Android Apps and News

Photos are running things today at Google following the we’ve-got-our-hands-in-everything-company released updates for two of its most popular apps. Google+ was updated to improve user interacti…

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Have you ever taken a picture and wished that you could immediately have that image used for a Google Goggles search? Me neither, but Google has made that a feature so you might as well see if it was worth the develo…

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Like almost everything else in life, Goggles now proves that faster is better. The app previously took pictures of barcodes and then provided information a few seconds later, but Goggles can now recognize a ba…

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I love Android wallpapers, but I hate having to hunt them down. That’s why I browse Android forums in which people show off what they have discovered and ask them where they got a particular background ima…

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Quite a few geeks got excited when Google Goggles was shown off automatically scanning a German menu and translating it into English. Google has decided that the rest of the world needs to be able to figure out ho…

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Google gets bored and buys yet another company. This time, it’s the team behind PlinkArt, an Android application that helps scan and recognize art. The visual search app Plink identifies paintings and artwor…

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Google has launched a product recognition and shopping comparison app named Google Shopper. The new app is very similar to Google Goggles: scan the cover of a book, CD, DVD, video game, or barcode, and Google wi…

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The Google Goggles Android app and Google Translate are two slightly flawed but promising products. From a conceptual standpoint, these apps are great and will be must-have tools in the future; however, thei…

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Google Goggles seemed amazing to me when it was first announced. The thought that I could perform visual searches on things I didn’t recognize was intriguing and something I thought would – clich…

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