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Up until today, one of the criticisms of Android was that the “desktop” looked really clunky. That’s all changed. It’s looking much sleeker now. Check out what are the first demos of the new-look Android.
OK - so you’ve checked out the demos. Welcome back! What were your first reactions when watching them? Mine were (in [...]
You’ve probably already seen the news about Google’s new “cloud computing” platform known as App Engine. As with anything in computing, there are pros and cons. Here are what I think the major ones are; and how these will affect the decision to “use” or “not use” it.
Pros
If you use App Engine, and you can [...]
The technical details of Android, the new Google mobile phone OS platform, are now out. There are many articles on the Web discussing the new platform, many of which seem to get things horribly wrong. So, I thought I’d try to put some perspective on Android here…
First, the web browser. At the Android [...]
I wrote yesterday that it wasn’t clear if, despite all the noise, Google is serious about Android being open (Is Android Really Going To Be Open?). Today, people have today been digging around and found a couple of amusing things on this topic. First up, it’s a quote from the Android FAQ. [...]
Facebook has just revealed the details of its new social advertising platform. At first glance, the ideas seems pretty smart, making excellent use of the key strengths of Facebook. However, I think there’s actually a massive potential problem with the new offering: a problem that might mean Facebook has no chance [...]
As the technical details about Android, Google’s mobile phone operating system, begin to surface, we’re starting to get the first glimpses of how it compares to other upcoming phone OS platforms. One key question is: how will Android compare to Sun’s JavaFX Mobile platform?
While both Android and JavaFX Mobile seem to be what you [...]
Eric Schimdt thinks the fundamental problem with most phones today is that they don’t have full power web browsers. That seems to be it. The “GPhone” platform will have a full power web browser. Wow! If there isn’t more to the GPhone platform than this, there’s going to be [...]
Google may unveil a key new component of its office suite next week at TechCrunch40, the demo-like conference being organised by Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis. Named Presently the new software is a presentation tool, analoguous to PowerPoint in Microsoft’s Office suite. Please note - Mike and Jason haven’t actually said that [...]
Rumours about a Google mobile phone continue to do the rounds. If we put some “facts” together, they point to an interesting conclusion: that Google’s new phone could be the first phone to be based on the JavaFX Mobile phone operating system.
JavaFX Mobile is Sun’s new mobile phone OS. The OS is [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Google is to pay $3.1B in cash to acquire one of the early pioneers of online advertising, DoubleClick (see the press release). I’ve seen a number of people writing that Google has overpaid here. The truth is, it’s quite possible that we [...]