GigaomGirl Scouts are mum on tech underpinning of Digital Cookie push
Details are slim but Accenture, Hybris are implementation partners on the Girl Scouts’ new Digital Cookie e-commerce effort. 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.”
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Voluntarily accepted education standards that include keyboarding skills could be hurting iPad sales in schools while at the same, boosting the already compelling choice of lower-cost Chromebooks. Read more »
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The well-funded Swedish app is now using algorithms to suggest who its users should call, based on their call history, as well as time and place. Read more »
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The free service is currently available on iOS, Android and OS X, though an in-browser version will arrive soon. It’s been under development for two years and has a very credible… Read more »
Google announced on Tuesday that it is funding a project, called Automatic Statistician, that bills itself as “an artificial intelligence for data science.” Read more »
Amazon Web Services didn’t announce any new price cuts at its annual re:Invent conference last month, but there’s more to the economics of cloud computing than just lower prices. Read more »
Swiping a finger down from the top of your display in Android 5.0 to get at your unlocked device’s settings is typically a two-stop process: The first pull brings down your… Read more »