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- Is Google the Center of the Universe?
- It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...
- Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Chrome OS will rise or fall on the safety dance
- It's not just about what Google's programmers do in terms of security that will drive Chrome OS. Google needs application developers to accept its security development framework as well. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Development Tools, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- News to know: HP; Google; IE 7 zero day flaw; Office; Drobo
- HP earnings, Google, a critical IE 7 flaw, Office Starter 2010 and Drobo are today's headliners. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Zero-day Bug, Web Browsers, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Microsoft tries toppling Google with a bribe
- Microsoft is bribing News Corp to remove news content from Google's index. I wonder if Google will suffer much from such a deal? by Garett Rogers
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Android 1.6 officially receives Google Maps Navigation
- Google announced that its Google Maps Navigation software, which offers turn-by-turn GPS navigation for your car and palm, will be available for Android 1.6. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Analyst: News Corp.'s Google saber rattling really about MySpace
- News Corp.'s alleged dance with Microsoft's Bing and Rupert Murdoch's big plan to de-index from Google is likely to be nothing more than saber rattling to secure a semi-respectable MySpace search deal, according to an analyst. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Analyst, News Corp., MySpace, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea
- Google's founders once thought that search was so important it should be non-profit. Maybe now's a good time to do that. by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Google Inc., Founder, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Google to beef up display ads with acquisition of Teracent
- Google is looking to build its display advertising business with an acquisition of Teracent. by Sam Diaz
- Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Advertisement, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Sergey Brin: Google Android, Chrome OS likely to converge
- Google's two operating systems, mobile Android and desktop Chrome OS will likely converge as a single OS in the future, said Google co-founder Sergey Brin. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Sergey Brin, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Google goes all-in with an open source cloud
- Open standards set terms of competition that advantage the low-cost producer of bits and processing. That's Google. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- A Microsoft and News Corp. search pact? It adds up
- Goodbye RupertI am not going to use Bing.Google will find stuff I am interested in.Too lazy to use Bing.Bing is dead.Something will dethrone Google, but it ain't Bing.Goodbye Google...You can't earn money without paying for content made byothers...Google has milked the industry for years without giving anything back...There's no such...
- Tags: SEARCH, Digital music, Digital media, News Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Bing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-22
- GrandCentral closing up shop
- The service Google snatched up in 2007 that lets users attach multiple phones to a single phone number is officially closing its doors on December 31st this year. An email went out to users of the service stating Google's intentions to close the doors on GrandCentral.com. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-11-22
- Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?
- Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...
- Tags: Desktops, desktop, Google Inc., bad cloud, Desktop Application
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- YouTube automatic captioning: one more reason GOOG's not evil
- reWorking in a district with 5-10 deaf students this is huge. Currently even though by law all DVD's sold should have CC capabilities close to 1/3 do not and cause our sign language interps to have to work extremely hard to keep up. By Google doing this they...
- Tags: DVD, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Salesforce.com plays Google ad sales game: Big tease? Big letdown!
- Google AdwordsI've used Google Adwords frequently and I do know that there is a learning curve involved. I've often said that Google represents the ultimate in convenience but their Adwords program does not function with the same ethos. It's not an easy tool to figure out and definitely requires a...
- Tags: E-mail, Sales force management, game, Salesforce.com Inc., sales, Google AdWords, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- YouTube automatic captioning: one more reason GOOG's not evil
- Earlier this week I noted that YouTube's partnership with Univision was one more reason to make the web service available in schools. Now, Google has introduced some more useful YouTube technology: automatic captioning. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Business Structures, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?
- MS is the past Google is the future so NopeGoogle is the old MS, MS is the old IBM. PC_DOS never made it, MS_DOS did. The driving factor was openness and innovation.Today and in the near future, Google has bothToday MS sees profit only and based on thatdrives...
- Tags: Operating systems, Leadership, BOOT UP TIMES, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?
- I'm not one of those ready to write Windows an RIP certificate now that Google has finally taken some of the wraps off its Chrome OS. In fact, after reading through industry watchers' questions and Google's answers about it, I'm thinking that Chrome OS may not look quite so appealing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux
- Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Mozilla: Still too dependent on Google for revenue; Can it diversify?
- well its in Google best interest ...that mozilla is healthy and and kicking .... anyone claiming monopole they point out that they support Mozilla foundation big time ...Google keep its competition alive they should do more invest in ubuntu ... so they...
- Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Operational accounting, revenue, Google Inc., Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
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