A closer look at Google's newest business endeavor.
Google Fiber is creating a lot of buzz, and it has nothing to do with a new cereal. Google Fiber is the company's foray into broadband services using a fiber-optic network. It's in an experimental phase right now, available only in Austin, Texas; the Kansas City area; and Provo, Utah.
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More and more companies introducing ultra-connected wristwatches.
If you've grown tired of your iPhone's functionality and have been looking for something to replace the watch you stopped wearing when you got the aforementioned iPhone, a smart watch might be right up your alley. Though the concept sounds like a joke to some-why are we going backwards and wearing watches again rather than using our phones to tell the time?-more manufacturers are coming up with their own smart watches to offer the masses.
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With RSS feature being killed, where can you move to?
Last week, when we logged into our Google Reader accounts, we were surprised to see the pop up notifying us that the service, come July, would no longer be available. It was a huge bummer to say the least, but it led to other similar services throwing their hats in the ring. Now that Google Reader is on its way out, what can you use as a replacement?
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How will businesses adapt to newer, seemingly more fragile tech?
With Windows 8 being the standard OS on non-Apple computers now, it's easy to notice that the newer computers are formatted to work best with touchscreen laptops. However, if you've ever worked in an office, you know that the technology there is generally not the newest available, and is often times painfully old, slow, or outdated. So with the new OS being geared towards newer, more-capable tech, what are corporations and offices going to do to adapt?
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First Google Reader, now Gchat, G+ Messenger, and more?
After last week's end-of-the-world response to Google killing Google Reader, you'd think the tech giant would lay off of disabling some of their most popular services. Instead, multiple sources are speculating that Google has plans to kill off more services-this time, one that nearly everyone uses or has used. Gchat is expected to be integrated with other messenger services Google offers, combined into one uniform communication tool called "Babble."
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Are employees more or less productive when out of office?
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made waves this week when she announced that working from home would no longer be allowed within the company. There are varying claims for the reasoning behind the move, but the two most popular are that a) employees were not logging into the company's VPN network and, as implied, were not being productive, and b) that a company needs face-to-face interaction if creativity and camaraderie is to be born.
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