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Google is challenging the ipad and Siri I'm cemitas filling in for Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update while cnet's new york office works to get power back after the storm we're bringing you today's tech news rundown from our San Francisco office superstorm sandy has knocked out power internet and cell phone service across the East Coast about seven and a half million people were without electricity as of Tuesday Google planned to announce new nexus tablets and a smartphone in New York but due to the storm the devices were introduced online Google's Nexus 10 will go head-to-head with the iPad it has a 10 inch screen with higher resolution than its Apple counterpart but the difference may be imperceptible to most the Nexus 10 is cheaper than the iPad running four hundred dollars for the 16 gig version Google will sell a five-hundred-dollar 32 gig version to the tablet hits the google play store on november 13th there are also new versions of the 7-inch Nexus 7 the 16 gig model dropped to two hundred dollars and there's a new 32 gig model for two hundred and fifty dollars and one with a cellular connection for three hundred dollars in the smartphone category google announced the nexus 4 made by LG it'll run the latest update to jelly bean Android 4.2 and also has a wireless charging feature beware it will not tap into 4G LTE the Nexus 4 goes on sale November 13th it comes unlocked with a starting price of two hundred dollars for an eight gig version but it can be bought with a tmobile contract all these new devices will have the updated jellybean system which among other upgrades has improved voice search google has also made this feature available in the Google Search app for iOS and it's proving to be a much faster alternative to Siri going so far as to transcribe queries as users speak Google hasn't given its voice search a name but users can either ask the voice assistant questions or just rattle off words that they would normally type into Google search box moving on to Windows now microsoft says it sold four million copies of windows 8 since friday's launch Windows 7 users can download an upgrade for forty dollars the Windows 8 app store has about 5,000 programs for us customers checkout cnet for a list of the top 12 Windows Store apps not many dedicated social media apps but there is flip toast which pulls in Facebook Twitter Linkedin and Instagram feeds into one place searching for a show just got easier for roku owners a software update lets you search for a program across Netflix Amazon Instant Hulu Plus HBO go and vodu if you dread typing there's a smartphone app for Android and Apple devices to simplify the process that's your tech news update for today you can find links to all of today's stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in san francisco im sue das