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Google Docs Service Takes a Brief Nap

Rich has a blog post touching on the Google Docs outage and he asks if the advantages of such cloud computing apps outweigh the potential disadvantages: ...the cost savings of using such services is compelling but when you have a noon...

Posted on July 9, 2008 8:13 AM

Brave New Google Earth

Peter Birch, Product Manager, Google Earth, writes about the launch of the latest version of Google Earth — version 4.3 — on the Official Google blog today.   The latest beta (of course) sets the goal of offering a “realistic,...

Posted on April 16, 2008 3:36 PM

D2 Cues Up For Google Android

At CTIA this week, D2 Technologies announced that its mCUE converged communications client for mobile devices and handsets now supports Google’s Android.   The combination is designed to enable OEMs to rapidly develop handsets powered by Android that offer a...

Posted on April 4, 2008 5:13 PM

Google Reassures On Information Security

What’s tomorrow’s headline going to be?   Google had a post on their Official Google Blog today by Douglas Merrill, VP of Engineering. The post is titled How Google keeps your information secure, and is all about the effort Google...

Posted on March 10, 2008 6:20 PM

Digg on the Block? Again?

As far as rumors go, this one has been heard before, but that’s not to say that one of these times, it won’t actually come to fruition.   Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington writes that Digg is on the block again...

Posted on March 7, 2008 7:54 AM

Analysts Excited By "Google Health"

For those who read this blog regularly, you’ve no doubt noticed I’ve been focusing in a bit more on Google and what they’re doing in the realm of healthcare recently, with their work with the Cleveland Clinic and their entry...

Posted on March 6, 2008 7:46 AM

Google Gets Into Healthcare

I was down in Orlando this week for the annual HIMMS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference and exhibition, a show dedicated to transforming healthcare through IT.   This is a new space for me, so I attended with...

Posted on February 29, 2008 8:10 AM

Google Targets Microsoft Collaboration Suite

Google is taking aim at Microsoft’s SharePoint.   Google announced Wednesday it will begin offering an easy to use Web site creation and publishing tool for office workers to set up and run collaboration sites, for quickly sharing information among...

Posted on February 28, 2008 11:38 AM

Android Prototypes Abound in Barcelona

  Those folks at Gizmodo have all the fun.   Right now they’re in Barcelona going ga-ga over the working demos of a variety of Android prototypes.   They had this to say about ARM’s offering:   ARM had theirs...

Posted on February 11, 2008 11:02 AM

Android Developer Deadline Extended

 Writing on the Android Developers Blog, Developer Advocate Quang Nguyen announced the extension of the submission deadline for the first Android Developers Challenge to April 14 2008.   The folks at Android have apparently taken feedback to heart and have...

Posted on January 29, 2008 9:17 AM

Android: Here Come The Hackers

Nilay Patel, writing for engadget, has an interesting piece, saying that by making available the entire software development kit for its Android mobile phone software platform, Google has opened up the platform for hacking and (as Patel writes) “…hopefully that...

Posted on January 10, 2008 7:50 AM

Will February See Launch of Google Phone v1?

Rumors are swirling that phones based on Google’s Android platform might see the light of day as soon as February 2008.   And no, it’s not because my birthday falls in that month. You see there’s this little trade show...

Posted on December 27, 2007 10:05 AM

Patience Google Developers... Patience

What’s that? Could it be a chink in the armor of the all-powerful Google? More likely it’s just a sign that they need to spend a few more hours fully cooking their Android mobile phone development platform.   What am...

Posted on December 20, 2007 8:07 AM

Rumours of Google and Skype... Oh My!

There’s goes Rich again, spreading rumours.   It’s rumours with a “u” because this particular speculation got its start in the UK, where Jemima Kiss — writing on The Guardian’s pda:thedigitalcontentblog — hypothesized about a Skype/Google marriage.   ...

Posted on November 21, 2007 7:45 AM

Open Handset Alliance Member List

The Open Handset Alliance is a group of mobile and technology leaders who share a common vision for changing the mobile experience for consumers. The Alliance is made up of mobile operators, software companies, chip makers, handset manufacturers and commercialization...

Posted on November 5, 2007 12:54 PM

Rich on Possible Google Verizon Partnership

Rich offers his take on the possibility of Google and Verizon partnering on some sort of Google powered phone to “take on” AT&T and Apple.   The battle for the hearts and minds of consumers continues....

Posted on October 31, 2007 8:25 AM

Rich on Possibility of Google Phone

Rich has some insight into the possible announcement of the overly pre-hyped, not yet delivered Google Phone. Apparently the Wall Street Journal is saying that Google will partner with T-Mobile as a network partner.   Check out Rich’s blog for...

Posted on October 30, 2007 9:28 AM

GrandCentral to Google

Late yesterday, Google snapped up GrandCentral Communications, a start-up that lets users use a single phone number that forwards to all of their phones, essentially giving them one number for life.   The service lets users manage their existing phones...

Posted on July 3, 2007 7:05 AM