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Google has started rolling out Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean to its Nexus line of devices earlier this month. After the new Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus getting the latest Android version, the next in line to taste Jelly Bean is the Nexus S smartphone. Below are the steps to follow for a manual installation of the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on Nexus S.

Ocean Power Technologies, Google, Diageo plc, Microsoft Corp, salesforce.com, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Amyris, Vodafone Group Plc and ARM Holdings plc are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

New Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer could end up with compensation around $100 million if she meets certain goals the company disclosed.

Now three days into running Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, CEO Marissa Mayer has already telegraphed that change is coming. She appointed the first editors for Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance, two of the company’s most popular portals.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 for Sprint is currently available for the price of $199.99 online and in stores, but how would you like to snag a heavily discounted version for just $149.99? LetsTalk.com has the 16GB model of the highly-coveted Samsung Galaxy S3 available for sale at a price tag $50 less than mobile carrier Sprint.

Android 4.1, code-named Jelly Bean, is considered the strongest Android mobile operating system ever by security experts owing to its ASLR and DEP attributes.

It’s the tale of two technology cities: Thursday should see two of the sectors giants, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine report record quarterly results.

YouTube announced the launch of a new face-blurring tool on July 18 that helps in protecting identity of citizens in sensitive reports and helps in addressing human rights issues.

The Nexus 7 was unveiled at Google's annual developer's conference in June and has quickly sold out in most U.S stores, with continued delays on pre-order shipments.

Now that you are starting as the third CEO of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) in a year, have a seat on the board of directors and are about to run your first company, here are a few things to keep in mind.

Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, said it had elected Marissa Mayer, the first woman engineer at rival Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) as its third CEO in 10 months.

Consider: at New York’s Stuyvesant H.S., one of the best in the country, more than 80 students are ensnared in a cheating probe of a city language exam administered last month. Cellphone accounts are intercepted by cops. Is anything electronic immune?

More Americans use iPhones than any version of Android smartphones, but Google's operating system bests Apple when it comes to marketshare, with 51.8 percent of smartphone users owning an Android handset compared to 34 percent with iPhones, according to new data released Thursday.

Google released the source code of the OS earlier this week in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), allowing developers to dabble with the new software. And now, thanks to an AOSP-based Jelly Bean (4.1.1) ROM, you can install the OS on you Amazon Kindle Fire tablet.

Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, elected 11 directors at its annual meeting Thursday, including three nominated by former dissident shareholder Third Point Capital.

Google recently unveiled its Nexus 7 tablet at its I/O developers conference at the end of June, and critics, analysts, and tech enthusiasts have wondered how it will stack up to the competition. Now professionals have torn the new device apart to see just what makes the Nexus 7 stand out from its rivals.

Google introduced the latest version of its mobile operating system, the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, last month at Google I/O 2012. During the launch, the search giant announced that over-the-air (OTA) updates of Jelly Bean would be rolled out in mid-July for devices like Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and Xoom. Here's how to install Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on GSM Galaxy Nexus manually.

As action heats up in the tablet market with news of Apple gearing up to launch iPad mini in response to competition, it appears that Google's Nexus may well take home some neat profits as there is a good difference between cost of manufacture and sale.

No surprise: shares of the biggest search engine providers rose again in June while the weaker ones fell, market researcher comScore Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR) said.

Now that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, has entered the tablet market with its $199 Nexus 7, how much do the components cost?

CaptureToCloud, a year-old web developer, announced a new ?social workspace? for all kinds of digital content in the Cloud that?s tightly integrated with services from Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine.

As Samsung Galaxy S2 users anxiously wait to hear if the device will get the new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade, a subtle update has been pushed out on Android's Ice Cream Sandwich.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, could pay $22.5 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaints it infringed privacy of millions of customers of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the Wall Street Journal reported.

Did the world's largest software company remove the home page of an Australian online retailer from the results of its internet search engines in retaliation for the company's cheeky campaign to get people to use a better browser? Microsoft says no.

Even as Apple's Siri was touted as the most able competitor to Google Search, the search giant launched Google Now at the recently-held I/O Conference which seems to have taken over its competitor very quietly but firmly.

Google?s Jean-Baptiste Queru announced Monday that the Android 4.1 source code had been released in the Android Open Source Project under the name android-4.1.1_r1 for everyone to download, examine, and likely attempt to port a whole host of devices.

It seems Amazon is gearing up to strike back at Google's newly-released Nexus 7, with an improved Kindle Fire 2 tablet expected to launch on August 7, according to the China Times.

Google Glasses are incredibly ambitious, but it appears that Google is no longer alone in exploring the avenue of wearable tech solutions. Apple was reportedly granted a patent on Tuesday in relation to peripheral treatment for head-mounted displays. Of all the companies to build a Project Glass rival, Google should worry most about Apple.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, may introduce a smaller version of the iPad to compete with products from Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, and Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the No. 1 e-retailer and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), reports said.