Tag Archives: Google

New Location Based Services from Google

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Fuzzy

Via OSnews, Google has announced a couple of new LBS offerings. The first, Google Goggles, is for Android, and will search for and label things as you point your phone camera at them, including landmarks and stores. Alas, I’m rocking … Continue reading →

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I Still Don’t Get Chrome OS

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Fuzzy

In general I’m a big fan of the fine folks at Google. You’ll rip Gmail and Google Docs and Google Reader and Google Chrome and Google Voice and a bunch of other Google stuff from my cold dead hands. But … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Frame Puts Chrome in Internet Explorer

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Fuzzy

In the if-you-can’t-beat-them-shove-a-tube-down-their-throat-and-plant-eggs-in-their-chest department, Google has released Chrome Frame, an open source plugin that drops Chrome’s HTML (WebKit) and JavaScript (V8) engines into IE. Ars has a good summary as usual. The idea is an IE user stumbles upon your … Continue reading →

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Google Announces Chrome OS

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Fuzzy

In the take-your-Bing-and-shove-it department, Google has announced it’s working on a new operating system, Chrome OS, designed around the Chrome web browser. Looking through the announcement and the slew of related stories, basically it’s a Linux kernel with a new … Continue reading →

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Web Performance Best Practices Extension

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Fuzzy

Google has been busy this past month. They have just released a Web Performance Best Practices extension for Firefox. Via Google: When you profile a web page with Page Speed, it evaluates the page’s conformance to a number of different rules. These … Continue reading →

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