One of Google’s rules for employees is that they are allowed (or even supposed??) to spend 20% of their working time on hobby projects. The fruit of these projects is Lively. Lively is a virtual world, where you can walk around with your avatar. Where have we heard this before? Yes: Second Life. And what [...]
According to this article from the Iquirer, Palm OS software is being indexed as “harmful for your computer” by Google. So what happened? When Access Software bought PalmSource, the developing company for Palm OS software, Palmsource had a site online providing apps for the operating system. The site is http://applications.palmsource.com.
Access stopped using the domain, but [...]
Google, provider of the fastest growing mail on the planet, never sleeps. Recently Google has been concentrating on security related features, and the latest is no exception. Google now allows you to monitor what Gmail sessions you have running, even if by remote programs that you allowed. You are back in control.
Your email account can [...]
A few technology related things that just happened are very important and require your attention. First of all, 1.5 million australian students have replaced their Outlook/Exchange with Gmail.
Techcrunch says:
The cost savings are substantial. The Outlook/Exchange platform involved a AU$33 million contract and took four years to go live, although it’s unclear why it took so [...]
After all this time, I did not believe a deal with Google would come through, but I am relieved about it. Why? I am not a Yahoo fan. But a big portion of the US has used Yahoo for a lot of services and still does so.
Microsoft is not the best candidate for a takeover [...]
Yesterday’s keynote by Steve Jobs was very exciting. Somehow Apple always manages to bring the new you think they will, but features are always better than expected, and this time was no exception.
I don’t think we should see the release of the iPhone 3G as simply a successor for the original iPhone. If you have [...]
I just finished reading Michael Arrington’s post on the extras that Google is rolling out to it’s customers. I hurried over to my account and found all the goods sitting there waiting for my activation.
Without going into specifics, because Michael has explained it all, I just clicked on the “Take a break” link that sits [...]
Zoho is working hard and implementing different features all the time. After having implemented Google Account login to Zoho’s applications, this time Zoho implements importing of Google docs into Zoho Writer.
The import is done by exporting your docs from Google Docs in zipped HTML format to your computer. From the Zoho Writer interface you can [...]
Where Yahoo (the company) doesn’t want to have anything to do with Microsoft (who blames ‘em), the shareholders come in. Why? For the money obviously. I kinda suspected this was going to happen.
Probably even the rumors about Steve Ballmer leaving are not true, damn. So now it is a matter of time before Yahoo mail [...]