Google has made the Quickoffice productivity app free for Android and Apple iOS devices.
Quickoffice, which enables users to update Microsoft Office documents from a mobile device, was acquired by Google last year.
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Bump, the company behind a cloud-based iOS and Android app that enables smartphone users to transfer files between phones by literally bumping them together, has been acquired by Google.
When users bump their phones, the service works out which devices are making the transfer by calculating where the phones are and how hard they were bumped.
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Google has announced that the next version of its Android mobile operating system - Android v4.4 - will be known as Android KitKat.
Previous rumours had focussed on ‘Key Lime Pie’ as being the favoured name. All Android versions are named after desserts and confectionary.
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Hugo Barra, who is vice president of Android product management at Google, is leaving to join three-year-old Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi.
Mr Barra joined Google from language technology company Nuance 5 years ago, later moving to work on Android.
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Podcast - 26th August 2013
In this special feature we're talking to David Akka, who tells us why he says Android is dead, why Chromecast is an omen for the mobile industry, why OS companies are getting into hardware and what the future holds for the mobile industry.
David is UK managing director of Magic Software and describes himself as a 'recovering techie'. His personal blog is at davidakka.com.
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