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Windows Phone doesn't have the 'reach' for Google to build a YouTube app, says Android chief

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Google didn't build its own YouTube app for Windows Phone because the platform doesn't have "a critical mass of users," Android chief Sundar Pichai said today at the D11 conference. "It's simply a function of reach," he said, before recommending that Windows Phone users try the mobile web version of YouTube. "YouTube has a great HTML5 experience," he said.

Pichai's comments come in the wake of...

Google Play Music All Access coming to iOS

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On stage at D11, Sundar Pichai announced that Google Play Music All Access will be coming to iOS in about one month's time. While the company remained quiet about offering cross platform access during the service's debut at I/O, it appears now that development is underway. Pichai stated that Google is interested in giving users universal access to its services, and it's clear that part of that is making them available on Apple's platform as well. The All Access subscription music service launched on Android two weeks ago, and so far it looks like Google's offering is just as strong as that from competitors Spotify and Rdio. Giving customers more ways to access their music can only make the service more robust, and — just like Google wants — open it up to a larger audience.

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Shazam comes to Windows Phone 8 with home screen tagging and Xbox Music support

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Just a week after it released a new iPad app, Shazam has officially announced the launch of its music discovery service on Windows Phone 8 devices. The updated app is designed with speed in mind, and brings with it a few new features, including the ability to allow users to identify tracks directly from their home screen and then listen to or buy them through Xbox Music or Nokia Music. Like on Android and iOS, Windows Phone users will also be able to tag TV adverts, although it does not...


Despite opposition, Google will make critical security exploits public after seven days

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Google’s security researchers are well known for uncovering vulnerabilities in other people's products. Standard operating procedure is to give the affected company sixty days before publishing the problem, keeping things under wraps until a fix can be shipped out. But when it comes to critical vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited, Google wants its researchers to cut that down to just a week. A post on its Online Security Blog...

Digital avatars help silence voices for patients with drug-resistant schizophrenia

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Seeing is believing, at least in the case of a new pilot treatment for drug-resistant schizophrenia that has patients interact with digital avatars of the imagined voices in their heads. The "avatar therapy," was designed by researchers at University College London in the UK and is being expanded to larger clinical trial in July, after it helped quiet the voices in the heads of a small group of patients for whom more traditional prescription...

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