Google will start selling and renting digital textbooks through their Play store in August.In another announcement, Google’s Chromecast, a TV dongle that lets you stream online videos straight from your phone, tablet or laptop to your TV. Chromecast is based on a stripped-down version of Chrome OS, and interoperable with a multitude of devices.during the announcement Wednesday.
The Chromecast dongle is plugged into the HDMI port of a TV, and can then be auto-discovered by apps like the YouTube app on a mobile device. Users can then send videos straight to their TV, change the volume and compile collaborative playlists to queue up videos with the help of their mobile devices that are then displayed on the TV. This is basically the same functionality that’s been available on for Google TV devices but without the whole Google TV UI.
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