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A new partnership between Sonos and Google means that users of the Google Play Music app for Android now can stream music to their Sonos speakers directly from the app itself.

Have you been pining for your very own wearable $1,500 Google Glass but weren't sure how you, a regular nondeveloper residing in the United States

Both HTC and Google are planning to launch their feature-rich smartphones dubbed HTC Vigor and Google Nexus Prime.

All the rumors about Google and DISH Network starting a wireless service together got me thinking about the impact that kind of deal would have.

Recently at Barcelona, Spain in 2013 Global Mobile Awards, the three winning thrones goes to the best devices found out lately in 2012 - Samsung Galaxy S III< Nokia Asha 305 and the tablet Google Nexus 7

In a surprising move, today Google announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge, in which they promised not to sue any user, distributor or developer of one of their open patents, "unless first attacked".

Google rolls out a new tool enabling users to plan for their digital data after their life ends or if they are no longer active with their accounts. It can be used as building an online will that will disclose what should be done with their asset when the user is no longer alive - either delete it forever, or give it to the reliable ones as inheritance.

Google has never been behind any other tech leader & so is this time too as the giant rolls-out high-end device with high resolution based touchscreen.

There has been a great deal of news lately involving the rights to citizen privacy. It is a hot button issue that is becoming all the more intense as details of government surveillance programs in the US, UK and France continue to be unveiled. But Google is under fire for more than PRISM, with European watchdogs demanding they change their privacy policy, or risk legal action.

"Google recently released a video of "Project Glass", its concept of an augmented reality system, triggering a wave of posts asking "Wow, can they really do that?". Followed by a tsunami of shouting "Not even nearly". It is an excellent piece of science-fiction, but in terms of launchable products they might as well have played a clip of Star Trek."

"Google has filed several patents that suggest a future Nexus device could have a sliding physical keypad."

As any techie might know by now, the Oracle people came down on Google on April 16 in court accusing the search engine giant of using 37 API's in their Java software that Oracle says belongs to them.

"Steve Jobs famously vowed to spend his dying breath and all of Apple's cash to destroy Google's Android operating system. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Google CEO Larry Page said that despite Jobs's rather public hatred, "the Android differences were actually for show." Page claimed that, "For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better." The CEO shot down rumors that the two were bitter rivals, instead noting that "I had a relationship with Steve." Despite Jobs's ailing health at the time, Apple's co-founder reached out to Page for a casual talk. "He was quite sick. I took it as an honor that he wanted to spend some time with me," Page said. "I figured he wanted to spend time with his family at that point. He had a lot of interesting insights about how to run a company and that was pretty much what we discussed.""

"Android owners looking for a fully-integrated response to Apple's Siri will have to wait a little longer. Google announced on Tuesday that it acquired a company called Clever Sense, the maker of the app Alfred, which serves as a digital personal assistant. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. "

The search engines Google Inc. declared Friday that it's supplying $11.5 Million in funds to 10 businesses working to end modern-day captivity and individuals trafficking.

"Google has announced that it will roll out a patch to remedy the volume problems which recently plagued some models of its flagship Ice Cream Sandwich device, the Samsung-produced Galaxy Nexus."

"Google is set to launch a new voice assisant for Android devices - in the same vein of the iPhones assistant Siri - which can respond to natural language commands."

According to ComScore analysis reports, Google Plus has collected more than 67 million hits in November month of 2011.

Google announced Android Design guidelines for Ice Cream Sandwich, a guide that users can follow to discover the design principles, user interface, typography and the pure specifications of Android.

Apple's upcoming iPad 3 will be introduced by the end of Q1 of 2012 and it will mark high end features counting a quad-core CPU as reports say! After the getting the reports of the entrance of Apple's upcoming tablet, sources have detailed that Google is also planning to launch its own Android based tablet.