Googling Google

Google’s Achilles heel has always been privacy. Will this make a difference?

iTunes is pretty much the place to buy music these days — cd’s seem so old school now that downloadable digital music has become so mainstream. That’s not where it ends though, as “downloadable” is already starting to seem old too.
Google is betting on the future of cloud based storage for your music library [...]

Now that Google Chrome is 2, are we in for temper tantrums, meltdowns, and embarrassing scenes in shopping malls?

Google has discovered that their spam filter is multi-purpose. It’s great for eliminating spam in your inbox — it’s been effectively fighting spam for many years. Now, Google is taking their spam filter and putting it in reverse — figuring out which of your non-spam email you actually care most about.
It’s still rolling [...]

Google has the cash to buy lots of great companies. But can they create a cohesive social network out of the technology they’re buying?

Do you want to try out GPU acceleration in Google Chrome? Here’s a step by step guide that will get GPU acceleration up and running!

Stop teasing me Verizon! Give me Froyo or give me…ummm…an iPhone?

Remember Orkut? Yeah, you’re not alone if you said no. Orkut was Google’s first foray into social networking and, while it never took off in the States, it did in some countries (in particular, India). And, surprise, surprise, even India has chosen Facebook over Orkut. However, Google made some updates to Orkut this week, suggesting [...]

A Bing-powered Yahoo is clearly a threat to Google’s bread and butter. It’s time to buy a new loaf of bread.

Wow, this is huge. Google has made it so you can make free local and long distance calls (to US and Canada), and cheap international calls from directly inside Gmail. If that wasn’t cool enough, you can even receive phone calls right inside Google Talk if you are either away from your phone, [...]

It looks like some users are seeing a new experimental feature Google is working on that people are calling “Streaming Search”. This is different from the real-time suggested search terms when you are typing in the search box — what we’re seeing is real results changing as you type.
You can watch the video recorded [...]

If a surgeon at Johns Hopkins is operating via robot on a remote patient 2000 miles away, that is not the time for lag because YouTube gets the same priority as telemedicine under idealistic, outdated Net neutrality rules.

Android’s greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. Whatcha gonna do, Google?

SFGate thinks that RIM should give up on their operating system, and put all their chips on Android going forward. There are some compelling reasons given for such a drastic move, but doing this would almost certainly result in disaster.
First, if RIM decided to do this, it would put their own efforts on Blackberry [...]

While Google’s foray into direct sales of unlocked phones to the public was a dismal failure (despite the overall runaway success of Android across all carriers), Google just announced that developers purchased the last of their stock of Nexus One phones. As Google developer advocate Tim Bray wrote
A couple of weeks ago, we arranged that [...]

Google Street View in Germany now shows blurred out houses and buildings, like they already do with faces and license plates. The tool that lets a user remove their property from the Street View can be found here, but you better get there fast since it’s available for a limited time only.
Basically you fill [...]

Google never did give us the fabled GDrive for which we’d all been hoping. Sure, they allowed Google Docs to store files of any type which was much appreciated, but it certainly wasn’t Skydrive material. Then, 2 months ago, a company named Memeo came along and released the beta of their Memeo Connect software which, [...]

BlackBerry. One big anachronism. Except, apparently, for me. Sigh.