The past month has brought a bunch of new features and improvements to Google Docs, and yesterday, the Internet giant rolled out yet another when it announced that it is giving a “refresh” to its documents list.
The “refresh” aims to make the Docs page easier to organize and navigate, and this is accomplished in a few different ways. …
Tech research firm, Canalys, has crowned Android the new king of smartphones, with fourth quarter shipments estimated at 33.3 million handsets—a whopping 615% increase over Q4 of 2009. Smartphone shipments, in general, grew 80% in 2010 versus 2009.
In the fourth quarter, Nokia’s Symbian platform fell to second place with 31 million …
In the eternal struggle to win over gamers’ thumbs on the go, Nintendo’s been the uncontested champ for decades now. The only other dedicated gaming device to ever mount a worthy challenge has been Sony’s Playstation Portable. Just a week after Nintendo announced its launch plans for their new 3DS, Sony pulled away the veil of …
In honor of UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow, Google is partnering with Jerusalem-based Holocaust museum Yad Vashem in bringing 130,000 photos and documents to the Internet, where they will be organized and stored in Google’s cloud.
The search engine giant has been working for three years with the museum to index …
Another day, another story about Google buying a small start-up. This time, it’s SayNow, a five-year-old company that offers online voice calling that can be integrated into social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, as well as mobile devices using iOS or Android.
As with yesterday’s purchase of fflick, it’s unknown whether Google …
Time to dust off that resume, huh? If you’ve been out of work for a while, Google has just announced that 2011 will be its “biggest hiring year in company history.” Back in 2007 it added 6,000 new employees, so the company’s apparently planning to hire at least that many this year.
According to Google’s blog post:
“We’re looking
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Google’s Eric Schmidt announced today that company co-founder Larry Page would take on the role of CEO in April of this year, a huge shake up for the tech giant. In a blog post, now-Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt revealed that he’ll be overseeing things from a new chairman’s post while Page would inherit the day-to-day operations …
Will the end of Eric Schmidt’s nine and a half years as CEO of Google and the return of co-founder Larry Page to that role have an impact on the company’s direction? I’m no Google insider, but I’ll be startled if it has no noticeable effect. In announcing the news today, Schmidt said that Page will call the day-to-day shots while he …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be handing the reigns over to company co-founder Larry Page. In a blog post titled “An update from the Chairman,” Schmidt detailed that he’ll be serving as executive chairman, Page will take over day-to-day operations, and Google’s other co-founder Sergey Brin will simply take on the well-suited title of …
A warning shot across the bow of old-school landline telephone service sounds something like this:
“We’re continually testing new features to enhance the user experience. For a limited amount of time, we’re making the Google Voice number porting process available to users. We don’t have any additional details to share at this time, but
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Google is continuing to push into the e-book space with the purchase of eBook Technologies, a company focused on developing both hardware and software to create and distribute content for electronic readers. The acquisition, announced by Google yesterday, will allow the company to – according to a statement on the front page of its …