Google founder pleased with T3 Award win

Google founder Larry Page has posted his excitement at winning the T3 "Gadget of the Year" Award for the Google Nexus 7 tablet

 

Google was a double winner at this year's T3 Award Ceremony at Old Billingsgate Market in London, picking up the gongs for "Gadget of the Year" and "Tablet of the Year" for the Google Nexus 7 tablet. The device fended off tough competition in both categories, beating both Apple's new iPad 3 in and the Samsung Galaxy 3 in the latter and former categories respectively.

Google CEO and co-founder, Larry Page expressed his joy at winning both T3 Awards on his Google + page, saying, So excited our Nexus 7 Tablet has won "Tablet of the Year" and "Gadget of the Year" from T3 - The Gadget Experts."

Powered by the top-of-the-range Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, the ASUS built Nexus 7 is one of the more affordable tablets in the market, at a price-tag of £159 (for the 8BG model),

A hearty congratulations to Google and all of the other winners at this year's awards. It's been a fantastic year for tech and innovation and we can't wait to see what 2013 has in store.

Check out our T3 Awards page for a full list of the winners and runners-up.

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Facebook passes 1bn users

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed the social network now attracted ovcer one billion active users per month

There are now more than 1 billion monthly users on Facebook, according to its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO posted the information in his FB profile this week, saying " This morning, there are more than 1bn people using Facebook actively each month."

“If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you. Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life. I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.”

Facebook released a series of statistics to conincide with the announcement, showwing that 600 million users access Facebook via smartphones and tablets device - up 48 million from 552 million in June this year. Since its creation,more than 140.3 billion 'Friend' connections have been made.

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