{"id":25353,"date":"2012-10-29T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=25353"},"modified":"2012-10-30T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T06:43:09","slug":"google-nexus-10-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/25353\/google-nexus-10-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Nexus 10 unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Inc<\/a> unveiled a larger version of its Nexus-branded tablet computer on Monday, and updated its mobile gadget and online content offerings as competition with Apple Inc<\/a>, Amazon.com Inc<\/a> and Microsoft Corp<\/a> heats up ahead of the holiday sales season.<\/p>\n

The device follows a spate of new product launches by the technology leaders in recent weeks, including Apple’s iPad Mini last week and software-maker Microsoft’s first-ever home-built tablet, the Surface.<\/p>\n

Google, the world’s No.1 Internet search engine, has pushed deeper into the hardware business at a time when consumers are increasingly accessing the Web on mobile devices.<\/p>\n

Google’s new Nexus 10, made in partnership with consumer electronics company Samsung Electronics Co<\/a>, is the first 10-inch tablet to come to market under Google’s Nexus brand. The device, with prices starting at $299, will be available on November 13 in the United States and seven other countries, Google said in its official blog on Monday.<\/p>\n

Google was scheduled to introduce the device at a media event in New York on Monday, but was forced to cancel because of Hurricane Sandy.<\/p>\n

Google also said it was expanding its online movie and music retail businesses to several countries in Europe.<\/p>\n

And the company introduced an improvement to its online-music storage service. The new “matching” feature scans songs in a consumer’s music collection and automatically creates an online or “cloud-based” library of the same tracks which consumers can access from any device or computer.<\/p>\n

Google said the music matching feature, which only works with tracks that are part of the Google Play<\/a> store’s music catalog, will be available in Europe on November 13 and in the United States soon after.<\/p>\n

Google also updated its smaller, Nexus 7 tablet released earlier this year. It increased the storage on the $199 version of the device to 16GB from 8GB, and introduced a new $299 version of the Nexus 7 with a cellular data service option. Google also unveiled a new Nexus 4 smartphone, made in partnership with LG Electronics<\/a>, that features a quad-core processor and a 4.7-inch display.<\/p>\n