Jul 21 2010
After installing Google Toolbar on my Firefox (version 3.6), the Firefox search tab mysteriously disappeared. I was amazed (cannot find a better word) that the search tab cannot be found in the Firefox “Customize Toolbar”. Now the only search tab I can use is the Google Toolbar tab.
Well, admittedly Google Toolbar has a nice functions, [...]
Jul 18 2009
On a post entitled “App stores are not the future, says Google“, Chris Nuttall reported
App stores do not represent the future of the mobile industry according to Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra, who maintains consumers will instead turn to web browsers to fill their information and entertainment needs. Speaking Thursday [...]
Mar 19 2008
Jan. 8th, 2008 marked the official 10 year anniversary of Google’s famous PageRank algorithm. The idea was conceived earlier, but Larry Page filed the PageRank algorithm patent (U.S. Patent 6,285,999 ) on Jan. 8th 1998. PageRank together with the business acumen of the Google folks powered Google to the throne of Internet. Is this worth celebrating? [...]
Nov 14 2007
Google announced the availability of Android platform SDK this week. However devices running Android will only come after mid of 2008. Like the saying in an old joke, reading the software manual without the hardware is like reading a porn book without the software. It’s hard to hold the urge.
Meanwhile, Google also set up $10 million in prizes for developers [...]
Nov 05 2007
Alas, it turns out eventually that the much anticipated GPhone is a software platform, closely toeing the line of Google’s business model. As we’re recovering the torturing suspense, let’s see who are friends and who are foes of “GPhone”.
Google’s announcement this afternoon came together with the Open Handset Alliance. Sifting through the member list (http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html), [...]