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Google releases 3 new TV ads for Google+ with celebrities

Its not a secret that Google is trying very hard to promote its social network, Google+, very seriously. There have been a lot of ads on the TV and on the internet since the release of the social network. Two main features of the network which Google is using in most of the ads are the Circles and the Hangout. There is no doubt these are really awesome features, Hangout being the best, but still people are not really very eager to come on to Google+ from Facebook.

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Google is building its own Android tablet

If you are already confused which tablet to buy, here is another one coming in the next six months. Google is all ready to take on the tablet industry all by itself. We are not talking about another version of Android or something, but a whole new Android tablet, Google-branded Android tablet. The search giant’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said this in a statement to an Italian newspaper.

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British Telecom suing Google over more than just Android

Earlier this week we saw British Telecom suing Google over its mobile operating system, Android, and parts of its software package. But today, there is a new that British Telecom is suing Google for more patent infringements, including Google products such as Gmail, Google+, and Google Docs. According to British Telecom, Google has infringed six of its patent.

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Google to pay almost $300 million to Mozilla to keep it the default search engine on Firefox

Google and Mozilla have had a good (and sometimes bad) relationship when it comes to business. The two are partners in one context and opponents in another. But still, they both kind of depend on each other to some extent. Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox are two of the most used browsers on more than one platform, and they both want to keep it that way. And since Firefox has a very good market share, Google wants its presence on it as the default search engine.

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700,000 Android devices activated every day

This is a news that makes all Android fans jump from their seats. I know Google is already celebrating, at least the Android wing. 700,000 activation per day is not an easy milestone to reach. Last time when the company announced, the number was 550,000 Android device activation per day. You can see the increase now very easily.

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British Telecom is suing Google over Android

British Telecom, best known here in the UK for providing middling telephone and internet service, has filed suit against Google for billions of dollars in damages in a Delaware court.

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Google working on a Siri-like project codenamed “Majel”

It is not completely wrong if I say that the greatest feature of the new iOS 5 that Apple recently released is the natural language-based virtual assistant, Siri (yes, grater than the notification area). This is one of the features because of which the iPhone 4S has been the best selling iPhone Apple ever made. Also, it has made way for more better products to come into the market, or has it?

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Eric Schmidt believes Android will be bigger than iOS in about 6 months

In the recent Le Web Paris 2011 event that took in Paris, Eric Schmidth was one of the many attendees who was questioned about his company. In the flow of questions, one particular question which caught the attention of many Android fans was that why developers release their apps from on iOS and then come to Android? To this, Eric said “My prediction is that six months from now, you’ll say the opposite.”

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Apple and Google step back from the proposed app rating system

The Cellular Telecommunications Internet Association (CTIA) has recently proposed an app rating system which would rate mobile games based on the content in them. The ratings will be operated by Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) and would be based on the violence, sexual content, and location data present in the games. The games will then be rated according to permissible age groups, ranging from “early childhood” to “adults only” (18+).

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Google adding native gamepad, microphone, and webcam support to Chrome

Google Chrome is a very young browser in the world of browsers, and it has made a huge impact on the way we browse. Even though Firefox is equally popular, it is losing its market share, and Chrome is gaining all of it. The reason for this is simply awesome features. To begin with, Google added a awesome support for all kinds of plugin and brought in the browser app ecosystem. This was a step towards making the Chromium OS a better place. You can almost live out of the Chrome browser on your Windows computer without having to close it for anything, except local file browsing.