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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 [...]
(photo: K. Sandler) While Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google, he made a few key appearances during the early rise of Android. He was on hand at the Motorola Droid and Droid X release on Verizon Wireless. He keynoted Mobile World Congress talking about Android and he was an overall cheerleader for [...]
Update 2:47pm: Gmail is back again this time with more functionality then 15 minutes ago. You can now send messages. Don't hold your breath though Gmail is still showing up as problematic on the Google Apps Dashboard. Update 2:40pm: Gmail is again totally down. Update: 2:33pm: Gmail will let you in now and let [...]
Multiple news outlets reported on Friday that Google's enormous pile of cash could eclipse $100 billion dollars by the end of 2016. While that may seem far away to some, it's barely over two years, which in the tech world can move very quickly. Google's cash reserve is earning less than 1 per cent a [...]
By combining both the Moverio BT-200 and the Myo armband, some incredible possibilities emerge. The release likened the combination to the film "Minority Report," which seems about right
The cost of cloud based server storage has greatly decreased over the past few years. Rather than soak up more profits for their popular Google Drive service, Google has decided to hit their competitors over the head by drastically reducing the pricing of their 1TB plan. To some Google has always been winning the pricing [...]
"Often times the company is worth no more to us with $10M in revenue than it was with $5M, or even $50M for that matter, because the way we're thinking about it is the impact that they can make on our business. That is not going to be necessarily driven by their existing mode of generating revenue."
In today's horrible news, it appears that Comcast is considering adding a wireless mobile phone service. According to The Information: The country’s largest cable operator, Comcast, is laying the groundwork for Wi-Fi-based wireless services just a few years after it abandoned plans to launch conventional mobile phone services over cellular airwaves. Comcast officials recently told people [...]
The "Do no evil," slogan is contained in Google's guiding "Ten things we know to be true." Included in these ten things is number two, "It’s best to do one thing really, really well." Now this is not some sort of examination of Google philosophy, or some such thing, but rather a look at one [...]
It would appear that the Google/Samsung partnership may be in its last leg. As Samsung is beginning to inch away from Google, it appears as if the Seoul company has designs on a direct challenge to Google, beginning with Milk Music. This is certainly shaping up to be a very interesting MWC.
I spent many a day and night writing about Andy Rubin during my thedroidguy days. Rubin was the brains and man behind Danger and the HipTop and then Google's Android operating system. It's been widely believed that Android was a derivative of the founders name. Apple founder, the late Steve Jobs' distaste for Google's Android [...]
On Wednesday, Google unveiled some major new products and software. After months of speculation, it was revealed the the latest Android, until Wednesday "Android L," is Android 5.0 Lollipop. On top of that, Google also revealed the newest additions to the Nexus line of smartphones and tablets: The Nexus 6 and the Nexus 9. Even [...]
In 2013, Google overtook Apple as the most valuable company in the world. Apple had held that title for three straight years. We were just forwarded an infographic from FinancesOnline, that provides a look into the top brands of 2014. Further, in his excellent write-up preceding the infographic, David Adelman - deputy business and finance editor at [...]
Android app developers looking to add another amazing feature to their Android apps, can now add Google Street View images. In their latest Google Play Services update (Google Play Services 4.4), Google has added their collection of eye level images of the real world giving apps another way to entice users. Google Play Services is [...]
Back in September Google announced that the next version of Android would be called KitKat following their history of using desert-esque names to go with each iteration of Android. Prior to that announcement, many thought that Google would go with the name Key Lime Pie and that the version number would be 5.0. KitKat is [...]
