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 next billion Android users might have a choice of software on their phones thanks to CyanogenMod, the group behind a customized version of Android software of the same name: CyanogenMod… Read more »
Enterprise IT will face harsh realities around BYOD, Desktop as a Service will grow rapidly, and questions about Microsoft’s future market share will abound. Read more »
Amazon Web Services pre-announced big, new C4 compute instances in November at AWS Re:invent, apparently re-announced them on January 2 in a disappearing blog post, and on Monday announced availability officially (with… Read more »
After years of criticism of the materials quality for its plastic smartphones, Samsung has turned to metal casings for its Galaxy A3 and A5 handsets. Now, it has the A7 as part… Read more »
Box is apparently moving ahead with its long-delayed IPO (see Box can’t IPO, so now what? and Box IPO on hold because of iffy markets). The interesting aspect is that its filing with… Read more »
It was difficult to find much in the way of Chrome OS at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show. That’s likely due to the cycle of chips that powers Chromebooks and Chromeboxes:… Read more »
Late last year, the world got a good look at the challenges and pain associated with kernel maintenance required by cloud providers. A security vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor required immediate and… Read more »
Microsoft has made an announcement about the roadmap for OneDrive file-sync-and-share services. Note that I say services, plural, because the company has devised multiple versions of the brand, with very different… Read more »
Box laid out the details of its long-awaited IPO and plans to raise $186.9 million with the company valued at roughly $1.5 billion, the startup detailed in an SEC filing on… Read more »
Amazon launched AWS Lambda at its re:Invent conference in November 2014, and though there were over half a dozen other cloud services also announced, Lambda stood out as the most innovative… Read more »