TechNews.AM - Technology News

Editor's Note: This is the last installment of a 3-part series covering Len Kendall’s abstinence from the “Like” button for a month.

A year ago, I left Google's annual I/O developers conference convinced it was making a major strategic shift into being a hardware company.

If you've ever used the Internet — and you know who you are — you've undoubtedly had apps or various services stop working unexpectedly.

Google+ has never looked and felt as it good as it does right now.

Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's hyperbolic CEO, has been telling anyone who will listen that the "sudden convergence of cloud, social and mobile spheres" is forcing - and allowing - companies to connect with customers in new ways, and to listen with an intensity never before possible.

If you're visiting the Google I/O developers conference this week, you're a tiny part of a giant Google experiment to sniff out everything from your body heat to your breath.

While both Google and SAP shared a 1980's music sensibility at their respective conferences this week - Billy Idol performed at Google I/O and U2's Bono walked the floor at SAPPHIRE - the two companies see the future of computing very differently.

Google's alternative to Microsoft Office, Google Apps, has always suffered from the fact that it offers a sort of "good enough" compatibility — fine for most basic document and spreadsheet tasks, but not enough to match certain Office features.

Since at least the 1990s, when personal computers first became commonplace, public policy experts have worried the ill effects of a Digital Divide.