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iSuppli says Google’s Nexus One actually contains around $174-worth of hardware. To estimate the bill of materials, the company broke down all of the phone’s components and  came up with a fairly simple breakdown. The phone’s 1 GHz Snapdragon processor is the most expensive part, costing $30.50. The OLED display comes in second with $23.50 [...]

The American Dialect Society, an association that studies the English language  announced that late last week that the verb “Google”  has been chosen at the top word of the past decade. Other words up for the Word of the Decade include  9/11, blog, green, wi-fi, text and war on terror but it was search giant’s [...]

Yep, it’s the Android’s time to shine and shine they did at the CES this week. ComputerWorld.com’s Mark Hamblen got the chance to try out the Nexus One, also known as the Googlephone (built by HTC) and Motorola’s Backflip and gives us glimpse on their notable features. The Nexus One weighs 4.59 ounces and looks [...]

Not even out in the market yet and just days-old after it’s unveiling, Google’s Nexus One is already facing a problem. According to a report in the UK’s Telegraph, the family of author Philip K. Dick wants to sue Google for using the Nexus One name. Dick’s daughter even sent the company a letter on [...]

Its another victory for chipset maker Qualcomm! After Google announced last Tuesday that its HTC Nexus One “Googlephone” will run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, TheStreet.com announced that the Qualcomm will also be powering the new iPhones. Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar confirmed this fact with the manufacturers and suppliers involved with the phone. Reps from [...]

According to a report from Net Applications, an Internet analytics firm, Google Chrome has taken Apple Safari’s position as the world’s third most popular Web browser. Despite being just over a year old, the Google web browser’s usage grew from 3.93 percent in November 2009 to 4.63 in December of the same year. Safari’s share [...]

Yes, its confirmed and yes, this might be the moment tech world has been waiting for. Google has finally and officially announced that there will be a media event to be held on January 5 at the search giant’s Mountain View campus. The event, which is an invitation-only soiree, will have a press conference and [...]

Net-security firm McAfee predicts that Microsoft will no longer be the primary target for hackers next year. Instead, these evil villains of the Web will turn their attention to Adobe. Evidence of this is the already growing number of attacks targeted to the vulnerabilities in Acrobat Reader and Flash this year. And with the tricky update [...]

What’s next for Google? A DVD player? An HDTv? A robot? Well, with its recent forays into other markets, it’s not that hard to imagine what it’ll think up next. For now however, let us content ourselves with the current “addition” (well at least that‘s what rumors say) to its growing list of products under [...]

In move that is part of a five-year search and advertising deal between Microsoft and Verizon in January of this year, the carrier unilaterally updated user Storm 2 Blackberries and other smartphones so that now, only Microsoft Bing is available. “We’re a proud supporter of Microsoft’s Bing search engine,” a company spokesman tells The Register. [...]