One of the most anticipated updates of this year has been the Android 2.1 OTA release for the Motorola Droid and sadly the users of the smartphone have done nothing more than anticipating. Here is something which will give those users inspiration to go on as we get to preview the Android 2.1 performance on the Motorola Droid courtesy of a droid-life video. We fail to understand how droid-life managed to receive an official Android 2.1 update on the Motorola Droid when the Google OS update has not yet gone public.

Our doubts aside, what we

Rupert Murdoch hates Google. The publishing giant and Google have been at each other over Google’s book scanning program and the fact that Murdoch owns many of the newspapers whose stories are indexed by Google and then offered to readers free.

Murdoch thinks that we should all be thrilled to pay to read online news just as we pay for newspapers. Google has a new patent that will really make Murdoch unhappy. The patent is titled “Segmenting Printed Media Pages Into Articles.”

What that means is the patent is for a system

New digital video recorders will debut from the TiVo stables during early April. The new devices, christened TiVo Premiere and Premier XL, would come across as new digital video recorders that combine broadcast and online content much better than ever before.  The new boxes are expected t o bring in some amount of relief to TiVo that has been finding it tough in the face of competition from cable companies.

The TiVo Premiere and Premier XL will run Adobe Flash software. It is a known fact that cable companies have

With all the recent talk about the lawsuit launched by Apple against HTC over patent infringements, it was curious to see when Google would finally actually react – after all, the whole ordeal seems to revolve around the operating system on HTC’s device, the Android.

Google haven’t officially done anything yet, though a spokesperson made a public statement giving a hint of what’s about to happen soon: “We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and

The Nexus One is finally making its way to the UK.  Come April, and the Google smartphone will be available in the UK. However, it is being said that device will only be available to purchase online, direct from Google.   

The Google Nexus One smartphone is most likely to hop on to the Vodafone network , as the carrier would be Google’s first partner of choice. The smartphone has already generated a lot of attention ever since it was rolled out during the first week of 2010.

In the meantime, as a run up to the

Those who bought a Nexus One smartphone are inf or a treat as we just caught wind that the Google Earth application is now available for download from the Android Marketplace.

From what we’re learning only Android 2.1 devices are capable to get the application, which means that you won’t be able to get Places, Businesses, Panoramio, Wikipedia, Roads, Borders and Labels, and Terrain, on your Motorola Droid.

Apple’s iPhone was the only handset to get Google Earth app, but if MountainView is to be believed the 1GHz

Google’s Nexus One Android smartphone entered the market with support for T-Mobile’s 3G network. A version compatible with Verizon’s CDMA network as well as Vodafone in Europe was said to be in the works. It wasn’t ready for launch at the time of launch of the current HSPA version. According the earlier announcements, the device was supposed to go on sale in Spring 2010. Now it has come to news that the CDMA Nexus One has cleared the FCC.

Manufacturer HTC, was the one who made the FCC submission for the

The folks over at Neowin are stating an anonymous contact inside Google has provided them a tip that the Nexus One will be coming to Verizon on March 23rd. Google originally launched their first handset back in January from themselves only for $529, and very shortly after with T-Mobile for $179 with a 2-year contract.

When the Nexus One was launched the Google website stated it would be coming to the Verizon network sometime this spring but did not give an exact date. These rumors give it an exact date to coincide with the International CTIA

Vodafone UK has confirmed that the new Google Nexus One is going to be available to their customers starting sometime in April. After being available in the US for quite some time now, the Vodafone Nexus One will be available exclusively from Google’s website ( google.com/phone ) and although there’s no info regarding pricing, it’s likely to cost very similar to comparable smartphones, such as the iPhone.

Vodafone is Google’s first partner in Europe. The company has first announced that the Nexus One will be

The Google Nexus One is a wonderful Android powered handset which just falls short of matching the iPhone might on a couple of counts but even then, it is a stunning offering. Considering the ever swelling Nexus One fan club (remember VZW is yet to offer it), the idea of spare batteries does not sound weird and for the ones who already own the attractive Google Smartphone, here is their chance to grab an extra one.

Each of these removable 1400 mAH spare batteries will cost $25 and the maximum amount of batteries that can be purchased per