Google Play celebrates first birthday with gifts and goodies

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Google Play was launched exactly one year ago, in an effort to converge all the ecosystem specific piece under one brand. That was the day the Android Market died, just the name though. And today, it has turned one, and as a way of celebrating the first birthday, Google has some gifts and goodies for all the user out there. With that said, here is a video featuring all the goodies you get, specially made for the Google Play anniversary. Here is a short video explaining what all goodies you get in some games and apps, just for the celebration of Google Play’s anniversary.

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Google Play celebrates 25 billion downloads with $0.25 discounted apps for 5 days

With the ever burgeoning Android smartphone marketshare, it is inevitable that the Play Store will have some insane amounts of downloads too. Continuing with that upward trend of app count as well as app downloads, the Google Play Store has hit 25 billion downloads of about 675,000 apps and games. To celebrate this achievement, they have started to offer some discounts for the next five days.

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Google Play lets you update and uninstall apps on your phone from the browser

The Google Play website  ( previously known as Android Market) has got a cool new feature. You can now remotely delete /uninstall and update apps on your phones connected to you Google account. Continue reading “Google Play lets you update and uninstall apps on your phone from the browser”

Google selling Galaxy Nexus with new factory image on Play Store

Google has started selling the Galaxy Nexus on Google Play from this week just for $399.99, six week after its debut. This new device comes with Google wallet and a $10 credit by default. Another interesting factor is that the system image on this Galaxy Nexus is not the usual “Yakju” build, instead it’s the “Takju” image which has been used.

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Instagram for Android gets tablet , SD card installs support

Instagram finally made its way to the super popular Android platform earlier this week and attained over a million downloads in a single day. The photo sharing app has now received an update to include support for Android tablets , SD card installation and even WiFi handsets.

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HTC to shut down cloud services, asks users to download stored data

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HTC has many new plans this year, one of their plan is to concentrate on less devices and make their Sense platform better, just a while back HTC Sense customers received a mail saying that their cloud services like Contacts, messages, Footprints and call history will be shut down and made offline. The heading says that they are not actually shutting the service down but renovating their cloud service or HTCSense.com.

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New version of Cut the Rope, “Experiments” released to Google Play store

Cut the Rope is an amazing game, its really addicting once you start playing, it is one of the most downloaded games on Android and iPhone both, and now a sequel of this popular game is out on Android for everyone to download and it is called, Cut the Rope: Experiments.

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