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So who didn’t see this one coming? No really, how long is this going to take? Considering the big hoopla surrounding Google’s announcement about the potentially upcoming Chrome OS, one has to wonder what the hold up is? I mean, it’s based on the Linux kernel and Google plans on using its own windowing system. [...]

To make things more transparent from Google’s point of view, it is providing a Dashboard to allow us to manage the data it collects.
Sadly all I found was just how easy it is to get yourself totally lost in its services. Don’t get me wrong; it did a nice job with the Dashboard. But the [...]

Get in front of Google Wave, the exciting new real-time communication and collaboration technology that unifies email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, and social networking functions on one integrated platform.
Getting Started with Google Wave gives you a good look at this game-changing technology while it’s still in the development stage. In the first two chapters, you’ll [...]

These days, it feels like Google has its paw prints on just about everything. Well today I found out that Google is becoming more “powerful” than I could have ever imagined. And yes, the use of “powerful” was a poke at its PowerMeter project.
The idea behind Google’s PowerMeter project is actually pretty cool. Help people [...]

Honestly blows my mind as to what Gmail will require you to do when you find one day someone has hacked your account. Yes, I take crazy steps to protect my own accounts, but I must admit, I think the powers that be at Google need to WAKE UP.
Issue 1) You are in real trouble [...]

Bing is really working hard to differentiate itself from the competition. Despite me rolling my eyes over the Yahoo! deal, adding in Wolfram Alpha results is one of the best Bing changes I have read about yet. Think about it. Who knows more about specialized scientific and computational content? Clearly, it’s going to be Wolfram [...]

Normally I would agree that Bing has its issues. But to say that Bing is stacking the results, is absolutely not true. Yes, the results I have found to be of Live Search quality, but stacked against Apple? Hardly. Try the same query now. Can you see it? Now check on it every day for [...]

Based on the Linux operating system and developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, Android has the potential to unite a fragmented mobile market. Android Application Development by Rick Rogers, John Lombardo, Zigurd Mednieks, and Blake Meike introduces this programming environment — including the operating system and SDK — and provides working examples with [...]

Honestly, despite what some people believe, I don’t think either company is going to make much of a dent in either party’s mainstream business. No, Bing is not going to make a bit of difference to Google any more than Google’s Chrome OS is going to mean a damned thing to Microsoft.
In both cases, each [...]

On the surface, this might sound like a really odd question. After all, who in their right mind needs a cheat sheet for something as simple as using a search engine? Yet once you realize just how much stuff you can actually do with Google, suddenly the need for a full cheat sheet does not [...]

What you are about to discover in this article is perhaps the most significant thing Google has released since… well, ever. The Google operating system is real; it is to be called the Google Chrome OS and it is going to change the way we think of operating systems.
Google Chrome OS is destined for netbooks, [...]

Know in 10 minutes what it takes others hours, and keep up with the latest trends in your industry.
In this summary you will learn:

Why Sergey Brin and Larry Page started Google
How they kept control of it despite pressure from their investors and financial backers
How the acrimony between Microsoft and Google originated
What Google plans for the [...]

This may surprise some of you, but I held out some high hopes for Microsoft’s Bing. Not caring who ran the search engine, I was simply hoping for something new to check out that might give me a reason to begin the switch to the latest technology. Thus far, it’s worse than LiveSearch…
I have done [...]

When I read stuff like this, I find myself wondering what Google is doing to compensate for this kind of thing in real time. Worse, on the other side of the coin, is the unsuspecting FTP victim forever banned from Google once their site is compromised and reported?
But as I have predicted some time ago, [...]

Today was yet another reminder of just how flawed relying on Web applications exclusively actually is. While email can go down, as it did with Gmail for a short time today, having the same thing happen with Google Docs is a real problem when trying to appeal to the enterprise user.
Despite various efforts to make [...]

Today I posted an article in Web Developers talking about Cuil and its apparent failure to capture the end user. In response, I immediately heard back from Cuil’s Brad Kellett. He immediately expressed his desire to make sure we know that they are working feverishly to make Cuil the best search engine that it can [...]

I have a lot of mixed feelings about Microsoft buying Yahoo, even with the “New Deal” that they are attempting to work out. Not because I do not want MS to succeed, when in truth, I would love to see REAL competition for Google come up from someplace. No, I feel this is just another [...]

Maybe it is just me, but it seems like policy must have suddenly shifted or something. A few years back, we had Google presenting at Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, WA and I was the guy brought on to do the filming for the event. Well, I was told clearly and in no uncertain terms that [...]

I think Google Android is pretty cool. There is really no question about that. But then again, I have been warming up to the iPhone and the HTC phones as well. Each has something unique to offer. But coming back to Google’s Android as a platform, the idea of it coming to a desktop PC [...]

I live in a remote location where you can barely get wireless service. I have to place my mobile phone on a window sill in just the right spot, and if I do that I will often get marginal service — enough to receive text messages most of the time, at least. Depending on the [...]