The Los Angeles City Council has voted to go with Google for their email needs and also to use Google Apps. and more. L.A. will be the first major U.S. city to use Google over other rivals like Microsoft. This has been a hard fought win for the search giant, and if successful, could entice [...]
Well it seems all of the rumors about Google Chrome OS being released into the wild were just rumors. Rumors that it seems someone is trying to make a buck on. So before you pay someone to get a phony release, stay calm, cool, and collected. Some people in the technology field seem to think [...]
According to the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, Android is getting ready to explode. Not blow up, but start to grow rapidly. The low cost, open source, fully featured, and ready to go operating system is going to take over the cell phone industry. Though his boasting may be overstated, could what he is saying [...]
Google is now looking at opening what they call ‘Google Edition’ in which they will be offering from 400,000 to 600,000 eBooks in the first half of 2010. You will not need to be connected to the Internet to read a book after it has been accessed once. This cloud of books will not be [...]
I doubt if there is anyone in email land who hasn’t mistakenly sent an email to the wrong recipient. When we receive the “Are you sure you meant to send this to me?” we feel stupid when we realize we didn’t. Google may have found a simple solution to this problem.
On their blog site they [...]
The art of choosing a smart password has been lost for many who use the Internet. Some newbies assume that using their middle name, numbers from their home address, birth date, or other easy to remember password is enough to keep them safe. On the flip side we have those who use a complicated formula [...]
The folks over at Skype, the free VoIP company, are happy that AT&T has opened their 3G network for their clients to use. In a blog post, the Skype team states that its offering of an iPhone and iPod touch device application is now on 10% of the Apple products. The blog posting also states [...]
In what is being described as a ‘groundbreaking agreement’ by some, Verizon and Google are joining forces for a collaboration of a new network plus an Android platform.The joint ventures between the two companies may provide consumers with the leading edge for mobile applications, services and other devices. By combining the nations’ largest 3G network [...]
Samsung along with T-Mobile and introducing a Google Android powered phone coming our way just before the holidays. The joint venture includes a ‘cube’ operated system which is claimed to make using the phone easier.
According to a recent news article it states the following:
The sleek touch-screen phone is [...]
I recall that when I first read about Google’s Chrome Frame, my first thought was “why?” Why does Google care if Internet Explorer users can render a Web page correctly or not? Shouldn’t this be a concern of Microsoft and not Google? What impact will adding Chrome Frame pose if it were added to Internet [...]
Scalable Vector Graphics have the support of most of the major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera. But few web sites currently support this feature. Google and others are going to try and change this. So why should we be interested in this feature?
SVG promises to change the way we view web sites:
Bitmap images, [...]
Could journalism benefit from Google Wave when it hits the streets? This is what the L.A. Times believes could happen in a recent article in which they stated the following information to back up its claim:
For the last two months, while we’ve been testing the Google Wave developer preview, we have been talking amongst ourselves [...]
Google is now offering Website Translator Gadget that will make your website available in 51 different languages. Google admits that the translator is not perfect and is not a substitute for a translator. However they also state that the reader would get the ‘gist’ of what is on your website.
According to the Google Blog it [...]
It is being reported that the email that was sent in error containing customer information for some 1,300 customers, was not viewed by the Gmail user who received it. So after court orders, Google intervention and a lot of discussion on the Internet, this is finally being put to rest.
According to the latest article on [...]
When Google introduced their Google Frame to help make Microsoft’s browser Internet Explorer web compliant, testing by PC World confirmed the following:
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer zips through JavaScript nearly ten times faster than usual when Google’s new Chrome Frame plug-in is partnered with the browser, benchmark tests show.
According to tests run by Computerworld , Internet Explorer [...]
You may recall the case in which a Wyoming banking institution sent the records of some 1300 bank customers to the wrong Gmail address. [See original post here] The bank wanted Google to reveal the Gmail account user information but Google said not without a court order. So not only did the bank get a [...]
Internet Explorer 6 is now eight years old and is not Web compliant. Microsoft has been trying to get IE 6 users to upgrade but without success. It seems that many companies won’t allow their users to upgrade IE 6 because of deployment policies and internal standardization that sound outdated. So it seems that [...]
According to the latest Nielsen rating, Bing has gained in popularity and now commands what appears to be about 10.7% of the search market. Since Microsoft has basically bought Yahoo search, shouldn’t the two be combined? How does MSN and Live Search figure into these figures?
To view the figures click on the above image.
I wonder [...]
With Google, Intel and Cisco being big investors in the WiMAX game, one would think that Silicon Valley would of been setup for WiMAX long ago. But Clearwire has just completed construction of more than 20 square miles in Santa Clara, Mountain View and parts of Palo Alto. But when is WiMAX finally going to [...]
Google and newspapers have been at odds recently since the newspapers view Google as cutting into their profit margin. But Google is trying to mend some fences with a new feature they call Google Fast Flip. On Google blog they state that this new feature will:
One problem with reading news online today is that browsing [...]
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