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Google CEO Larry Page envisions a future in which computers plan your vacations, drive your cars, and anticipate your whims. Audacious? Maybe. But Page's dreams have a way of coming true. FORTUNE -- When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google this past fall, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood Hotel about 20 miles away. Only this was

Google’s OS is still more popular than Apple’s, but no more than it was in March Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Research in Motion (RIMM) have reached something like a three-way stalemate in the battle for dominance of the U.S. smartphone market, according to Nielsen survey results scheduled for release Tuesday. Smartphones are increasingly popular — they now represent 37% of all U.S. mobile phon

Adam Lashinsky’s “Inside” story in the new issue of Fortune is packed with juicy revelations After the simultaneous, and more-or-less disastrous, launch of the iPhone 3G and MobileMe in the summer of 2008 — the launch one Gizmodo reader dubbed “iPocalypse” — Steve Jobs summoned the MobileMe team to the Town Hall auditorium on Apple’s (AAPL) Cupertino campus for an obscenity-laden dressing down. “Y

A company that wants to bring online storage and sharing to the masses? Hardly original, but with numbers like these, Dropbox may do just that. The startup on every venture and angel investor's lips these days isn't a social media company or a site hawking coupons. No, the tech world is currently enamored with Dropbox, a four-year-old company that aims to bring cloud computing -- that catchall ph

Hoping to apply technology solutions to solve the world’s problems, Google is hiring Washington technology insider Jared Cohen. A rumor surfaced last month which put Washington insider Jared Cohen on the fast track to Google-dom.  Cohen is famous for his work as ‘Twitterer in Chief’ of the State department where he has lasted through two administrations. He’s a fascinating fellow. Cohen was hired

Yes, the company is still growing at rates that would be the envy of the rest of the Fortune 500. But its core business is slowing, its stock is down, its Android mobile platform generates scant revenue, and competition (hello, Facebook) is fierce. Can Google find its footing in this brave new world? By Michael V. Copeland with Seth Weintraub Stroll across the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif.,

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The servers slowed but didn’t crash in Tokyo Tuesday as customers queued up for hours For reasons that aren’t immediately clear, Japan didn’t suffer the nationwide meltdowns that brought Apple’s (AAPL) and AT&T’s (T) servers to their knees Tuesday, the first day of pre-orders for the iPhone 4 that goes on sale June 24. There were glitches that slowed the computers at SoftBank, Apple’s exclusive ca

Also getting cannibalized: iPod touches, eReaders, desktop PCs and handheld videogames There’s an interesting chart in a report to clients issued early Thursday morning by Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty. The subject of her report is last week’s acquisition of Palm (PALM) by Hewlett Packard (HPQ). In Huberty’s bull-case scenario, HP builds a tablet computer around Palm’s WebOS that not only competes