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Google+ update lets you start video Hangouts from Messenger

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Jan 9, 2012 a 5:33 pm

Google+ has been updated with the ability to start video Hangouts from Messenger as well as a new UI for photos and mysterious bug fixes.

New Year's Resolution: Review your social network privacy settings

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jan 3, 2012 a 9:16 am

What better New Year's resolution to start with than to check out all your in-app privacy settings, especially where Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are concerned? We know how it goes; you get a shiny new iPhone or iPad app and you just want to use it so you log in through Twitter of Facebook or Google because it's easy, quickly tap through all the set up pages, granting who knows what permissions and for how long, and then forget about it the moment the next shiny app comes along.

Daily Tip: How to share a map location via Email, Messages or Twitter

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Dec 29, 2011 a 3:17 am

If you ever need to share your current location or any particular location you fancy when using the Maps app you can. It is very easy to do but can also be a very powerful way to help your friends find you or find a location that interests them that you want to share. Follow along and we will show you how easy it is to do it.

iPad Live 86: Endgame

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Dec 12, 2011 a 1:00 pm

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Rene, Seth, and Jim Dalrymple talk Apple's endgame, 7-inch challenges, putting the user first, the problem with Newsstand, Google Currents, and more. This is iPad Live!

Revamped Google Images brings carousel style results to iPad

By Jared DiPane, Thursday, Dec 8, 2011 a 11:44 am

Why does iPhone seem more fluid than Android?

By Andrew Wray, Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011 a 8:19 pm

Fairly or unfairly, Google's Android often gets knocked for having a lagging or stuttering user interface when compared to Apple's iOS on iPhone and iPad. TiPb's previously guessed that this stemmed from very early architectural decisions made by Apple, who had a full screen, multi-touch UI -- albeit it a highly limited one -- in mind from the outset, as opposed to Google who originally had Android set up as a BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Standard, and Nokia competitor that had no need for high performance, sophisticated UI rendering.

Less than openy

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011 a 1:42 am

According to 9to5Google, the reason Google Wallet is nowhere to be found on the upcoming Android Samsung Galaxy Nexus is because... wait for it... Verizon has blocked it. That's worth repeating. Google has allowed a carrier to prevent users from having a Google app on a platform marketed as being open, on a device meant to be the very flagship, the beacon of that openness.

Google+ updated to support full resolution photo uploads and +1 on photos

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Dec 5, 2011 a 8:47 pm

Google+ updated to support full resolution photo uploads as well as the ability to add a +1 on photos and search. Here's the release notes:

Forums: iPhone 4 vs. iPhone 4S, Risks in buying a jailbroken iPad 2

By Chris Parsons, Monday, Dec 5, 2011 a 7:51 pm

With this week now in full swing, we figured it was a good a time as any to remind you all of our Win the iOS device of your dreams contest! The week 1 thread can be found in the TiPb forums below so, if you're looking to get entered into the contest that is where you'll want to be headed as you'll need to post in there. You can register now for the forums and get started today! While you're in there entering, be sure to check out some of the other threads as well:

Daily Tip: How to remove your Wi-Fi access point from Google’s location database

By chrisoldroyd, Monday, Nov 28, 2011 a 10:24 pm

Google is collecting information from Wi-Fi access points from all over the world to enable it to speed up location services. Unfortunately it is gathering this information and maybe more, without the consent of the owners of the access point.

What’s more, Google is not only gathering data from public Wi-Fi access points but also from home and business users too. If you value your privacy, there is a way to stop Google recording your Wi-Fi access point’s location information. It’s reasonably straight forward to implement.