“In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant.” – Google Europe’s John Herlihy, 2010
Google’s a great company with typically great foresight. Having recognized the significant market trends that drive its industry, such as the rise of mobile Internet usage on smartphones, Google adapted its core business model from one providing search based advertising into [...]
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In Defense of the Desktop Computer
March 4th, 2010
Posted in Google, Internet, PCs and Laptops 
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, desktop, desktop computer, Google, mobile computing, PC, smartphone 
No Comments »It Would Be Nice If…
February 28th, 2010
We all have ideas. Sometimes they’re good. Sometimes they’re bad. And sometimes we think they’re good even if they suck. Faced with the simple problems we all encounter each day, its common to rhetorically state how “it would be nice if ____” (fill in the blank). The only problem with these spontaneous ideas is our [...]
Google Voice Explained
February 18th, 2010
Remember when telephone numbers were linked to static geographic locations? Fortunately, the rise of mobile communications forever changed the concept of dialing a phone number from calling a place to one of calling an individual. Yet many people still have multiple telephone numbers by which they communicate. Google Voice attempts to aggregate these various means [...]
All in one 4G WiMAX and LTE
February 18th, 2010
With the pace of technology moving as fast as it does, early adopters often find themselves committed to one of several competing technologies that may not survive to large scale maturity (think HD-DVD vs Bluray). Because of this, it’s really easy to appreciate devices that combine compatibility between rival platforms, thus offering a hedge to [...]
Posted in Internet, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Web Technology, Wireless Tags: 4G, Beceem, LTE, Motorola, WiMAX No Comments »Will the U.S. Finally Get Decent Broadband Speeds?
February 16th, 2010
According to an FCC statement released today [pdf], more than 100 million Americans should have access to an at least 100Mbps broadband Internet connection by 2020. Sounds great, right? We’ll all be streaming high definition video over the Internet with enough bandwidth to spare for any social networking or cloud computing needs that may arise within [...]
Google’s Street View Heads to the Mountains of Vancouver
February 10th, 2010
Remember Google’s Street View Trike? Well it seems that Google, now looking to offer “slope side” views of several winter Olympic events in Vancouver, has developed a “snowmobile decked out with cameras to capture slope-level imagery of several runs on the Whistler Blackcomb Mountains”. Google is compiling views of Vancouver and the 2010 [...]
Posted in Google, Internet Tags: Google, Google Maps, Street View, trike, Winter Olympics 1 Comment »Google vs. Microsoft vs. Apple
January 27th, 2010
There’s nothing like a good corporate battle. While potentially costly to the participants, the benefits to consumers include lower prices, better, and more diverse products. This competition is the foundation upon which the capitalist world is built, and spurs the innovation that drives society forward.
As worldwide adoption and usage of computers and the Internet [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Internet, PCs and Laptops, Technology Tags: Apple, Bing, Chrome, Chrome OS, DROID, Google, Google Docs, Google Maps, iPhone, iPod, Microsoft, Nexus One, OS X, Windows, ZuneHD 3 Comments »Google Adds Chrome Extension for Google Voice
January 23rd, 2010
Google Chrome is quickly becoming the best web browser available, as evident by its steadily increasing pace of adoption by web users and its installation on new PCs by companies like Sony. It’s faster, more secure, and less resource intensive than IE and Firefox. And having recently enabled extensions, which can selectively add tons of useful [...]
Posted in Google, Internet, PCs and Laptops, Software, Web Browsers, Web Technology Tags: Chrome Extensions, Google, Google Chrome, Google Voice No Comments »Google trials HTML5 on YouTube
January 22nd, 2010
In June 2004, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) proposed a new version of the hypertext markup language standard used by most websites, designating it HTML5. While the standard is not complete, Google has become an early adopter of the technology for both its Chrome OS and most recently in trials delivering videos via YouTube [...]
How ‘Bout Some TwittaBling
January 19th, 2010
Nothing says “I love you” like the gift of jewelry. And while this decade’s version of personal communications includes “tweeting” your feelings and weight (in fewer than 140 characters) across the Internet for the world to see, it’s unlikely for most people that gifting some TwittaBling to your “significant other” will adequately compliment an online proclamation of your love. [...]
