This Week in Google 223

The new Nexus 5 is out, Android 4.4 Kit-Kat, what's actually in the Google barge, paid HelpOuts, and more.

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Links

• Android 4.4 KitKat Targets Google's Next Billion Users, Adds Pervasive Search & Improves Google Now
• Google: Samsung Galaxy Nexus won't get updated to Android 4.4 KitKat
• Google's Nexus 5 with KitKat available today, starting at $349: hands-on impressions
• Nexus 5 review: an excellent flagship smartphone if Google can fix its major camera issues
• Just in: Verizon says there is a "system issue"; waiting for KitKat. Uh-huh.
• Jarvis renews complaint with FCC: Verizon *still* has not hooked up the Nexus 7 to its "open" network
• Google introduces paid HelpOuts
• Related: Gigaom speculates about HelpOuts as a healthcare strategy
• Google+ announces Connected Classroom field trips via hangouts
• Google plans to dock mystery barge at former Army post in San Francisco
• L.A. puts out RFP for citywide broadband fibre
• Google Maps to become more contextual & rich with personal data
• KitKat!
• Google Announces App Indexing In Google Search, Will Begin Providing Deep Links To Apps Within Search Results
• Google Now for iOS gains parity with Android
• Google brings Hotel Finder to mobile phones
• RIP iGoogle: Google's personalized Web portal service has now closed down
• Washington Post on tapping Google traffic between servers
• Google's Schmidt: NSA Spying on Data Centers Is ‘Outrageous’
• By 4 to 1, Early Adopters Pick Wearable Watches Over Glasses
• Samsung announces super HD screens, fonblets
• New gadget show and tell: Got my Fluxmob Bolt, and it's pretty cool.
• Blockbuster, owned by Dish, closes last 300 stores; was 9000 9 years ago
• I make lots of bad jokes about renaming google products something-outs