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Official Google Android Studio is based on JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA

By tim, on May 15th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Back in January I asked IntelliJ IDEA: the best IDE for programming Android? Google says yes. At the IO conference today, the company announced the official Android Studio – and it a version of IntelliJ IDEA.

Android Studio is currently in preview.

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Google forks WebKit into Blink: what are the implications?

By tim, on April 4th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Google announced that it is forking WebKit to create Blink, a new rendering engine to be used in its Chrome browser:

Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down

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Twilio integrates with Google App Engine for cloud telephony applications

By tim, on April 2nd, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Cloud telephony company Twilio has announced a partnership with Google to integrate its API with App Engine, Google’s platform for cloud applications. Google has a clear explanation of what this enables here. You can have your application respond to incoming SMS texts or voice calls, and send an SMS back, or for voice, play messages,

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Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missing

By tim, on February 27th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Mobile World Congress, now under way in Barcelona, is a big event. Exact numbers are not available, but I have heard talk of 70,000 trade attendees; it is not something you can safely ignore if you have a presence in the mobile industry.

Nevertheless Apple chooses to ignore it, preferring its own exclusive events.

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HP goes Android: what does that say about Windows 8?

By tim, on February 24th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona HP has announced a 7” Android tablet which will be available in April.

I took a quick look at the Mobile Focus event today. The back of the device is more interesting, showing logos for HP and for Beats Audio.

From the front you would be pushed

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Reflecting on Google’s power: a case for regulation?

By tim, on February 23rd, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Via Martin Belam’s blog I came across this account of how the well-known flower vendor Interflora has, it is claimed, been penalised by Google for violation of its webmaster guidelines on paid links:

Searching for the terms [Flowers], [florist], [flower delivery], [flowers online] and hundreds of other related search terms yielded the interflora.co.uk domain in

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Making sense of Microsoft’s Cloud OS

By tim, on January 15th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

People have been talking about “the internet operating system” for years. The phrase may have been muttered in Netscape days in the nineties, when the browser was going to be the operating system; then in the 2000s it was the Google OS that people discussed. Most notably though, Tim O’Reilly reflected on the subject, for

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Extraordinary: the FTC says it is OK for Google to bias search results in its own favour

By tim, on January 7th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

The most remarkable statement in the report from the US Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of Google is this one:

The FTC concluded that the introduction of Universal Search, as well as additional changes made to Google’s search algorithms – even those that may have had the effect of harming individual competitors – could be plausibly

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Google the new Microsoft, goes to war on Windows Phone users (updated)

By tim, on January 5th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has fired a one – two – three salvo at Microsoft and Windows Phone users. Consider the following.

First, we learn that Google, under the guise of Winter cleaning, is removing Google Sync from its Mail, Calendar and Contacts online products, for consumers only. This is the Exchange ActiveSync protocol used by Windows Phone

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Google fights Android fragmentation with new SDK terms

By tim, on January 4th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has revised the terms of the Android SDK license agreement so that users must now agree not to fragment Android by deriving other SDKs from Google’s official offering. In fact, you now have to agree not to fragment Android in any way as a condition of using the Android SDK.

The key clauses

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