Google+ for tablets is the mobile app Facebook should have designed

Google+ is better than Facebook — at mobile.

Google released a tablet version of its mobile application for the Google+ social network at its Google I/O developer conference. And even though Vic Gundotra’s Google+ presentation was the least exciting and …

Google overload, or, if we never see Sergey Brin’s adorable face again, it’ll be too soon

There was a time when summer was slow. News would lull. Folks would go on vacation.

Not this year.

Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and now Google have conspired to work technology journalists to death over the past six weeks or so. …

An Apple-lover’s take on the Nexus 7

All tablets are not created equal. A fact not lost on this reporter, who, at the age of three, learned to love Apple by using the very first Macintosh. Reared on the Apple doctrine, I now demand excellence in hardware, …

Android’s coming of age brings a stable OS and higher-quality apps you’ll pay for

The unveiling of Jelly Bean, a.k.a. Android 4.1, didn’t bring that many new announcements. Rather than giving us a big growth spurt, Google showed an Android operating system with more maturity and stability than ever before — and more ways …

Nexus Q hands-on: The “Q” stands for “que the heck?”

We had some time to unbox and set up our Nexus Q from Google I/O, and the results were what they were.

Basically, it allows you to use a Jelly Bean Android device to control videos, movies, music, and images …

Google TV getting more second-screen support, Google Play, and that’s it?

Google announced some new features planned for its media-focused Google TV platform at its annual Google I/O conference yesterday that should make users pretty happy.

Later this summer, the company will roll out more support for its digital media Google …

It’s Sergey’s world and we’re all just living in it

Larry Page has lost his voice — literally, and perhaps figuratively too. At Google’s I/O conference, the company’s yearly event for major product reveals, it was the Sergey Brin show.

Brin, the Google co-founder who no longer runs the company …

An in-depth look at Google’s newest (and oldest) cloud

Compute Engine is the newest kid on Google’s block of cloud products. It sits in the same suite as App Engine, Big Query, and other products that allow Google to make money on what it does best: big, hairy server/data …

With 3 new flagship apps for iOS, Google looks to eat Apple from the inside out

What a difference a year makes. Instead of insinuating that it was eating Apple for lunch, Google this year sent a message to consumers, developers, and the media at its Google I/O conference this week that its appetite for mobile …

Are you Chromebook curious? Google to put Chromebooks in Best Buy retail stores

Google is bringing its line of Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks to brick-and-mortar retail stores, the company announced today during its Google I/O developers event in San Francisco.

Google first announced that its new line of Chromebooks would be available for pre-order …

Freaking finally: Google announces offline editing for Google Docs

Google announced today that its Google Docs online editor is now available offline (every business person on an airplane just got really excited).

The company revealed the news at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Calif.

Google Docs allows …

Google to challenge Amazon with Compute Engine cloud infrastructure

Google will soon take on Amazon, Rackspace, and more with its new Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service, a new product it introduced today at its annual Google I/O conference.

With Google’s incredible stash of data centers around the world, it makes sense …

Chrome is killing it. Just killing it.

Chrome is one of Google’s biggest success stories. Rank it up there with search that doesn’t suck (hard to find back in the day) and AdWords (the print-your-own money machine that drives everything else Google does).

Today at Google I/O …

Android 4.1 preview leaked for Galaxy Nexus — but only for the brave

Listen up, Galaxy Nexus owners. You can now get your hands on the developer preview of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean well before its official mid-July debut. But you should also be prepared to do some risky things to get the …

‘Airplay’ for Google TV? You need a $300 TRON bowling ball for that

Today, Google announced its slick-looking media streamer the Nexus Q, which allows people to share the digital media from their Android devices on a television. This is a feature that Apple began offering nearly a year ago via the Apple …

Google adds public transit data to Maps API

Public transit data, a key piece of the Google Maps experience, will soon find its way into third-party applications as the map-making experts at Google have just added transit to its Maps API.

Now developers plugging Google’s Maps product into …

Resistance is futile: Google Glass and the genesis of the hive mind

During today’s stunt-filled Google Glass demo, I found myself inexplicably perturbed — even profoundly depressed.

The charismatic Sergey Brin sprinted onstage at Google I/O, wearing the futuristic device; he was joined by extreme sportsters and a redheaded product lead who …

Chrome for Android finally out of beta at version 18 (but now it’s really, really good)

And we used to make fun of Microsoft for releasing crappy early versions of software, only to get it right later on. As the Google I/O news drowns out everything else in the tech-0-sphere today, Google announced that Chrome for …

EXCLUSIVE: Google+ History API will bring in your past updates from around the web

Stop the dadgum presses! Googler Louis Gray just told us about a new Google+ feature that you won’t read about anywhere else.

Called Google+ History, this new API will let you add past statuses, updates, purchases, pictures, and more to …