Happy 2017! As we put 2016 in the rearview mirror, we’re all taking a look at the outlook for 2017 as I did here but I wanted to take a more personal angle here and explore what I desperately want to see from the tech community. This list is by no means exhaustive and...
Google Home Review
I've been spending some time with a Google Home at my office. It's. been a pretty interesting experience overall and makes me more confident in my previous assertion that of the big three in tech (Apple, Google, and Microsoft), Google is going to dominate the digital...
Swift on Android
Rumor has it that Google may be considering making Apple’s Swift a first class language for Android development. Predictably, the internet has been pretty excited about this possibility. My lack of enthusiasm for Swift has been fairly well document, so I’m going to...
Google and I: It’s Complicated
Larry Page’s Google IO keynote speech was more than a little touching. it gave the company m more more human face and reminded me of why Google and its story is so inspiring. Unlike most other major tech companies, Google is actually “doing stuff”; in fact, Google is...
Wither Webkit?
As you are probably aware Google has forked Webkit and will be calling their fork Blink. Google does not intend to re-merge with the main project at any point in the future and is signaling that they will be adding new features to their rendering engine. As a...
Chrome > Android
Andy Rubin is no longer working on the Android project at Google but, at least for now, is still part of the organization -- see his parting email here courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. The good news is that Sundar Pichai is going to be in charge of Android, but...
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