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In this week’s episode of the Gadget Lab podcast, Dylan Tweney and I analyze Google’s Chrome OS notebook and the idea of a Windows 7 tablet while giving a sneak peek of an awesome new iPad game.

Google’s new Nexus S smartphone went on sale Thursday at Best Buy stores for 200 bucks with a two-year contract, a move with poor timing, says an analyst.
That’s because by this time of year, the holiday season, retailers and competing manufacturers have already slashed prices for relatively new Android smartphones to between $0 and $50. [...]

I always thought that skydiving would be cool, then I remember that being on the roof of the house is about as high off the ground as I care to go without actually piloting the…

As a kid, Santa tends to be a big part of Christmas. The more parents can do to make him seem real, the more fun and exciting it can seem. There are a lot of…

The follow-up to the original Google Nexus One has surfaced with as the Google Nexus “S”. Produced in conjunction with Samsung, the Nexus “S” embodies many of the sensibilities within the brand’s current range of innovative Android-based phones. At the core of the phone is a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor, 4-inch 800×480 Super AMOLED screen, [...]

Stumped by foreign languages when you’re traveling? Google Inc. is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera. At a demonstration Tuesday at Mobile World Congress, a cell phone trade show in Barcelona, an engineer shot a picture of a German dinner menu with a phone running Google Inc.’s Android software. An [...]

The waiting time might be over soon for the up and coming Google netbooks. These Google’s portable operating systems will make appearances this year in selected netbooks. Word is around that netbook’s makers are still confused on which operating system would be the best for their devices. As for now, we know Samsung’s new netbook [...]