Since disclosing last fall that an internal research team is developing an open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones, Google has offered few details of the effort, dubbed Project Ara.
Samsung on Monday added the much anticipated Galaxy S5 to its flagship line of smartphones during an event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
It's easy to pick out the winners in the $19 billion Facebook-WhatsApp. Computerworld offers a Tip of the Hat to ReadWrite's Selena Larson for pointing out the deal's potential losers.
The open source code that made Android a success is started blunting Google's control over mobile platform. Device makers like Amazon and Nokia are modifying -- or forking -- Android's source code to support its apps rather than Google's.
Google's sale of Motorola to Lenovo may appear to mark the close of a dark chapter in the search giant history -- the failure to succeed in the hardware business.
Since reports surfaced late last week that Satya Nadella would be the third CEO in Microsoft's history, the tech world has been abuzz with speculation about the future of one of the industry's major forces.
Google is moving aggressively -- and paying billions of dollars -- on the technology and talent it needs to create successful smart home and robotics businesses even as it acknowledges its failure to run a strong smartphone business.
Google in recent months has agreed to use billions of dollars gained in profits from its wildly successful search and advertising business to buy an array of companies developing artificial technology and robotics technologies.
Facebook will list its stock on the NASDAQ stock exchange following what some observers say is he most anticipated IPO in a decade, according to a report today in the New York Times .