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You can now Chromecast within Chrome without the Google Cast extension
Chromecasting a tab from within Chrome is pretty awesome when showing off a web page, a photo or even just dropping a video in...
LG teases “Play begins” for Mobile World Congress 2016
Hot on the heels of CES 2016 where the company came out swinging with a line of premium "Signature" home appliances, LG has started...
Multiroom support is coming to the wider Google Cast ecosystem
Speaking today at the Ubiquity Dev Summit, Rishi Chandra (Vice President of Chromecast and Android TV at Google) announced that the multiroom audio feature...
Google Play App and Game Deal of the Week updated again
It's that time of the week again, Google has discounted another app and game to a low 20c each and this week you can...
Google discounts Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P by $100 on Google Store for back...
Want a discount on an LG Nexus 5X or Huawei Nexus 6P? The Australian Google Store is offering a $100 discount on both phones...
Google I/O to be held at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View from 18th-20th May
Clear your calendars people, Google's annual developer conference Google I/O will again be held in May with the venue moving from its traditional home...
Google Search is showing ‘Nearby’ and ‘What’s Hot’ for at least one user
Google is constantly testing stuff and it looks like Google mobile search is possibly going to be getting some new features according to at...
Meet Energrid, a stackable and connectable wireless charging set
During my time on the CES show room floor, I came across Energrid, a system of charging pads that interconnect in various ways to...
Motorola’s 2016 lineup will all include 5″ screens and fingerprint sensors says Lenovo SVP
The fingerprint sensor has been an increasingly adopted hardware/software feature of Android OEMs over the last 12 months, and with Google implementing fingerprint support...
The Room Three now available on Android
The wildly popular "The Room" series of mobile games recently released its third instalment, aka The Room Three, on iOS. Unfortunately, for those of...
Sony announce the Xperia Z5, in Pink
As we suspected this morning Sony has officially announced a Pink variant of their Xperia Z5 smartphone, and apparently it's a beauty. Apart from...
Summer heats up with an update to the Australian Open Android app
The Australian Open is about to kick off, with play getting underway this Saturday the 18th and running through until the 31st of January....
Android Wear now has a Twitter account
Android Wear has its own Twitter account, a fact that escaped us as it slipped quietly under the radar in late December. Android Wear can...
Sony teases its “new beauty”
Following recent speculation that Sony may be releasing a Pink variant of one of their handsets, possibly the Sony Xperia Z5, they have teased...
Watch Google’s Ubiquitous Computing Dev Summit
Google has continued their trend of breaking out developer engagement and detailed education from Google IO with their Dev Summit model. The latest edition...