Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Google Spiffs Up for Uncle Sam
Google’s got a special new version of its standard Premier Edition Google Apps that’s supposed to meet basic toe-in-the-door government security requirements. Well, at least the data generated by the government’s use of Gmail and calendaring will be segregate from everybody else’s cloud-borne data on servers located in the continental US. Other apps will eventually [...]
Google Moves Up Chrome OS Debut
Google, in its attempt to challenge Microsoft’s PC dominance, has moved up the market entrance of its cloud-based Chrome operating system from 2011 to late fall, less than six months from now according to reports out of the Computex show in Taiwan quoting Sundar Pichai, the Google VP in charge of the Chrome project. He [...]
Google Fires First Shot in Brewing Codec War
Google fired a shot across Apple’s bow Wednesday and considering the way things have been going Apple will probably seek to return fire in the not-too-distant future with an armor-piercing lawsuit. The latest fray started when Google got up at the Google I/O developers conference – like it was widely expected to do – and [...]
What Did Google Just Buy & What For?
Google, which has got more secrets than the CIA, has just bought that mystery outfit Agnilux that the PA Semi guys who didn’t fit into Apple – or picked up their winnings from Apple’s $278 million 2008 acquisition of PA and moved on to the next crap game– are supposed to have started. Nobody knows [...]
Google Apps Re-Architected
Gosh, isn’t Google’s timing grand. In a few weeks Microsoft’s web-based versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint will start wending their way to market. So Google, which is going to be technically outclassed, decides to drop a re-architected Google Apps public preview Monday that’s faster and chummier than what exists, collaboration supposedly being Google App’s [...]
Chrome Netbooks a Year Off
Google says it’s working with a bunch of unidentified “top OEMs” to create a Chrome notebook based on a Google hardware reference architecture that will hit market around this time next year in time for the holidays. It expects the widgets to change the basic computing model by transferring everything to the cloud. Google accepts [...]
Unix Co-Creator Writes New Open Source Programming Language for Google
Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, a couple of the revered old soldiers who wrote Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno at Bell Labs – and programming languages like Limbo and B, without which C probably wouldn’t exist – have come up with an experimental new programming language called Go that Google, their current refuge, open sourced [...]
Google Apps Lands its Biggest Fish Yet
Rentokil Initial, an odd combination of a modern-day charwoman who in her off-hours is a courier service, exterminator, insurance adjuster, heating and air conditioning installer and water and electrical tester, has gone with Google Apps, expecting to be the largest deployment of its paid Premier Edition yet. The cloud widgetry will replace Rentokil’s 180 e-mail [...]
Google Wave Hits Wider Beta
Google Wave, the amorphous open source widgetry that Google has trouble explaining but contends – silly Google – will replace e-mail, the most viral application ever, started moving into a wider test group of some 100,000 users Wednesday ahead of still wider release in December. It’s akin to a limited launch. Wave reportedly got a [...]
Google, the Verb, Versus the Bing Ding
Microsoft’s long, tedious, temper-flaring pursuit of Yahoo has finally culminated in an exclusive 10-year deal. It’s not the deal people expected which is why Yahoo stock took a 12% fall in the hours after the companies laid it out Wednesday. Yahoo is going to sell search ads for the both of them using Microsoft’s AdCenter [...]