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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Tesco has launched a 7-inch Android tablet that it’s calling Hudl. It’ll go on sale next Monday for £119.
Hudl has an HD screen and runs Android 4.2.2 on a 1.5GHz quad-core processor.
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Black days for BlackBerry
Mark Bridge writes:
There are bad weeks... and there are BAD weeks. Blackberry had one of the latter. It all started so well. The company announced a new flagship phablet – the Z30 – and said it would be launching its BBM instant messaging service for iOS and Android handsets at the weekend.
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Yesterday BlackBerry announced its preliminary quarterly results and also provided an update on its plans for the business.
It says it’s expecting to make a loss of between $950 million to $995 million (up to £621 million) in the past quarter, with most of this value being written-off due to poor sales of the Z10 smartphone.
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Made in Mind, the UK company behind the award-winning Mu folding smartphone charger, has signed a production and distribution agreement with Hong Kong-based Tektos.
It’ll enable Made in Mind to expand distribution beyond the UK.
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