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Tag Archives: Google
Google Chrome for Android: No Flash
One notable thing about the new beta release of Chrome for Android: There’s no Flash installed. And what’s more, because of Adobe’s decision not to develop Flash for mobile further, there isn’t going to be any. So much for those … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Chromebook, Google
Tagged Android, Chrome, Google, Google Chrome, Safari
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Page Rage: Why Twitter Doesn’t Work Better on Android
Page Rage: Why Twitter Doesn’t Work Better on Android: A well-placed source tells us that Google’s Android team was supposed to meet with Twitter at CES about how to make Twitter work better on Android. Then, the Search Plus Your … Continue reading
My, how Google’s attitude has changed
Google, five months ago: “A smartphone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and our competitors want to impose a “tax” for these dubious patents that makes Android devices more expensive for consumers. They want to make it harder … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apple, Google
Tagged Android, Apple, Google, intellectual property, law, Patent
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Why the “customer” for Android is advertisers (and why it doesn’t matter)
Gruber: It is that the consumer is Google’s product. Android is a delivery system to serve the consumer to Google’s target market — the advertisers. So Google’s customer for Android is not the consumer (with the arguable exception of the … Continue reading
A 7in tablet is not just a smaller 10.1in tablet
I’ve recently been using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, one of the newest generation of Android tablets running Honeycomb (an Ice Cream Sandwich update is in the pipeline. Even though it’s not significantly cheaper than the 10.1in Tab, I got … Continue reading
The Chromebook challenge – Update
I’ve been promising that I’d give an update on the Chromebook challenge that I undertook a while ago, but one thing and another have meant that I haven’t really had enough time to do it. But, finally, here it is.
Posted in Chromebook, Google, Web/Tech
Tagged Chrome OS, Chromebook, Chromebook Challenge, Cloud, cloud computing, Google
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The real problem with Google TV
It looks like Logitech is out of the Google TV market: The mistake, plus “operational miscues in EMEA” cost the company “well over $100M in operating profits.” De Luca did throw Google a bone by saying that he believes Google … Continue reading
Heaven help me, I’m taking the Chromebook challenge
A while ago, I wrote a column for Tap on the differences between Apple and Google’s vision of “the cloud”, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) came down hard on the side of Apple’s. iCloud, as I saw it, was very much the … Continue reading
Roboto and the open source red herring
I largely agree with John Gruber and many others than Roboto is a bit of an ungainly beast of a font, although it’s much better than the hideous thing it replaces. But I think that John is missing the mark … Continue reading
The unbearable impoliteness of being, online
Why do people feel the need to be abusive online? Why do they believe that behaviour which they would never consider to be acceptable face-to-face is perfectly fine when using the Internet? A case in point: these two tweets directed … Continue reading
