• Plex Home delivers parental controls, better sharing, managed accounts

  Plex Home has arrived to deliver new features allowing users to have better control over sharing and their media in a multi-member family household. Users can now choose who they want to share their media content with and create separate user profiles for different members of their family —…

• Google agrees to settlement with Rockstar consortium over patent dispute

  Google has reached a settlement agreement with patent-holding consortium Rockstar, which counts Apple, Microsoft, and BlackBerry among its members, in a lawsuit originating last October. In its suit, Rockstar alleged that Google had infringed on seven search-related patents that it owned after…

• SwiftKey's 5.10 update is all about speed, percentage breakdown included

  An update to SwiftKey in the Google Play Store today is bringing a much needed performance boost to the world's best prediction keyboard. Back in June SwiftKey went full-on free, dropping their original pricing in favor of an all new theme store hoping to entice buyers looking to customize the…

• How to set your default SMS app on Android Lollipop

  If you take a gander in Google Play and look for SMS replacement applications, you'll find a ton of them. For real, I weighed them. OK, not really, but there are a lot of them. The best part? Many of them are really, really good and you'll probably want to try them out. Android's pretty…

• Google cuts a deal over old Nortel Networks patents

  Remember the Rockstar Consortium? The group was formed by a handful of tech giants (including Apple, Microsoft, Ericsson and Sony) to buy a treasure trove of patents and promptly sue both Google and some Android partners, which promised one of the...

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• Android Studio nears 1.0 with Release Candidate 1

  If you're an app developer who's switched (or is considering switching) to Android Studio, you'll no doubt be glad to learn that the popular IDE is nearing its first whole-integer release.

• Score deals in participating apps with 'Buy with Google' promotion

  Google announced today that it has some big savings in store for those of you shopping around the with your favorite retailer apps from the Google Play Store . If you choose "Buy With Google" at checkout you can snag some great deals from several different participating retailers.

• YouTube Music Key hits All Access subscribers, Play Music gets YouTube integration

  Both Google Play Music and YouTube have been updated for Music Key / All Access subscribers. The update gives users the ability to download videos for offline play and play videos in the background, while Play Music offers YouTube links inside the app.

• Motorola Camera update brings new timer options, wrist flick gesture for camera switching [update]

  Update: It looks like the Motorola Gallery app has gotten some Material love as well. Article is updated accordingly. Motorola's Camera and Gallery apps for its Moto X , Moto G , and Droid devices snagged an update today. While the Camera update is rather minor, it did nab a couple of new…