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Homeless Man Being Taught Coding Since August Launches His First App, Trees For Cars
You have probably heard about the homeless guy named Leo Grand and programmer Patrick McConlogue offering him a choice between $100 and 16 free coding lessons. Grand, homeless since 2011 after losing his job at insurance provider MetLife and being priced out of his home when a high-rise apartment block…
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Nokia Rumored To Be Working On An Android-Powered Lumia Version
The well-known @evleaks posted a red colored odd-looking Nokia handset a few weeks back. We all thought it would be an upcoming Lumia device from its shape, as Nokia tends to keep the basic Lumia design looking as similar as possible. Surprisingly, according to The Verge, it’s not just any…
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Nokia Music To Be Released For iOS, Android And Mac OS X
Nokia Music app appears to begin expanding its reach into other platforms than Windows Phone and Windows PC. According to CTechcn.com, Nokia is about to release a web app version of Nokia Music for iOS and Android devices. There is however mention of Mac OS X support available as well.…
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Moto G Notification LED Fix Released
Android Central reported that the newly launched Motorola Moto G’ notification LED doesn’t seem to work at all, and there’s no software switch for it anywhere in the Settings app. Emails, texts and missed calls all failed to trigger the flashing white LED. Motorola responded with the following statement to…
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Google Announces New Wireless Charging Pad With Support For Nexus 5 and Nexus 7
Google announced a new charging pad which is supposed to go on sale in the Play Store today. I was previously seen with the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 last year, but it appears to have been delayed up until now. Google’s new wireless charging pad is officially compatible with…
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Nexus 5 To Launch November 1st In Black And White
According to EVLeaks Google’s Nexus 4 successor, the Nexus 5, will be launching on November 1st. The smartphone will be launched in both white (pictured above) and black (pictured below). The Nexus 5 is expected to have a 441 PPI 1920 x 1080 5 inch display powered by the Snapdragon…
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Google Newsstand Rumored To Be Introduced In Android 4.4
The Play Store is set to undergo a few changes, and news this afternoon suggests some new media content. While Play Magazines has long been a middle-of-the-road option when compared to similar services on other platforms, Android Police is reporting that it could be changing for the better. In their ongoing teardown of Play…
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Nexus 5 16GB Listing Appears On Play Store For $349, Removed Quickly
The Verge reports that Google’s Nexus 5 handset popped up on the Google Play Store yesterday for a short period of time. The store listing showed only one model, a 16GB Nexus 5, costing $349. This means it has the same entry pricing as the 16GB Nexus 4 did when…
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Microsoft Updates Its Outlook.com Android App
Today Microsoft announced that they will be updating their Android Outlook.com application with improvements to features like server-side search, improved offline mail storage, colors, vacation replies, and aliases. Outlook.com, a key project for Microsoft and the successor of Hotmail, has over 400 million users and is Microsoft’s mail vision for all mobile…
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Google’s Nexus 4 Becoming Sold Out, Will Not Be Restocked
It has been less than a month since Google chopped the price of its Nexus 4 8GB and 16GB handsets down by $100 and already the Google Play Stores in most countries are reporting that the Nexus 4 is sold out. The Verge reports that these Nexus 4 handsets will…
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Google Nexus 4 Gets Price Cut Over At Play Store
Google’s flagship smartphone the Google LG Nexus 4 has just had a price cut over at Google’s Play Store. The flagship handset from Google has had price cuts in the USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, Korea, and the UK. The price cut was quite hefty, in the USA the 8GB model…
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Moto X Will Be Made Available On Play Store, No Google Edition
Motorola’s new Moto X smartphone will be made available through Google’s official Play Store according to Twit.tv. Unlike the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One X there will not be a special “Google Edition handset” variant of the Moto X. That said, with Motorola already being owned by Google…
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Google Paying Adblock Plus To White-list Unobtrusive Adverts
After Google recently cheesed a lot of people off by removing Ad-blocking Apps from the Google Play Store, it turns out they are now resorting to paying Adblocking App companies to white-list Google adverts. According to Horizont.at Google is funding the developers of the AdBlock Plus App to create a…
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