Viral Video: Groupon's Andrew Mason Doesn't Kiss Google and Tell! [BoomTown]

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Dive Video Google's Andy Rubin Shows Off Prototype Motorola Tablet [Digital Daily]

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Google’s Andy Rubin came to D: Dive Into Mobile packing some serious hardware, and not just the company’s newly announced smartphone, the Nexus S. He came with a prototype Motorola Android tablet, running a dual-core Nvidia chip and Honeycomb, the next iteration of Android. And he used it to show off a forthcoming update to Google’s mobile maps application.

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Dive Video Google's Andy Rubin on Apple, Microsoft and the Nexus S [Digital Daily]

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Is Google the Microsoft of smartphones? Is Android profitable? What does Nexus really mean? Is Google wooing Nokia? How does the company view Apple as a competitor? RIM? Google VP of Mobile Platforms Andy Rubin speaks to these questions, shows off the new Nexus S and demonstrates the next iteration of Google’s mobile maps application in the video below.

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