Alphabet Hires Head Of Policy And Communications Of Google Fiber

Gabriel Stricker left Twitter To Join Google to head Policy and Communications of Google Fiber.

Google has reappointed an employee. Gabriel Stricker would return to the office or rather its parent company, Alphabet. He left Twitter this year as its Chief Communications Officer to lead Policy and Communications of Google Fiber at Alphabet. He earlier worked at the enterprise as Director of Global Communications & Public Affairs before being appointed by the social networking organization in 2012.

Stricker’s return to Alphabet or Google also suggests the interest of the company in expansion of Google Fiber, the venture that has been initiated to provide fast fiber-optic internet connectivity and cable TV to more regions of the US. He announced on Twitter that he would lead Google Fiber’s communications and policy.

Introduced five years ago, the project was extended to only few cities, including Salt Lake City and Nashville. The tech company recently said that it would be expanding Fiber to Los Angeles and Chicago. Previously this year, Google Fiber had 27,000 TV subscribers.

In August, as part of a huge restructuring, Google announced Alphabet as its holding corporation, which has assumed the control over the core business of Google and driverless vehicles, efforts in the field of healthcare, and a large number of moonshot developments. Google’s internet service venture also comes under Alphabet.

The appointment of a communications and policy head for the project indicates that Alphabet might no longer view Fiber as an experimental venture, and it will need the expertise of Mr. Stricker to deal with internet service providers and local strategies.

In July, the new head, who helmed both marketing and communications at the San Francisco based enterprise, announced that he was quitting the micro blogging network, Twitter. He was one of those many senior executives of the company who stepped down from their posts, besides former CEO Dick Costolo, who also left previously.

This development has taken place at a time when the search engine developer has decided to remove Android’s code that are conflicting with Oracle, and switch over to an open source alternate instead. That alternate is still the under control of Oracle, but the search engine operator is legally permitted to employ.

The lawsuit involves Google’s usage of a programming language known as Java, which is under the ownership of Oracle (Oracle acquired it when it purchased Sun Microsystems five years ago). The issue is whether Google was able to illegally copy portion of Java known as APIs (application programming interfaces). 

Microsoft Releases Cortana's Beta Version

The software giant has finally released the beta version of Cortana, the digital assistant for users

Microsoft Corporation has finally come around to release the beta version of Cortana, which is an automated voice bot, launched in competition with Apple’s Siri and Google’s new feature called the Google Now, which helps the users to have a conversation with their device which also acts as a guide for them at various times.

The feature has been made to be available for the users as a digital personal assistant that they can carry everywhere they go, according to Microsoft news. The beta app of the feature has already been leaked in the market but this time, the software giant has released the real deal which is now being offered to the general public. The first time this app was actually launched by the software business was on the Windows Phone. Following that, it was then offered in the Windows 10 as of the most awaited features on it.

Unlike Apple’s Siri, Microsoft has not restricted the use of Cortana to smart phones only. The assisting feature will be available on the new version of the Windows and the users will be able to use the digital assistance throughout their usage of the most updated operating system so far. The Cortana has been deemed as a very useful companion for the user which will also serve as a guide for users who are new to the Windows 10. As per the recent news, Microsoft software is being built in such a manner that it becomes compatible with almost all the gadgets that are being used by the users and not just the personal computers and laptops. This will include not only phones but also tablets along with gaming devices made by the tech company.

The new technology being released by the firm is not expected to have a lot of variations from the PC version to the one that will be offered on the smaller gadgets, as reported by latest Microsoft news. The Cortana that is available on the Android is believed to not be very different from the one that has now been launched by the firm. Android users are allowed to use Cortana to not only browse through the internet but also set reminders for future. Furthermore, the app also allows the users to speak to it exactly how iPhone users can talk to Siri and hold a proper conversation with it.

The leak of Cortana on Android is not equipped with all the features that the software giant has managed to build up, and will not be offering all the services of the app to the users.