Tag: Google

First a corporate shuffle -- which saw all of Google's vast entities moved under a new umbrella holding company called Alphabet. Now, a new logo. Google has been very busy these last few weeks. As The Verge reports, Google has unveiled a new logo today. This is how it looks: Colors remain...

This is a bit of a surprise announcement (though, we were tipped last week by an inadvertent reveal by Huawei). Google has announced today that Android Wear -- its smartwatch operating system -- will now work on the iPhone. Previously, to pair a Wear-based smartwatch you needed to have...

If you're in the market for a new Android phone or upgrade, this, my friends, is your time. In my six years of covering Android and the mobile space I've never seen such incredible phones on offer, at prices that, in many cases, simply seem too low to be...

The problem with cards on Android Wear is that once you dismiss them they're gone forever. Google should look to Apple glances to give users persistent, on-demand access to information on their smartwatches.

Extending smartphone functionality to your wrist is not creating the magical new market opportunity many were predicting.

I think the answer is no. It's not worth upgrading your smartphone in 2015. Especially if the phone you own is less than two years old. Recent handset releases from Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony and Motorola are proving to be incremental. Long gone, it seems, are the days when a new model...

Android's success can be attributed in part to the fact that it's more pervasive and readily available.

Google today gave a preview of the next version of Android at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco. Dubbed Android M, the next version is, from what I could see, not so much a feature-rich release overflowing with ooohs-and-aaahs, as one focused on bug fixes, and subtle refinements designed...

Dreamers dream big. And those dreams are nowhere bigger than in tech. Everything we do here in Silicon Valley is destined to change the world. Our thoughts, visions, and, ultimately, products send reverberations that command attention. Economy 2.0. Internet of Things. Cloud computing. Ideas here are larger than life....

Forcing users into a walled garden is commonplace. Apple does it with iTunes. Google too, with the Google Store. Amazon does it with... Amazon.