You have to hand it to Google and Apple, they sure do know how to learn from past mistakes and come back from an error stronger than ever. While this observation can ring true for a wide range of activities these tech giants have engaged in, this is particularly true when it comes to their [...]
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Android’s Google Now available for Chrome Users
Google recently announced that its Android Google Now services will be accessible to Chrome users. While this might not seem that big of a deal to many tech industry observers since it merely means that its comprehensive technology of bringing wide ranging information such as reviews of nearby restaurants, birthday alerts, reminders of trip departures, [...]
Microsoft criticizes Google’s online shopping search service
Microsoft’s Bing search engine service is in the news again lately. You remember Bing, right? It’s running a distant second place to Google’s monster share of the US search market. Well, Bing is making noise somewhat by beating on Google’s revamped shopping section. Microsoft’s search engine says that Google’s shopping section is doing a lousy [...]
2013 is Make or Break Year for Microsoft’s Mobile Strategy
Microsoft sure has its work cut out for it. Let’s face it, the Redmond Washington software giant was simply caught sleeping by the massive boom in wave after wave of technology changes since the mid-2000s. First, Microsoft missed out on the huge seachange in digital music ushered in by the Apple iPod. Next, Microsoft was [...]
Google’s Safari Privacy Fine gets Approved
Google’s privacy policy shenanigans have earned it a hefty $22.5 million fine. The Mountain View, CA search and mobile device OS giant has agreed to the fine to settle claims made by the US Federal Trade Commission that Google unlawfully circumvented privacy settings in Safari, Apple’s Web browser. The settlement was approved in San Francisco [...]
Google Slashes Services Yet Again
You got to hand it to Google. After Larry Page took over the helm of the search and advertising giant, Google has not exactly been shy with slashing and shuttering online tools that it felt were not meeting internal goals or measuring up to its internal metrics. The latest casualties involve products that are quite [...]
Google, Apple and Microsoft Consider Kodak Patent Bonanza
You remember Kodak, right? Just in case you do not, Kodak used to be a camera film maker. It owned the market when it comes to a wide variety of pre-digital photo technologies. In fact, Eastman Kodak used to be quite a huge company and a global brand name. Sadly, it has become one of [...]
Google Fiber Might Revolutionize the Consumer Fiber Space
Several years back, Google launched Gmail. In 2004, Gmail surprised many people when it launched with 1 gigabyte of storage. We are talking 1 billion bytes of information. This was quite an eye popping feature back in the days when most web-based email providers like Yahoo! and Hotmail were offering their users less than 5 [...]
Google Buys Out E-mail Client Developer Sparrow for Less Than $25 Million
The new trend in tech acquisitions it appears is not direct acquisitions. Direct acquisition is your standard acquisition–a company buys out another company and incorporates the product into either a standalone subsidiary or an existing product category and the product remains alive and supported. The acquired company’s product goes through future upgrades and updates. The [...]
Does Google Nexus 7 Tablet Have a Fighting Chance?
We have all heard about the Apple iPad and how it revolutionized mobile computing. By creating a new market in between laptop computers and mobile phones, the Apple iPad has introduced global users to the wonderful world of mobile computing using smaller app programs. Talk about bridging the benefits between full-blown computing and smart phone [...]