Internet

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking […]

Those little compact mini-laptops known as Netbooks, may be heading for a fast price slide as more and more companies bring their models to market. It seems that companies were not entirely aware who was bringing the mini’s to market, until the Intel Developer’s Conference, which took place in San Francisco last week. It than […]

There is one thing that all of us can agree upon. Those who succumb to those spam advertisements and actually order a product contribute to the problem by keeping the spammers in business. So no matter what the percentage is of those who order the products, it places a burden on the remainder of us […]

The team at Microsoft is offering a new product called Photosynth which anyone can use provided they own a PC with Windows XP or Vista. Plus the computer needs a video card with at least 32MB dedicated, 1 GB of RAM and a fast broadband connection. So if your computer meets these requirements, you might […]

It is hard to believe that the most successful auction site on the Internet may become the new Amazon. eBay is going to start telling its sellers that fixed pricing may be the way to go and not the more traditional auction, which eBay became famous for. Like everything else on the Internet, eBay is […]

Google Street View is coming under attack from all sides by some who are contending that Street View is getting too personal. So as I was surfing the Internet I found an article which represents just how personal things are getting. Picture this. You received notification that a very close friend of yours has died. […]

Over at Direct2Dell they have announced a new series of business laptop computers that Dell says are going to knock our socks off. After reading some of the specifications, especially the extended battery life [19 hours], these new machines could change the way we lappy users do business. On the light side is the 12″ […]

Google says that in the year 1998, it had estimated that there were over 26 million pages on the Internet. Two years later that number hit the 1 billion mark and now in 2008 it hit the 1 trillion mark. Now that’s big. Oops I mean huge. Though Google admits it doesn’t know the […]

Over at Google they have an article which describes the prospect of owning your own Internet connection and what it might take to do it. They also discuss an experiment going on up in Canada, in which 400 homeowners will be able to purchase thier own Internet connection. In the Google article it states:
It may […]

OK you techies. Here is your chance to get in on the bottom floor on a project over at TechCrunch. They want to design a web tablet and want to keep the price at $200. They are looking for techies to join in on the project and to actually develop a prototype of the unit. […]