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.”
After five Galaxy S models, Samsung may be slimming down the TouchWiz software on its phones. Industry sources speaking to Business Korea say the software will be optimized to run comparably… Read more »
The pro-privacy project Ind.ie, which I covered a couple times last year, has scaled back its ambitions due to a lack of resources – despite having raised over $100,000 in a… Read more »
Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front. The business of IT is very complex and getting increasingly more complex every day. It does not matter whether you… Read more »
Drivers have long waited for the day their favorite smartphone navigation apps would come to their dashboards, but in the case of Ford vehicles that day could only be a year… Read more »
Augmedix has announced a Series A funding round of $16 million, co-led by its seed investors Emergence Capital and DCM Ventures. Total funding is now $23 million. Augmedix is a medical records… Read more »
I spent my CES looking for the solution to the growing complexity in the smart home and didn’t really find it. Instead, I came to the conclusion that the best option… Read more »
Google’s ambitious modular phone is inching closer to a public “market pilot” scheduled for later this year, and ahead of the second Ara developer’s conference later this week, Google has released… Read more »
Is $629 for a secure Blackphone too much for your budget? Perhaps the $129 Moto E handset is a good second choice, provided you do a little hardware hacking and install… Read more »
This past weekend, reports out of Korea suggested that Samsung is thinking about Windows Phone on its handsets, particularly at the low end. I can see it happening, since most of Samsung’s… Read more »
Security researchers are up in arms this morning over Google’s decision to stop patching a core Android component on older devices. According to Tod Beardlsey, an engineer at security firm Rapid7,… Read more »