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Google's Flirtation With Being A Hardware Company Is Over

A year ago, I left Google's annual I/O developers conference convinced it was making a major strategic shift into being a hardware company.

Google, please be a benevolent internet overlord Dan Gillmor

Google is at the top of its game at I/O, but its biggest challenge is hubris and that customers will begin to fear its power

Google is at the top of its game. It presides over, if not ruling outright, enormous swaths of modern life.

Class App: Can Smartphones Make Students Pay Attention?

Ah, college also known as the most expensive wi-fi connection you"ll ever have. The modern classroom is alive with the clicking of laptops and tapping of smart phones, and it"d be naive to think their owners are just dutifully taking notes.

With New Photos, Search, and Maps, Google's Cloud Gets Smart

A few years ago, Google's cloud services focused on simply storing and managing objects: email, documents, music, and movies. The 2013 version of Google is now using the cloud to connect and build relationships between them, responding to and anticipating the desires of its users.

In Google's Future, We Will All Be Developers

In San Francisco Wednesday, Google just kicked off I/O, its annual conference for developers with the audiovisual bombast that's customary at these sorts of events.

John Steele: I'm Just A 'Business Development' Guy Who Has Nothing To Do With These Lawsuits

As I've said, John Steele reminds me of some folks I've met who think they're smarter than everyone else and have outsmarted the whole system. They tend to believe they can talk their way out of anything.

New on Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited

Super groups are pretty commonplace and always a treat, but not very often in country and certainly not with a group of ladies. However, Pistol Annies pushed that boundary two years ago with the release of Hell on Heels in 2011.

The Ultimate Streaming Music Service: Just Merge Rdio And Spotify

The unofficial leaders of the streaming-music market, Rdio and Spotify, are both awfully good services. But neither is close to perfect, which led me to wonder just how you'd create the ultimate online music service.


The answer isn't hard: Just merge Spotify and Rdio.

Is Eye Tracking a Privacy-Invading Technology?

Eye-tracking technology has been in the news lately, thanks to rumors indicating that it would be included in the new Samsung Galaxy S4.

Coming Soon: Desktops Hosted On The Cloud, Usable Anywhere

A new video technology quietly announced late last week could mark a landmark change in how apps are deployed on PCs, tablets and smartphones for years to come - and also have big ramifications on how companies like Apple do business.