Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Google StreetView -> Privacy video

A lot has been said about Google StreetView and its impact on people’s privacy. For those of you who haven’t come across it yet, Google StreetView is an enhancement on Google Maps which allows you to look at photos of a particular street and visually walk down it. It’s an...

Giving a new meaning to search

Image via CrunchBase It was interesting to read about a new type of search engine which will be hitting the Net towards the end of this month. It’s called Wolfram Alpha and promises to change the way we gather information online. Currently, if you search the Web for “where can I...

Playing with Google Friend Connect

Have you noticed the new widget in my sidebar? It has just been pushed out by Google as a tool for webmasters to “add a dash of social” to their website. Here’s how they describe it: Friend Connect’s goal is to facilitate an open social web. Using open standards like OpenID...

Google: Gmail is more reliable than Exchange

An interesting post on Google’s Blog talks about some things they have learnt around could computer and the needs ot their customers. According to their statistics based on planned and unplanned downtime, Gmail is one of the most reliable platforms around. Check out the following graph: It compares the actual outage...

Microsoft tries the “Tesco strategy”

It seems like everyone and his dog has some sort of loyalty scheme nowadays. You can collect points when you shop in your local supermarket, when you take a trip in a plane and now, even when you Microsoft’s Live Search. It’s a scheme called SearchPerks and is designed to...

Android-based, HTC-made, T-mobile powered G1 hits the streets

Unless you were hiding under a rock yesterday, you’d have heard the news that Android, Google’s new mobile operating system finally has a home. The first device to sport this is the G1, and HTC device that T-mobile will be making available to punters on a choice of two tarrifs....

Chrome: The good, the bad and the ugly

Chrome: Google’s new browser. The only way you would not have heard about this is if you’re hiding under a rock as all the technology news sites are talking about it; certainly Techmeme has been flooded with information about it over the last couple of days. So .. here are...

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