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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. [...]
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 [...]
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.
Before Google sold of Motorola, it seems that the company had a working prototype of the fabled Google Watch. Although there are reports of a Google/LG smartwatch coming as early as June of 2014, it appears that the Mountain View company already has experience in building such a product.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Despite the OS wars between Android and Apple, Google has always been good about bringing their most important apps to iOS. Much to the dismay of die hard Android fans, sometimes (more often than not), Google apps on iOS are actually better. Take maps and Gmail for instance. Now, another important Google app has made [...]
There are a ton of collaboration tools out there. Things like Dropbox, Box, Evernote, and Google Drive allow users to collaborate and edit various kinds of documents. These are great, but they lack one major feature, they lack any sort of drawing and whiteboard tools. That is where BaiBoard comes in. BaiBoard integrates their drawing and [...]
On Tuesday, Google made a pretty sizable announcement. The Mountain View company noted in a blog post that they had begun building prototypes of they "Self-driving Car." While the driverless car has been in the works for some time, the prototype design is unlike anything we have imagined. Most notably, there are no gas or [...]
In what is really an uncharacteristic change of roles, it looks likes Google is taking a page out of Apple's playbook. According to Forbes, at Google's upcoming I/O conference, the company will unveil a new health service: Google is planning to launch a new health service called Google Fit to collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers [...]
As many school systems across the country start heading back to school, there is more and more technology available. In what was once a market dominated by Apple, there is now stiff competition, and it's not coming from PCs. Apple has had a presence in the classroom since the mid 1980's. Apple started catering to [...]
