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Google is reportedly ready to release a successor to the Google Nexus 7

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Yet another big-time player looks to trounce hugely successful minnows

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ICO and others initiate action after French regulator says Google is not complying

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Alma Whitten is leaving amidst various investigations into Google privacy practices

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Google has promised not to sue open source developers and distributors over a list of 10 patents related to MapReduce, implemented in Apache Hadoop amongst others

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A proposed ban on head-mounted displays such as Google Glass is facing a lack of support in the West Virginia political system

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The latest version of Google's Chrome browser adds individual profiles for different users, as well as context-aware spell-checking

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Sweden's government wanted to include the word 'ungoogleable' in a dictionary of modern language, but Google's lawyers begged to differ - so the definition was dropped

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British advances in the white space field don’t go unnoticed

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Divided regulators meant Google was not punished properly for taking private Wi-Fi data, the ICO tells us

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