Sunday, February 14th, 2010
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These screenshots popped up today, looking something like the much discussed, much anticipated "Google Drive". In mid January, Google announced plans to start rolling out cloud storage. Seems you get a free gigabyte of file storage -- for any type of file and may ...
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
I just nominated Columbia, Missouri, for Google's fiber optic trial. Anyone with home internet access can ask Google to set it up where you live too. Google's hope is to "make Internet access better and faster for everyone."
Here's a few points I made for Columbia, MO:
Why should Google build a ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
It's about damn time I got invited to Google Voice.
I'm pretty sure that if you click the above widget, it will ring a phone of your choosing for you to then leave me a voice mail. (I could set it to ring my mobile, so you could talk to me ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Notice any difference between the two images above? That's right. Google Apps, at long last, is out of beta. This includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk.
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
I spotted the above pull quote while doing a search with Google News recently. I use google news on a daily basis and have never seen this before. You must click "show all 'xNumberoOf' news articles" link at the bottom of a story to possibly bring one of these up.
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Love how Gmail time stamps the above mail message "negative one minutes ago." Apparently this online email application can time travel. Who knew.
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Google Latitude, a web and mobile phone service that shows where your friends are on a map, has gone live. However, it seems to have a few kinks left in it as the above iPhone screen grab shows. Right now it doesn't seem to work at all on my iPhone. ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
This is bizarre. I've been hitting the refresh quite frequently on Google Finance lately and the above screengrab popped up. I can't get it to go away in Firefox. No issues in Opera or Safari. Guess I'll have to try clearing my cache.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Chromium
Slashdot has word of Chromium, a port of the Google Chrome browser for Linux and Mac from Codeweavers.
I'm using it on my Mac as I type this post. Chromium let me insert images via the "Add media" feature in WordPress, which is more than what Firefox and Safari let me ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
So Google Lively -- a virtual, web-based environment, similar to Second Life -- nearly passed me by. I heard of it this morning from a colleague and surprisingly not from my Google Reader in which I subscribe to many feeds that cover tech news.
Looks like it was launched July 8, ...
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