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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.

Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, could settle its patent dispute with Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, soon, lawyers told a federal judge in San Francisco.

Phoenix radio talk show host Barbara Espinosa is in hot water after referring to President Barack Obama as a monkey, and saying she voted for the white guy in the 2004 presidential election.

Today's Happy Father's Day Google Doodle is here to brighten up Dad's homepage on one of his favorite days of the year.

Ahead of next year?s expansion of Internet domain names with hundreds of new suffixes, 1,930 applications have been submitted to the governing Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Dutch navigation software specialist TomTom (Pink: TMOAF) got a major boost this week as Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, said it would collaborate with it on new software for the iPhone 4S family.

Those e-mails weren?t accidents, nor were the accompanying solicitations for funds and support, a new report by ProPublica found. The process is growing and there?s little place to hide.

TomTom (Pink:TMOAF), the Dutch navigation software specialist, is already benefiting from its new tie to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, which hired it to provide data for the iPhone.

Thursday will see a showdown over the near-term future of AOL (NYSE: AOL), the No. 7 website, which in its heyday was American Online, the biggest email provider, as well as a company big enough to swallow Time Warner.

Google was targeted for unethical and anti-competitive business practices once again when a non-profit organization working on public interest issues filed a complaint against the search engine giant with the anti-trust body, Competition Commission of India (CCI), Friday. This comes at a time when Google India is already facing a formal probe on a similar complaint filed by an Indian matrimonial site.

Google unveiled its new 3-D map technology Wednesday. To provide a three-dimensional perspective for these maps, the search engine giant has deployed a fleet of planes to fly above U.S. cities and capture images.