"If you are a Gmail user/Google user, you will end up as an Android user" (don't remember where I read that)
Here is some notes from a reading in WSJ and the Consumer Forrester blog.
Few take away (speculations, nothing is confirmed by Google)...
- The phone will be directly sold to consumer...
In my move to Google services (more generally going "all cloud"), I started to use Gmail (love it though there are rooms for improvement regarding the UI) but I also wanted to start using Google Calendar.
Before: One agenda that contains both work and personnal information hosted in Outlook at wo...
Yesterday Google announced that they have mailed out window stickers with two-dimensional QR Codes to the most-searched for or clicked-on businesses in its local business directory. The goal is to have them displaying in there windows so that by scanning them you will get all sorts of information ab...
Last week I decided to leave aside my doubts about Google and went "all Google". I am already an user of many Google services (like Adsense, Analytics, Google Docs,...) but I am in the process of integrating Gmail and Google Calendar in my workflow. Big move to host those datas in the Google Cloud b...
It was quite a revolution when RSS became popular (created in 1999, it became wide used around 2005/2006) and integrated in almost all tools. To the point that some people were even challenging that it would use too much bandwidth... Why is that ? While RSS is a neat system to find out when somethin...
Cnet: Google killing Jaiku, Dodgeball, Notebook, other projects
So ?
Google is also affected by the economic situation. Even "monster" like Google has to refocus when economic downturn... (note that they also laid off 100 recruiters)
If you were using one of those services you better prep...
ReadWriteWeb: Google Apps Unseats Incumbent Microsoft Office in Washington, DC (via mfavez on twitter)
[...] Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, has decided to switch the District's 38,000 employees from the installed Microsoft Office suite to the Web-based Google...
Remember the mobile guide for Paleo festival ? I found out that the same app exists for few other festivals in Switzerland. Neat. I found this out through my beloved carrier portal. Talking about it... a Google search field has appeared on top of the the main page... looks like they are "opening" th...
Remember how Google built up its cell ID->lat-long databases? They used the existing infrastructure and their software already spread on user devices to build it and now they can provide location features on devices that do not have a GPS receiver. Earlier this week a blog post on official Google...
Google released a small add-on for N-Series or E-Series that lets you launch a search on your mobile with a single click. You do not really see the search functionality, it is there, you make it visible just be one click, enter your search terms and fire up your search. Awesome.
Downloadable on mob...
