You’d be hard-pressed to find a Google+ user with any affinity for the service, but that’s not to say there aren’t elements of the social network experiment worth saving.
Bloomberg News first reported last year that Google might be planning to spin off its photo sharing and storage features from Google+, and now people familiar with the plans tell Bloomberg that the new service will be revealed soon.
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With profits from Samsung’s division on the decline, the recent release of the Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge could not have come at a better time.
According to The Korea Herald, shipments of Samsung’s new flagship devices have already passed the 10 million mark, not too bad given that they’ve barely been on the market for a little over a month. Both the S6 and the S6 Edge hit store shelves on April 10. Incidentally, the Herald’s source reportedly comes from a high-ranking Samsung official.
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Chrome is an awesome browser but it also has severe memory leak issues that can chew up resources on both your PC and your smartphone. KitGuru highlights some recent comments made by the Chrome for Android team during a Reddit AMA that show Google’s engineers are very much aware of Chrome’s memory leak problems and are vowing to fix it.
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It is now all but impossible to own a device on which Microsoft Office is not available. On Tuesday, Microsoft released the Word, Excel and PowerPoint preview apps on Android phones, adding yet another platform to its increasingly expansive list.
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Tesla’s Powerwall home battery is already a hit, and the device could prove to be quite useful in a variety of instances, including keeping the lights on during a power outage or feeding back energy to the grid. But how how much power can Tesla’s new Powerwall battery store, and how can you quantify it in the context of the devices in your home?
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A survey commissioned by AT&T reveals that smartphone owners are doing a lot more things on their devices they’re not supposed to do than just texting while driving.
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Even though much of the discussion surrounding online video seems to center on Netflix, it’s easy to forget just how incredibly influential YouTube remains as a video powerhouse. In 2014, for instance, the Google-owned property was the third most visited website in the entire world.
Still, it’s not as if YouTube has been raking in the dough. Though revenue from YouTube now check in at around $4 billion annually, that’s just barely enough for the site to break even. One of the monetization problems that has long plagued YouTube is that many consumers happen to view YouTube videos from within Facebook or embedded within other websites. In short, not as many people were heading on over YouTube.com as a starting point for viewing video. Additionally, YouTube was experiencing problems keeping viewers on the site for long stints of time.
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The YotaPhone 2 is one of the most interesting and unique Android handsets in the world, a flagship device that comes with a crazy feature that’s supposed to help you conserve battery life: An E Ink touchscreen display on the back of the handset. While the phone hasn’t been released in North America yet, the company behind it just kicked off a crowdfunding campaign to bring it to the United States.
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Carrier subsidies can be awfully tempting — after all, who doesn’t want to get a brand-new smartphone for just $200? But Droid Life makes a good case that they’re also a temptation you should resist because the value of having an unlocked smartphone is just too good over the long haul to pass up.
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The Galaxy S6 is one of the best Android phones you can buy right now, but it’s also one of the most expensive ones, particularly the Galaxy S6 edge. In case you’re looking to buy a used Galaxy S6 model rather than purchase one for full price or with a new carrier contract, then you should absolutely watch a new video that shows you how easily a Galaxy S6 can be cloned and how to spot a fake before you buy one.
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