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.”
Facing dwindling software profits after a meteoric rise to the top of the smartphone sales chart, Samsung may have to make difficult decisions to cut services that are draining the bank… Read more »
Offshore wind energy generation always seems to be a distant reality, for the United States at least. But the development pace could pick up with the planned auction of over 742,000… Read more »
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I’ve written about Trello, the popular teak task management app designed around Kanban-style “boards” (see “Trello and Atlassian are quietly making inroads and announce new funding” and “The 2013 task management… Read more »
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IBM’s putting on a charm offensive to win startups over to its cloud portfolio and SoftLayer’s bare metal options continue to appeal. But it still has a long, hard slog to… Read more »
Most settings for Android 5.0 are in the…. Settings. But not this one. Overview mode, which shows you all of your running apps and open tabs, can actually be altered by… Read more »
Based on a recent study by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated (conducted by Harris Poll), it looks like the US is going to lag behind other industrial economies in the adoption of… Read more »