Google Health has six months to live, so now who’s going to disrupt healthcare?

Sad newsreached ustoday that Google is to close itsHealthservice. While the company says that it simply failed to gain enough traction to be sustainable in the longterm, to me it doesn’t bode well for the future of healthcare. Google Health was designed to let individuals manage all their own healthcare information, set health targets, create custom trackers for things like amounts of sleep or caffeine intake, share health information with people who need it and potentially connect their profile information to devices and services viaan API....

3 min · 574 words · Allen Phillips

Google I/O: 400,000 Android devices are activated every single day

Today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco atGoogle I/O, 5,000 plus people watched in the room and 110 cities tuned in from places like Cairo, Egypt, where it’s 2AM in the morning. Hugo Barra, Google’s Product Mangament Director of Android took the stage to deliver the opening keynote with a focus on “Momentum, Mobile and More.” Momentum:In total, there have been 100 million Android activations, 36 OEMS, 215 Carriers, 450,000 Android developers and 200,000 apps....

1 min · 194 words · Veronica Rivera

Google I/O: Announcing the Android Open Accessory API

Today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco atGoogle I/O, 5,000 plus people watched in the room and 110 cities tuned in from places like Cairo, Egypt, where it’s 2AM in the morning. As an open platform, Android was always meant to go beyond the mobile phone. With over 300 Android devices on the market, hardware developers would like to work with any device from any manufacturer. Today, Google announced an “Android open accessory API”, essentially an Android platform support for hardware accessories....

2 min · 340 words · Amber Carter

Google I/O: Chrome now has 160 million users

Google’s Senior VP of Chrome, Sundar Pichai took the stage today at Google I/O to present the Chrome Keynote. Exactly a year ago atGoogle I/O 2010, Google announced that over 70 million active users were using Chrome as their main browser. Today, 160,000,000 people are using Chrome with a whole slew of new features. At first, Chrome was available only for Windows. Since then it’s now an equal citizen on Linux and Mac platforms with new versions released every 6 weeks....

2 min · 223 words · Blake Lane

Google I/O: Everything you need to know about today’s announcements

Today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco atGoogle I/O, 5,000 plus people watched in the room as 110 cities tuned in from places like Cairo, Egypt, where it’s 2AM in the morning. Google’s Product Management Director of Android, Hugo Barra took the stage to deliver the opening keynote with a focus on “Momentum, Mobile and More.” We unleashed a flood posts to keep you up to date with the news in the past hour, and now that we’ve taken a deep breath, we’ve constructed a simple run down of everything you need to know....

5 min · 884 words · Tracy Johnson
simple hit counter