Google Software News Roundup
It’s been a big week so far for Google with regards to new software developments the company is rolling out. So I thought I’d round up some of the most interesting items and lay them out for you.
Google Announces New Android Software Features
Let the tablet wars begin! Google announced its new tablet set to compete against Amazon’s Kindle, the iPad, and Microsoft’s new toy. But what this new tablet also comes with is a new version of Google’s Android OS, dubbed Jelly Bean. CNET chronicles a list of Jelly Bean’s features, including voice-activated typing and searching, an advanced set of notifications that users can customize, and (of course) faster performance.
Google Shows the World New Google Glasses
Why stop with just tablets when you also can make glasses, the likes of which Ray-Ban could never imagine. Google announced that it is still in the early stages of developing “computer glasses.” And of course when you think of glasses, I’m sure you are thinking of skydiving:
Larry Dignan of ZDNet writes that Google is hoping to court developers to design apps for the new product by letting them get their hands on the shades first, which Google co-founder Sergey Brin notes are “not a consumer device.”
“Girls Who Code” Now Includes Google
This week not everything Google had to do with new software product launches. The software giant is now part of the “Girls Who Code” mentorship program, founded by Reshma Saujani, the former Deputy Public Advocate of New York City. According to Saujani’s website, “Girls Who Code is a new organization working to educate, inspire and equip 13- to 17-year-old girls with the skills and resources to pursue opportunities in technology and engineering.”
Over at The Verge, Bryan Bishop writes that the mentorship program will begin this summer “with an eight-week session in New York, during which twenty female high school students will be paired with a mentor from a tech company, and attend workshop sessions on coding, design, and entrepreneurship.”
