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Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet preview posted

I'm not so sure Google wanted it to be released like this but here you go...

Notables include the Google Talk video chat, the new UI and the integration of Books, Youtube, Gmail and Google's other properties.

The video was briefly posted to YouTube in the Android developers account, then taken down.  Android Police then reposted it and Google has yet to pull it from YouTube since the cat is now out MORE

Google and MySpace finalize search and advertising deal

Myspace will use the Google Display Network and DoubleClick Ad Exchange going forward.

Google (GOOG) and MySpace (NWS) today announced a continuation of their advertising and search partnership.

In August of 2006, Google and MySpace first joined forces in a $900 million deal that expired this year. News Corp-owned MySpace  no longer commands the power it once did, having been overtaken by Facebook long ago, so the deal won't be nearly as sweet MORE

Just in time for the Holidays: Teach Parents Tech

Google is launching a site that will help people whose family members are in need of tech help.

We've all been there.  We're either the beneficiary of the family tech guru or we're the ones who head home on the Holiday vacation to a year's worth of tech support issues to address.

Google (GOOG) hopes to help with a site called TeachParentsTech:

TeachParentsTech.org lets you select from more than 50 basic how-to videos to send MORE

Google's Groupon groping reveals the shifting power in the web world

First Yelp, now Groupon: Why hot startups -- especially those holding the key to "local" -- keep slipping through the search giant's fingers.

While the official confirmations have yet to land (and my colleague Dan Primack is following up on Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's hopefully tongue-in-cheek offer to discuss the finer points of his affection for miniature dollhouses), it's looking like talks between Google and Groupon have fallen apart. The situation MORE

When can consumers buy a Google driverless car? And why would they?

Big carmakers say they're developing driverless cars, but only the search engine company has taken to California's highways with one. If driverless cars can pick up people at their home or office, the need to buy one at all may soon be gone.

By Doron Levin, contributor

Google's (GOOG) dramatic experiments on California roads with driverless-vehicle technology, publicized with mild fanfare within the past week, could legitimize a once far-fetched concept for MORE