If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn’t meanness on Motorola’s part although Reuters notes that this move could have something to [...]
The Internet is going mobile. Every week, tens of millions of people search on Google from their mobile phones and generate hundreds of millions of searches. They’re looking for the best local sushi restaurant or a coupon for the store they’re standing in front of. Mobile devices allow consumers to have a more personalized online [...]
See also: Introduction of Google Buzz
We’ve blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we’ve taken to add social features to our products, and efforts like OpenSocial that propose common tools for building social apps. With more and more communication happening online, the social web has exploded as the primary way to share interesting stuff, tell the world [...]
In Douglas Adams’s humorous sci-fi novel series Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a special kind of fish is mentioned — the Babel Fish. When inserted into the ear, it translates any spoken language into whichever language the listener understands. It is a very nifty device, and now Google seeks to create something similar. According to [...]
See the complete article here! At CES this past week, Google executive Andy Rubin said that the next version of the Nexus One phone will be for the enterprise. It could have a physical keyboard. Our bet is that Google Apps will be tightly integrated into the Nexus One enterprise phone. Google syncs every Android [...]
Over the holidays, clever elves left us some nice improvements to Google Apps for individuals, companies and schools using our web-based services. Co-editor presence in presentations When you’re co-editing in real-time, knowing where collaborators are making changes helps you avoid stepping on each other’s toes. We already have visual indicators for co-editor presence in documents [...]