Google to Abandon more Services

Google announced today that it's taking the ax to a handful of services, including Google Reader, in its latest round of spring cleaning.Google said it will retire the RSS reader on July 1, giving users and developers a little more than three months to export their data with Google Takeout to alternative RSS readers. The Web giant said in a company blog post today that...

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Facebook Home And The Promise Of Android

If you’re an iPhone user, you might be feeling a little left behind, because Facebook launched an application called Facebook Home, touted by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the “next version of Facebook.” In fact, you might be feeling this way if you’re an Android user, too. For now, only a handful of select devices can even run Home (officially) — notably missing from the lineup...

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Chrome and Android’s Excellent Collision Course

  Andy Rubin left Android, and Chrome and Apps boss Sundar Pichai is taking over. Desktop melts into mobile. It's a familiar dance, following iOS and OS X and the whole Windows 8 philosophy down the same convergence rabbit hole. But this one is a little different.It's clear by now that the merging of desktop and mobile is the endgame for tech's major players. Apple...

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