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Gauging the scale of the post-PC opportunity: "Mobile Is Eating The World"

by Richard Gaywood (Jun 17th, 2013)

Speaking at All Things D in 2010, Steve Jobs famously predicted that "PCs are going to be like trucks": specialised devices that only appeal to people with particular demands of their computing experience while ordinary people would come to prefer smartphones and tablets for all their computing ...

Daily Update for June 11, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jun 11th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Google has purchased Waze

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 11th, 2013)

Google announced in a blog post today that it is acquiring social traffic company Waze. This announcement is not surprising as Google was rumored to be close to inking a deal with the Israeli startup. Google was one of many suitors reportedly courting Waze -- earlier rumors hinted at a potential ...

Apple denies involvement in US government communication surveillance

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 6th, 2013)

Apple has told CNBC that it does not provide the US government with direct access to its servers, contradicting a Washington Post report that the company, among others, is knowingly participating in a secret program that is allowing the government to monitor the activity of US residents. The ...

YouTube sees mobile ad sales triple after ad-free iOS version bites the dust

by John-Michael Bond (Jun 6th, 2013)

Last August Apple announced it had lost its license to include the iPhone-bundled YouTube app as a part of iOS 6. Google wanted to make its own app, one that had ads, unlike the one found in iOS 5. The move appears to have been a smart one. Bloomberg reports Google has tripled its mobile ad ...

Daily Update for June 4, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jun 4th, 2013)

Chrome for iOS updated, improves voice search and speed

by John-Michael Bond (Jun 3rd, 2013)

Google has updated Chrome for iOS to version 27, bringing with it a number of new features aimed at Apple users looking for a Siri alternative. Like the recently updated desktop and Android versions, iOS users can verbally ask Chrome a question and get a verbal response. Chrome now talks back to ...

Gmail getting an updated interface on desktop and mobile

by Mike Schramm (May 29th, 2013)

The Gmail Blog reports that the popular online email service is getting yet another facelift, on both the desktop and mobile clients. As you can see above, the new look's emphasis is on Facebook-style tabs, with all of your interactions boiled down into your Primary inbox, or Google's Social, ...

Google to bring Chrome app launcher to OS X

by Steven Sande (May 21st, 2013)

Those of us who use Google's Chrome browser for OS X are familiar with how Chrome web apps can be installed and launched from within the browser. Now it appears that Google is working on a way to bring those Chrome apps even closer to the heart of your Mac by creating a Chrome apps launcher for OS ...

Google's Field Trip app gets you into 13 museums for free right now

by Michael Grothaus (May 20th, 2013)

Museum buffs and tourists might want to download Google's Field Trip app right now. As we've told you before, the location-based app shows you cool things to do while on a trip. For a limited time, the app will also get you into 13 major US museums for free, as Google announced on the Field Trip ...

Google Hangouts app to integrate SMS "soon"

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 16th, 2013)

I've been using the Google Hangouts app on the iPhone since it was announced on Wednesday, and I've really liked it so far. I haven't messed around with it much on my iPad, except to install it, but it was enough for my Android-using husband to be jealous that we got it first. Like Apple's ...

Google Play Music All Access announced at Google I/O

by John-Michael Bond (May 15th, 2013)

Google's long-rumored music streaming service became a reality today with the announcement of Google Play Music All Access. The company has already cleared licensing deals with all three major labels left standing -- Warner, Universal and Sony -- meaning they'll have millions of songs available ...

Google announces new features for its Maps app, coming soon

by Mike Schramm (May 15th, 2013)

Google I/O is going down today (as you have probably noticed from all of the Google updates), and one of the new products announced there is a new version of the Google Maps app, due out to the App Store later on this summer. Google says the new Maps app will include integrated information from ...

Google announces new Hangout app to hit iOS today

by Dave Caolo (May 15th, 2013)

Google announced a new Hangouts app at its I/O conference, which will be available for iOS today. It's not out as I'm typing this, but the brief keynote demo showed a family of participants taking part in a long-running conversation of photos of text. From what we saw, it looks like Messages with a ...

Google Drive triples free storage to 15 GB

by Mel Martin (May 13th, 2013)

We were just talking about how Amazon is competing with Apple and other cloud services by offering 5 GB of storage for free. Now, that turns out to be old news, because today Google announced that free storage spanning several Google services like Gmail, Google+ and Google Drive is now going to ...