Applications

Play Music gets updated, allows you to control your data consumption and your sanity

Are you on one of those infamous tiered data plans while also trying out Google's new All Access music subscription? If so, you might have been in for a nasty surprise the last time you checked your data usage. It seems that the new app was quite the data-hungry megabytivore, gulping data down like there is no tomorrow. Fortunately, Google updated the app Thursday to allow you to rein in the data usage.

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Google+ gets a new menu and sync across devices

Continuing the long run of Google app updates that began just before the I/O conference is the latest entry, Google+. Yes, the app already received a huge update that included Snapspeed photo editing and a new look and feel, but Google clearly isn't finished with this app yet. This time, Google+ gets sync across devices and a new menu that mimics those of Google's other app updates (such as Gmail, Play Music and Drive).

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FiOS On Demand Released For Android

Are you a Verizon FiOS subscriber whose household is dominated by Android? Do you wish you could watch movies and TV shows through your FiOS subscription on your Android phone or tablet? If so, your wait is officially over (sort of), with the release of FiOS Mobile for Android (months after iPad and iPhone customers have had the privilege of viewing on-demand content).

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Google Purchases Waze, Officially

Tuesday morning laid aside any speculation about the future of popular crowd-sourced traffic app Waze. Google announced on their blog that they completed their purchase of the social-minded live traffic app. This purchase is a clear move to augment Maps with up-to-date live traffic data, which has long been the bane of any real-time mapping system.

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Ingress Updates - UI Changes, Extra Augmentation, Mods

As the number of active players in the Ingress universe slowly creeps up, Niantic Labs just released still-private beta version 1.28.1 on Monday with several moderate changes to the look and feel as well as support for future mods such as Currents, Heatsinks, and more.

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Stock Google Keyboard Swipes its Way into the Play Store

In the past few months, we have seen many Google apps normally integrated into Android (or gapps packages for us AOSP-based ROM flashers) released as standalone apps in the Play Store for everyone to enjoy. Joining this group of apps Wednesday was the stock keyboard that we saw ship with Jelly Bean, available for download now.

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Falcon Pro hits 2.0, beta available through the new Play Store Beta feature

Falcon Pro, one of the most popular third-party Twitter clients in the Play Store, is getting some very cool updates in the coming days, as announced by the developer, Joaquim Vergès. Joaquim took to his Falco Pro Twitter account late last night to announce and tease some new features, themes and a beta release.

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