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Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts

Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contactsPar for the course, except for Google's sizeThis has plenty of precedents for similar features already (definitely Meebo, and I think Facebook, for example). Those aren't getting many complaints, and of course Google wants to keep up with features. The scope...

Tags: E-mail providers, Google Wants, Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-13

Google wants your help with their icon

Google wants your help with their iconI prefer the old one too ntntRE: Google wants your help with their iconPut my vote in for the old one "G"RE: Google wants your help with their iconOld G please.RE: Google wants your help with their iconI like the new g a bit...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, FavIcons, Google Wants, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

RSnake picks on Google Health... yes, Google wants your medical records, too!

RSnake picks on Google Health... yes, Google wants your medical records, too!They'll have to pry them off of my cold, dead fingersHow much do you want to bet I won't even notice? Or even have a say in the matter. :(It's bad enough Microsoft wants to take over the world....

Tags: Vertical industries, Google Inc., RSnake, Google Wants, Google Health, medical record, health care

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Google wants $10 billion local online ad spend

Google wants $10 billion local online ad spendhttp://www.analogstereo.com/peugeot_1007_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/peugeot_1007_owners_manual.htm

Tags: Google Wants, online advertising, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-06-23

Google wants to pay you to improve Google usability

Google wants to pay you to improve Google usabilityImage competitionYeah google is all about encourage user generated content. User generated QA, user generated bug reporting. Their search algorith is clearly adaptive.Remember pidgeion ranking? Well they use somethign a lot like it for image search.I blogged about it...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Wants

Discussion threads 2007-05-24

Google wants data in the cloud, not on the desktop

Google wants data in the cloud, not on the desktopYes, just like we trust banks to keep our money, we will trust serviceproviders to keep our data. We need something like the FDIC, and serious penalties for losing data, but this will work itself out. Of course there will always...

Tags: desktop, Google Inc., Google Wants, hard drive

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Google wants to sell ads over Wi-Fi? Get out the smelling salts!

Google wants to sell ads over Wi-Fi? Get out the smelling salts!What salt? I definitely see it happening in the future. eom.Sounds like OperaBut wait - they GOT RID OF their Ad window . . .

Tags: Wireless LANs, Google Wants, advertisement, Wi-Fi, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-03-28

Additional Resources

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Is Google working on the synchronization problem?

ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...

Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Will you forget about Android?

Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...

Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

India Radio (gadget)

Introducing the India Radio gadget with 30 stations of Web radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live internet stream. Don't pay for web radio, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your windows media player and real player for audio broadcasts, the...

Tags: Web, Radio, Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-10

"People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"

Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...

Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft

Google will survive, albeit in a much smaller form. IBM will survive, and be ready to thrive when this is over. Everything else will consolidate. Bye-bye Sun. Red Hat, find a buyer. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Laptops with mobile WiMax now available

The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...

Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?

I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...

Tags: Google Inc., Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Google PPOB? What is it?

When you are looking for things that Google is about to do, the best place to keep your eye on is Google's robots.txt file -- a document they keep updated with a list of websites they don't want search engines to index. A week ago, they added "/search2001" which...

Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Web Site Development, Search, Web Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology

It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...

Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-09

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09