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Nook Tablet is a great seven inch tablet in the sub-$300 range, while the Droid Xyboard 8.2 is a 4G-enabled full feature tablet that requires a two-year contract and data plan if you want it for the $430 price. That means the Xyboard should be twice as good as the Nook Tablet because without the Verizon subsidy, Xyboard costs $600.

As Apple's new ad shows Santa using Siri on his iPhone 4S, Google is using the Christmas elf to bring back Send A Call to Santa, where kids can get voice messages from Santa Claus, and to shower Google users Christmas easter eggs like Let It Snow. Here, watch a boy get a note from Santa via Google Voice, see Santa use Siri, and learn the Christmas easter eggs.

It's a holiday treat, where browsers can make it snow on their screen by simply visiting Google's search bar and typing in let it snow.

After a year in which global macro machinations drove stock correlations to record highs, the Canaccord Genuity technology team is hopeful that 2012 will be a year in which favorable returns are the reward for superior fundamental analysis.

Last week, investors could finally buy a share of Internet gaming site Zynga, which was priced Thursday at $10 a share in the company’s $1 billion initial public offering. What did they say about other IPOS as well as Facebook's for 2012?

Let it rain is a a popular online store based in Astoria, Oregon -- a place where it frequently rains -- that sells rain gear including boots and umbrellas that people are apparently buzzing about this Christmas, and buying from. Why, some have apparently gone so far is making rain boots become the traditional Christmas stocking.

If you enjoyed seeing your search results doing a complete 360 flip when you typed in do a barrel roll then you will most certainly enjoy these two new holiday Easter eggs from Google: let it snow and Hanukkah.

‘Let it Snow’ and 'Askew': Google Goodies for Christmas and Twitter Reactions [PHOTOS, VIDEO]

Developers can get a taste of freshly released versions of the DK bugging tools, along with the r7 NDK tool and the Eclipse plug-in for developing Android applications.

People dream of a white Christmas, and they can have one now on Google. Beginning today, Web searchers on Google can try out its newest Easter egg by simply typing Let it Snow in the search field, which brings the screen to life with snowflakes falling on it.

The most powerful group at Google Inc. used to be known simply as The OC, short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: L Team, short for Larry's Team. The change is more than a mere rebranding after Google co-founder Larry Page returned to the CEO spot nine months ago.

The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as The OC, short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: L Team, short for Larry's Team.

Two of Verizon's top smartphones will be the subject of some debate over the next week as holiday shoppers size them up and wonder if Droid Razr makes a better holiday present than the Galaxy Nexus. They are both only on Verizon, and they even come at the same $300 on contract price.

The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as The OC, short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: L Team, short for Larry's Team.

Siri, the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant, is the most striking feature of the iPhone 4S. However, it might meet its nemesis soon as Internet search engine giant Google will reportedly launch Android version of Siri.

The browser wars continue with Google Chrome 15 grabbing the number one spot, replacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 as the most popular in the world, according to StatCounter.

Colombian actress Sofia Vergara was photographed on Wednesday wearing a pair of tight black leggings that were almost see-through.

Apple's dominance reached outside the bounds of the tech industry, as the company's mythological iPhone 5, deceased CEO Steve Jobs and iPad 2 took three out of the 10 spots in the Google Zeitgeist 2011.

Bieber beat out Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga and Casey Anthony.

Glassdoor, a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and chief executive officers, has released its fourth annual Employees' Choice Awards, which lists the 50 best places to work, based on surveys collected from U.S. employees through 2011.

Google Earth on Tablets would look much nicer on the monitor but the same Google Earth will look ethereal on 48 screens put together.

After much speculation, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first device in the U.S. to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, will land on Verizon Wireless Thursday, December 15.

So many tablets came out in 2011, it was easy to miss one that was actually pretty solid. Many were overpriced or underperformed, but the Asus Eee Pad Transformer and Lenovo IdeaPad K1 are nice tablets that are available for $400 or less. The IdeaPad K1 can be found on Amazon for $350 and the Eee Pad Transformer is $400.

Galaxy Nexus and HTC Rezound would both be excellent choices as gifts if you can afford the $300 on contract price. That's assuming the Galaxy Nexus will cost as much as the Rezound because, like the Droid Razr, it will be one of Verizon's flagship smartphones. As great as the Rezound looks on paper, unless the Nexus comes out with a higher price tag, Nexus would be a better gift.

Google Inc is making $11.5 million in grants to fight modern slavery and its hold on 27 million people worldwide, the technology company said on Wednesday.

Sixteen top technology leaders – including the founders of Google, Netscape, Yahoo and eBay – published full-page advertisements Wednesday opposing the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in Congress.

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Niels Munksgaard, Nokia Director of Portfolio, Product Marketing and Sales, apparently said in an interview with Pocket-lint on Tuesday that young people today have had enough of the iPhone and are confused by Android phones.

Google's new Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Android mobile operating system has dozens and dozens of new features, so it's less of an update than an entire renovation. Some of the main selling points have been features like the Face Unlock facial recognition security feature and the (now cancelled by Verizon) option to use Google Wallet to turn your device into a debit card