Google’s Hiring
To chase and catch the elusive goddess, Innovation, and fend off clever rivals, Google means to hire 6,200 people this year, which would represent roughly another 25% increase in its workforce after...
View ArticleUK Police Arrest Five Anonymous Hacktivists
In a coordinated 7am raid Thursday morning British bobbies swooped down on houses in London and towns around the country and arrested five men and boys suspected of being part of Anonymous, the loose...
View ArticleNo Internet Kill Switch Perhaps, But Internet Buzzkill To Be Sure
There's a marvelous scene in the 1969 movie, Midnight Cowboy, in which the Dustin Hoffman character, “Ratso” Rizzo, starving, starts filling his pockets with food from a lavish buffet at a party that...
View ArticleThe Tau Index & Revolution: Who's Next? (Update)
In Cairo, fear and trepidation of Facebook and Twitter ran high enough to prompt the government to flip a Liebermanesque Internet kill switch. But perhaps it's not these two sites in particular as much...
View Article‘Anonymous’ Hacks Investigative Agency
‘Anonymous’ outdid itself once again and hacked the very agency that is investigating it. Security firm HBGary Federal had its Twitter, LinkedIn and email accounts of COO Ted Vera hacked. ‘Anonymous’...
View ArticleTape Salvages Gmail Disaster
Late Monday Google said that the bug that ate multiple copies of people’s Gmail Sunday in multiple Google data centers – erasing years of e-mails, attachments, folders, chat logs, all-important contact...
View ArticleSchmidt Could Get Commerce Job: Bloomberg
Google’s outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt, who’s supposed to step down next month in favor of Google founder Larry Page, may get to scratch his well-known political itch. Bloomberg says the Obama White House...
View ArticleGoogle Trashes Gears
Google is dumping Gears, the widgetry used to let Google Apps work offline. The functionality has been moved to HTML 5. The company said in a blog that there will be no new Gears releases, newer...
View Article"Small Bites All Day Long – Whatever Tastes Good."
Occasionally in the life of every commentator, even those of us who look at the future of the future day and night, you experience what amounts - yes, there is no other word for it - to an...
View ArticleGoogle’s Product Chief Leaving
Google is losing its product development chief Jonathan Rosenberg, who reportedly felt he couldn’t give the company’s brand new retread CEO Larry Page the open-ended commitment to stay on the job that...
View ArticleIt's Official - Google Is Now Part of the Travel Ecosystem
Google acquiring ITA is an exciting development in the travel technology space. It opens up the ecosystem which is currently dominated by the GDS players. How exactly it will benefit the travelling...
View ArticleGoogle Rallies WebM Alliance to Fight Patent Threats
Google has formed a new group called WebM Community Cross License initiative in order to protect its WebM video codec from patent attacks. Under this collaboration, group members will license...
View ArticleFTC Gearing Up for Google Antitrust Probe: Bloomberg
The Federal Trade Commission is going ahead with an antitrust investigation of Google, according to Bloomberg. The wire service reports talking to three people “familiar with the matter” who said that...
View ArticleGoogle’s Ice Cream Sandwich
In Q4 Google is promising to have in hand a unified platform combining the Gingerbread version of Android meant for phones and the Honeycomb version meant for tablets that all widgets can use...
View ArticleDOJ Clears Google Buying Nortel Patents
The sealed first-round bids for the Nortel patent trove had to be in by 4 p.m. Eastern Time Monday, the same day that Microsoft, HP, Motorola Mobility, Nokia, AT&T and Verizon Communications...
View ArticleSchmidt to Testify
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has been delegated to go and testify before the US Senate’s antitrust subcommittee in September. Google has been reluctant to send any of its managers but then...
View ArticleAcquia Gets $15 Million D Round
Acquia, the popularizer of Drupal, the open source content management system, has gotten a $15 million D round, its largest yet, bringing total outside investment to $38.5 million. It’s supposed to use...
View ArticleGoogle Shuts Labs
Google said on a blog Wednesday that it’s putting “more wood behind fewer arrows” and winding down Google Labs, which gave birth to Google Alerts, Google Maps and Google SMS. The move will deprive...
View ArticleReplacing Excel with a Web-Based Project Time Solution
Herrmann is an innovative company that offers intelligent, economic and future-oriented solutions. The pillars on which the company was founded 30 years ago and still cherish are intensive...
View ArticleOpen Cloud Initiative Revived
After a couple of false starts over the last couple of years, the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) has been resurrected to advocate for royalty-free open standards in cloud computing with a set of Open...
View ArticleGoogle Gets Patent on Electronic Shipping Notifications
Google last week got a patent on estimated shipping time that it applied for on January 25, 2007. It’s titled “Electronic shipping notifications” and the abstract of US No 7,996,328 reads: “A broker...
View ArticleSCO Loses Expected Final Appeal
SCO has lost its second and what is expected to be its final appeal to the 10th Circuit in Denver or anywhere else. Novell owns the Unix copyrights just like a Salt Lake City jury decided last year...
View Article10gen Releases MongoDB Monitoring System
10gen, the company behind the open source MongoDB, has put out the first free NoSQL monitoring and alerting solution, which facilitates proactive alerts and support, often before a trouble ticket is...
View ArticleCFEngine Moves Sales from Norway to US
CFEngine AS, the Norwegian outfit with the popular eponymous open source configuration and compliance management widgetry for automating distributed infrastructure, has moved its sales operation to the...
View ArticleVendors Survival: Will Google Survive until 2021? - Part 2
Searching the Web Search Engine is Google's most strategic product. Some of its other products are using it as component of the services they provide. Limitation or failure of it, as described in Why...
View ArticleNetApp Teams with Cloudera on Turnkey Storage Device
NetApp will be coming out with a preconfigured, ready-to-deploy cluster solution called NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop based on Cloudera’s open source distribution of Hadoop. It’s supposed to offer...
View ArticleCloudera Receives $40 Million in D-Round Funding
Apache Hadoop start-up Cloudera, which just signed an alliance with NetApp like rival MapR’s got with storage big shot EMC, turned up Tuesday at Hadoop World in New York with $40 million stuffed in its...
View ArticleWordPerfect Jury Deadlocks
The jury that sat through eight weeks of complicated testimony and 600 exhibits over whether or not Microsoft broke the antitrust laws and tied a can to WordPerfect’s tail to maintain its monopoly...
View ArticleWordPerfect Jury Deadlocks
The jury that sat through eight weeks of complicated testimony and 600 exhibits over whether or not Microsoft broke the antitrust laws and tied a can to WordPerfect’s tail to maintain its monopoly...
View ArticleGoogle Drive: It’s Slick, Integrated… and Not Exactly Free
Google has opened Google Drive, a service to store files online and share them among various computing devices that turns out to be a lot more important than you might think. Read the full story at...
View ArticleDo Software Patents Stifle Innovation?
Of late patents around mobile technologies have been in the news. Four high profile news items are (1) Oracle suing Google for Java patent violation, (2) Apple and Samsung fighting each other in...
View ArticleGoogle to Get $22.5 Million Wrist Slap: WSJ
Google is reportedly close to paying a $22.5 million fine to settle charges that it secretly bypassed the privacy settings of millions of Apple users. According to the Wall Street Journal, “the charges...
View ArticleSearch In Cursive
Google just added a new feature to its mobile search page that lets you hand-write search queries in cursive and block letters. Once you have enabled this new feature, you can simply start writing on...
View ArticleGoogle Wallet Moves to the Cloud
Google Wallet has been hampered by a number of limitations since its launch, not the least of which is its limited device compatibility. Perhaps a bigger problem though, was its lack of support for...
View ArticleGoogle Killing Off More Products
When it rains, it pours for Google products. The company just announced – via a poston Google’s official blog – that it’s giving the axe to three more of its Web and mobile products. Additionally,...
View ArticleIntroducing Octopus Microstock
As the global microstock industry has been demonstrating a rapid growth, it has become a real challenge for a contributor to succeed and keep up with the market pace. A microstock contributor has to...
View ArticleAndroid Encrypted Databases
The Android development community, as might be expected, is a pretty vibrant community with a lot of great contributors helping people out. Since Android is largely based upon Java, there is a lot of...
View ArticleA Few Days with the Google ARM Chromebook
I recently (finally) received the Google Chromebook in the mail. After over 2 weeks of intense waiting, it is here, and has absolutely matched all of my expectations. The device is thin and light and...
View ArticleGoogle’s Chairman Lands in North Korea
Despite State Department sensitivities, Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Google Ideas director Jared Cohen, a former State Department policy wonk who now heads Google’s New York-based think...
View ArticleAndroid Chief Andy Rubin Steps Down
After taking giant bites out of Apple, Android chief Andy Rubin is apparently sated. He’s stepping away from his fiefdom, according to a blog post by Google CEO Larry Page, to look for something else...
View ArticleGoogle Sends Maps to Search Unit, Boss to Google X
No sooner had Google CEO Larry Page said that Android chief Andy Rubin would stop running the unit he created and that Android would be joined to the Chrome operation under Chrome boss Sundar Pichai...
View ArticleSolving the Cloud Talent Gap
A recent study by analyst firm IDC reports that in 2012, 1.7 million cloud computing-related roles across the globe could not be filled due to the lack of training, certification and experience in the...
View ArticleAre You Using an Older Version of Salesforce.com's Service?
The answer is – it isn't possible. "No one's ever on an old version of Salesforce.com because Salesforce.com is multitenant, that is everybody shares the same servers, so when those servers are...
View ArticleIBM Adopts Cloud Foundry
Although IBM has its own Platform-as-a-Service, Big Blue is going to integrate the Pivotal Initiative’s open source Cloud Foundry 2.0 PaaS into its Open Cloud architecture as a quick alternative for...
View ArticleGoogle+ Android App Got 5 New Features
Google has unveiled five new features for its Google+ Android app. First of all, switching between pages and accounts has become much easier. Now users can switch between their Google accounts using...
View ArticleCloud Foundry Summit at Cloud Expo Speaker Submissions Open
Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud computing Platform as a service (PaaS) software developed by VMware released under the terms of the Apache License 2.0. Cloud Foundry is part of the Pivotal...
View ArticleHow to Build a Google Glass Integration in Under Two Weeks
Interested in Google Glass development? Monica Wilkinson from Crushpath explains which services she used to build a Google Glass integration in under 2 weeks. At Crushpath our mission is to help...
View ArticleGoogle: Forming the Future
It is well-know that Google is a powerful company that deals not only with search. Today the company is a world leader in the development of gadgets, internet services and other development. Also...
View ArticleDOJ May Block Google’s ITA Acquisition
Bloomberg followed by the Wall Street Journal said Thursday that the Justice Department is working on an antitrust suit to stop Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, which provides online...
View ArticleAre Page Speed and YSlow Too Static?
Some of the best web performance tools are still largely being run as browser plug-ins. If those tools can make the leap to becoming real-time and can be made to consider user context, the industry...
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