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Last month, Google got around to launching Google Music in Europe. They also gave Europeans an exclusive treat: a new song matching feature. Similar to Apple’s music match feature, Google scans a user’s music collection, matches it up against their online library, and quickly adds any matches via the cloud for a speedier upload process.

Okay, so today’s Google Play holiday surprise probably isn’t what you were hoping for (at least not what I was hoping for). I’m also guessing a large number of you young bucks have no idea who the Rolling Stones are or who that old guy in the picture is. Well, they are rock legends and that’s Keith Richards (a guy who has most likely partied harder than the entire cast of Jersey Shore ever will).

If the current custodians of the much-abused Polaroid brand have any sense, they’ll call this upcoming camera the Polaroid Android, and they’ll license the Radiohead song of (almost) the same name to promote it.

Or they could just rip off the song, just like they appear to have ripped of the design: If the 18.1 Megapixel IM1836 looks familiar, that’s because it’s almost identical to Nikon’s J-series cameras.

Another chapter has closed in the Apple/Samsung patent saga thanks to a couple decisions handed down today by Judge Lucy Koh. Apple has been denied its bid for a permanent sales ban against the 26 Samsung devices found to have infringed on a handful of Apple’s patents back in August. According to the Koh, those infringed patents are but a small fraction of the overall features that make up Samsung’s devices and thus do not warrant a permanent ban.

Here’s a little treat for all you Tumblrs out there. The Tumblr app for Android just received an update to finally add tablet support! Along with support for tablets, the Tumblr app received a few design changes as well as a new Following screen.

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