Archive for May, 2010
Google Wave opened to public
Google has now made their Google Wave product available to everyone, finishing its closed BETA preview. Google Wave (wave.google.com) is an online space where organisations and individuals can collaborate, share ideas, documents and projects in a live cloud environment.
Read More | ShareGoogle App Engine for Business released
So Google has unveiled their App Engine for Business – the same scalable cloud infrastructure their own business runs on This product has been around for consumers but now Google is looking to the enterprise market. Google will be partnering with VMware for this and will allow companies to build, host and develop applications in […]
Read More | ShareStumbleUpon signs up 10 Million users
Yesterday StumbleUpon signed up its 10 Millionth user to their site. StumbleUpon was purchased by eBay in 2007, but then was purchased by independent investors a little while later. In April 2008 they had reached 5 million users, now a little over a year later have hit 10 million. StumbleUpon key facts: – 118% growth […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare releases their own App Store
Foursquare has released their own App store that allows users to interact with the Foursquare API and add photos and videos etc to your Foursquare check-ins. To check out the app store goto: http://foursquare.com/apps/ There are 18 Apps available so far including Hootsuite & Squarepik. Other apps include: Soovox Dev Miso for iPhone Love A […]
Read More | ShareGoogle I/O conference Day 1 San Francisco
Recap from Google I/O conference Day 1 – San Francisco What does I/O mean? mainly known for the input/output function, but Google is redefining it as innovation/openness. HTML5 is seen as the future of web development and applications, even mobile applications – allowing speed and less bandwidth consumption. Google co-founder and CEO Sergey Brin admits […]
Read More | ShareGoogle TV gearing up with Intel and Sony
There has been much talk about Google TV for some time now, but what does it exactly mean? Google has partnered with Intel and Sony to provide an internet based Television service to consumers. Intel will provide the software via a consumer electronics (CE) operating system based on MeeGo Linux. Sony will provide the hardware […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft launches social media aggregator Spindex
Microsoft has launched a social media aggregator – www.spindex.me Spindex aggregates regular social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. In addition to that it looks at RSS feeds, bookmarking services, and Microsoft’s Bing. Currently the system is in a closed private-beta mode – but users can sign in with their Windows Live ID. The tool […]
Read More | ShareGoogle claims that Microsoft Office 2010 lacks Cloud Collaboration
Microsoft has responded to the comments by Google that Microsoft Office 2010 lacks the online calibration needed, something Google claims Google Apps and Google Docs does well. Tracy Overby, senior marketing manager – Microsoft Office Products responded with: ‘Microsoft delivers the best productivity experience and we have the results to prove it. After more than […]
Read More | ShareBlackBerry Australia Blockparty
BlackBerry Australia is hosting a big party in the launch of their new BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphone on the 17th of June. My first smartphone was actually a BlackBerry pearl and at the time seemed to be way ahead of the competition (well there wasn’t any competition really to BlackBerry a couple years ago). I’d […]
Read More | ShareGoogle to fight FTC if AdMob deal blocked
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said his company is prepared to fight the U.S. government if the FTC blocks their acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob. A decision is expected in a few weeks from the FTC. Google purchase Admob in November 2009 for US$750 million. Apple was also throwing up and offer but Google […]
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