June 15, 2016
Apple’s iOS 10 finally, truly begins the mobile messaging war
The third tech war will be fought over messaging. And it will be fought everywhere. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
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June 14, 2016
Andy Rubin explains his $300M bet on the future of hardware
Andy Rubin, the creator of Android — arguably the widest distributed operating system in the world — left Google a few years back to start a hardware incubator…
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Google launches Springboard, an AI-powered assistant for its enterprise customers
Google has unwrapped two significant announcements for its enterprise customers, the most notable of which is the rollout of Springboard, a new service that makes searching from Google…
Read articleJune 12, 2016
Apple’s App Store at the end of the app era
Like a fly frozen in amber, the App Store’s fundamental deal has remained unmoving since its inception. As an enormous ecosystem swelled around it, crystalline structures of new…
Read articleJune 2, 2016
Google tests a feature that tells you which apps to remove when you run out of room on your phone
Running out of room on your smartphone is a problem many mobile consumers have today, thanks to sizable photo, video, and music libraries saved on their device. That…
Read articleJune 1, 2016
Sundar Pichai stays diplomatic about Google building its own phones
There’s been a lot of speculation as to whether Google will end up building its own phone. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had sort of an answer on stage at…
Read articleMay 30, 2016
Diane Greene wants to put the enterprise front and center of Google Cloud strategy
When Google bought bebop Technologies last fall for $348 million, it got more than a stealthy startup. It also landed Diane Greene as executive vice president of Google…
Read articleMay 27, 2016
Copyright questions remain after Google’s fair use victory
If you didn’t already know the jury’s decision in Oracle’s long-running lawsuit against Google, you wouldn’t have been able to guess it from looking at either company’s legal…
Read articleMay 27, 2016
Google app for iOS gets support for AMP and keyboard shortcuts
Google launched an updated version of its Google app for iOS today. Typically, these are minor updates, but today’s version brings a couple of interesting new features to…
Read articleMay 26, 2016
Jury finds Google’s implementation of Java in Android was fair use
Software developers can breathe a massive sigh of relief — a jury found today that Google’s implementation of 37 Java APIs in Android qualified as fair use. However,…
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