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While Google for Work and Microsoft Office 365 offer many similar services, choosing between the two can be a significant challenge for CIOs. This comparison eases that burden. CIOs and IT managers have many choices when it comes to cloud-based productivity tools for email, documents, calendar and file-sharing. The first […]
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All eyes are on Samsung Pay and its embedded LoopPay inside the Galaxy S6 smartphone Mobile in-store payments could grow dramatically in the U.S. as the result of a battle brewing among tech giants Google, Samsung and Apple. In the latest development, Samsung today revealed Samsung Pay, a new mobile […]
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Google is well-known for building its own server hardware to meet the unique needs of its massive compute network, but that won’t always be the case, the head of its infrastructure team said Wednesday. Practical advice for you to take full advantage of the benefits of APM and keep your […]
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Google is going to stop allowing non-sanctioned extensions to work on its Chrome for Windows browser. It’s for your safety, you understand. The sad march towards tribal fiefdoms continued Thursday, as Google announced that it will only allow Chrome for Windows users to download extensions hosted by Google’s own Chrome […]
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Cloud computing proving to be a piggy-back industry Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service […]
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The Google Nexus 7 is dead, long live the Nexus 7 A big week for Android hardware, plus Google getting bullish on the tablet market, Sony promising a lot of Android 4.3, Play Games, security news and Samsung still talking about some imaginary friend called “Tizen.” The best way I […]
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BlackBerry, Red Hat, Google and EarthLink say businesses use patent trolls as mercenaries to harass the competition Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department […]
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FairSearch.org, which is backed by Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle, said Google could get a competitive advantage from generic industry terms An industry coalition with backing from Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle has objected to Google’s application for certain top-level domain strings. FairSearch.org said it has filed objections with ICANN (Internet Corporation […]
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A quick look at the two latest versions of the biggest non-Microsoft browsers on the market With major new releases of both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox happening within days of each other, it’s been a big week for the browser market. Chrome 24 began to be rolled out to […]
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Google yesterday said it will pay up to $2 million for major vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser at a second Pwnium hacking contest this fall. Pwn2Own, a rival contest sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, will award as much as $200,000 in a mobile-specific challenge slated to run several weeks earlier. Google’s Pwnium […]