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Page: health problems but do not go away

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Into Larry Page at the developer conference

A faint voice and an invitation to “not being negative” and to “focus on large companies that can still be realized.” The opening keynote of I / O, Google’s developer conference that is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, ended with a speech by Larry Page. The intervention of the CEO and co-founder of the Mountain View company was expected especially after the details about his state of health: Page explained that it had a problem on the vocal cords that for now does not preclude its commitment to lead the giant California. In the presence of the one million users connected streaming on Youtube, the 40-year old did a mea culpa, “Google and the industry did not exceed 1% of their possibility,” and has given a thrust to the eternal rival Microsoft, accused to take advantage of the opening of the services of Bigg and not indulge in the same way. His dream? Allow the Americans to capitalize on the time they spend to move from one place to another by making cars that drive themselves.

Google, here’s all the news

TWO NEW ‘- Page Flies High In words, but with deeds Google prefers to keep his feet on the ground. The advertisements pitted during the three-hour presentation was involved in most of the cases existing products, reworked and revised with a view to mutual integration. The two real innovations are Google Play Music All Access, which challenges the field of Spotify music streaming, and messaging system Hangouts. The music service debuts in the U.S. at $ 9.99 per month, the same price of the already launched Swedish rival, and will arrive later in the rest of the world. Housed in Google Play, allows users to discover new songs and create playlists based on their tastes and listen to radio mode. Apple burned at the time, who is preparing the analogous iRadio .

MESSAGING – Hangouts instead marks the official entry of Google into the already crowded field of instant messaging platform, which is inser ted from a few hours even with Blackberry Bbm. The solution covers all products of Bigg with which you could already communicate in real time and allows you to make video calls with more than ten people. Hangouts is now available for iOS and Android devices and Web To enjoy the announced retouching maps instead must wait a little longer ‘. As already mentioned, the desktop version of Maps is transformed graphically going to fill the entire screen and provides users with tips based on their preferences, habits and needs and those of your Google+ contacts. Even the Android and iOS versions, with an eye for iPad will be updated.

SOCIAL – Google+ is now available with the changes made in San Francisco: the social network of 190 million visitors per month focuses on the display of updates to double column, a stratagem that Facebook has just decided to replace with one flow. It suggests that users hashtags related to the content that load. A spec ial attention was devoted to photographs, with a space of 15 GB free backup and tools to improve their shots. Another move that was waiting in the direction of the games, and it arrived. Google launched the Google Play game services that allows you to save your data in the cloud, so you can start playing at a later time and another device, and which is also built to a logic-platform iOS and Android .

HARDWARE – hardware side was the terminus only one version of Galaxy S4 purified by the actions of Samsung. Dedicated only to the U.S. market, the device will debut on June 26 to 649 dollars. And the long-awaited Glass? Virtually no reference. And a spot of Page Robert Scoble, the protagonist of a photo she wears glasses Bigg in the shower that made the rounds of the Net “I have particularly appreciated,” quipped the CEO of Google.