ResearchGoogle is making Hangouts smart
Google has rolled out a new version of Hangouts for Android that includes listening, so if someone asks you ‘where are you?’ it will offer to help. It will create a… Read more »
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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.”
MoreGoogle has rolled out a new version of Hangouts for Android that includes listening, so if someone asks you ‘where are you?’ it will offer to help. It will create a… Read more »
Calculating how much revenue — or profit — commercial vendors wring out of open-source software is a tough nut to crack. One reason is that the vendors themselves muddy the waters… Read more »
Our investment thesis at Khosla Ventures is that simplicity through abstraction and automation through autonomic behavior will rule in the enterprise’s “New Stack,” a concept that embraces several industry changes: The… Read more »
Much like Apple is tying its mobile and desktop software together, Google is doing the same with Android and Chrome. One recent examples shows Google’s approach here: The ability to unlock a Chromebook… Read more »
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Chromecast got its long-awaited guest mode earlier this week, but Google also quietly updated screen casting to work with a whole range of additional Android devices. Any device running Android 4.4.2… Read more »
OMG Chrome got an interesting tip just before the big run up to January’s Consumer Electronics Show. According to a source, Acer will be super-sizing its next Chromebook with a 15.6-inch… Read more »
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