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.”
Harvard lawyer Marvin Ammori argues in a recent essay that while the New York Times helped define the free speech laws of the last generation, companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google… Read more »
Amazon Web Services’ popular DynamoDB service now supports JSON documents, a capability that makes it more competitive against alternatives from Microsoft, Google and MongoDB. AWS also increased storage and throughput limits… Read more »
Google continues to push hard for Chromebooks in the workplace, touting new features and a low annual price for support and management features. Read more »
Google’s lead for the social mess called Google+ is David Besbris, who took over when Vic Gundotra was pushed out in April (see Surprise resignation of VP Vic Gundotra raises questions about the… Read more »
Snowball aims to make your life easier by aggregating all your messages from various chat applications in one place. Will that be enough to make it take off? Read more »
Not only is there another Tegra K1 Chromebook available, it comes with a full HD touchscreen option. Meet the HP Chromebook 14 which starts at $299 and then hear on the… Read more »
Chromecast owners can now personalize their TV’s home screen by adding their own photos and more thanks to a new feature called Backdrop. Are data feeds from smart home devices like… Read more »
Truecaller’s no longer just an anti-spam service — now it wants to become the go-to service for contacts and personal information management. But, despite all the investment that’s pouring in, there’s… Read more »
Google Maps has long been the navigation method of choice on Android phones so does Nokia’s HERE Maps have a chance to change that? Absolutely thanks to far better offline mapping… Read more »