Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is reportedly working on an alternative to Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Prime two-day, shipping service that would let people shop for goods online and get their orders shipped to their doors within a day for a fee, according to The Wall Street Journal. Amazon Prime is a popular program that lets consumers pay $79 a...Read More
The new Maps lets airport patrons navigate sites like San Francisco International from the inside. Photo courtesy of Google Google’s Maps team has made fantastic advances in surveying and mapping seemingly every square inch of navigable ground on the planet. But for mobile users, those maps have always stopped just short of indoor spaces —...Read More
Solar power was at heart of Google’s alternative energy efforts. But CEO Page has dropped the solar power and other energy projects to refocus Google on the Internet. By Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters / November 26, 2011 Solar panel installation at Google’s Mountain View, Calif. headquarters is seen in the 2007 file photo. Google began making investments...Read More
I was recently questioned by a colleague who was surprised to learn after all the talk about mobile apps and smartphones, that Google doesn’t have a library of apps. By that, I mean Google lacks native apps for platforms like iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and yes, Android. This is the heart of the industry-wide “apps...Read More
23 November 2011 Last updated at 07:44 ET Google develops many products, not all of which are hits with the public Google has announced that it is dropping seven more products in an effort to simplify its range of services. The out-of-season “spring clean” brings an end to services including Google Wave, Knol and Google...Read More
Computerworld – Google’s Android 4.0 operating system is more than just another upgrade. Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, marks the start of a new era for Google‘s mobile platform. The release ushers in the biggest changes the software has seen since the launch of Froyo in 2010 — maybe even Eclair back...Read More
Antivirus experts disagree with Chris DiBona, Google’s open-source programs manager, who recently said that there is no virus problem on the Android platform and that companies selling anti-malware software for mobile operating systems are charlatans. “Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and...Read More
Even from the Samsung Galaxy Nexus lock screen, you get a sense that this Google-backed Android smartphone is going to be different from all those that came before it. The reason: You can unlock the screen by quite literally showing your face. Facial recognition is one of the cool, if still slightly flawed technologies included...Read More
If you lucky owners of the Galaxy Nexus in these first days of its release complete with the first iteration of Ice Cream Sandwich, you’ll notice that you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed, nor do you have access to a download on the Android Market – Google has just confirmed with us that...Read More
(CNN) — Google Music, an online music store and “free locker” for digital music, was rolled out to the public on Wednesday. On Thursday, however, questions abounded as to whether the service will amount to simply a “me too” move, following Apple and Amazon’s well-worn trail through the digital-music forest, or a significant step toward...Read More
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