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Small, wifi-enabled with the ability to print from tablets and smartphones, low-cost printing, equipped with a touchscreen, relatively inexpensive, fast…looks like a shopping list for the perfect printer, right? And that’s what Brother might have in their just-launched MFC-J4510DW, a sleek printer with Google Cloud Print connectivity and a price tag of $200 (though I’d love an explanation as to why Brother has stuck with alphabet-soup product names while its competitors have moved on to printers with names like “Artisan” and “Envy”).

It’s official! Google Play Gift Cards are ready to go. The first set of retailers expected to be stocking them in the upcoming weeks is as follows: Radio Shack, Target, and GameStop. We’re sure they’ll make their way to other retailers, but these three have earned official endorsement on the “About” page for Google Play Gift Cards.

Today, Bloomberg reports that Google’s Motorola Mobility unit has filed a new case against Apple with the International Trade Commission (ITC). In the claim, Google asserts that seven of Motorola’s patents have been infringed by the Cupertino-based company.

The patents Google is claiming in the case include location-based reminders, email notification, and video players, oddly enough. The suit itself seeks a ban on US imports of devices like the iPhone and iPad as well as Mac computers, all of which are manufactured out of the US, in China.

Discover has become the first card issuer to make use of Google Wallet’s Save to Wallet API for Payment Cards. What exactly does that mean? Well, for Discover card holders, it means they can now add their cards to Google Wallet in two easy steps:

  1. Visit discover.com/googlewallet and sign into your Discover account
  2. Click “Add Your Card”

That’s it!

City dwellers and tourists are going to appreciate the latest update to Google Maps. Google has beefed up it transit information and now includes the schedules for over 1 million transit stops world wide. Users will have easy access and viewing of the transit schedules of over 500 cities including New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney. Google also made improvements to how you view transit information:

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