Lenovo introduces $199 IdeaPad Android tablet

Lenovo on Thursday unleashed details on its new IdeaPad A1 Android tablet, with the most surprising element being its $199 price tag.

That may be all it needs to get attention in the crowded tablet market.

After HP recently dropped …

Nielsen: Android takes 40% of US smartphone share, leads as “next desired OS”

Not much has changed in the US mobile market over the past few months: Android is still the leader — accounting for 40 percent of the total smartphone market — and consumers’ desire for the Google OS doesn’t appear to …

Former Google China chief raises $180M for startup incubator

Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google China, has just finished a $180 million fund-raise for Innovation Works, a startup incubator for he founded two years ago.

Innovation Works is an accelerator for early-stage web and tech companies in China. …

Java creator James Gosling joins ocean robot maker Liquid Robotics

James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has joined Liquid Robotics, a maker of robot vehicles that explore the bottom of the ocean, as its chief software architect.

Gosling is a former Sun Microsystems fellow who is best …

Google hires source-code snooper who unearthed Google+ secrets (Updated)

Austrian blogger/developer Florian Rohrweck, who discovered unreleased Google+ features by exploring the source code, was hired by the company, Rohrweck announced on his blog Monday.

Rohrweck is credited as discovering many Google products that prior to an official announcement, including …

Vizibility wants to help you game Google

Potential employers are going to search for you, it happens. But Google can be a fickle mistress. That’s why Vizibility has raised $1.3 million in a follow-on seed round to give you the Googling power back.

Vizibility has created a …

Google brings voice search to Maps

Starting today, Google is letting users search Google Maps and get directions with just their voices — no typing required.

For now, this new feature relies on Chrome web browser functionality. From the browser, users can simply click the small, …