Big Tech Archive
Archives for June 2014


Team Google keeps an eye on the matches and a finger on the pulse of search and social media.


The world’s biggest video site is 100 percent free. Some people -- including the ones who run YouTube -- think you may want to pay for some of it.


Saving the best for last.


The finals will be held in California next summer, with more teams and harder tasks than previously planned.


Plus, Google I/O detritus and another weird Jeff Bezos story.


Snowflake Computing aims to rethink data warehousing for the cloud computing era.


Now, everyone’s a critic in the app-happy world we have baked.


Cars, watches and TVs working in concert. Everything but the Android phone is optional.


The Android platform now boasts a billion monthly active users.


Bad to very bad, but social network says it is committed to improvement.


The smartphone giant is folding its Knox work into the broader push to make Android more corporate-friendly.


The platform allows developers to take advantage of more data -- but reactions are mixed.


Google’s new Android TV can play -- but that’s clearly not the focus.




More convergence of desktop and mobile apps, from Google’s annual software conference.