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Despite an earlier dismissal of a 7-inch iPad by late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, rumors of an iPad mini have been around for quite some time now. Adding to the already churning rumor-mills, a new report surfaced Tuesday, saying that the Cupertino tech giant is indeed planning to launch a smaller and cheaper iPad by year-end.

In a series of big announcements including the launch of the new version of Android (4.1) called Jelly Bean with upgrade for the Galaxy Nexus and the introduction of the Nexus Q, Google also unveiled the Asus-made Nexus 7 tablet last week. Here's a comparison between the newest Nexus 7 and the current dominant device in the category, the third generation Apple iPad.

It's finally happened. After several years of dominance, Microsoft's Web-based email service, Hotmail, has officially been unseated by Google's significantly younger webmail service, Gmail.

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth, who are now engaged, have been a steady romantic item since 2009, but a juicy new piece of gossip circulating the Internet claims that someone came between the couple. That person is reportedly Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence.

An XDA forum member has complied an image of the Jelly Bean ROM, which is flashable on the existing GSM Galaxy Nexus via ClockworkMod Recovery.

Google TV is hoping a new Sirius XM app with Howard Stern will boost lackluster sales.

After announcing a slew of new Android-optimized hardware and software products on Wednesday, Google announced on Thursday it will finally port Google Chrome, the second most popular Web browser in the world, to the iPhone and iPad operating system (iOS). In addition, Google will also release an iOS-optimized version of Google Drive, which is the company's cloud service for syncing and sharing information from your Google accounts to all your devices. Google Chrome Coming To Apple iPhone, iPa...

Project Glass stole the show at Google's I/O developer conference on Wednesday: Just as the Vic Gundotra was wrapping up the presentation, founder Sergey Brin interrupted to introduce a demonstration of Glass that could go wrong in 500 different ways. The demo went off without a hitch, and thanks to a YouTube hook-up, worldwide audiences got to experience its first intimate moments with Glass, watching first-person perspectives of live skydiving, biking, and rapelling down the side of...

Aggressively priced at $199 for the 8GB model and $249 for the 16 GB model, the Nexus 7 is smaller than an iPad at 7 inches, but it's still packed with impressive innards, including a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, a 1.2-megapixel camera, 1GB of RAM, a 4,325mAh battery and NFC built in. The Nexus will start shipping next month with Google's updated Jelly Bean 4.1 OS.

Google unveiled its Nexus Tablet 7 at its I/O developer?s conference, as analysts and critics predicted. The device boasted a host of alluring new features such as the latest version of Android?s operating system. But underneath the sleek build and smooth software lies what could represent a turning point in the gaming industry.

At its I/O Conference for developers in San Francisco, Google unveiled a new Android operating system called Jelly Bean, a brand-new tablet from Google called the Nexus 7, and even gave a demonstration and pre-order information for its highly-anticipated, high-tech headgear, also known as Project Glass. But one of the strange unveilings at I/O was the orb-shaped hub known as the Nexus Q, which was Google's response to the Apple TV.

Google has finally unveiled its own Android tablet, the Nexus 7, in collaboration with Asus; however, it will ship the same week as Asus's Transformer Pad Infinity Tf700m which adds another tablet into the rival pool, alongside the Amazon Kindle Fire.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, Wednesday showed its first tablet, the Nexus 7, priced at $199, as part of its annual Google I/O developers conference.

Google I/O 2012 is set to kick off, and the company is expected to make some worthwhile announcements. Critics and fans alike are awaiting more information on Google?s first self-branded Nexus tablet, which was just confirmed ahead of the event.

Google's annual developer conference is just hours away, but an Asustek executive has already confirmed that Google Inc. is set to unveil a tablet co-branded with Asus that is set to rival Amazon's Kindle.

Apple had its time to shine earlier in June, and now its Google?s turn. Google I/O 2012, the company?s annual developer?s conference, is expected to unveil the next Android operating system and its upcoming release in its Nexus-brand of devices. The keynote is set to launch in only a couple of hours, and here?s the final roundup of last minute rumors and what to expect from the search engine giant?s spotlight moment.

Google's annual developers conference is just hours away, with the keynote speech kicking off at 9.30 a.m. PT.

Google's annual developers conference kicks off on June 27 with the highly anticipated keynote, which starts at 9.30 a.m. PT.

Google is expected to unveil the next version of Android's operating system, dubbed Jelly Bean, at its annual developer's conference on Wednesday.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, said it had elected Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg to its board of directors.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, said it will acquire Yammer, a social network specialist, for $1.2 billion, to battle Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG).

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) CEO Larry Page has lost his voice, must avoid speaking and won?t deliver a speech at a Google developers? event this week in San Francisco.

Sony Electronics Inc. announced Monday the availability and pricing of the NSZ-GS7 Internet Player with Google TV, which was originally introduced at CES 2012 in January.

On Saturday, Alan Turing would have been 100. So Google has come up with yet another interactive Google Doodle honoring his memory. Saturday's Google Doodle is a virtual version of the Turing Machine, conceptualized by Turing in 1936, that helps explain how a CPU thinks in binary, i.e. 1s and 0s.

A document surfaced last week that had video-game fans guessing about what's in store for Microsoft's next-generation Xbox 720. It quickly circulated around the Internet, leaving gamers wondering whether there was any truth behind the alleged plans in it. One source has contended the paperwork is in fact legitimate.

Google announced a new tool called Google Maps Coordinate on Friday, which helps businesses coordinate tasks and locations via the easy-to-use Google Maps platform. With more than 1.3 billion workers -- 37.2 percent of the total workforce -- expected to be completely mobile by 2015, Google's solution seeks to help businesses communicate with their employees in the field and deploy them with the user-friendly Maps app.

Although it seems that some gadgets in the Android world have just been acquainted with Ice Cream Sandwich, there?s another upgrade in the works. The Google Play store has revealed that Jelly Bean, or Android 4.1, will roll out soon for Galaxy Nexus devices.

Language is much more than just words, or communication. A community's language is inherently tied to its cultural identity, often signifying the culture's heritage and its values. Unfortunately, about half of all of the languages in the world -- more than 3,000 different languages -- are currently on the verge of extinction. Google hopes to stem the tide with its latest effort, called The Endangered Languages Project.

Don't expect fugitives in Bergen County, N.J., to like the county sheriff office's Facecrook site set up to apprehend them. The Facecrook site is the brainchild of Bergen County Sheriff Office Inspector Mickey Bradley, who told the Bergen Record that he believes Facecrook is the first site of its kind in the country. Bradley bought the domain, facecrook.us, for $17 about a year ago.