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.”
Among the smorgasbord of features Amazon rolled out on Wednesday during Amazon’s re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas, two operational services stand out as a way to further distinguish the cloud… Read more »
At AWS Re:Invent, Amazon may be signaling an end to the race to the bottom with lots of higher-end products and services, but not a mention of price cuts. There is… Read more »
Is the Nexus 6 for you? Probably, if you want a 6-inch phone with Android 5.0, although I found a few niggling issues. Those opting for a smaller handset and don’t… Read more »
Look out Spotify: Google has officially announced a new music subscription service that takes advantage of YouTube’s vast collection of music and existing relationships with labels. Read more »
The first reveal of AWS Re:invent 2014. Aurora a MySQL-compatible relational database engine to take on Oracle et al. Also lots of goodies for developers including continuous integration and a managed… Read more »
In what probably never would have happened under the first two CEOs to lead the historic software company, Microsoft plans to announce on Wednesday that it is open sourcing the entire… Read more »
An unusual glitch struck Google’s ad serving tool on Wednesday morning, causing blanks spaces to appear in place of advertisements on websites like BuzzFeed, Time, Forbes and VentureBeat. The outage means… Read more »
Along with a new version of Android for phones, Google-powered smartwatches are on tap to get updates too. An early build shows several Android Wear improvements including weather icons on watchfaces,… Read more »