Results tagged “google”

So, was it worth the wait?Google has given us the merest peak at what Chrome OS is going to offer the user and straight away that it's apparent that the talk of how Google would have the clout to take on...

The search engine market used to be cut-and-dried. If you wanted to find something out, you Googled and that was an end to it. There were other search engines of course, Microsoft’s, Yahoo’s, Ask Jeeves and a few more but...

Google hasn't gone anywhere much with its Chrome browser, so why does it fancy a crack at taking on Windows in 2010? Have they gone mad and are their pockets deep enough? The obvious answer is that it is doing...

Google's announcement of a netbook operating system has, naturally enough, got the blogosphere a trembling. There have been plenty of rumours that Google one day would launch an operating system - a thought that must have give Microsoft managers the...

The adjective ‘notorious' and now defunct Zango Inc . seemed to be made for one another. In memorium, I'd like to add one another - fascinating. Zango (formerly 180solutions) was utterly loathed by the small cadre of security researchers and...

There's a rumour doing the rounds that Google is looking to buy Twitter. Naturally, the story - first reported in TechCrunch - has got the blogosphere all, well, a-twitter with excitement. First of all, it's been ages since we've had...

Finally, the authorities are getting tough with the sellers of bogus security software, a phenomenon known as ‘scareware'. Several companies are now being <a href="http://ftc.gov/opa/2008/12/winsoftware.shtm" target="_blank">chased down by the US Federal Trade Commission</a> (FTC) for a scam that is believed...

Don't you just love buzzwords? At least, don't you love the way that buzzwords shape a vendor's product policy. Take the way that cloud computing has penetrated public consciousness in the past few months. In the last week, we've seen...

It probably isn't at the top of most people's worry list right now, but the agony on Wall Street has the potential to create huge long-term problems for the IT industry. If recession turns up in earnest it will be...

How many browser wars are we on now? I make it at three and counting, each one won by achieving a different objective. Browser war one, the war to control web standards, saw the massacre of Netscape by Internet Explorer...

By now the whole world and his dog will have had a chance to play with Chrome, Google's new browser. I've been using it all day and after seeing it on about 50 different sites and playing with its various...

Anyone thinking that the Labor Day weekend is a traditional quiet period for IT news had a rude awakening after Google announced the imminent launch of its Chrome browser. Full marks to Mozilla CEO John Lilly who reacted to the...

That’s the problem with Microsoft. Google’s search nous has conquered the world because users chose it. Microsoft needs something as dusty as an alliance with HP to anchor itself to the rock of third place, behind even Yahoo. The...

The spammers just never give up, and here’s another trick the email security guys probably didn’t see coming. Researchers at the appropriately-named INSERT (as in ‘man-in-the-middle’) were able to exploit an unnamed flaw that allowed them to bypass Google’s...

Renowned venture capitalist and environmental supporter, John Doerr, has reportedly told a conference that while the pace of investment going into green technologies is impressive, it is not fast enough to combat today's energy problems. Doerr is a partner...

One of the purposes of this blog is to track the way in which companies are beginning to hijack the word "green" and use it to pump out all sorts of spurious marketing messages. We saw a classic example...

The news that Microsoft has decided to open up its APIs has caused a seismic shock. In fact, the about-turn in Microsoft's attitude to open source probably won't be replicated until Ian Paisley resigns to become papal nuncio and...

It’s the year that Windows Vista got the cold shoulder from customers, and Microsoft almost had to raise a finger to explain how such a thing could have happened. As the annus horribilis goes, this is not too bad:...

And so we turn to the strange case of the troubled adware company, Zango, that has pulled off the small feat of dry-cleaning a reputation so dusty you’d have thought it near impossible to even get it to a...

D-Link has just announced its first “Vista-approved” wireless router box, the 802.11N pre-standard model DIR-655. And very nice it looks too, but the fact they had issued a press release to say that it would work with Vista prompted...