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.”
Mass online surveillance and censorship of what people see on the web appear to be getting worse, according to the latest Web Index report from Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation… Read more »
Google has decided to shut down Google News in Spain. The decision follows the passage of a law in July that obliges any news aggregator quoting snippets of text or using… Read more »
After more than a million direct downloads of the beta, Nokia’s Here mapping software is available in the Google Play Store. The navigation app was initially made available for specific Samsung Galaxy phones… Read more »
Google has delivered on its promise to offer developers a way to make official Android Wear watchfaces, debuting its Watch Face API on Wednesday. Along with the software tool are several dozen watch… Read more »
Google started sent out an email to Google Play customers on Tuesday informing them that they could be eligible for refunds under a recent agreement with the FCC. Read more »
Watch for an update to Google Hangouts in the Play Store today: Google announced on Wednesday morning that a new version of the mobile chat and SMS app is rolling out… Read more »
Mobile app publishers are increasingly turning to ad network mediation to boost ad revenues and optimize fill rates in markets around the world. Read more »
One of the more interesting and forward-thinking contact management apps arrived in August with the debut of Humin for iOS. The app is now available for Google Android phones in a… Read more »