GigaomNest’s Fadell: Being at Google doesn’t make us a slave to data
When Google acquired home automation company Nest Labs in January, more than a few people wondered how consumers would react. 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.”
MoreWhen Google acquired home automation company Nest Labs in January, more than a few people wondered how consumers would react. Read more »
The latest Stable version of Chrome for OS X is finally 64-bit compatible. There’s no going back to 32-bit as Google is discontinuing support. Skype for the web is nearly here… Read more »
Many people see Google Glass or other wearables and immediately think “Great; here’s another device to distract me from my surroundings.” Designed with micro interactions in mind, however, these can actually… Read more »
Qualcomm is moving beyond mobile chips and will target the data center market with new server-chips, according to Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. Mollenkopf detailed the mobile chip-maker’s plans during its annual… Read more »
On Wednesday, Duolingo launched a version of its language-learning game for Windows Phone, because Microsoft’s platform is prominent in emerging markets where Duolingo wants to establish itself. Read more »
Enterprises can use data centers and cloud computing together to meet the infrastructure needs of emerging applications and new requirements. Read more »
Google is starting to roll out a “mobile-friendly” badge on its search pages for sites that are designed for iPhones and Android devices. Read more »
Telenav now has two apps called Scout, but they offer different user interfaces and somewhat different functionality. One is for North America and the other — brought in through Telenav’s Skobbler… Read more »
Samsung continues to struggle to become a major provider of mobile software services in a world dominated by Android and iOS. So the company hopes to use Tizen to build vast… Read more »
Splice Machine ships v1 of its RDBMS-on-Hadoop. Plus, HP Vertica, MapR and the Apache Drill and CouchDB teams have release news of their own. Read more »