Successful Google Hack-a-thon
For years now Chrome has been staring down it’s nose at the other browsers when it comes to security. In fact for the last 4 years, Chrome has been entered into HP’s Pwn2Own security competition, and...
View ArticleGoogle IO is a sellout
I know we’ve been anti-Google the last few weeks, but Google’s upcoming IO conference really did sell-out, in 20 mins no less! With only 5,500 seats the 20 minute sell-out wasn’t too shocking, but the...
View ArticleWeek One with Google Drive
Well Google Drive has been making a lot of headlines about ownership of files, depth of file privacy, virus scanning, archive support, etc.. etc.. One item I have not seen anyone mention is the...
View ArticleSearch Engine Experiment in Spam Surfing
If you took a very heavily spam-influenced search engine like Bing for example and removed the first 1 million results for a query, how good would the result be? How about doing the same thing to the...
View ArticleFirst Self Driving Car is Licensed
It’s official, if you see a car drive by with nobody inside, the license plate has a red infinity logo, and you’re in Vegas, that really happened, you’re not just in bat country. Google can now...
View ArticleNo Browser Bans on Windows 8 ARM Edition
We could have ‘spun’ the information that it’s very unlikely we’ll see competing browsers in ARM edition of Windows 8, explaining that the difficulties make it the same as a ‘ban’… …But we respect the...
View ArticleSalespeople are evil, even at Google
If you use a Google product or service to call someone instead of sending them some GMail, that conversation isn’t relevant to Google, at least not yet. I can just picture the sales team at Google are...
View ArticleYahoo Axis – What the Flock?
I had a friend working on the Flock browser team right until it lost momentum and became clear that it was too much, too soon… Here we go again with a new ‘all-in-one’ web browser concept, this time...
View ArticleFacebook going to the Opera?
With all that IPO cash in hand Facebook could really have a night on the town, perhaps even watch the fat lady sing? Given the bad press over their profit reports and legal actions from investors, I’d...
View ArticleIt’s all coming up Google?
When it’s my turn to tackle the SEO news for our blog I first look specifically at ‘technology’ news headlines for relevance, and then I usually filter it out a bit to nail a topic that our readers can...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface – Not a table, a tablet
All these years of spies telling us about the ‘table’ that the nerds in Redmond are calling the ‘Microsoft Surface‘, and the whole time we didn’t know they were silenced before they could finish saying...
View ArticleChrome on iOS: Your move Apple
We know that Apple has been making a break from Google, I even blogged about it last week in my ‘Apple: On the Charge!‘ post discussing the switch away from Google Maps and Google Search. Now, almost...
View ArticleChromecraft? Build With Chrome!
I’ve always said that Minecraft is like digital LEGO® that you can save and share with friends. Sure Minecraft is increasingly fun to play and actually ‘collect’ the bricks, but at it’s core it’s a lot...
View ArticleSOPA Friends: Internet League of America
The recording industry, agents, and vendors of music aren’t the only ones spending way too much of their profits on lobbying the government. Major internet companies that see the harm of bills like...
View ArticleThe most valuable company ever? It’s Microsoft, not Apple.
Crushing your head.. The slew of now redacted articles claiming that Apple managed to take the title of ‘most valuable company in history’ is further proof that the internet is packed with people who...
View ArticleLitigation vs. Innovation – The Apple Way
I’m really ashamed of my days of being an Apple loyalist, encouraging people to consider Apple solutions, and fighting for the ‘little guy’ computer company. That ‘little guy‘ I once championed, has...
View ArticleBing Maps : 500 Terabytes Better
There’s fat ladies crooning in the shower, swine are airborne, and I found something in Bing that’s better than the same option in Google!? Don’t send NASA to check for alien life/body-snatchers, it’s...
View ArticleWindows 8 / IE10 and Flash Certification
Windows 8 Windows 8 is a tablet OS, and like any modern OS focused on tablets/touch/mobility options, there’s compatibility concerns with content not specifically written for a tablet/mobile device....
View ArticleSOON: Surface Tablet from Microsoft
October 26th 2012 will be remembered as the final day before all the snapping sounds started, the eve of the angry school girls holding images of devices they’ve never seen in real life. Don’t get me...
View ArticleWintergrate: Windows 8 Integrated
It’s fall and soon it will be winter, with Old St. Ballmer putting an integrated Windows 8, with integrated Internet Explorer, under the tree for Christmas this year, learning a new UI is all we have...
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