Google's popular Android Nexus 7 tablet is currently available in two iterations: 8 GB for $200 and 16GB for $250. As you may recall, Mountain View declined to launch a 32GB version at launch, prompting devs, modders and even the average end user to clamor for more storage space. Fortunately, it now seems as if Google has decided to launch a Nexus 7 model with 32GB of storage.  

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Well, it seems as if there is actually something good to be said about Apple Maps - it uses a fifth as much data as Google's version. While some might argue that it only gives a fifth as much information too, at least users aren't paying huge download costs for the privilege. According to data analysis company Onavo, Apple Maps is so much more efficient because of its use of vector graphics, which means tha ...

Google's $200 Nexus 7 may have taken the Android tablet market by storm, but Mountain View clearly isn't finished yet. Indeed, Google and Asus are reportedly prepping a $99 Nexus 7 tablet that could hit virtual store shelves sometime later this year. Is Google prepping a $99 Nexus 7 tablet?According to DigiTimes, the pair of industry heavyweights are working on two new versions of the device, both of which ...

California's governor Jerry Brown says that today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality. That's because he just signed a bill that makes driverless cars legal throughout the state. Brown symbolically signed the bill at Google headquarters in Mountain View. Google has been pioneering the idea of cars that can drive themselves, and first gained permission to use them on the road in Nevada early this year. T ...

Iran is in the process of blocking access to Google search, Gmail and YouTube, saying it plans to introduce its own 'domestic internet'. The move has been triggered by the anti-Islamic film trailer posted on YouTube which has led to riots across the Middle East. Several countries have already blocked the video, with some blocking YouTube altogether. In an anouncement on a state television channel, deputy go ...

Google is squaring up to Instagram with the acquisition of San Diego-based Nik Software, maker of the Snapseed photo-editing software. Snapseed does much the same as Instagram, with a range of filters and tools to crop, sharpen and blur. It was named Apple's iPad App of the Year last year, and there are plans to make it available on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and later. "We want to help our users create ...

Google is rolling out ultra-high speed fiber in Kansas City.

 According to Mountain View rep Milo Medin, the service is 100 times faster than today's average broadband. "No more buffering. No more loading. No more waiting. Gigabit speeds will get rid of these pesky, archaic problems and open up new opportunities for the web," Medin wrote in an official blog post. "Imagine: instantaneous sharing; truly glob ...

Third time lucky, perhaps: Yahoo's hired yet another CEO, Google vice president Marissa Mayer. As one of Google's first 20 staff, Mayer is a Silicon Valley veteran and, perhaps most importantly, comes from a strong engineering background. Indeed, she was Google's first-ever female engineer. In her 13 years at Google, she's overseen some of the company's most important products, inclding Gmail and Google New ...

If you're a fan of Android devices, you are probably somewhat familiar with the Nexus Q - which was unveiled by Mountain View at Google I/O 2012 just a few weeks ago. The streaming media platform sells for $299 directly from the Google Play Store and packs in a TI OMAP 4460 dual-core processor. The spherical device also has 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage, along with integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and An ...

Google's Chrome browser is now available for the first time for the iPad and iPhone, free from Apple's App Store. Marking the latest stage in the increasingly direct competition between the two companies, the browser is already - after just a few hours - the store's top selling app. The app runs on iOS 4.3 or later. Its big selling point is the synchronisation of tabs, browsing history and passwords. The co ...