Driving through Las Vegas can be distracting — bright lights, sun-powered death rays and international Consumer Electronics Shows have a tendency to catch a geek’s eye — good thing, then, that Nevada’s deemed Google fit to test its autonomous automobile on public streets… Tweet This Post

Google remains tied up in a censorship case with the Indian government, and things aren’t looking rosy for the search giant in the interim period before its May 23rd court hearing. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Competition Commission of India is launching an antitrust investigation of Google to examine the company’s alleged “discriminatory [...]

The jury in the copyright case between Google and Oracle has returned a split, partial verdict as to whether Google infringed on Oracle’s copyrights of Java and its APIs. Are computing languages copyrightable? The answer is not exactly clear cut… Tweet This Post

Google has announced today that Hangouts On Air are going worldwide. That means any Google+ user who wants to stream live video to the whole world can do so. Hangouts have always been the killer app for Google+, and this announcement makes them into a truly new broadcast medium… Tweet This Post

Online and mobile research company comScore just released its newly rebooted and retooled Mobile Metrix report this morning, which examines mobile media usage across both apps and mobile web browsing. According to the new data, Google sites led as the top property on iOS, Android and RIM devices, reaching 96… Tweet This Post

Google+ on Monday announced it would gradually roll out its “Hangouts on Air” feature to the masses over the coming weeks. The feature lets you broadcast live sessions for anyone to watch — just like Barack Obama did in January… Tweet This Post

Remember LG’s Android Gingerbread-loaded L-style series of smartphones from back at Mobile World Conference? While we can’t be totally certain this is the case, it appears that the Optimus L5 handset recently passed through the FCC’s subterranean lair… Tweet This Post

LG revealed two Google-loaded TVs at CES, but never gave us prices or told us when these LED models might dangle their skinny bezels in stores. In briefings at Google last week, we heard that the 47-incher (47G2) and 55-incher (55G2) would sell for $1699 and $2299 respectively — although Amazon already has them listed [...]

Iran is harshly criticizing Google for what it feels is a disrespectful omission in Google Maps. The country’s government is angry because Google Maps does not label the body of water known in Iran as the Persian Gulf… Tweet This Post

No, that’s not a QWERTY feature phone you’re looking at — it’s Google’s earliest Android development device, the Sooner. While the HTC-sourced phone itself hasn’t been a secret, the build of Android on this particular specimen, obtained by Steven Troughton-Smith, is something few eyes outside of Mountain View have seen… Tweet This Post

Editor’s note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip. Congratulations… Tweet This Post

From “do a barrel roll” to “let it snow,” Google’s been known to have some whimsical tricks up its sleeves. Now, you can enjoy some a cappella, sung by Google Translate. If you insert the below nonsensical string of characters into Google Translate, set the “to” language to German and press listen, you’ll hear a [...]