Just a quick note regarding the Financial Times’ report Monday1 about Google phasing out internal Windows client operating system usage, and Microsoft’s subsequent response2. Microsoft has retorted that Windows is indeed secure, and that the facts don’t support the assertion. Microsoft makes its defense by attacking its competitors, and highlighting a few things that Windows [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
March 21, 2010
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Linux Alternatives to the iPad
By Wes Kroesbergen in Featured Articles, General, TechnologyI was recently reading an article from LXer, entitled ‘Linux alternatives for the iPad – and the future of netbooks, tablets and smartbooks’. The author hypes up Linux on tablet devices, concluding that 2010 is the year of Linux on the tablet, most of which will be Android flavored. He attempts to put down the [...]
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPad, linux, Microsoft, OS, tablet
January 26, 2010
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Google Wave Robots
By Wes Kroesbergen in General, TechnologyRecently I wrote a post summarizing my perspective on Google Wave. Shortly thereafter, I was contacted by a reader and asked why I had not mentioned Wave Robots. I errored in not including them previously, and this post contains my perspective. One of the reasons I had not included robots previously is because I did [...]
Tags: Google, Google Wave, robots, Wave
November 22, 2009
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Google Wave
By Wes Kroesbergen in Featured Articles, TechnologyThere’s been a lot of hype lately about Google Wave. If you’ve heard anything from Google, you’ve heard that it’s supposed to replace E-mail as the next form of communication. A number of prominent bloggers however, including Robert Scoble, have done their reviews, and felt that it is overhyped. This post will not be another [...]
Tags: Communications, Google, Google Wave, Wave
October 1, 2009
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Chrome Frame
By Wes Kroesbergen in Featured Articles, TechnologyUpdate: One of the arguments surfacing from people, notably Mitchell Baker (the former CEO of the Mozilla Foundation), is that Chrome Frame segregates the browser from the engine. They claim that this will result in the rendering engine storing information in one location, while the browser stores it in another. I’ve been using Chrome Frame [...]
Tags: browser, Chrome, Chrome Frame, Google
August 5, 2009
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Thoughts on Google’s ON2 Acquisition
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologyIt was announced today that Google has purchased ON2, a video compression codec creator. Pundits around the web are wondering why Google would do this, and why the chose to buy for $100 million, rather than license. (ON2 was formerly valued north of $1 billion.) I saw one article wondering if it’s to speed up [...]
July 9, 2009
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Technology News
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologyAs you’re aware, the latest buzz this week has been about Google announcing a ‘web OS’. In short, the Google Chrome OS is the User Interface for a stripped down, speedy Linux Kernel. What I found interesting however, was the lack of publicity that Microsoft’s ‘announcement’ the day before gained. The day before Google announced [...]
Tags: Chrome, Chrome OS, Gazelle, Google, HTML5, Microsoft, OS, web