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Google Now and the enhanced Google Voice Actions are, without doubt, a highlight of Jelly Bean. Google Now can display relevant information, depending on your location and time, with access to some of your data. Voice Actions make Google Now smarter by allowing you to speak into your phone to initiate a Google search, or set an alarm, or a reminder.

The enhanced Voice Actions in Jelly Bean also allow you to directly call someone by simply saying “Call example name.” Here is a small tip to make voice dialing via Google Now/Voice Actions easier.

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Apple began adding the Galaxy S4 to its ongoing patent-infringement case against Samsung last week, and it has now specified five patents which it believes the device is breaching. The Cupertino company has also taken aim at Google Now, which allegedly infringes its unified search patent.

Google-IO-keynote

You’ve probably already heard about the awesome things announced at Google I/O yesterday, but if you didn’t get a chance to watch it yourself — or you just tuned out because it went on too long — then you can now watch the whole thing online.

We suggest skipping to the best bits, though, because it’s almost four hours long.

Google IO 2013

Google unleashed an insane amount of news during its marathon keynote at the I/O developer conference today in California. A new music subscription service, Google Maps update, and messaging platform were just a few of the announcements.

Software and services was the name of the game at I/O this year, and here’s a roundup of everything Google unveiled earlier this afternoon:

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Google Now was already pretty awesome, but now it’s getting even better on both iOS and Android. And it’s coming to the desktop as part of Google’s Knowledge Graph.

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