Tag Archives: google

Official Google Blog – A fall spring-clean

One of the high­lights of the Larry Page Google is a much more focused Google, both in prod­ucts and direction.

The Atlantic – Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F

It always aston­ishes how many peo­ple who use the com­puter every day for a large part of their daily lives know almost zero shortcuts.

Groklaw – Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys

What’s inter­est­ing about this story is the sus­pi­cion that Google and Apple had not pre­vi­ously filed re-examination requests because their agree­ments with Lodsys pre­vented such an action, appar­ently not so at least for Google.

Freedom to Tinker – Google+Motorola = Software Patent Indictment

That point is the rea­son patents are a blight on the soft­ware indus­try, you can’t just stop being a part of the sys­tem. Patents are a field of hid­den land­mines for any person/company that does soft­ware of any sort.

Official Gmail Blog – Our plans to support modern browsers across Google Apps

Wouldn’t that be amaz­ing if this is start of all web applications/sites being able to only sup­port this same list of browsers.

The Official Google Code Blog – Making money with Google In-App Payments for the Web

Apple’s cut is so out of por­tion to every­thing else com­pa­ra­ble is the real problem.

NYTimes.com – Google’s Digital Music Service Falls Short of Ambition

This doesn’t bode well for what we all really want, stream our already owned music col­lec­tion with­out hav­ing to upload it, won­der if Apple will have any bet­ter luck with the record labels.