Archive for May, 2009

Today in Technology: More Google Stuff – Google Wave Announced May 28, 2009 No Comments

The newest idea from Google (out of the Sydney office nonetheless): Google Wave, a new communication tool that appears to incorporate Email and instant messaging.  Basically the premise of the tool as I understand it is the you can create a wave, like you’d create a conversation in Gmail, and let other people add content [...]

Today in Technology: Google has an ‘Oprah Moment’, Gives Away 4,000+ New G2 Phones May 27, 2009 No Comments

Google this week has been putting on their popular Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco with oodles of speakers and industry folks.  Apparently though, word just came out of the conference that the host company has decided to give everyone in the audience a free Android phone.  This of course resembled the infamous Oprah [...]

When Will Microsoft Figure Out That Google Won Search? May 26, 2009 No Comments

I know that Microsoft has to have a presence in the space, and for them not to be present is ‘giving up’ per se, something Steve Ballmer doesn’t appear to have in his vocabulary.  So with the Yahoo acquisitions failed or at a stand still, Microsoft is all set and ready to announce their latest [...]

The Flips and Flops of Web 2.0 May 19, 2009 No Comments

I always thought that the web 2.0 phenomenon was fairly frustrating.  Technology entrepreneurs and VC’s alike spent hours and millions developing ideas and products, some of which succeeded, but most of them flopped.  Learning from the dot com boom of the late 90’s, investors were more conservative with their money this time around, and there [...]

A Weekend for Awesome Talks from TED May 15, 2009 No Comments

I’m headed to the Bay Area this weekend to see Aimee’s family and have a little engagement party shindig, so I thought I’d share a few of the excellent talks from the TED conference that I consider inspiring and if nothing else, totally interesting. The first one is the famous Malcolm Gladwell ’spaghetti [...]

Will Touch Prove Useful Outside of Mobile? Checking Out Microsoft’s Surface May 12, 2009 No Comments

Technology is funny and fickle. Certain products that come out that look really awesome and do cool things sometimes aren’t the most useful products, and therefore don’t take off. I’ve been wondering recently if the Microsoft Surface might be one of those products. As we’ve seen with the iPhone and Blackberry storm that [...]

Tech News and Notes: Twitter and Apple? Kindle for Textbooks and Wolfram Alpha May 5, 2009 No Comments

As usual, it’s been a hectic beginning of the week in the tech world:
At the forefront is the reports that Apple is the latest suitor for Twitter, a role that Facebook failed at, and Google and Microsoft have been rumored as potentially being.  Funny enough, I heard this rumor this morning from @Tweetmeme (via @gawker)…haha.
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