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Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 are official now. Samsung announced these amazing next generation devices on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2011.

Google’s Honeycomb event is happening now and they have been showing sneak peaks of it for the past few weeks. Android 3.0 Honeycomb is designed exclusively for tablets and Google has given a pretty big advancement in the user interface. The new Android Market is very similar to AppBrain, but you can purchase apps directly from the web and push them to your phone. Additional features of the Web Store:...

Google set up a sting operation (!) in an attempt to catch Microsoft red-handed stealing their search results in Bing. Interestingly, Bing doesn’t deny this completely. The whole sting operation is amazing and it started from Danny Sullivan’s post and resulting Microsoft’s response on Bing search quality. uld ever enter into Google. These searches returned no matches on Google or Bing — or a tiny number of poor quality matches, in a few cases — before the experiment went live....

Big news from Google yesterday with Eric Schmidt announcing that he will be stepping down as CEO effective April 4th. Larry Page, who served as Google’s first CEO from 1998 to 2001 will take over as CEO. Schmidt will remain on as “Executive Chairman”, where he will focus on deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relations. On a lighter note, Schmidt tweeted, “Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!” Full update from Eric is available on the Google Blog....

Google’s been ‘hacked’. Yes, you heard it right! Visitors of the company’s Bangladesh search site (Google.com.bd) see a defaced landing page rather than the usual search site a while ago today.

Google has launched a new feature in Google Docs where you can upload video files and play it directly in the browser. Once you’ve uploaded your video to Google Docs, you can watch it with the Google Docs video player. Simply click the file from your Documents List, and the player opens in a new page. Google now supports common video format files such as .MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec), AVI, ....

Google has released an official video on their YouTube channel, unleashing Android 3.0 – designed exclusively for tablets. It’s been pretty much confirmed that 3.0 is Honeycomb. If the video embedded below is anything to go by, the next-generation of Android tablets could pose the first real challenge to Apple iPad (or iPad 2), unlike the current-gen Android tablets like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. This “Entirely for Tablet” version of Android, in the quick glimpse, we can see that Android, at least at the face value we can see here, has been given a pretty big advancement in the User Interface (UI)....

After launching first Triple SIM phones, Projector phones in India, Intex Mobiles, an Indian handset brand is to join the Android vogue with a smartphone powered by Froyo (v2.2). The Intex Android smartphone will be equipped with a 3.2 MP camera, 2.8 inch resistive full touch screen, Wi-Fi, GPS. This phone will be the cheapest Android headset in India at around Rs 5500 and is expected to launch in Feb 2011....

Former Googler, FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit just tweeted a few hours ago– Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year (or “merged” with Android) He continued: ChromeOS has no purpose that isn’t better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display). I was thinking, “is this too obvious to even state?”, but then I see people taking ChromeOS seriously, and Google is even shipping devices for some reason....

With Android 2.3 just days away from its official release, Google has decided that the Android Market should get redesigned. In a blog post, Google made an announcement that this market client update will be rolled out in over next two weeks to all devices running Android 1.6 or higher. Users can quickly flip through the carousel to view promoted applications and immediately go to the download page for the application they want....