Tag Archives : Google

Image by Getty Images via Daylife We’ve all seen the googlezon video, could this be the beginings of a new video to be created? It was just announced that facebook would be purchasing friendfeed.com the amount is not clear at the moment, however what is known is that all friendfeed staff will be joining facebook and the four co-founders “will hold senior roles on Facebook’s [...]

Image via Wikipedia We all saw it coming and today Apple confirmed it. Dr. Eric Schmidt (Google CEO), has resigned his 3 year position on the Apple board of directors. Apple PR statement: “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately, as Google enters [...]

Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr This is probably the most exciting tech battle of our days: Google versus Microsoft. Although it will probably go on for years, it will remain a very hot subject. It all started a few months ago when each company launched a direct attack on its rival’s most important business. Google started by announcing the development of a new desktop operating system, [...]

Image by michperu via Flickr The largest company in the world, Microsoft, reported disastrous results for the April to June quarter. Their profits went down by almost a third. The group is also expecting financial difficulties in the following months. “It looked like a pretty tough quarter for Microsoft. The top line was very weak,” – Toan Tran from Morningstar. It looks like [...]

Image via Wikipedia Yahoo is continuing to show signs of weakness and vulnerability, with Q2 earning reports just being released they are showing a 13% decrease in earnings on the same period as last year (1.14 billion dollars from 1.35 billion dollars). Looks Yahoo is continuing to feel the pinch of recession, although as many are quick to point out, these figures are better than expected. [...]

Image by Philipp Klinger via Flickr Exactly forty years ago, Neil Armstrong took the first step on the Moon. To celebrate that achievement, Google announced a new plug-in for Google Earth version 5.0 that will allow users to explore the Moon. The plug-in has been unveiled today at Washington DC’s Newseum and uses 3D technology to provide a thrilling experience to its users. “Forty [...]

Image via Wikipedia Tuesday was one of the most difficult days for the popular micro-blogging website Twitter, after a hacker gained access to their Google cloud-based Apps platform and managed to steal over 300 confidential documents and screenshots. These sensitive documents were sent to Techcrunch, where Michael Arrington decided to release some of them to the public. But how was this possible? [...]

Image by jeffreypriebe via Flickr Yep, that’s right folks Google does it again, 18% increase in this quarter’s profits or $1.48 bn for 3 months of trading. Yikes!! That’s pretty forking excellent! What does that mean for the rest of us, who knows! Maybe our Google Docs will be more secure as they have more more cash to splash about. Maybe Google will continue to offer unrivaled [...]

Google have just launched a set of new features on Gmail which changes the way users interact with labels. So what’s new: Labels are now on the left hand side, according to Googles blog above the chat box, however I have the right hand side chat enabled so it’s above my documents box now. Hiding less used labels is something you have control over now, which is great, I usually underscore my most [...]

We just received two brand spanking new screenshots of Microsoft’s new search engine. Not yet launched, the Microsoft Live Search replacement will go by the name of Bing. Although we find landscape pictures of London’s Tower Bridge and the Dover Cliffs very nice to look at, we’re not sure that huge backgrounds are a good idea for a search engine page. Maybe Microsoft should take a [...]