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Google Rarity: Big Ad on Homepage

Spare look is gone as company pushes its tablet

(Newser) - Google's iconic bare-bones front page is seeing a notable change today: For the first time, it carries an animated banner ad, Mashable reports. The image shows the top of Google's own Nexus 7 Android tablet. The page has hosted advertising before—for the Nexus One smartphone, for instance—...

Google's Nexus 7 'Obliterates' Kindle Fire
 Google's Nexus 7 
 'Obliterates' Kindle Fire 
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Google's Nexus 7 'Obliterates' Kindle Fire

It's got better features and a better design, Rich Jaroslovsky says

(Newser) - Sorry, Kindle Fire owners. When the Google Nexus 7 arrives next week, your tablet will officially be second-rate. "The Nexus 7 obliterates every reason for buying the current Kindle, and sets a high bar for whatever Amazon comes up with to replace it," Rich Jaroslovsky of Bloomberg writes....

Apple Preps 'iPad Mini': Reports

Cheaper tablet would have smaller screen

(Newser) - Looks like Applephiles will soon have one more gadget to add to their collection of must-have gear. Two insiders tell Bloomberg that a "mini" iPad is in the works, and should arrive by the end of this year. The planned tablet—intended to help battle competition from Google, Amazon,...

Google Now Selling Prototype Glasses

Skydiving Google workers show off new technology

(Newser) - Google's new computerized glasses are now on sale—but only to developers attending Google's I/O conference this week. The San Francisco conference was treated to a stunning demonstration of the technology yesterday, when Google employees wearing the Internet-connected glasses skydived from a blimp above the conference building, using...

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