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Firefox 3 Benchmarks Show Huge Improvements
(Author’s Note: No, using a half topless woman is not a cheap gimmick to get you to read this article… it’s… art… with boobs… so technically, it’s boobs-art. Whatever, you wouldn’t understand, you aren’t as artistic as I am) Grant Gochnauer and Marc Chung sent in a slew of benchmarks for the nightly builds of Firefox [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid (BFF with Google?)
Monday, February 11, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Google Android to Get Significant Changes
Monday, February 4, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance
Monday, January 28, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Google to Host Public Scientific Data for Free
Saturday, January 19, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Using GOOG411 - Free Local Information Service
Monday, January 14, 2008
-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 [...]
Continue reading...Google Poised to be the Infrastructure for ISPs
Thursday, January 10, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Software Development with Android API
Thursday, December 20, 2007
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. [...]
Continue reading...Official Google Calendar Sync Support on Blackberry
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Introducing Google Charts API
Friday, December 7, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...New Gmail Shortcut Cheat Sheet
Thursday, December 6, 2007
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:
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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