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.”
The new OpenPower Foundation sanctioned Power S824L server comes loaded with IBM’s POWER8 processor and Nvidia’s GPU accelerator and will be aimed at the webscale crowd. Read more »
Samsung is already pretty far along with merging its TouchWiz interface with the Material Design of Android L based on this video of an early software build. Read more »
Google is proposing a URL-based naming system for navigating the internet of things that it calls The Physical Web. Here’s how it will work and why it might not. Read more »
RBC Capital Markets boils down the basics of cloud computing — storage, compute, I/O and a few other features — to come up with one unit of cloud pricing that can… Read more »
After using mobile bookmark sync tools for years in the early smartphone days, I’ve completely abandoned such bookmarks without even realizing it. Mobile apps and improvements in mobile browsers are the… Read more »
Is Google dodging its legal duties to remove nude celebrity images in order to make a buck? No, but Hollywood lawyers are threatening a $100 million suit anyways. Read more »
Google’s decision to cut text snippets and image thumbnails from certain publishers in Germany is, the publishers claim, an antitrust issue. Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, hear how Talko stood on the shoulders of AWS and Azure — and wielded the Opus codec, WebRTC, FreeSwitch and other open-source tools to build an… Read more »
The company has also revived its Bowser browser for iOS — if it clears the App Store approval process, it will be the only iOS browser that supports WebRTC, for now. Read more »