam pops up, along<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162835&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Google Search Is Coming Sooner Than I Expected</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/the-future-of-google-search-coming-sooner-than-i-expected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I got to visit Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters and chat with Amit Singhal, the company&#8217;s search honcho, and other employees about their vision for the future of search. (I wrote about that experience here.) Singhal in particular waxed enthusiastic about the possibility of building something as smart, helpful and effortless as Star Trek&#8217;s computer. The whole thing might have sounded pie-in-sky and unrealistic if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that the current versions of Google&#8217;s search app for Android and iOS have already taken meaningful steps in that direction. Today, at the keynote for Google&#8217;s I/O conference, Singhal got a meaningful amount of stage time &#8212; and he talked about a bunch of new features he&#8217;d hinted at during my visit. In aggregate, they amount to additional meaningful progress towards the Star Trek computer: In Chrome, Google&#8217;s classic desktop version of search will get the same conversational spoken search which is already available in the mobile apps. On all platforms, that search will get smarter about interpreting queries and sequences of queries &#8212; such as &#8220;Show me things to do in Santa Cruz,&#8221; &#8220;Show me pictures of the Santa Cruz Boardwalk&#8221; and &#8220;How far is it from here?&#8221; You&#8217;ll be able to go into spoken conversational mode by saying &#8220;OK, Google&#8221; rather than having to press a button to go into a special mode. The Knowledge Graph, which gives Google a better understanding of facts about all sorts of entities, will try to anticipate your follow-up questions and answer them based upon what other people search for. Ask for the population of Canada, for instance, and it&#8217;ll tell you &#8212; but it will also graph how that population has changed over time. Google Now&#8217;s Cards &#8212; which present you with summaries of info based all kinds of stuff Google knows about you &#8212; are adding additional types of content, such as notifications about TV shows and albums you might like. In a feature which sounds similar to something Apple&#8217;s Siri already has, you&#8217;ll also be able to create reminders<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162837&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Things Google Play Music All Access Needs to Match (or Beat) Spotify [Updated]</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/5-things-google-music-needs-to-match-or-beat-spotify/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that Google may launch a streaming music service to rival Spotify&#8217;s as soon as this week, possibly to coincide with the Google I/O conference that&#8217;s kicking off today and runs through Friday. Why now, out of the blue? I/O notwithstanding, the Journal&#8216;s sources claim Google has signed deals with Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group  and Warner Music Group for unlimited access to &#8220;certain libraries&#8221; of their music catalogs. Google&#8217;s existing music service, Google Play Music, works like iTunes&#8217; music store with a twist: In addition to purchasing music through Google&#8217;s online storefront, you can upload (or &#8220;song match&#8221;) up to 20,000 of your own songs, then stream them to multiple Android devices &#8212; a &#8220;roll your own&#8221; music approach that initially sounded cool to musicophiles like me when Google touted it back in May 2011. It never really took off though, and in hindsight, it&#8217;s easy to see why. Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you&#8217;re paying for every song or album and limited by what you own and limited by where you can listen) and throwing a few bucks at a pre-fab service that simply works, elegantly and immediately on nearly any device, giving you instant listening access to an unprecedented single-source spectrum of music, which would you pick? (FOLLOW-UP: Google Play Music All Access Review: It’s Not a Spotify Competitor After All) We&#8217;re awash in streaming music nowadays, kicking through oceans of compressed audio as we sample potential purchases in iTunes or preview entire albums in browsers or groove to unthinkably vast song libraries in the cloud beamed to tiny apps that live on our smartphones and tablets. Google&#8217;s obviously a heavy-hitter, so anything it does in this space is newsworthy, but I&#8217;m not yet convinced the company understands what it takes to pull together a compelling service. Google Play hasn&#8217;t been that service, and I&#8217;m not sure a Google &#8220;Hey, We Can Do What Spotify Does, Too!&#8221; Music service distinguishes itself enough for anyone to bother. Bearing that in mind, here&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Poised to Show Off Latest Devices and Services</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/google-poised-to-show-off-latest-devices-and-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Michael Liedtke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; Google is expected to use its annual software developers&#8217; conference to showcase the latest mobile devices running on its Android software, while also unveiling other features in its evolving product line-up. The gathering, scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in San Francisco, provides Google Inc. with an opportunity to flex its technological muscle in front of a sold-out audience of engineers and entrepreneurs who develop applications and other features that can make smartphones and tablets more appealing. (MORE: Complete Google I/O Coverage on TIME Tech) Reporters from around the world also will be on hand, giving Google a chance to generate more hoopla about its latest innovations. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., made a big splash at last year&#8217;s conference by staging an elaborate production to highlight the potential of Google Glass &#8211; an Internet-connected device and camera that can be worn on a person&#8217;s face like a pair of spectacles. Google co-founder Sergey Brin wowed the crowd last year by taking to the stage and then engaging in a live video chat with a group of skydivers who were in a dirigible hovering above the convention. When they jumped, the skydivers&#8217; descent to the rooftop was shown live through the Google Glass camera. Some of the developers in attendance last year paid $1,500 apiece for a Google Glass prototype that was delivered to them in March. Google hasn&#8217;t spelled out what its executives will discuss during this year&#8217;s opening keynote, which is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. PT and last for nearly three hours. Given that Google Glass is now being tested by the developers who bought the &#8220;Explorer&#8221; edition, the device might not be one of the featured attractions. It&#8217;s a safe bet the spotlight at some point Wednesday will shine on Android, which already has been activated on more than 750 million devices around the world. Google gives the mobile operating system away, making it easier for gadget makers to sell their devices at prices below Apple Inc.&#8217;s iPhone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162813&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Lets You &#8216;Breakout&#8217; of Image Search with Retro Atari Easter Egg</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-lets-you-breakout-of-image-search-with-retro-atari-easter-egg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know those dreams you sometimes have where reality morphs into an old-school arcade game? The ones where the clouds turn into giant two-steppings bugs that descend in heartbeat rhythm while you rollerblade back and forth, firing long, spongy cloud-dissipating tracers into the sky with an over-the-shoulder Nerf cannon? Google&#8217;s lastest Easter egg isn&#8217;t that, but it is kind of cool just the same, and all it takes to fiddle with is a browser tuned to Google Images and the words &#8220;Atari Breakout&#8221; in the search box. What happens next is something those of you old enough to remember may not have experienced since the 1970s, when Atari&#8217;s Breakout first hit U.S. arcades (in April 1976, claims Wikipedia &#8211; making this roughly the game&#8217;s 37th anniversary). In the original, players used a dial to shift a Pong-like paddle left or right along the bottom of a screen, catching a bouncing ball on its rebounds from destroyable, color-coded layers sectioned into bricks. How you caught the ball off that rebound dictated the angle at which it bounced back. In the Google Image version, the image results themselves cleverly morph into the colorized layers, and you can use your mouse/trackpad or keyboard&#8217;s arrow keys to shift the paddle left or right (the arrow keys feel more precise). You&#8217;ve got five shots before it&#8217;s game over, after which you can pimp your score on Google+. I&#8217;m pretty sure, weird as it sounds, that this actually qualifies as skeuomorphic gaming: That is, the game takes the form of the actual search mechanic (no, it doesn&#8217;t matter). It&#8217;s also oddly recursive, as images snapped of the game being played are starting to take over the echelons of destroyable image-bricks. Don&#8217;t worry image hunters: For all three of you who genuinely need to find a decent static image of Breakout today, Google&#8217;s included a &#8220;Return to image search&#8221; button that flips you back to Google&#8217;s functional picture-filled rows.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162736&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gmail at Nine: The Evolution of an Essential Web Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/gmail-at-nine-the-evolution-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, when Google introduced Gmail, it wasn&#8217;t instantly obvious to everyone why the search engine phenom would want to get into the e-mail business. Actually, given that the company made its announcement on April 1, some people wondered, momentarily, whether the news was a hoax. Even once it was clear that Gmail was the real deal, Google felt the need, in the Gmail FAQ, to answer the burning question &#8220;Why is Google offering email? I thought you were a search company.&#8221; The era of people being confused by Gmail was so brief that it&#8217;s easy to forget such an era ever existed. Gmail quickly became not just one of Google&#8217;s core services but one of the web&#8217;s core services &#8212; the webmail client that came to define webmail clients even though it was far from the first one. Like most things Google does, Gmail hasn&#8217;t been without its controversies, but it&#8217;s still one of the company&#8217;s great success stories. I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service&#8217;s product manager, about Gmail&#8217;s first nine years &#8212; and a little bit about where it might be going. First, to refresh your memory, here&#8217;s an infographic-based history of Gmail that Google distributed last month, complete with major milestones such as 2010&#8242;s Priority Inbox, probably Gmail&#8217;s biggest innovation since the ones that got it started: Google One of the reasons Gmail took the web by surprise was that it wasn&#8217;t necessarily obvious that web-based mail was ripe for reinvention. Nine years ago, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail were good, popular and deeply entrenched; they seemed to have the market as it existed all sewn up. Gmail shattered that assumption because it was the first major web-based e-mail that aspired to be good enough to be someone&#8217;s primary inbox. &#8220;From the very start, [Gmail] was about pushing the boundaries of what an e-mail product might be for people,&#8221; Gawley says. &#8220;Back in 2004, most webmail providers were giving people a few megabytes of storage. They were thought of as this interesting quirk. A gigabyte of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162701&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Simplifies Free Storage into a Single 15-Gigabyte Chunk</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/google-simplifies-free-storage-into-15-gigabyte-chunk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously sliced and diced into varying increments and doled out between Gmail and other Google services, the search giant has simplified things by melting its free storage offering into a single 15-gigabyte chunk to be used as you see fit. Per the Google Drive Blog: [I]nstead of having 10 GB for Gmail and another 5 GB for Drive and Google+ Photos, you’ll now get 15 GB of unified storage for free to use as you like between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about how much you’re storing and where. For example, maybe you’re a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail. Now it doesn’t matter, because you can use your storage the way you want. You can check your current storage here and purchase more if you need it. You may not see the 15-gigabyte clump right away: Google says the changes &#8220;will roll out over the next couple of weeks.&#8221; Bringing it all together: 15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos [Google]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162648&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/timelapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Las Vegas to Arctic glaciers, navigate through time and space as you explore changes to Earth&#8217;s surface over the last three decades. Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162459&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Google Search Is Going</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/google-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1998, a new search engine from an obscure startup launched. It featured a logo, a text field and buttons for search and &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; &#8212; and not much else. Its name, as I don&#8217;t actually have to tell you, was Google, and it changed the way that the world interacted with information. It&#8217;s tempting to think of Google search as something that hasn&#8217;t evolved radically over the years, in part because the Google.com homepage hasn&#8217;t changed much &#8212; the logo, search field and dual buttons are all still there. Even the results, which now weave in images, videos, Knowledge Graph summaries and other elements, are still dominated by straightforward text results of the sort that many a would-be Google rival has derided as &#8220;ten blue links.&#8221; Under the surface, however, Google has changed plenty, in increasingly profound ways. The way we interact with it has also evolved. And if the company&#8217;s ambitious plans pay off, the Google of just a few years from now could be a new kind of search engine. In a recent visit to Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters, I discussed the future of Google search with Amit Singhal, a 22-year veteran of the search field and the company&#8217;s senior vice president in charge of search, and some of his colleagues. They didn&#8217;t clue me in on any top-secret projects. (I didn&#8217;t even get to try on Google Glass.) But I did leave with a greater understanding of where Google thinks search should go, and the steps it&#8217;s taking to get there. Google Amit Singhal As Singhal stresses, all Google is doing is continuing a journey it&#8217;s already on. &#8220;Over the 12 years I&#8217;ve been here, we have changed Google every two to four years,&#8221; he says. &#8220;There have been four or five huge milestones &#8230; Google&#8217;s beauty is what hides behind that simple interface: incredibly complex mathematics.&#8221; For search research, Singhal says, &#8220;these are supremely interesting times.&#8221; But when he describes his ideal version of Google, it doesn&#8217;t sound all that much like Google as we&#8217;ve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162339&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble Slash Prices, the Cheap Tablet Wars Are Getting Interesting Again</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/the-cheap-tablet-wars-are-getting-interesting-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battle for cheap tablet supremacy usually flares up only once a year. As the Christmas shopping season rolls around, we often see new tablets from Amazon and Barnes &#38; Noble, and low-cost slates from other companies trying to keep up. But if you&#8217;re getting interested in picking up a budget tablet just now, the middle of the year is looking pretty good. Right now, Amazon and Barnes &#38; Noble are both offering discounts on their respective Kindle Fire and Nook tablets, in honor of Mother&#8217;s Day: 7-inch Nook HD: $149 for 8 GB, $179 for 16 GB ($50 discount) 8.9-inch Nook HD+: $179 for 16 GB, $209 for 32 GB ($90 discount) 7-inch Kindle Fire HD: $179 for 16 GB with FIRE4MOM coupon code ($20 discount) Granted, these price drops are temporary, but in the past both companies have foreshadowed permanent price cuts with these kinds of promotions. Amazon, for instance, slashed prices on the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD last March, just a month after offering discounts for Valentine&#8217;s Day. Although the company has yet make a permanent price cut to its 7-inch tablet, I&#8217;ll be surprised if its not coming soon, given the lower price of Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Nook (with its newfound Google Play support). Other hardware makers are figuring out how to play the cheap tablet game as well. Acer just announced the the Iconia A1 for $169. It&#8217;s an Android tablet with the same screen resolution and aspect ratio as Apple&#8217;s iPad Mini, but for half the price. HP just launched its own cheap Android tablet, the Slate 7, also for $169. Analyst Ross Rubin put it succinctly on Twitter last week: Android tablets; $169 is the new $199.&#8212; Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) May 03, 2013 That&#8217;s not all. Next week, Google is holding a developer conference in San Francisco, where the company will likely announce a follow-up to its Nexus 7 tablet. Will Google stick with a $200 price tag? Maybe, but odds are that the company will drop the price on the current model,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162126&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Is Making Gaming Moves</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/googles-making-gaming-moves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 00:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google may be planning some big moves into video games, based on a few recent developments. As TechCrunch reports, Google has hired Noah Falstein to be the company&#8217;s chief game designer. Falstein is best known for his work on the arcade classic Sinistar, and on the Indiana Jones series of adventure games for DOS. That&#8217;s not the only sign of things to come. The schedule for Google&#8217;s I/O conference this month includes three sessions on gaming, including one billed &#8220;New Developments in Mobile Gaming.&#8221; Android Police has reported that Google is working on a multiplayer gaming service, similar to Apple’s Game Center, based on hints in one of Google&#8217;s own Android apps. What&#8217;s going on here? Let&#8217;s mull over the possibilities, based on what we know: Possible: More Offbeat Gaming Endeavors Google already dabbles in game design, occasionally releasing games in the form of Google Doodles, such as Zamboni and Soccer, and running the augmented-reality game Ingress through its Niantic Labs studio. Google could be bringing Falstein on board just to make better games. Or, given the data-mining potential of Ingress, perhaps Falstein&#8217;s job will be to find new ways to influence user behavior through gaming. (One of his main interests, according to TechCrunch, is the field of &#8220;serious games,&#8221; which attempt to teach or persuade rather than simply entertain.) One thing to note, though: Google tried hiring a high-profile game executive before, bringing on former Sony manager Mark DeLoura in 2010 to serve as game-developer evangelist. He left the company four months later, saying it wasn&#8217;t a perfect fit. Likely: New Gaming Platform, Hopefully Not Just Android Android has plenty of games, but it doesn&#8217;t have an overarching experience similar to Xbox Live or iOS Game Center. There are no achievements, no friends lists and no standard multiplayer features. That could change soon, given the leaked details posted by Android Police. But hopefully the effort doesn&#8217;t stop with Android. Last year, Google+ product manager Punit Soni promised a more unified gaming platform for Android, Chrome and Google+. &#8220;By next<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161791&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barnes &amp; Noble Puts Google&#8217;s Play Store and Apps on the Nook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/barnes-noble-puts-google-play-and-google-apps-on-the-nook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The walls around Barnes &#38; Noble&#8216;s Nook walled garden are tumbling down. The company&#8217;s Nook HD and Nook HD+ are credible content-consumption tablets &#8212; remarkably credible, actually, considering that they come from a 127-year-old bookseller. But they sold so poorly over the holiday season that it raised questions about whether B&#38;N would end up being forced to de-emphasize its hardware business in favor of selling content on other platforms. The Nooks use Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s own custom version of Android and provide its own stores for books, magazines, newspapers and apps. And therein lies an oft-raised argument against buying a Nook: the Barnes &#38; Noble application store has had only 10,000 pieces of software &#8212; mostly for-pay ones &#8212; vs. the hundreds of thousands of choices in Google&#8217;s Google Play. So with one fell swoop, in the form of a software update being rolled out today, B&#38;N is eliminating that downside. It&#8217;s giving both Nooks the Google Play stores for apps, music, movies and books, plus key Google apps which the tablets have lacked until now: Chrome, Gmail and YouTube. (Google&#8217;s policies for its apps are an all-or-nothing proposition for device makers &#8212; if they want Google Play, they also have to pre-install Google&#8217;s apps.) New Nooks sold at Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s bookstores and elsewhere will also carry the updated software. The bottom line: if something&#8217;s available for Android, it&#8217;s now available for Nook, assuming it&#8217;s compatible from a technical standpoint. Among other things, that means you&#8217;ll be able to install Amazon&#8217;s Kindle app on a Nook and read books you&#8217;ve purchased from Amazon. For the first time, the notion of someone with a heavy investment in Kindle books buying a Nook doesn&#8217;t sound completely impractical. Apps you bought from Barnes &#38; Noble will be marked with an &#8220;n&#8221; label (for Nook). And if you&#8217;ve bought Google Play apps for another Android device, they&#8217;ll be downloaded to your Nook at no extra charge. The arrival of the standard Android stores and apps doesn&#8217;t mean that the Nooks are becoming plain-vanilla,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161752&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Privacy Implications of Google Glass</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/the-real-privacy-implications-of-google-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 12:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, Google has steadily been building hype around Google Glass. The search giant revealed tech specs, explained how the software works, and has even let some of the tech press get their hands on the &#8220;Explorer Edition&#8221; of the device, an early version that costs a cool $1,500. One thing Google hasn&#8217;t done is talk about the privacy implications of Glass, which has a built-in camera that can sneakily take photos and video at any time. It seems the company would rather let the debate play out on its own. I think this is a mistake on Google&#8217;s part, but I also think much of the fearful prognosticating over Google Glass is misplaced. The real concern with Google Glass and privacy doesn&#8217;t have to do with surveillance or collection of personal data, but with the way it will make us behave in the real world. The Debate Thus Far Google Glass supporters have a few standard lines of defense against privacy critics. They claim that Glass isn&#8217;t much different than a smartphone in terms of capabilities, that people will have common decency about what to record, and that bystanders will learn to recognize when they&#8217;re on camera. Robert Scoble, arguably the biggest Glass advocate outside of Google, tries to swat down privacy complaints in a post on Google+: They think we&#8217;re going to follow them into bathrooms and record &#8220;their junk.&#8221; &#8230; If I wanted to do that I&#8217;d rather use my new Android phone, which has a much better camera and, um, can be more easily aimed without grabbing attention. The microphone on my iPhone is better, too, and video is much sharper and isn&#8217;t quite as wide angle, so I can see more details if I&#8217;m trying to be pervy anyway (which I&#8217;m not). They think I&#8217;m going to walk by them recording everything they are saying. After getting [Glass] that&#8217;s laughable. Scoble claims that the privacy concerns around Glass are overblown, and in a way, he&#8217;s right. The vast majority of people aren&#8217;t<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161454&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Now: Now on the iPhone and iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a plausible-sounding rumor for a while. And now it&#8217;s reality: Google Now, Google&#8217;s voice-controlled assistant, is available for Apple&#8217;s iOS. To be specific, it&#8217;s launching today as a new feature in the Google Search app for iPhone and iPad, giving users of Apple gadgets a feature which has been unique to Android phones until now. (I was going to say that Now is &#8220;finally&#8221; arriving on iOS, but it actually didn&#8217;t take all that long &#8212; the feature debuted only 10 months ago, when Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was announced. It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s so clever and useful that it quickly felt like a fundamental Android feature.) Google If you were going to lump Google Now into a category of mobile apps, you&#8217;d categorize it with Apple&#8217;s own Siri. The emphasis of the two apps is quite different, though. Google Now, like Siri, lets you do stuff by talking to it. But its distinguishing characteristic are its cards &#8212; tidy little summaries which show up based on cues such as your location and past actions rather than waiting until you&#8217;ve explicitly asked for them to appear. They can tell you about the weather, local attractions, news and sports, travel stuff like flights and hotels and more. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d call it the best version of Google, but it&#8217;s probably the one that most closely tells us where Google thinks it&#8217;ll be going over the next few years. I haven&#8217;t used the new iOS Google Search yet. (The current version has vaguely Google Now-like aspects without actually being Google Now.) I&#8217;m curious about how close it can come to replicating the Android version of Now when it&#8217;s part of an app on an operating system that Google doesn&#8217;t control. It also won&#8217;t be able to do some things which Siri, with its direct integration into the operating system, can do, such as popping up with a press of the Home button and letting you set alarms. But if Google Now retains a decent percentage of its appeal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161217&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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