Google seems to be innovating constantly and many of its applications are relevant and not frills.
The current feature is a very valuable addition.
The Google New mobile app received an update today, that was announced at the Google I/O Conference. If you are a news hound then Google News is probably something you visit frequently. And now, it just got better on your phone or tablet. According to Google:
“Location-based news first became available in Google News in 2008, and today there’s a local section for just about any city, state or country in the world with coverage from thousands of sources. We do local news a bit differently, analyzing every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located.”
If your phone tracks your location, and most do, then you can easily build a local new feed on your phone. To get started you will have to visit Google News from your Android or iOS device. A pop-up will ask you to share your location. Just say “yes” and the local news will auto-populate. You will then receive a “news near you” link at the bottom of you home page. You can turn off the feature at any time hiding the section in your personalization settings or by adjusting your mobile browser settings.
This update adds a nifty “local” aspect to Google News that has been lacking since launch. It’s a great way to keep up-to-date with what is going on around you. Google News has continued to improve since launch, despite threats from high-powered news orginaztions such as Ruppert Murdoch’s empire. Now they are muscling in on the territory of local papers and networks to go one step beyond.
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20$ A Month laptop by Google?
News leaking out of Google’s big technology conference says the search-engine giant will announce a plan as soon as today to sell laptops bundled with its Chrome browser and operating system for as little as $20 a month — a price plan much like the way mobile-phone carriers subsidize phones to get you to sign up for a two-year service plan.
The goal would be to get people to use Google Apps like word processing and spreadsheets, and to move from an initial base in the price-sensitive education market toward corporate computing.
On its face, this is a pretty logical move. With Dell selling Inspiron Minis for as little as $279.99 at retail, it’s not hard to see how the economics could work. Even if Google paid retail for all the laptops, the deal pays out in 14 months even before Google sells an ad.
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