A recent article on Wired.com discusses the rumored and whispered details surrounding an upcoming Google music service. This sound very much like the rumor surrounding Apple’s acquisition of Lala.com last year which later ended up with Apple simply shuttering Lala services in May. If this is true, then Apple and Google once again go head [...]
Cloud Computing
The Amazing Growth of Google and the Container Data Center
I was recently reading the comments on a post from Gizmodo showing the incredible growth of Google since 1996, summed up by the following graph (which is just an excerpt of this infographic): Gizmodo via Computer School Not only is the growth amazing, so is their ability to keep up with that growth. Clearly, Google [...]
News
Gmail Priority Inbox is Finally Here: Amid Much Hype
I’ve been waiting for the Gmail priority inbox to finally show up in my “Google for Domains’ email account; Today I was happy to finally see the link to enable it. I get so much email from subscriptions, newsletters, alerts, twitter feeds…. (and the list goes on) that I’m often losing important email in the [...]
Social Media
Google Kills Wave
What a shame, I just heard today that Google is dropping its new Social Networking platform “Google Wave” (Think Social Media meets, IM, Email and Blogging), citing slow adoption rates. Although Google will discontinue development of Google Wave, they will continue to support it through the rest of this year, thereby effectively killing any hope [...]
iPad
David to Apple’s Goliath or Germans Release the WePad!
Now this looks interesting… a number of news sites and blogs have recently been posting about German company Neophonie which has launched what appears to be a viable challenge to the iPad; Otherwise known know as the “WePad.” The WePad is an Android based tablet that looks remarkably similar to the iPad but has a [...]