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Is Email Really Dying?
There have been several articles over the past few years predicting the demise of email in general. I will admit that I have not been a subscriber to that theory as I use email all day long for work purposes, and have a good amount of email flow through my personal account as well. However,... »
Google Buzz…kill
Google released, rather unexpectedly, a new service a few days ago called Google Buzz. The first claims were that it was Google’s attempt to combine Twitter and some features of Facebook into their Gmail client. In addition, you can link your Twitter account to your Google account so that all of that data is... »
YouTube Movie Rentals
I could be wrong, but I think it’s only a matter of time until the sale of movies becomes the exception rather than the rule. Personally, I only know a handful of people who even consider actually buying a DVD anymore, and don’t know anyone that buys full length digital movies. As I’ve talked about... »
Google Latitude – Review
Google Latitude has been out for a while now. When it was initally released, I installed it on my work Blackberry, went through the menus and that was about it. I didn’t want to do any friend requests at the time for two main reasons: Privacy, and lack of interest from friends/family. Since I’ve been... »
Verizon + Android! So what?
Verizon and Google announced today a strong partnership going forward. Should we care? Android phones have been preannounced over and over again in the past few months, but I’m not sure that really matters right now. All the tech blogs get excited about the hardware specs and how glossy the interface is, but what... »
Microsoft + Yahoo! – Does it Matter?
Roughly a year ago, there was a lot of talk about Microsoft buying Yahoo! outright. It seemed very juvenile in the public eye watching them go back and forth. Microsoft offered some money, Yahoo! said “No, we want more”. Microsoft said we’re walking, Yahoo! said fine. A bit of time went by, Microsoft made... »
Google Chrome OS initial thoughts
Going through my daily RSS feeds and what do I find? Google has officially announced their own Operating System. Google Chrome OS. After reading through the announcement, several things pop out at me. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to... »