As a part of Android 2.3.4 rolling out in next few weeks for Google Nexus S and don’t know when for other 2.3.x Android devices (I hate Android fragmentation), Google Talk will be updated to support video and voice chat.

The new Google Docs app for Android not only has easy search filters and navigation but also comes with this powerful feature that enables you to create a new document by taking a snap of the text in a photo. The text in the photo is recognized by Optical Character Recognition and is converted to an editable Google Docs document. The document appears in the list shortly after you take the photo.

Marissa Mayer, Google’s first female engineer who is now the vice president of consumer products at Google, interviewed Lady Gaga at Google. The fame of Gaga on Google and YouTube is remarkable. She is one of the most searched people in the world on Google and her videos are among the most viewed videos on YouTube. I am not a big fan of Lady Gaga but this interview is very interesting and a must watch for fans.

TED2011 is happening this week and I stumbled upon this video made by skimoreskimore who had a chance to ride in one of Google’s self driving cars at the conference.

No hands on wheel at all, and it went up to 43 mph. I am thrilled and freaked out even by even watching this video.

Nokia, the largest mobile phone manufacturer, has lost the position of top smartphone platform maker that they had for 10 years. Google is now the leading smartphone platform maker followed by Nokia and Apple. The research firm Canalys published this survey on Monday reporting that 32.9 million handsets are running on Google platform.

[image via AppleInsider]

About 5 years ago Nokia was an icon in the smartphones industry and I believe it was their best time. I remember when Symbian looked so awesome. The variety of phones that Nokia suites every class of buyers and Nokia is still the largest mobile phone manufacturer. But when it comes to smartphones, Nokia has lost it.

Earlier this month, Google and YouTube visited Pakistan to explore the opportunities available in the region. I was invited (but couldn’t go due to my commitment with my university as I live in the other city) to the Google Digital Community Moot at Islamabad organized by CIO Pakistan where we had opportunity to meet the high-level delegate of Google team with Badar Khushnood (Google Consultant for Pakistan) and Omar Shakeel (Developer at Google from Pakistan).

[Image via the official Google blog.]

Google high-level delegates were not just here for the Digital Community Moot event, but also to follow up the Clinton Global Initiative commitment to Pakistan and to sponsor and participate in Pakistan’s first International Youth Conference and Festival.

I don’t know if Neil Patrick was mocking hand held gamers or showing his obsession with Angry Birds by making a real life version of the top selling mobile game that could not even get nominated in the best handheld game category. So I guess he was mocking as I can understand the feeling of hardcore gamers who just play such cheesy games during boring lectures when you have to kill the time for keeping yourself away from post study disorders.

Now your phone is your key. Clarion Hotel Stockholm (Sweden) is testing a pilot project to replace key rooms of the hotel with mobile phone.

Just like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, Toshiba has now also introduced it’s new Tablet called Folio 100. The Device was unveiled at IFA electronics show in Berlin, Germany.

[Image via Slashgear]

The Device will be  available in 3G (price 499 euros) and non-3G (with just Wi-Fi networking, price 399 euros) versions.

Today, Samsung announced their first Android 2.2 tablet device called the GALAXY Tab.

Device has Samsung’s TouchWiz interface with multi-touch support. The interface is divided into “Hubs”. There are 4 Hubs namely Readers Hub, Media Hub, Music Hub and Social Hub. Each Hub has related apps to provide functionalities as understood by their names. Users can also install more than 70,000 Apps available in the Android Market.