Google specializes in internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Beyond its core search engine, Google offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS for its netbook offering, Chromebook. Its mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
The open-source personal server platform Sandstorm just became way more viable: Having previously raised just under $59,000 through a crowdfunding campaign, it’s now pulled in $1.315 million in a seed round… Read more »
Nadim Kobeissi has announced Peerio, a secure messaging and file sharing solution, which encrypts email and files in transit and in the cloud. Many people have responded to recent cyberhacking — like… Read more »
A rich, powerful man won a series of court victories in France and Germany that arguably helped pave the way for Europe’s controversial “right to be forgotten”, which has helped people erase… Read more »
Parallels Access, a remote computer app for mobile devices, received a solid upgrade on Thursday. Version 2.5 has what the company calls a “Universal File Explorer,” providing one place to access… Read more »
There’s been a lot of speculation as to whether really wants to be an automaker, but today in an interview with Reuters, Google’s self-driving car project chief Chris Urmson said… Read more »
President Obama got behind cities’ efforts to build their own municipal broadband networks calling for an end to the laws in what he said were 19 states that prevented or made… Read more »
When Google bought Word Lens, an impressive language translation tool, last May, I wondered how and when the Google Translate app would take a big step forward. Now I know: It… Read more »
Project Ara head Paul Eremenko revealed that the first “market pilot” for Google’s ambitious modular phone is taking place in Puerto Rico later this year at the second Project Ara developers conference in Mountain… Read more »
It’s a big day in collaboration software with fan-favorite Slack unveiling pricing plans while Facebook talked more about Facebook for Work, a not-so-secret foray into the enterprise-software space. With Slack’s new… Read more »
Google Chromebooks aren’t the only devices finding strong demand in the classroom; the company knows that kids and teachers have smartphones, too. On Wednesday, Google launched a Classroom app for both… Read more »