Jim O'Reilly

Google has announced that will stop supporting the Google Wallet for Digital Goods API as of March 2, 2015. Google posted the notice of its intention to stop supporting the API on the Google Wallet Developer site. Google’s decision means that merchants won’t be able to use Google Wallet applications that enable payments for digital […]

Google has announced that small businesses in sections of Kansas City can subscribe to high-speed Google Fiber Internet, giving them a 1G bps connection to and from the Internet. This is roughly 100 times faster from the Internet to the premise than the average link in the United States, so it’s a major speed improvement […]

A major outage of Google’s DoubleClick advertising delivery service hit Websites worldwide, slowing or blocking access to thousands of Websites and the ads displayed on those sites. Dynatrace, an Application Performance Management (APM) service company, tracked the DoubleClick outages and reported it affected the performance of 55,185 Websites worldwide. The problems began at about 9:40 […]

Google, already one of the largest employers in California’s Silicon Valley, is reported to have purchased or leased large amounts of office space in anticipation of rapid growth in Bay Area staffing. “Real-estate insiders familiar with Google’s hiring plan say the tech titan intends to hire 5,000 workers in the Bay Area a year for […]

Google continues to expand its efforts in the medical arena. They have announced a new Genome Cloud that will be used to store thousands of human genome files. Google will charge $25 per genome annually, which sounds fairly expensive for cloud storage. But considering each genome file contains about 100GB of data, this may seem […]

An academic research letter published in the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) addresses a potentially serious deficiency in the design of the Google Glass heads-up display eyewear. Since its introduction via a wide public evaluation program, Google Glass has created a great deal of debate over it opening […]

LG Electronics and Google have signed a 10-year patent cross-licensing agreement, and arrangement that LG said in an announcement covers “a broad range of [current and future] products and technologies.” Google signed a similar agreement with Samsung at the start of the year. In both cases, the agreements allow the parties involved to develop and […]

The Walt Disney Studios announced today that they have agreed to release their movie portfolio for streaming onto Android platforms. Movies will be accessed through “Disney Movies Anywhere,” a service that has been exclusively available from Disney’s long-time partner, Apple. Content from Disney, Pixar and Marvel that has been purchased by the user can be […]

Google has started “invitation-only” user evaluations of its new Inbox email client for Gmail that’s designed with mobile devices in mind to provide more tools for managing messages. Instead of just displaying emails, Inbox sorts messages, flags important keywords and other elements and links up to additional helpful information such as phone numbers. “Years in […]