Play Books update, adds in uploading EPUB & PDFs from phone and Tablets [Download]
Google has pushed out a new update for the Google Play Books apps tonight. It moves the app to version 3.1.17. That is pretty substantial over the previous 3.0.15. It also gets a little bit larger coming in at 6.48MBs. The update offers quite a bit of new stuff for those book lovers out there….
Larger Stonestown Apple Retail Store Opening in San Francisco on Saturday [Mac Blog]
Apple is vastly increasing the size of its Stonestown Galleria Apple Retail Store in San Francisco, going from one of the narrowest locations in the chain at 25 feet wide — a total of 3,160 square feet including back of house space — to a much larger…
[RUMOUR] Is The Nokia Normandy Going To Be An Android Phone Released In 2014
Many of us have wondered what would have happened to Nokia if they hadn’t aligned with Microsoft and had instead adopted Android as their operating system (OS). We were almost given hope of that happening when we heard whispers of a Nokia prototype called “Mountain View” which…
Ubuntu gets its first smartphone deal, comes to high-end devices in 2014
Canonical’s smartphone-sized Ubuntu distribution hasn’t had an official device to call home since release, but it won’t have to live that nomadic existence for much longer. CEO Mark Shuttleworth tells CNET that his company has just signed its fir…
Nokia Normandy rumored to be low-end Android-based phone
The image you see above is the rumored Nokia Normandy, which Twitter leakster @evleaks revealed at the end of last month. While not much was known about the device at the time, the lack of hardware shutter button, capacitive buttons and LED flash …
Daily Roundup: Samsung’s EMC lab, interview with Qualcomm’s Raj Talluri, new Chromecast apps and more!
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all ha…
Twitter update takes on Snapchat with direct message photos, improved alerts
Well, it’s not quite the dramatic redesign Twitter experimented with then largely scrapped, but today’s update to its mobile apps still packs a pretty decent punch. For one, you can finally share images via direct message, which has until now been…
Xbox One’s first post-launch update tackles multiplayer and SmartGlass issues
The PlayStation 4 has already seen its first post-launch firmware upgrade; now, it’s the Xbox One’s turn. Microsoft is about to roll out a system update that will fix several glitches, including problems with SmartGlass when entering or exiting st…
Peripheral Vision 014: Will Bates on how a viral William Shatner mashup helped kickstart a film scoring career
“When I was six-years-old,” Will Bates begins, with a touch of nostalgia, “I sang the whole score of Star Wars to my parents. From then on, they figured out that I was going to go in this direction.” We’re sitting in a dimly lit studio at Fall on …
Google Drive for iOS finally lets you sort files
The little handy dongle that is the Chromecast isn’t the only product Google is improving today. And while this newly added functionality to Drive on iOS may not be as notable as 10 shiny apps, we’re sure avid users of the storage service will hap…
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