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Google Meet for Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 launches closed beta

Google Meet for Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 launches closed beta

October 14, 2020
Google Glass, the company’s ill-fated heads-up AR display (or smart glasses if you prefer), is getting a new app. (No, you’re not reading a story from 2015). The new, official release is aimed at enterprises running Google Workspace and trialing the second generation of Glass, which isn’t available to the general public. On a blog post,...
[Update 2: Next OnAir] Google Cloud Next 2020 is now an online-only event over coronavirus fears

[Update 2: Next OnAir] Google Cloud Next 2020 is now an online-only event over coronavirus fears

March 19, 2020
The ongoing coronavirus outbreak, now called COVID-19, has infected over 89,000 people globally with the global death toll surpassing 3,000. Not only has the virus had an adverse effect on the global supply chain, but it has also resulted in several major events being canceled. For instance, the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona...
Here’s why a bunch of Google services went down on Sunday

Here’s why a bunch of Google services went down on Sunday

June 4, 2019
Last Sunday, Google's cloud services suffered an outage which resulted in downtime lasting several hours. Services such as Google Cloud Platform, YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive, and others all were affected in certain parts of the US. Not only that, third-party services that use Google Cloud Platform were affected too, such as Snapchat, iCloud, and more....
Google Cloud Next ’19: The Latest G Suite Announcements From Google’s Big Event

Google Cloud Next ’19: The Latest G Suite Announcements From Google’s Big Event

April 10, 2019
While it may not be as exciting as an Android or hardware event, Google Cloud Next has given us a slew of announcements. The company just published details about several of the new G Suite features, improvements, and products that they talked about during the event. Let's take a look.Microsoft Office editingFirst up, Office editing...
Genymotion Cloud is now on Google’s Cloud Platform to meet demand for testing multiple virtual Android devices in parallel

Genymotion Cloud is now on Google’s Cloud Platform to meet demand for testing multiple virtual Android devices in parallel

April 5, 2018
Genymobile is a French company that specializes in Android virtualization tools for Enterprise. Their most popular tool is an Android emulator called Genymotion that boasts 5.5 million users. Big name customers include Facebook, eBay, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and  Twitter. The company is announcing the immediate availability of Genymotion Cloud for Google Cloud Platform with a "per-second"...
Google Launches Cloud Firestore: App Focused NoSQL Database

Google Launches Cloud Firestore: App Focused NoSQL Database

October 3, 2017
The Firebase platform is one of the key tools in Google's Android ecosystem, and today Google is continuing their expansion of it with the launch of Google Cloud Firestore, a NoSQL document database for smartphones. Cloud Firestore allows you to synchronize your database in near-realtime, enabling reactive apps, cross-device syncing, and cross-device collaboration. But of course,...
Google Updates the Cloud Speech API, Now Available to Developers

Google Updates the Cloud Speech API, Now Available to Developers

April 20, 2017
In July of last year, Google announced two new APIs for their Google Cloud Platform customers that had to do with speech recognition. These were made available in beta form to a limited number of developers and the Cloud Natural Language API and the Cloud Speech API. Along with being limited to a certain number of...