Archives for June 2006
I’ve blogged before about Google attempting to increase usage of its toolbar via bundling. Now Google has done another deal. This time the company has paid Adobe to bundle the Google Toolbar with Adobe’s Shockwave/Flash multimedia player.
I’m not quite sure why Google believes that anyone really wants to use their toolbar. I understand [...]
Where’s the mindshare when it comes to various flavours of Unix and Linux? It might not be where you think it is. Let’s take three of the most important: Red Hat (a flavour of Linux); Solaris (a flavour of Unix); and Ubuntu (a flavour of Linux). How would you rank those three in [...]
I’ve spent a few minutes today trying out the new Google Spreadsheets system. Seems to import simple Excel multi-worksheet spreadsheets well. The system pretty much does what it says on the tin, and works as you’d expect a simple spreadsheet program to work. It’s not even close to being an Excel competitor [...]
Dell Inc. today announced it has teamed up with Skype to preload Skype software on its PCs; and just recently, Dell announced it would preload its computers with the Google toolbar. I have a message for Dell: we may be going to stop buying Dell PCs. Why? Because this every-increased pre-loading [...]