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.”
After years of driving PCs to be commodities, Microsoft is now imbuing devices that have Google operating systems with Windows. The doubles have their place along with Microsoft’s own devices, but… Read more »
Now that you can spend $199 and get either a Google Chromebook or a Windows 8.1 with Bing laptop, which is better? It depends on your needs, of course, but this… Read more »
The new Nexus 6 as reviewed is offers a fast, top-notch Android experience on a fantastic 5.96-inch screen. Don’t toss last year’s Nexus 5 just yet though: Android 5.0 breathes new… Read more »
One of the most puzzling aspects of the peering disputes that have arisen — principally between Netflix and a handful of the largest ISPs — is how little money appears to… Read more »
Yes, there was a ton o’ news out of Amazon’s cloud conference, but also big Hadoop news in Hortonworks IPO plans and Microsoft continues its open-sourcey ways by opening up .NET… Read more »
SAY Media, created when video-content company VideoEgg acquired blog-software provider Six Apart in 2010, says it is selling off its media properties — the latest example of a company getting squeezed… Read more »
Data suggests more U.S. iPhone buyers are interested in the smaller iPhone 6 instead of the Plus. The same situation could play out with the Motorola-built Nexus 6 since the Moto… Read more »
University of Toronto researcher and part-time Google distinguished researcher Geoff Hinton is responsible for many recent advances in deep learning, and many advances in neural network research over the past few… Read more »
When Google announced its new music subscription service, YouTube Music Key, it mentioned that subscribers would also get access to Google Play Music’s streaming service. Well, it looks like as if… Read more »
Microsoft is moving forward with Skype in a browser with a new beta version announced for IE, Chrome, Safari and Firefox. You’ll still need to download a plug-in but the company… Read more »