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Google Helping Build Trans-Pacific Internet Cable to Japan

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

If you remember our article from a few months back about Google taking the last decade to build, link and prepare to offer infrastructure services to the world’s ISPs, then this comes as no surprise: Google has entered into a 6-company consortium to build their own trans-pacific cable between the US and Japan. The cable will [...]

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid (BFF with Google?)

Monday, February 11, 2008

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Jens Eckels sent in news this morning that Yahoo has officially turned down Microsoft’s offer to buy them over the weekend. Yahoo felt the offer undervalued the company, but some have to wonder if this is the result of Google offering to help Yahoo avoid the undervalued buyout by Microsoft? Is anyone else relieved their Yahoo [...]

Google Android to Get Significant Changes

Monday, February 4, 2008

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Jumping out of the gate to a rocky start, Google’s Android was reported as being a “good start” but garnered plenty of complaints from folks that wanted to dive in head first and expected to fine a fully mature product. Most of the complaints centered around the lack of public issue tracking and feedback loop for [...]

Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance

Monday, January 28, 2008

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Nokia has agreed to purchase Trolltech (creators of the QT cross platform GUI Toolkit that KDE is based on, as well as the Qtopia cell phone platform) for $150 million. This is an interesting move as all the hub-bub surrounding Google’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance and the new cell platform, Android, was surprisingly devoid [...]

Google to Host Public Scientific Data for Free

Saturday, January 19, 2008

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Google, using it’s insane computing infrastructure, has offered to begin hosting terabytes upon terabytes (likely petabytes when done?) of public scientific data so the community has easier/central access to the information. The project is named Palimpsest. Google also purchased the visualization group behind the Gapminder software (see Ted Talk video, very interesting) that was designed to [...]

Using GOOG411 - Free Local Information Service

Monday, January 14, 2008

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-With permission by Danny Sullivan If you don’t have a spiffy PDA phone or have internet access on our celly, you might find yourself calling information for various reasons. Some carriers charge up to $1.25 a call. With Google’s 411 service you can now put a stop to that. Call 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) and follow the voice [...]

Google Poised to be the Infrastructure for ISPs

Thursday, January 10, 2008

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Todd Swarthout sent me one of the more interesting reads I’ve gotten a chance to take a look at recently. This is a piece by Robert Cringely over at PBS.org and is exactly 1 year old today, but just as fascinating today as it was a year ago… and IMO, surprisingly insightful. The premise of the article [...]

Software Development with Android API

Thursday, December 20, 2007

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For the developers out there, Ars takes some time with the Android (gPhone) APIs to develop a quick Twitter application. Ryan points out that while was impressed with his app only requiring 130 lines of code to get off the ground, he found the tools available to make a nice looking UI were severely lacking. [...]

Official Google Calendar Sync Support on Blackberry

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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Hole-ee-shit… Laurence Hartje just sent in the best news of my life from Boy Genius Report. It appears that Google just added support of Google Calendar synchronization with Blackberry devices. For me, this is an adventure that started almost a year ago after I got my T-Mobile Blackberry Pearl (which I love), and it looks [...]

Introducing Google Charts API

Friday, December 7, 2007

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Just got a heads up that Google’s Chart API has been updated to include Venn Diagram support now (As you see above). Blogos created the example above using the following simple HTTP request: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart? the base URL cht=v& chart type: v for Venn chs=400×200& chart size: 400 by 200 pixels chd=t:119,96,43,67,22,38,16& chart data: the 3 circle sizes, and the intersection areas: see the [...]

New Gmail Shortcut Cheat Sheet

Thursday, December 6, 2007

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Greg Amerson just brought this to my attention, but if you type “?” in Gmail, you get the new Keyboard Shortcuts cheat sheet… have a look:

Google Launches new iPhone Interface

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

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This is pretty damn sweet… TechCrunch has the scoop on the new Google website launched specifically for iPhone users. If you visit www.google.com with your iPhone, chances are you are going to see the new redesigned Google interface with integrated services: Search Gmail Calendar Reader Docs SMS Goog-411 News Photos (PicasaWeb?) Blogger Notebook It is truly amazing what the iPhone has done to the industry… this (what [...]

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Google Helping Build Trans-Pacific Internet Cable to Japan

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid (BFF with Google?)

Google Android to Get Significant Changes

Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance

Google to Host Public Scientific Data for Free

Using GOOG411 - Free Local Information Service

Google Poised to be the Infrastructure for ISPs

Software Development with Android API

Official Google Calendar Sync Support on Blackberry

Introducing Google Charts API

New Gmail Shortcut Cheat Sheet

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