Just a few days before Google's I/O developer conference kicks off, Wired's Steven Levy has finally gotten Pichai to chat about Android's future.
You have to give Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt some credit -- he's not afraid to respond to tough questions directly.
Sundar Pichai is taking over Android -- the first new leader for the product since it was founded and since it joined Google. So, who is Sundar Pichai?
No it's not an early April Fool's joke.
Not content to let Asus and Samsung have all the fun, Lenovo this morning announced a Chromebook laptop of its own for education buyers.
Puppies on the desktop, files in the cloud, and a better app-launching experience: Google's Chrome just continues to get better. And cloudier.
Google has introduced an updated version of its Chrome operating system and two new hardware options from Samsung that run the web-based OS — but it all still looks relatively underwhelming.
The search giant announced Chromebook laptops running the Chrome …
Google’s Chrome OS has always been about the web — indeed, the first version of the operating system was literally just a Chrome web browser that filled the screen. But with the latest developer channel update, the OS has received …
Google’s ”Chrome team elves” have been busy prepping for the holidays and will be celebrating with an update to the Chrome OS and a price drop on Acer and Samsung Chromebooks to $299, the company announced.
Google’s foray into “Chromebooks” …
When Google first started talking about its Google Chrome OS software a few years ago, one of the selling points was the promise that it would come with much better built-in security than other operating systems. Now, Chrome OS has …
Google announced via Twitter on Thursday that its Chromebook laptops are now available for pre-order from Amazon and Best Buy. The half dozen models that can be ordered are manufactured by Samsung and Acer and are expected to ship on …
Apple finally threw its hat into the cloud computing ring in a serious way today with a new service called iCloud, which allows users to synchronize their applications and media across all their devices. It’s an ambitious vision, and one …
One of the most provocative comments made during Google’s most recent earnings conference call was Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette’s statement that the company’s Chrome Web browser is good for Google because “everybody that uses Chrome is a guaranteed locked-in …
Google unveiled a program that will basically let a business or educational institute run the entire company with Chromebooks — notebooks that are lightweight and attached to a web-based operating system — that are managed through a centralized web administrator.…
Google today finally unveiled its plans for Chrome OS-powered laptops, which the company is calling Chromebooks.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of product management for the Chrome web browser and Chrome OS, gave a quick overview of what to expect from …
Google is set to unveil a Chrome laptop “student package” tomorrow at its I/O developer conference for $20 a month, an unnamed senior Google executive tells Forbes.
If true, the move has the potential to completely reshape the way consumers …
Computer manufacturer Asus is betting there’s still a pot of gold to be found in the netbook market, despite decline due to growing competition from tablet computing devices.
The company will team up with Intel on a $200-$250 light-weight netbook …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Why Google needs the video digital-rights technology behind Netflix — Google recently announced that it has purchased Widevine, a …
Signaling renewed competition in the e-reading space, Amazon today debuted a web-based extension to their existing Kindle platform with a new product called Kindle for the Web, which is nearly identical to a product Google announced yesterday dubbed Google eBooks, …
Netbooks with Google’s Chrome OS operating system won’t be available to most consumers until the middle of next year, but company executives walked through many of the features at a press event today, where they also announced a pilot program …
