The biggest news in electronics the week after the giant CES (Consumer Electronics Show) wasn’t even talked about at CES because it happened the very next day. Google puts up $3.2 Billion to buy Nest, the three year old company started by former Apple design guys Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. Nest is best known […]

It is more common to talk about new trends that could shape an industry at the beginning of the year than in the middle of spring. There is no rule about this, it just seems right to do it at the beginning of the year. However, this does not mean that the industry does not […]

It was supposed to save TV makers all the trouble of launching and maintaining their own Internet web sites and, in theory, Google’s long history of delivering search data online could be leveraged to finally conquer the television programming guide, with a catch-all guide that would allow users never to miss another episode of Psych […]

Google bought video conferencing software from Sweden’s Marratech. Just to clarify, they bought the software product, not the company itself. Marratech technology comes from research at the Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology (CDT) at Luleae University of Technology. It was initially developed for distance learning but turned into e-meeting and web collaboration software. The deal “will […]