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.”
One percent of 8tracks’ eight million monthly users curate their own playlists on the service. Now, 8tracks wants to make it easier to pair these DJs with listeners. Read more »
Google announced the start of its Android 5.0 rollout to Nexus devices on Monday but it hasn’t happened yet. A Wi-Fi bug on the Nexus 5 may be the culprit. Now… Read more »
Microsoft is quickly learning that adding more Office users for free may be more useful than gaining fewer Office users at a cost: Office 365 subscriptions are no longer required for… Read more »
Pushbullet was already helpful to push links or files between an Android phone and a computer or Chromebook. Now you can start text conversations from Pushbullet with the messages routed through… Read more »
Proxygen lets Facebook take advantage of new software performance enhancers like the Google-developed SPDY protocol and has apparently cut down on the amount of time it takes Facebook to make new… Read more »
After finding success with low-cost smartphones south of the U.S., Motorola — now owned by Lenovo — is branching out with a high-end smartphone in the Moto Maxx, a GSM variant… Read more »
German media companies have been fighting with Google for years over what they claim is the search giant’s theft of their news content, but after being removed from Google News for… Read more »
It doesn’t matter who implemented NFC mobile payments first; it matters that there’s a big uptake. And that’s what Apple Pay has, which Google Wallet is benefiting from: New users have… Read more »
AWS Evangelist Jeff Barr hinted about Docker support to come at Re:invent, which is interesting. What may be more interesting is that AWS appears to be changing its behavior. Read more »
On this week’s Chrome Show podcast we take a deeper dive into an in-progress Google effort called copresence. What is it, how will we use it and what devices will be… Read more »