Just yesterday, Google announced its first foray into enterprise videoconferencing with the "Chromebox for meetings" set of hardware and software, based on the recently announced Asus Chromebox. Now HP has announced it's joining the Chrome OS videoconferencing wave this spring with its own Chromebox.
Earlier this week, Google announced the new Asus Chromebox - a Mac Mini-looking box running Google Chrome OS on Intel's new Haswell generation of chips. The new Chromebox came in three flavors, including an unusually beefed up Intel Core i7 variant with 4K video capability. Now we know Google's designs for the souped-up box: Google's entry into enterprise video conferencing.
Android's latest version, KitKat, has made quite a splash thanks to its features, but recent market data released by Google shows that adoption is quite slow.
Apple Inc. and Google have joined forces to eradicate unnecessary patent lawsuits just as the iPhone company was slapped with a $2 billion damage claim.
Asus announced a new PC running Google's Chrome OS, but it's not another Chromebook. The Asus's new Chromebox is an Apple Mac Mini-looking box running Google Chrome OS.
The future of any mobile-connected hardware is inexorably tied to its app ecosystem: it doesn't matter how awesome a piece of hardware is these days if there are no apps to run on it. That's surprisingly been Google's problem with its super-cheap HDTV dongle Chromecast - until now.
It was a busy week on social media: Facebook announced its continuing dominance and a new mobile app, Tumblr incorporated comedy into its terms of service, Twitter got IBM off its back, and President Obama used the most disliked social media platform to popularize his State of the Union agenda. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
Two market research reports have come out within days telling two different, yet complimentary, stories about Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems: iOS is winning audiences in the U.S. again, but Android is taking over the world.
Google is not averse to taking risks, but it's also a company that has to make a profit. That's why Google surprisingly put in a bid to buy cellphone company Motorola Mobility in the summer of 2011, and also why it is selling it now.
