Tag Archives: Google

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

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“Why have a Chromebook if Android runs Chrome?”

Jason Perlow asks a pertinent question: It’s important to note that if we had the Chrome browser on an Android tablet, why would we want a Chromebook? For the price of a Chromebook you could pick up an Android tablet … Continue reading

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Why can’t anyone match the iPad?

To put it simply no one can match the iPad because no one can match Apple’s prices with a tablet that matches its features: When better equipped (though bulkier) netbooks can be had for $250, tablet-makers need to set their … Continue reading

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Google Data Explorer: Why doesn’t Google make more of this stuff?

One of the things which you notice watching Google is that they make a lot of stuff. A huge amount of stuff, in fact. And a lot of the time, they don’t really shout about it much. Take this: Isn’t that … Continue reading

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Unhappy with social network real name policies? Do it yourself

Hugh MacLeod: And as I’ve said many times over the years, Web 2.0 IS ALL ABOUT personal sovereignty. About using media to do something meaningful, WITHOUT someone else giving you permission first, without having to rely on anyone else’s resources, … Continue reading

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Just how good a defence are those Motorola patents, again?

Susan Decker for Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software maker, began arguing its U.S. trade case that Android- based smartphones made by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. use technology derived from Microsoft inventions. In a trial that began today … Continue reading

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On Google’s “openness”

If you want to start a flame war, post something about whether Google is truly “open” or not. Nothing in the world of technology – not even comments on the state of Steve Jobs’ health – is more likely to … Continue reading

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Why Microsoft bought Skype

Cringely thinks it’s simply to stop Google getting it: “Were Google to buy Skype they’d convert those 663 million Skype subscriptions to Google Voice and Gmail and in a swoop make parts of Yahoo and MSN irrelevant. They’d build a … Continue reading

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Google Music: Not that great

Venturebeat gives Google’s music beta a first look: “Music Beta in its current form is far from what we’d expect from a Google product— it’s a web of confusing programs without a lot of instruction as to how to actually get … Continue reading

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Sometimes John Gruber just hits the spot perfectly

John Gruber arguing against the silliness that is Henry “Fraud, you say?” Blodget’s latest nonsense: “Keep in mind that Apple’s penalty for losing the PC war in the 1990s is that it is now the most profitable PC maker in … Continue reading

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