“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 »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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Google Chrome for Mac and Linux is here (and Extensions!)
December 8th, 2009
I’ve been using Google’s Chrome web browser for about a year now and, unlike my initial impressions of the Chrome OS, love it. It loads pages faster and uses fewer system resources than IE and Firefox. Unfortunately, its only stable release is for Windows.
Until today. Google has finally released versions of the browser for Mac [...]
Posted in Google, Internet Tags: Apple, Chrome Extensions, Google Chrome, Linux, Macintosh, web browser 1 Comment »Google’s Model Your Town Competition…A Great Prize for a Great Cause
December 1st, 2009
Bored? Looking for a cause? Well here’s your chance to leave your mark on the world…quite literally. In an effort to accelerate the rate at which towns and cities are modeled in 3D within Google Earth, Google is sponsoring a competition in which anyone can participate. Using free online 3D sketching tools, such as SketchUp and Building [...]
Posted in Google, Internet Tags: Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google model your town 1 Comment »Why Microsoft can breathe a sigh of relief…
November 19th, 2009
Google gave the world a glimpse of its open source, Linux based, Chrome operating system today. While much of Chrome’s development is progressive and will make computing faster, easier, and more secure, the degree to which it deviates from today’s standard computing platforms and methods seriously endangers its chance of widespread adoption and ability to [...]
Posted in Google, Internet Tags: Chrome browser, Cloud Computing, Google, Google Chrome OS, Microsoft Windows, operating system 8 Comments »More Free Internet Access!
November 10th, 2009
Remember the announcement that Google is offering free in-flight broadband Internet access on Virgin flights throughout the holiday season? Well, Google just sweetened the deal. During the same period (Nov 10 – Jan 15), Google is sponsoring free WiFi at a slew of airports across the country. Click the “continue reading” link for the full [...]
Posted in Google, Internet Tags: free internet, free WiFi, Google, in-flight broadband, Internet No Comments »Google Maps Navigation: This changes everything…
October 28th, 2009
Today was a big day in the world of wireless mobile devices. Verizon Wireless is expecting to begin sales of the $200 (with contract) Motorolo DROID, the first smartphone running the Google Andriod 2.0 open source operating system, on Nov. 6. This open source operating system for mobile devices is poised to become the new standard for mobile hardware and [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Google, Internet, Phones Tags: Android 2.0, DROID, Garmin, Google Maps, Google Maps Navigator, GPS, NAVTEQ, smartphone 6 Comments »
