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According to several reports, Google may be pulling the plug on the Nexus line of phones. The Nexus phones, currently, come with a pure Android build. That is to say that there is no manufacturer or carrier pre-loaded software, or any additions to the Android OS. Google's new mobile strategy represents a major shift away [...]
You may remember the trouble Apple had gotten into for in-app purchases made by kids who weren't "authorized" to access the iTunes App Store. The trouble began a few years back for Apple. The company started getting refund requests and complaints from parents, some who's kids had racked up thousands of dollars in charges playing [...]
Google has made another high dollar acquisition. Recode.net reported this weekend that Google has purchased a secretive artificial intelligence company called DeepMind. According to Recode's Liz Gannes, Google paid $400 million dollars for the company. While Google has now confirmed the acquisition mums the word on the dollar amount. DeepMind was founded in London by [...]
Google is notorious for their acquisitions. They've had some mega huge hits like Youtube and then some misses like Orkut. But where does't Google's latest $3.2 billion dollar acquisition of Nest fit in with the grand scheme of Google Acquisitions? Our good friend John Cook at Geekwire took a look at Nest's place in the [...]
If you think you've heard the name Andy Rubin before, you probably have. He's the engineer that created the HipTop for his company Danger. The HipTop was Rubin's earliest version of how he saw a smartphone. It did quite well for T-mobile and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Rubin's career path led him to Google [...]
Coin, a new tech company that is allowing users to sync all of their credit, debit and reward cards to one physical card with a magnetic stripe, is the talk of the town. They've done a successful crowdfunding campaign, they've been all over Facebook and even Google has launched a product to compete. Early backers [...]
Got Your 6, an organization that unites the entertainment industry with top veteran-focused nonprofit organizations held an event at Google's New York Headquarters on Friday. At that event, several technology leaders, including Google, made the case for hiring vets in the tech sector. "130,000 soldiers will leave the army every year," said Brig. Gen. David [...]
It's no secret in mere units Android is far outpacing the iPhone, simply because there are more units to choose from and the point of entry is much lower, in some cases free. Apple tried to compete on the cheap side with the iPhone 5C but when push came to shove there wasn't much value [...]
Google has been struggling to catch up with Apple's iTunes service. Since it's debut in January of 2001 iTunes has turned the music industry on it's head and they've responded giving iTunes the advantage of being the goto music service for most American's with a computer. Other music services have tried to catch up with [...]
Google I/O kicked off on Wednesday morning. There is a lot to get to, so we will just jump right in. Google dropped some major bombs during the keynote address. The most important of which was the announcement of a new mobile OS, or Android L, as the company called it. This new version of [...]
Day one of Google I/O is in the books. The Mountain View company made some major announcements during the first day of their annual developers conference. Taken as a whole, you can see some trends starting to emerge. One of these trends is uniformity. Google has altered its thinking as far as devices. Rather than [...]
On Wednesday, a new video on the Google Developer YouTube channel gave us a new look at Android Wear. The video gives us a ton of new information about Google's foray into a wearable OS. There are a lot of things that stand out, but one of the most important takeaways - at least [...]
Late Friday Google and Apple issued a joint statement saying that they were ending all current lawsuits against each other, and that they would work together in some areas of patent reform. A story that was first reported by the Wall Street Journal had many tech pundits in disbelief. Many believed that Apple and Google [...]
On Tuesday, SpaceX - the rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk - announced a new billion dollar round of funding. Google, one of the two investors in this round has a major vested interest in the low-cost space flight that SpaceX offers to the like of NASA. The funding round was announces in [...]
Earlier this week, Google held the second annual Project Ara Developers Conference. Project Ara, if you have not heard of it, is Google's modular smart phone project. In a nutshell, Ara is a 100% customizable smartphone hardware platform. Not only can you pick and choose what features you want on the phone, but the colors and [...]
The Android super phones of 2014 have solidified: The Samsung Galaxy S5, the HTC One M8, and the LG G3. All feature somewhat larger builds, with the M8 speakers giving it more height and the G3 entering phablet territory with a 5.5” screen. The 4.95" Nexus 5 had been my daily driver since it was released [...]
Over the past year, there have been some enormous acquisitions. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a staggering $19 billion, and then a little more than a month later acquired Oculus for $2 billion; Microsoft just acquired Nokia Devices and Services business for $7.2 billion; Google bought Motorola in 2011 for $12.5 billion, Nest in 2014 for [...]
Google has leased a famous blimp hangar from NASA for a reported $2 million dollars per year and a $33 million dollar commitment to refurbish the property. Hangar One at Moffett Federal Airfield was used for many years to house the USS Macon, a very large World War I blimp, for the US navy. The [...]
Last month Google announced that it was opening up its translation service to all Android developers enabling them to offer their apps to any customer in any language from third-party service providers. This is a big deal in the app store wars. Here’s why… More than seventy-percent of customers prefer to buy products in their [...]
Google thought they were in the clear with Oracle in regards to claims of copied code but now it seems in a twist of fate that things may be changing. Oracle appealed the ruling against them and it seems as though now they may have a change of winning the case. Seeking more than 1 [...]
