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• Who Are My Gmail Contacts?

  Finally! Google wakes up to the notion that most Gmail users don't want to automatically add everyone who writes them an email to their contacts list: Google has finally realized that it's a bad idea to automatically add to the list of Gmail contacts... Posted Jul 14 2008, 05:22 PM by pthurrott with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing

• Google Talk for iPhone

  The Google Talk blog has news of a Web-based Google Talk client for the iPhone: Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs... Posted Jul 03 2008, 10:46 AM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Google, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Google Gears now supports Firefox 3

  No biggie, since this was a given, but it's just one more thing we can check off on the road towards the completion of Firefox 3's completion: Gears, Google's project to make Web browsers a better foundation for elaborate online applications... Posted Jun 11 2008, 11:17 AM by pthurrott with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Mozilla, Cloud computing

• Google I/O '08 Keynote: Client, Connectivity, and the Cloud

  Here's the entire 90-minute keynote address from last week's Google I/O show: YouTube: Google I/O '08 Keynote: Client, Connectivity, and the Cloud Why is this interesting? There's all kinds of goodness in there, including the already-famous... Posted Jun 02 2008, 05:05 PM by pthurrott with | with no comments Filed under: Google, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Welcome to the Weekend Web

  Business Week : When they use their mobile phones to go online, Americans flock to different sites than when they surf from their computers. Meet the mobile Web. Welcome to the weekend Web, where people are spending a bigger slice of time online via wireless... Posted May 29 2008, 11:24 PM by pthurrott with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Opera supports Google Gears in desktop and mobile browsers

  Opera sent along the following news today: Opera Software announced today it will support Gears in its desktop and mobile browsers. The inclusion of Gears in Opera's main browsing products supports Opera's vision of transforming the browser into... Posted May 29 2008, 12:38 PM by pthurrott with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing

• Google Sites now open to everyone

  The Google Blog reports that Google has opened up the online Web editor, Google Sites, to the public (previously, it was available only as part of Google Apps): A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies... Posted May 22 2008, 10:23 AM by pthurrott with | with no comments Filed under: Google, Cloud computing

• Microsoft is failing to bridge, let alone dominate, cloud computing paradigm shift

  Sunday morning is one of life's simple pleasures. For me, it starts off with what is basically a triple espresso and the Sunday New York Times (via the Amazon Kindle, natch). Today's Times had what I think is a very insightful article by Randall... Posted May 18 2008, 11:02 AM by pthurrott with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Google Friend Connect

  Looks like Google will finally launch its long-awaited social networking play tonight. How does it announce such a thing? By announcing ... that it will soon make an announcement: Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex , Google will announce a preview... Posted May 12 2008, 03:16 PM by pthurrott with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing

• Inside Microsoft's War Against Google

  Business Week takes on Microsoft's future and comes to the same conclusion I have. It's all about cloud computing: Before yanking the Yahoo offer, [Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer] had begun laying the groundwork for a strategy to compete with Google... Posted May 09 2008, 10:13 AM by pthurrott with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• What might have been: A look back at Microsoft/Yahoo! coverage in WinInfo

  Well, it looks like Microsoft's attempt at a hostile takeover of Yahoo! is over. And really, thank God for that one: Yahoo! is the tech equivalent of a bad loan, something that would have come back to bite Microsoft sooner rather than later. So while... Posted May 04 2008, 02:40 PM by pthurrott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Windows Live, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Google Email Uploader (Google Apps only at this point)

  My initial reaction to this was less than enthusiastic--I mean, the very notion of uploading several years worth of email to Gmail, it just curdles the blood. But the more I think about it ... Yeah. I have to do this. And if you've made the transition... Posted Apr 05 2008, 03:34 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing

• Offline Google Docs

  The Google Operating System blog discusses the next major milestone for Google Gears, enabling offline use of Google Docs: Google Docs will slowly roll out an option to view and edit documents offline using Google Gears. Unlike the Google Reader implementation... Posted Apr 01 2008, 12:48 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing

• Finally: Google Calendar Sync

  I've got an unbelievable number of emails about this, but Google yesterday released its own (free) Google Calendar Sync tool, which provides one- and two-way sync between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook: Sync your Google Calendar with your Microsoft... Posted Mar 06 2008, 10:52 AM by pthurrott with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing

• Gmail Supports the Shift Key

  So apparently this has been around for a while , though I admit I never knew about it. Yet another way in which Gmail is just excellent: Not sure since when Gmail is supporting the Shift key in certain situations, but I find it very useful. The following... Posted Feb 08 2008, 02:10 PM by pthurrott with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing