Google and Microsoft mobile operating systems encountered a significant growth during 2013 as nearly one billion handsets were shipped throughout last year.
Android smartphones handily dominated the mobile market in 2013, but new analysis shows that it may be peaking, and that the future may hold openings for companies such as Microsoft and Mozilla.
It's been a year in the making, but the next phase of Google Glass is about to hit: Google announced its new face-wearable computing devices, Glass, will be compatible with prescription lenses, giving the devices a little more style and much more usability for the four-eyed among us.
A lot happened this week in the world of social media. Pinterest started testing GIFs, Princeton declared that Facebook would die in three years, Facebook released a clever rejoinder, Instagram was revealed to be the fastest-growing social media platform on the planet, and Google+ went down, along with Gmail services, but hardly anyone noticed. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
A lot happened this week in the world of social media. Pinterest started testing GIFs, Princeton declared that Facebook would die in three years, Facebook released a clever rejoinder, Instagram was revealed to be the fastest-growing social media platform on the planet, and Google+ went down, along with Gmail services, but hardly anyone noticed. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
Anthony Levandowski is a Google employee who has helped develop Google's futuristic self-driving cars. He lives in the Bay Area, where he normally commutes by self-driving car about 43 miles to the Googleplex, Google's headquarters in Mountain View. Earlier this week though, Levandowski couldn't get to work on time, after protesters blocked his driveway for 45 minutes.
Google hopes its wearable computing eyeglasses, Glass, is poised to revolutionize our daily interaction with technology and the internet, but it's already proved a challenge to laws and societal norms. Just two days after Glass Explorer Cecilia Abadie got out of a ticket she received for "driving with [a computer] monitor visible to driver" while wearing Glass, another Explorer has run into the long, outmoded, arm of the law.
Google is known for innovation -- and hype -- and the most recent announcement from the Mountain View giant incorporates a bit of both: Google has said it is developing a "smart contact lens" that can constantly measure glucose levels in the wearer's tears, sparking hope, and debate, among people living with diabetes.
Google just made a huge purchase of Nest Labs, the young tech company that makes smart thermostats and smoke detectors. The Mountain View giant bought this company for $3.2 billion, which is a pretty huge number for a company that's essentially just entered its post-startup phase. Here's why.
Motorola's Moto G has been a hit so far - offering a low-cost unlocked phone that comes with some very respectable hardware. Now Google is offering the Moto G Google Play Edition, as if the Moto G wasn't Google enough.
HTC has received a great deal of praise since the time they released their flagship smartphone called the HTC One. But now the question is whether its second generation which is the HTC One 2 or the HTC M8 will come out better than the first.
Google has shoehorned its underachieving social network Google+ into yet another Google service (after controversially linking YouTube's comments system with Google+), this time integrating Google+ with its ubiquitous email service, Gmail.
Google has shoehorned its underachieving social network Google+ into yet another Google service (after controversially linking YouTube's comments system with Google+), this time integrating Google+ with its ubiquitous email service, Gmail.
Google's Chromebooks are not high-end performance computers for tech professionals or gamers, but they sure are cheap and relatively easy to use. That's why the Google Chromebook platform reportedly grew significantly last year, and is likely to be more pervasive in 2014 as well.
