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Ingress iOS Over the years Google and Apple have had an interesting relationship, both as a company and as a user base. In the past Google has been quick to provide iOS users with most of their core apps, and slower to slugggish on others. Then there was that debacle with Google Maps. Apple tried [...]
Orkut Closing If you're saying to yourself right now, "what in the world is Orkut", that's exactly why Google is shutting down it's first foray into the social networking space. Orkut was actually released 10 years ago, during the heyday of Myspace and before Facebook was available to everyone in the world. The social network [...]
Google, through it's Nest division, has announced that they are acquiring Dropcam in a deal worth $555 million dollars. Dropcam is the company behind the easiest personal surveillance cameras on the market. As the name suggests, setting up Dropcam is almost as easy as dropping the camera where you want to set it and going. [...]
Apple's CEO, and the most influential Auburn University alum in the world, Tim Cook, took to the stage on Monday morning to kick off the World Wide Developers Conference. The WWDC, now in it's 25th year is an annual gathering of developers working on Apple platforms. Cook was quick to point out that the first [...]
Back in April a report using device data aggregated from Twitter told a story that not many wanted to hear. Business Insider and others posulated that the chart proved that Android was for poor people, or rather more people than iPhone is for. Apple has for years, stayed within it's pricing structure basically since the [...]
This year at SXSWedu there was a lot of buzz in the Google lounge about a new product coming down the pike. Thousands of teachers were already using Google Docs as part of Google Apps For Education as their own free LMS (learning management system). Teachers were adapting Google Apps For Education in the ways [...]
While many of you know that after four years of being Thedroidguy I abandoned my Android phone for an iPhone as my daily driver, I was and still am pretty much a Google user. I use Google docs, Google analytics, Google Maps, a Chromebook on occasion and Chrome as my default browser. Actually I typically [...]
The internet was abuzz Monday with news that Google had doubled down on robotics, specifically in the drone variety. Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a company that makes solar powered drones that can fly 65,000 feet above sea level without needing to land, reports TechCrunch. The company was reportedly in talks to be acquired by Facebook [...]
In yet more Google news, the Mountain View company recently filed an interesting patent application. The patent is for a new sort of keyboard to be placed on the backside of devices.
Were you a Waze user? Are you familiar with the app that crowdsourced traffic data while commuters were en route to their destination, making it easier for others to take or avoid the same route? Despite some thinking that Waze would be a gigantic distraction to driving the crowdsourced traffic data app took off. People [...]
Google has updated their music app on iOS 7 again. Now, loyalists who are actually paying for the service, get another refreshed UI as well as a new "I'm Feeling Lucky Radio" feature. Like the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on Google.com, this new radio feature promises to generate a randomly selected playlist based off your [...]
If you're a web publisher, blogger, own an online magazine or have any other kind of web based presence than you've undoubtedly dealt with Google rankings. If you've been doing this longer than say, the last six months, then you've endured one, if not many, changes in Google's ranking methods. There are some great SEO [...]
Earlier in the day we reported that Google just made "improvements" to Gmail. Google has aded the ability to immediately render photos in email messages you receive from their highly popular service. Previously, Gmail users would receive an email with big blank white spaces that would ask you if you wanted to see the images [...]
Google loves to go all out on location. Throughout my tech writing career of experienced an Android slide in Barcelona, an amazing Google blogger lounge at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a takeover of an entire street at SXSW 2012 and several Google conference parties with robots, sphero balls, crazy photo booths and of course [...]
Gmail API, Google Opens Gmail To Developers On Thursday at Google I/O, the Mountain View company made a huge announcement concerning Gmail. Google announced a new Gmail API. For years, the only way that developers have been able to access the huge amounts of data within Gmail was via IMAP. However, the only thing that [...]
Via Pete Cashmore As part of Google's major push to become device agnostic, the company announced that there is now one Android SDK that covers all form factors - phones, tablets, and TVs. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the TV part. AndroidTV is a long-time coming. Google TV [...]
On Thursday, May 29, General Motors acknowledged the threat that Google poses to traditional automakers. According to Mark Reuss, product-development chief at GM, "Google could become a “serious competitive threat” to the auto industry if it continues to push its self-driving cars."Tim Higgins, Bloomberg Tech, "GM Executive Says Google Could Be ‘Competitive Threat’," 29 May 2014 This comes [...]
After five years of writing and reporting about Android some consider me an authority on platform debate. While I've never (and I'll repeat this again), in 35+ years I've never owned a PC (only Apple) I was quite the Android and Google loyalist for a long while. In fact there are some Google products that [...]
According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is preparing not just one smartwatch/fitness/health wearable, but several. This is certainly in line with many of the health based initiatives - Health, and HealthKit to name a few - that Apple announced at WWDC a short time ago. The new device(s), according to the Journal, are aimed at bringing new functionality [...]
Right now we are all being inundated with more and more smart watches. Just yesterday we reported that Samsung is working on a stand alone smart watch capable of working without being tethered to a phone. But as many have pointed out it could be too late in the cycle of already released Galaxy Gear [...]
