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During the Christmas season it's hard to resist temptation to go on a shopping spree considering the abundance of offers and deals out there. Add special days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday and you'll see why you need a strategy for discovering the best deals out there. Google Catalogs is a tablet app that does just that in the sense that it offers you access to hundreds of catalogs.Instead of getting those in the mail you can browse them on your iPad, and since yesterday on your Android...

One interesting news to start the week, completely unexpected: Google just announced an agreement has been reached to buy Motorola Mobility division for 12.5 billion dollars. The deal is not finalized yet, but considering the official announcement I'd say it's 99% done.Larry Page,  Google's CEO initiated a press conference where he explained why Google acquired Motorola. Besides the PR talk (like how great Motorola was for the past 30 years, how it is still driving innovation and so on) the...

Google is on a big crusade started a few weeks ago, when it first changed the top user bar that's seen across all Google services. The latest layout change comes to Google Search, company's most popular product that's now optimized for touch tablets.The first compatibility list includes iOS (iPad and iPad 2) and all Android 3.1+ devices. If you're the proud owner of one such device and don't see the new layout don't worry, as Google announced it's rolling the update gradually over the next d...

We've talked a bit here at AllTouchTablet about Google's plans for operating systems including Android for tablets and smartphones and Chrome OS for laptops and netbooks. Apparently Google is also targeting tablets with its web apps based OS, as CNET revealed by conducting a code investigation of the latest OS build. According to them, lots of elements point towards a touch  optimized UI that will work especially on tablets. The most important details confirming this hypothesis are the on-scree...

I can still remember the dispute between Windows and Linux users back in the day of the Pentium era, when Windows 98 was not seen by the Linux crowd as a true OS because it was not open source and Microsoft was controlling too much their OS. Now, after 15 years, Linux is still under a few percentages as worldwide usage in desktops and laptops and Windows still has over 90% of the market. And the old open source versus closed environment is still open, if you can believe that...For me this de...

Software updates are a part of our lives, we even buy a tablet with an older version of an operating system in the hope it will be updated sooner of later to the latest issues of the OS. That was the case last year with the Dell Streak 5, that initially came with Android 1.6 and this year it will be the case again with the HTC Flyer, which will ship in the first batch with Android 2.3, so early adopters will hope for an update to Honeycomb in the months to come.Well, in this situation is eas...

I must admit that the first time I've read about Google Docs, one of the most used online Office suites at the moment, I thought that I would never use it. Now I edit 90% of my documents online, so that I can retrieve them from any PC and be able to collaborate with people very easy.Google must have anticipated that a lot of users are not paying for Apple's own Office suite available for the iPad (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, 10$ each). So they've announced that pretty soon we will be able t...

Scrap everything we've told you a few days ago about Google's vision on Chrome OS and Android, one for netbooks, one for tablets and smartphones. Why? Apparently Google thinks that Android 2.2 is not meant for tablets, it's just an OS designed a few years ago as a smartphone operating system, so it comes as a big surprise that most of the tablets announced at IFA Berlin 2010 run Android 2.2 Froyo, given Google's view on the situation.What's even worse is that Google is thinking of removing G...

Chrome OS is an old story, but one that hasn't reached climax yet, as Google didn't launched it officially yet. So we're left with a few images and short video teasers from last year. But now we know the general strategy of Google, as Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, recently mentioned in an interview to Reuters that Chrome OS is coming and will be the OS of choice for netbooks, competing clearly here with the MeeGo (the child of Intel and Nokia partnership).At the same time Android 3.0 is pushed...

I guess you all follow the news from time to time scanning for Google related bits of info. Today it's time to take Chrome OS seriously, as the Google VP of product management spoke at Computex, telling the press that this Chrome browser based OS will launch officially sometime in autumn this year. Interestingly enough Google didn't comment on products availability, but I bet they're planning something with their partners. It would be madness to launch the new OS with no products specially tailo...