We are also behind highly visible Google Gadgets, running on iGoogle and the Google Gadget Ads platforms.

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He says the OpenSocial APIs are based largely on the ones used for Google Gadgets, the applications Google lets users install on their "iGoogle" personal home pages.

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If the data is available, your imagination is the only limit, especially now that gadgets like Google Glass are hitting the market.

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Google Glass and other augmented reality gadgets risk creating a world in which privacy is impossible, warn campaigners.

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And, as always, we got a pile of the month's latest and greatest gadgets, including the Google Nexus 7, Hasbro's new Lazer Tag guns and a quick trip around OS X Mountain Lion.

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It is dissatisfaction with the ability of today's phones to carry targeted advertising--rather than a thirst for software-licensing revenues or desire to build cool gadgets--that is pushing Google to take on the mobile-phone market, industry sources say.

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Theoretically, you could spend all your online time linked in some way to your Google experience, both on your PC and on your phone and someday on many other gadgets as well, including your car.

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