At its I/O developer conference last week Google announced a big revamp of its cloud-based photo sharing and storage product, uncoupling it from the Google+ social network, where usage was inevitably constrained, and sending it winging its way onto the wider web and iOS as a standalone app. Its flagship associated announcement was that unlimited cloud storage on Google Photos is free...Read More
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Google doesn’t host many events—there’s no quarterly launch cycle, like there is with Apple, or the scattershot “Hey we have a new phone!†approach from LG or Samsung. It doesn’t really show up at CES or MWC. Instead, there’s Google I/O. I/O, like Google, is heavy on explanation and theatrics. The keynotes are always long,...Read More
Google wasn’t always the world’s third most valuable brand. Long before it was a go-to verb, it was an obedient digital dog, merely finding and retrieving stuff, playing fetch for Internet users over and over again. Eventually the little G — which started in 1995 as a Stanford University Ph.D. research project — grew into...Read More
At an 18th-century mansion in England’s countryside last week, current and former spy chiefs from seven countries faced off with representatives from tech giants Apple and Google to discuss government surveillance in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks. The three-day conference, which took place behind closed doors and under strict rules about confidentiality, was aimed at...Read More
Raise your hand if you remember Writely. A four-person company called Upstartle launched the online-only word processor in August 2005, taking advantage of a then-new browser technology called AJAX. It allowed users to instantly save and retrieve content generated in the browser but stored on the server. And it worked—so well that Google bought Upstartle...Read More
Google’s adorable self-driving car prototype hits the road this summer, the tech giant announced last week. Real roads, in the real world. The car has no steering wheel or pedals, so it’s up to the computer to do all the driving. As cool as this sounds, it isn’t a huge technological step forward. The goofy...Read More
If you search for something on Google, does that mean you want to buy it? Maybe. At least that appears to be the idea behind buy buttons, a new feature the Wall Street Journal says will start rolling out in the next few weeks. With a one-click way to purchase what you search for, Google plants its foot...Read More
A few weeks after the Apple Watch’s launch, Google has outed its first compatible app. That’s the good news. The bad, or at least the significantly less exciting? It’s one of the least popular apps Google makes. Google News and Weather was updated yesterday to play nice with the Apple Watch, though it’s unlikely many...Read More
A version of this essay was originally published at Tech.pinions, a website dedicated to informed opinions, insight and perspective on the tech industry. For the last 25 years, I have looked very closely at the adoption cycle of products, and I have learned something very important. Seldom does a product — especially a hardware product...Read More
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