Last week Google unveiled a new service for businesses, Google Maps Coordinate, which is a workforce management application that can help companies share location data, collect work-related data on the go, and help companies organize mobile workers. Relying on Google’s map data, which has proven to be highly sophisticated and accurate, employers and employees are ...

With the ever-deepening attachment we have to our smart phones, the problem of using up our limited smartphone data is a constant worry to many users.  With smartphones now available in the not-to-expensive entry level price point, now teenagers and pre-teens are using the power of the internet for gaming, watching streaming videos, and listening ...

There isn’t an area of our lives that hasn’t been affected by technology.  With the increasing use of smart phones and laptops, the demand for WiFi has skyrocketed.  With the increasing usage of WiFi, there has been a massive shift in the demands for the infrastructure behind WiFi services and products due to the growing ...

The Chrome Operating System is Google’s revamped effort to compete against Microsoft’s and Apple’s hold on the laptop and desktop market, and as we approach Google I/O, the world is anxious to see if Google can top the developer-centric rival events from earlier this year including WWDC.  Chromebook and Chromebox, the laptop and desktop versions ...

In one of the worst kept secrets of 2012, Microsoft has announced today that it will be acquiring Yammer for $1.2 billion.  Yammer, a social enterprise software startup, is to become part of the Microsoft Office Division although Yammer employees will continue to report to CEO David Sacks.  Yammer will maintain its own path of ...

In the decade since the explosive growth of the internet, nearly every industry has been affected, including education.  Major universities as well as local community colleges now offer a myriad of classes available to students online, with some offering entire degrees that can be completed via the computer.  With programs such as Blackboard and Angel, ...

Father’s Day has passed, but this time of year is perfect for honoring the dads in our lives.  Especially the geeky dads, savvy enough to help their children navigate the web but still conscious of the dangers the little ones should avoid.  In honor of Father’s Day, we are going to look at some of ...

Local ads are a growing segment of the advertising realm, with SoMoLo – social-mobile-local – currently leading the field in local advertising.  Google took a stab at local ad promotion last year with GoMo, a mobile app that meant to make business owners’ websites mobile friendly. One of the goals of GoMo is to drive ...

Smartphones are quickly taking over the world.  Every week or two a newer, better, faster, sleeker phone is introduced to the market, sometimes with fanfare, and with some products, such as the iPhone, long lines and campouts.  Smartphones are the phone of the future in our ever changing tech-reliant world. Yet, along with these beautiful ...

Over the course of the last several months there have been whispers, some subtle, some not so much, regarding a merger of Android and Chrome, both of the powerhouse Google franchise.  Sundar Pichai, the Senior Vice President at Chrome, has admitted as much, telling CNET  “that his product and that other Google operating system, Android, ...