There have been rumors about a mythical Google G Drive service making the rounds for years — and by all accounts the company was working on a service that would let users upload files to the cloud so they could be accessed on any computer. But as Steven Levy outlines in his book on Google, In The Plex, the project was…

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Android isn’t Google’s only operating system. The company also offers Chrome OS — a simple operating system based on the Chrome web browser that’s designed to run on low-power laptops or desktops which Google calls Chrombooks or Chromeboxes. But you don’t hear much about Chrome OS these days, because Chromebooks haven’t had much commercial success. But Google says the Chrome…

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Google started out in search, but the company has expanded into a wide range of businesses over the years, starting with advertising and continuing with email, document creation, mobile operating systems, and even image editing. But every now and again Google decides to shutter some of the projects its developers have been working on to refocus on other areas. This…

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Google Books has launched a new feature that lets you download and save books using the Chrome web browser, allowing you to read eBooks even when you don’t have an internet connection. That makes Google Books a heck of a lot useful if you’re one of the handful of people that has a Chromebook, or if you just like reading…

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The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with the Amazon Appstore for Android applications rather than the official Google Android Market. And up until recently you couldn’t even visit market.android.com in the Kindle web browser (or a third party web browser). Amazon would automatically redirect links to its own app store. On the one hand, if you were browsing for apps on…

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Just as with Android, Google makes the open source base for Chrome OS available for all to download. But if you’re not keen on setting up a 64-bit Linux build environment, what can you do? You can download a pre-compiled Chromium OS from Hexxeh, who’s long been the name to know in Chromium OS DIY builds. Things had been relatively…

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Adobe has announced that it will soon be ending support for Flash Player on mobile devices running Android and BlackBerry Tablet OS, instead shifting its mobile efforts toward HTML5. So it probably shouldn’t be a huge surprise that the first device to ship with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich doesn’t currently support Adobe Flash Player. Still, for a long…

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Google Music is now out of beta, and available for anyone in the US to use without an invitation. Google has also announced that the basic service will remain free. That means you can upload as many as 20,000 songs to the Google Music website and stream them to any computer or mobile with a supported web browser, or stream…

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Google has released the source code for Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The operating system is designed to run on phones and tablets, and this is the first time Google has released the source code for a tablet-friendly version of the operating system. The company never felt that Android 3.x Honeycomb was ready to run on smartphones, so Google…

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Logitech has announced that it will sell off remaining inventory of the Logitech Revue. But according to The Verge, Logitech has no plans to make another Google TV set top box. The Revue launched last year for about $300. Today you can pick one up for just $99.99. The box was one of the first products to ship with Google…

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Google has opened the door for Google+ Pages, which means that you can add blogs, brands, and other things that aren’t people to your circles. Today I’m happy to announce that the new Liliputing page on Google+ is the latest way you can participate in the Liliputing community. We’ll be posting stories, photos, questions, and other details on the page…

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Google has officially taken the wraps off Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The operating system will be available for both smartphones and tablets, but the first device to ship with ICS will be the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone. It will ship in November, and the operating system should be available for additional devices soon. The software developer kit is…

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