Archive for the ‘Google’ Category



Android Phone Announced

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Android?  More like blandroid.  Am I right?  The facts, via MacRumors: - Amazon mobile music store (press release) preloaded on the G1. - Built in keyboard. Google Maps. Android Market, YouTube - Launch on October 22nd - No tethering option - SIM-locked to T-Mobile - Read Word, PDF, Excel files. No exchange compatibility, but 3rd parties ...

Best Global Brands

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Some selections from the 2008 Rankings: Google at #10, BMW at #13, Cisco at #17, and Apple at #24.

Chrome Analysis

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Steve O'Grady takes a look at chrome: It is rather browsers that depend on choice such as Firefox and Opera that, to me, are most vulnerable to the introduction of Chrome. Firefox is likely to be more resilient, both because many of the casual users that were originally persuaded to switch ...

Google Chrome

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

By now you've probably heard about this a hundred times over, but Google is deploying their own browser.  One process per tab is a pretty good idea, and it's built on Webkit, which means long-term benefits for Safari.  I predict that Chrome will be heavily discussed, heavily downloaded, and rarely ...

Google Cuts Android Features

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Bluetooth and GTalkService APIs got the axe.  Clearly, Apple should be concerned.

Cuil Versus Google

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Corey Gilmore compares the speed of newly-launched Cuil to Google.  Unsurprisingly, Google wins.

Android Delayed

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google's Android Platform has been pushed back until Q4.  From the article: Google now says that the handsets won't arrive until the fourth quarter. And some cellular carriers and makers of programs that work with Android are struggling to meet that schedule, people familiar with ...