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.”
Announced in a blog post last month, Google’s Nexus 9 tablet can now be purchased on the Play Store with shipping in one to two business days. Expect to pay $399 for a… Read more »
The Qualcomm chipset inside HTC’s newest handsets supports quick charging and HTC plans to take advantage of that with a 15 Watt accessory. It might have helped HTC One M8 sales… Read more »
Seems like there’s a lot of teaming up going on. This past week we saw Twitter announcing a relationship with IBM to provide data mining and analysis of Twitter data for… Read more »
An early software build of Gmail 5.0 is unofficially available, confirming that support for IMAP, POP and Exchange mail accounts for the Android client. Read more »
This week, I took a look at the Nexus 6 smartphone and started wearing a Microsoft Band, which works with the Android phone as well as iPhones and Windows Phone handsets… Read more »
It’s not clear what “copresence” is just yet but it’s clear that Google is working on it. References to the project were reportedly found in the latest Google Play Services software… Read more »