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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 [...]
As the holiday shopping period is just about at the home stretch, we have a couple last minute ideas. As smart watches are set exploding in popularity, here are some great examples to consider.
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 [...]
(photo: RNIB via TechRadar) You may find it odd with Google's Google Glass experiment in such disarray, that the company would back any other kind of eyeglass technology. Well such is the case as part of Google's, Google Impact Challenge UK Techradar reported on Friday that as part of it's worldwide Impact Challenge [...]
Most of the technology world knows about Google's recent squabbles with residents in San Francisco. People living in San Francisco had a problem with Google using public bus routes and stops without paying for them, in order to pick up Google workers and shuttle them to their Mountain View campus. The people of San Francisco [...]
If you've been with Android since the beginning you've seen their app store go through a plethora of changes. Of course the most significant was the change from Android Market to Google Play. But over the past two years or so, the Google Play store has looked pretty much the same. It's a functional online [...]
I'm not sure where the disconnect is. We have a six year old daughter who has had an iPad mini since she was five and she's had some kind of connected since she was three. Coming from my days as Thedroidguy, she's used both Android and iOS devices. And to date, we've never had a [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google "plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe, people familiar with the project said, hoping to overcome financial and technical problems that thwarted previous efforts."Alistair Barr and Andy Pasztor, The Wall Street Journal, "Google Invests in [...]
According to ABI Research, "an estimated 2.1 million Chromebooks shipped in 2013 with nearly 89% of total shipments reaching North America."
So, on Friday we told you a little bit about Google's new Project Tango 3D mapping phone. I have to admit, that while this looks pretty cool on paper, I was a bit skeptical about how it would actually work. However, TechCrunch was given a first-hand look at the device in use, and it is mind-blowing.
Who pays more? Which company has better headquarters? What are the wild extravagances at each headquarters? How many people actually intern at each?
Google has been known for it's bonuses that it pays for real world hackers who find exploits in their products and services, reports them and then replicates them. Bonus payments have often ranged between $1000 and $10,000 with the $10,000 prizes being saved for what Google calls "particularly significant contributions." Google initially debuted the bug bounty [...]
Google was in the news a lot in 2013. From Google Glass to self driving cars, to their forthcoming Google Gem watch everywhere you turned there was something Google-y being reported on. Google also saw a huge spike when the Edward Snowden/NSA stories started breaking. Google also saw a monumental decision concerning Google Books and [...]
It's not often that you pay $1500 for a product and then get offered a free hardware upgrade. Maybe if there was a product recall or a significant bug, but neither is the case for Google Glass. Google has started handing out invitations to Google Glass Explorer Edition owners. Those are the folks that ordered [...]
The internet is putting politics back into the hands of Americans. There are several startups out there that are helping US citizens get more politically active. There are even some startups out there that are doing exactly what Google's newest service is doing, and that is, locate their representatives. TheVerge reported on Tuesday that Google [...]
In September when it was revealed that popular Android developer Cyanogen had received a $7 million dollar funding round, the development team had big plans to release their popular version of the OS to the masses. After years of having to download CyanogenMod from the Cyanogen servers and mirror sites, and unlock the boot loader, [...]
"You're in a car with a helium balloon on a string that is tied to the floor. The windows are closed. When you step on the gas pedal, what happens to the balloon—does it move forward, move backward, or stay put?" That's one of the legendary Google interview questions that have been circulating across the [...]
Internet giant Google is being tight lipped about when they are launching their Google Glass wearable device to the general public. Google Glass has been available to their earliest beta "explorers" for the last 18 months. Those people that signed up to get in on glass early paid a premium of $1500 to get their [...]
The significance of this conference goes way beyond the actual substance of the event. The quality and turnout of the event speaks volumes, and in some was affirms, everything that we and others have been saying for some time: the Southeast is becoming a hotbed of innovation and technology.
