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.”
Lately, Microsoft has focused mobile software efforts on the platforms it competes with. It’s part of a cross-platform “going where the users are” strategy, which is smart if hardware sales are… Read more »
Amid weeks of turmoil between its software partner and a competing phone maker in India, OnePlus now offers its own Android software, at least in an early form, according to Android Police… Read more »
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Amazon and Google may have some catching up to do. It turns out the mail service of France, La Poste, has already successfully field-tested a service that can fly a package to a remote… Read more »
Let’s just get this out of the way, y’all. We are not going to see some kind of open standard or HTML-like universal language for the internet of things or the smart… Read more »
The next year will be the most important one of Pinterest’s life. Until now, the company has focused on its application and its audience, to the detriment of its coffers. It had the… Read more »
This is cool: Chromebook users can now run their favorite Linux distribution within a window right on their Chrome OS desktop. Google’s own happiness evangelist François Beaufort revealed with a Google+ post… Read more »
With the year nearly at an end, it seemed like a good time to take a look at which Gigaom posts generated the most traffic during 2014. The results speak for themselves: people really… Read more »
Google’s Gmail appears to have been blocked in China after months of disruptions to the service. On Friday, Chinese users reported a “severe disruption”, according to GreatFire.org, which monitors online censorship… Read more »