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Google Play Music All Access comes to Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Ukraine

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by on July 15, 2014 at 11:46 pm
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Google has launched its Play Music All Access subscription service in six new countries: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Ukraine. As usual, new members will receive 30 days free when they sign up and have access to a catalog of 20 million songs, including offline support from their Android devices. Today’s launch follows expansions to Germany, Australia and New Zealand, and Mexico last year. Here’s the complete list of countries that support the All Access subscription: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New…

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Adobe and Google debut open-source typeface family spanning Chinese, Japanese and Korean to serve one-quarter of the world’s population

Jul15
by on July 15, 2014 at 10:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Adobe has joined forces with Google to release a new set of Asian OpenType fonts that span the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. The Adobe font, named Source Han Sans, is a new open source offering for the company’s Pan-CJK typeface family. Google is simultaneously releasing its own version of this font under the name Noto Sans CJK as part of a plan to build out its Noto Pan-Unicode font family. Both sets, developed in collaboration, are identical except for the name and will serve 1.5 billion people — roughly a quarter of the world’s population. The new typeface family is available in seven weights,…

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Google drops all real-name restrictions for Google+

Jul15
by on July 15, 2014 at 9:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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After years of complaints, Google has finally dropped the real-name restrictions on its Google+ network. The company apologized for the “unnecessarily difficult experiences” the rules had created. When Google+ first launched, Google required that users sign up with their real identities. Over time, those restrictions were lessened, first for Pages and then for YouTube users. Now, anyone can choose to use a pseudonym on Google+. While Google+ started as a grand experiment to add a social layer across all of Google’s products, the service has languished in recent months. With the departure of Google+ chief Vic Gundotra in April, speculation arose that Google might…

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Google drops all real-name restrictions for Google+

Jul15
by on July 15, 2014 at 9:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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After years of complaints, Google has finally dropped the real-name restrictions on its Google+ network. The company apologized for the “unnecessarily difficult experiences” the rules had created. When Google+ first launched, Google required that users sign up with their real identities. Over time, those restrictions were lessened, first for Pages and then for YouTube users. Now, anyone can choose to use a pseudonym on Google+. While Google+ started as a grand experiment to add a social layer across all of Google’s products, the service has languished in recent months. With the departure of Google+ chief Vic Gundotra in April, speculation arose that Google might…

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Apple partners with IBM to sell iPads and iPhones to the enterprise

Jul15
by on July 15, 2014 at 8:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Apple and IBM today announced a wide-ranging partnership that will see IBM help sell the iPhone and iPad to its business clients bundled with new mobile management technology for iOS. The deal will bring “more than 100 industry-specific enterprise solutions” to Apple’s mobile devices, along with IBM’s suite of cloud services such as “device management, security, analytics and mobile integration.” Apple will also offer enterprise-tailored AppleCare plans, and IBM will bundle packages that include “device activation, supply and management.” “For the first time ever we’re putting IBM’s renowned big data analytics at iOS users’ fingertips, which opens up a large…

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