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Daniel J. Lewis from Noodle.mx joins John and Nicholas on the show. They discuss: Google’s new search UI, Call of Duty games will soon be streaming live on YouTube, battery saving update to Google Chrome, Verizon 4G expanding and Jam With Chrome.

Brand new line of Nexus devices announced! Russell Holly from Geek.com joins us to talk about all the new Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. Also, we discuss Motorola giving discounts to people looking to upgrade, Google helping you vote and AMBER alerts now appearing in search results. Vote for us! It takes only a few seconds to vote for us once a day at PodcastAwards.com

This week host John Hanlon is joined by Peter McDermott. They give analysis on all the Google news from the week. Including: Google’s October 29 event is expected to announce the latest Nexus phone, space jumper almost jumping with Google Glass, new Google/Samsung Chromebook, Google testing universal search and CEO Larry Page back in public.

This week DeAno Jackson joins host John Hanlon on the show. They talk about Google adding 250k miles to Street View, Romney’s Google problem, Android G+ app now includes Pages and Android tablet and phone rumors.

Steve Lee host of Waves Of Tech at NetCastStudio.com joins John Hanlon this week. We talk about Tim Cook apologizing for Apple Maps, Google turning on Street View for mobile web, Google Wallet for business and rumors of Nexus devices.

Daniel Brusilovsky joins Nicholas and John this week. We start the show off with a quick discussion of Apple Maps vs Google Maps then talk about Google being the 5th most valuable company, Google News turning 10, register to vote with Google, Brazil detaining Google chief and new Field Trip app.

Ronnie Bincer from VideoLeadsOnline.com joins John Hanlon this week. We discuss: Google+ hits 400 users, Google Apps drops IE8 support, YouTube updates and Facebook testing instant uploads.

Troy King from TheAndroidVibe.com joins Nicholas and John again this week. We talk about Google Drive being updated for iOS, Microsoft’s latest Bing marketing, a G+ Hangout in Times Square, Amazon Kindle Fire HD, more Google bike paths and Google Wallet removing prepaid cards. Packed show!

This week we are joined by Dave Thackeray from across the pond in the UK. We get to the roots of: Android and iOS becoming the fastest adopted tech in history, Nexus 7 on the front page of Google, Google Politics at the RNC, Google+ birthday reminders popping up and a new Samsung smart camera. Dave's Bio: A journalist until newspapers died, Dave Thackeray now helps people understand how tech make things sweeter, simpler, smarter and speedier and is about to launch a new site dedicated to the cause. Meanwhile Dave works with many tech clients as their voiceover artist and sometimes marketer. He Tweets @davethackeray and blogs all too infrequently at davethackeray.com Discussion 1. Android and iOS Beat Tech Adoption Record The adoption rate of Android and iOS devices is now officially the fastest growing in consumer technology history. “Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that of the 80s PC revolution, 2X faster than that of 90s Internet Boom and 3X faster than that of recent social network adoption.” 2. Nexus 7 Gets Front Page Ad On Google It’s extremely rare that Google advertises one of its products on the front of Google.com. But today they added probably their largest product ad yet featuring a line of text and a large photo of the Nexus 7 tablet. 3. Google Politics At The RNC - SourceFed hosts Google Show Google’s politics team is out in full force this week at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. YouTube.com/Politics is your one-stop-shop for all things politics during RNC. The Google Politics booth in Tampa even features an instant-upload G+ photo booth. 4. Dave’s Android Story 5. Google Birthday Reminders Drew Olanoff at The Next Web reports that Google has launched birthday updates at Google.com. Not available per se within G+, but only on the search page, it’s one more step towards Facebooking the web and one step away from the Google page being all about search, and nothing else. 6. Samsung About To Announce Their Own Smart Camera We told you last week about Nikon’s new Android-powered camera. This week, Samsung will announce a very similar product. Unlike Nikon’s smart camera, Samsung’s version is rumored to include a cellular data connection but probably won’t work with voice.

Nicholas is back with John plus Allen Firstenberg joins us this week to give his insight into: Google tropical storm Isaac crisis map, new G+ Circle features, Google now saving account search preferences, more G+ custom URL news and Google Play gift cards now available. 1. Google Activates Tropical Storm Crisis Map As usual for natural disasters, Google turned on their crisis map for tropical storm Isaac. The map features data from weather organizations as well as information originating from Google services like YouTube. 1. New G+ Circle Features New Circle controls allow you to be alerted whenever members of a certain Circle post. You can now also mute a particular user so you will no longer receive notifications when they share a post. 2. Nikon Announces Android-Powered Camera The Nikon Coolpix S800c is the world’s first “smart camera.” The front looks like a camera but the back appears like a normal 3.5in smartphone. The camera can connect to WiFi but is not able to make calls. Nikon says it will be available for $350 in September. 3. Google Search Saves Your Account Preferences Users can now save Google Search preferences like prefered language or SafeSearch settings just by signing into Search from any browser. Previously, this type of feature was available from Google but data was linked to each individual browser and would need reset for each new browser. 4. More Users Can Now Claim Custom G+ URLs We told you last week about Google finally rolling out custom URLs for certain G+ profiles. Today, they’re making the feature available to “thousands more” verified accounts and brand pages. Google is currently choosing URLs for users. 5. Google Play gift cards now available Ever wanted to give Google Play store credits to a friend or family member? Now you can! Google Play gift cards can be purchased online or at some electronics stores in the U.S.

We are very excited to have Clayton Morris from Fox News joining us. We talk about Google’s Olympics stats, self-driving cars reaching 300k miles, Flash for Android going away, custom Google+ URLs rolling out and over 100 new cities added to Google Maps Live Traffic.

On the show this week, Jake Smith joins John and Nicholas. They cover: Google Wallet now accepting all cards, Google Fiber in Kansas City, Kennedy Space Center added to Street View, Nexus Q delayed, Verizon unblocking tethering and custom Google Voice voicemails.

JD Sutter joins John Hanlon this week on the show. This week: Marissa Mayer leaves Google after 13 years, Chrome for iOS hits 1.5% market share, Google testing share button in search results, YouTube adds blur effect, thousands of YouTubers making over $100k and more news about CEO Larry Page’s voic