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Google’s new Android ads could be teasing the next Nexus smartphone and tablet

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by on October 14, 2014 at 11:05 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google has seemingly accidentally released three new ads designed to promote the newest members of its Nexus device family. The ads, first spotted by Google+ user Christian Colocho, have since been removed, but not before they were captured and put on YouTube to be preserved forever. In the series of three, the tagline “be together. not the same.” was used in each. While Google doesn’t exactly telegraph the fact, it looks like they’re showing off some new devices. In some shots you can clearly see a comically large smartphone, with a curved rear panel and the new Android L UI displayed on the…

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Grids for Mac is a better way to browse Instagram on the desktop

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by on October 14, 2014 at 10:05 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Instagram may be among the most widely adopted imaging social networks, but there’s a limitation to the app’s presentation, especially if you often move back and forth between mobile devices and a desktop or laptop computer. Sure, Instagram itself offers a more or less serviceable desktop functionality, but it lacks a certain intuitiveness and ease of use, not to mention charm and style. And that’s where Grids, a new Instagram client app from Think Time Creations that just hit the Mac App Store, comes into play. If you value the look of your Instagram feed and often check it out on the desktop, the…

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Tesco Blinkbox customers can now get a digital copy of movies when they buy the disc version in store

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by on October 14, 2014 at 9:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, UK

Tesco’s Blinkbox on-demand streaming service has rolled out support for UltraViolet today, which gives shoppers a free digital copy of a movie when they buy the DVD or Blu-ray version in store. In order to denote specific titles as UltraViolet eligible, Tesco is marking select discs with the UltraViolet logo, meaning that it won’t just work for any movie you buy. It does have major studios like Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, NBCUniversal and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on board though. Provided the disc you have purchased qualifies, you’ll be able to instantly start streaming the movie via your Blinkbox…

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Google unveils subscription plan for same-day ‘Express’ delivery service, as it arrives in 3 more cities

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by on October 14, 2014 at 8:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google started trialling a same-day delivery service in San Francisco back in early 2013 called Google Shopping Express, before it was opened to everyone in the city later in the year. Now, five months after an expansion that brought parts of Los Angeles and New York into the fold, Google has announced that Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC are now on board. Oh, and the service is no longer free either. Groceries on-demand To recap, Google Shopping Express brings groceries and other purchases from local stores to your door at a time that is convenient to you that day, and orders…

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