"Google" articles
With Facebook Video Calling powered by Skype and Google+'s Hangouts feature, is video chat poised for huge growth? I got some questions from a reporter yesterday on this, so I thought I'd share the Q&A:
We've had video chat for quite awhile, both at the high end (videoconferencing) and on mobile (the iPad). However, video chat currently seems to be mainly a niche service - it really played out well in 2010 when Europe was covered by a cloud of volcanic ash ....
Apple Inc. has reached terms with major recorded-music companies to allow it to launch a digital locker service that would be better than those currently offered by Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., according to sources familiar with the matter.
According to these sources, deals with Warner Music Group Corp., Sony Corp.'s Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Group Ltd have been completed . A fourth deal, with Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, is rumored to be signed this week....
Revenue growth in digital music dropped from 91% in 2006 to 6% in 2010. Parks Associates’ new report Digital Music Services: Trends and Outlook evaluates consumers' growing demand for music everywhere solutions and industry's response with new business models including enhanced discovery engines, multidevice access, music-centric social networking tools, and digital locker options like those being launched by Amazon , Apple , and Google .
While over 50% of U.S. broadband...
Ford wants to use the Google Prediction API to predict driver behavior and use that input to make cars perform better. The company's goal is to use cloud-based storage and computing to collect and process information about how drivers use their vehicles.
The Google Prediction API, released last year by Google Labs, is designed for giving an application information about past user actions so it can better predict future behavior. The API (application programming interface) uses...
The Google TV team published a couple of new design templates, as well as a still-in-beta Web UI library that Web designers can use to optimize their sites for Google TV.
Blockage of such "less-than-ideal" sites could actually have been what caused Google TV to have such a disappointing launch in the first place.
Within the first month of the service's availability on the Logitech Revue set top box, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and Viacom all made their websites...
There is perhaps no company more entrenched in the cloud than Google .
To prove that point, the search giant has created the first computer operating system that's entirely online, so your computer won't even work without a Web connection.
The operating system -- named Chrome after the company's popular Web browser -- replaces traditional standalone computer applications. Google is hoping to rival the hold of Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac more traditional operating...
It has been a big year in personal technology, from the debut and early success of Apple's iPad, to the rise and continuous improvement of Google's Android smart phone platform, to the continued surge in social services led by Facebook and Twitter.
Apple: Coming off a highly successful 2010, in which it introduced a new category of portable computer—the multitouch tablet—and sold millions of the product, Apple will have to withstand an onslaught of competitors by wowing...
Microsoft Corp is about to jump back into the TV game. Only this time, it may aim at cable, satellite and phone companies.The software powerhouse has held talks with TV networks to create a new subscription-based TV service on its Xbox gaming console that would rival efforts by Google Inc , Apple Inc and Netflix Inc , sources told Reuters.
Microsoft's latest explorations after investments in MSNBC and WebTV come as efforts to redefine living room entertainment have...
