You Thought Street View Cars were all You Had to Worry About to protect your privacy ? Well check this Out, Google is deploying a fleet of small, camera-equipped airplanes above several cities, the Internet search company's latest step in its ambitious and sometimes controversial plan to create a 3D digital map of the world.

Google plans to release the first three-dimensional maps for several cities by the end of the year, the company said at a news conference at its San Francisco offices on Wednesday. Google declined to name the cities, but it showed a demonstration of a 3D map of San Francisco, in which a user can navigate around an aerial view of the city.

"We're trying to create the illusion that you're just flying over the city, almost as if you were in your own personal helicopter," said Peter Birch, a product manager for Google Earth.

Google's head of engineering for its maps product, Brian McClendon, said the company was using a fleet of airplanes owned and operated by contractors and flying exclusively for Google.

An ASUS representative at the Computex trade show has confirmed that the first Nexus tablet from Google will be produced by ASUS, and will be unveiled before the end of June. The Google 7-inch tablet will cost around $200 or as low as $149, which indicate they are planning to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire.

Google I/O 2012 event is set for June 27th - 28th, Which will be also the launch event of the Nexus tablet.

Asus also confirms that the tablet will pack a Nvidia Tegra 3 Quad-core CPU and Android 4.1 which was rumored to be called JellyBean. It sounds like a pretty Good deal !

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We reported before the Google Nexus 7 is the Upcoming Google branded tablet that will be made by ASUS, Today, We got some Exclusive Press-shots of the device

If these pictures are Real, the Google Nexus 7 will look pretty decent with this white front (Photo Above) and black-white back (Photo Below), but the presence of an earpiece-slit in the front, suggest its a phone too. The front pack all the sensors you need along with a big front-facing camera or Video calls.

The Nexus 7 Tablet will pack a Quad-core Tegra 3 CPU, Nvidia GeForce ULP GPU, and adds that the device is likely to have a 1GB of RAM, as far as specs are concerned. The Android version that will eventually be loaded on the device is Android 4.1 Jellybean, Stay tuned for More Info!

Quickoffice is a very familiar mobile productivity App between both iOS and Android users, if you own a high end Android handset or an iPad device you may have Quickoffice pre-installed on your device.

Today, Google announced that they have acquired Quickoffice, indicating they will incorporate its technology into future Google productivity offerings. Here is the Official Google Blog article:

"We're happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions.

Google + Quickoffice = get more done anytime, anywhere

Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device. Quickoffice has an established track record of enabling seamless interoperability with popular file formats, and we'll be working on bringing their powerful technology to our Apps product suite.

Quickoffice has a strong base of users, and we look forward to supporting them while we work on an even more seamless, intuitive and integrated experience.

We're excited to welcome the Quickoffice team and their users to Google." - Google Blog

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You may have heard about the Google Nexus Tablet rumors before. Today, We get some REAL evidence that the tablet exist. The Upcoming Google-branded tablet will be Named "Google Nexus 7" tablet. It will be Manufactured by Asus as the first Nexus Tablet from Google and the first Nexus product by Asus. The tablet's specs leaked on Rightware's Power Board benchmark results.

The Nexus 7 tablet will have a 7-inch Display with 1280 x 768 resolution, powered by Nvidia 4-PLUS-1 Tegra 3 Quad-core processor clocked at 1.3Ghz along with Nvidia ULP (Ultra-Low-Power) Geforce GPU for Graphics. The tablet will be powered by the Upcoming Android 4.1 JellyBean and here is the code that contain the OS Info of the Nexus 7.

"os":
{
"android":
{
"model": "Nexus 7";
"hardware": "grouper";
"manufacturer": "asus";
"device": "grouper";
"brand": "google";
"display": "210064-userdebug 4.1 JRN51B dev-keys";
"version_sdk": "4.1";
"board": "grouper";
"version_code": "1";
}
}

As you can see above, the device code name: grouper. This follows in line with Google's long tradition of naming Nexus (or official developer hardware) devices after fish. The XOOM, for example, was known alternatively as Wingray and Stingray, based on the variant. The Nexus One was Mahi-mahi. The G1 was trout. So, grouper makes a lot of sense here.

The tablet may be Coming this fall with a very competitive price of $300 and will be thefirst tablet to have Android 4.1 JellyBean.

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