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• Google to Reveal More Chrome OS Details Thursday Night

  Stung by a recent leak, Google will now host a special event tomorrow (Thursday) night at which they will reveal more details about their mysterious Chrome OS: Join us for an evening at Google featuring presentations by Paul Rademacher on Google Maps... Posted Oct 14 2009, 09:27 PM by pthurrott with | with 45 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Alt. Windows, Cloud computing

• An Operating System for the Cloud

  You have to be a paid subscriber to read the full article (or just purchase the print version, or pay online per article) but MIT's Technology Review has published a fascinating article about Google's Chrome OS efforts by none other than "Showstoppers"... Posted Sep 27 2009, 12:38 PM by pthurrott with | with 43 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support

  This is big stuff, and if there's anyone actually paying for MobileMe a year from now, well, you already looked like a fool, so what's the difference? The Google Mobile Blog reports today that Google has added push email support to Google Sync... Posted Sep 22 2009, 01:57 PM by pthurrott with | with 69 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Internet, Google, Alt. Windows, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Google: Apple DID reject Google Voice. Thus, Apple DID lie to the FCC

  Google's response ( here it is in PDF format ) to the FCC firmly states that Apple lied, pure and simple: Apple's representatives informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejecte d because Apple believed the application duplicated... Posted Sep 19 2009, 04:04 PM by pthurrott with | with 73 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Google Chrome 3.0

  Just one year into its life and 2.8 percent market share later, Google Chrome hits the big 3.0... Thanks to a full year of great feedback from our users, we're kicking off our second year of Google Chrome with a brand new stable release . This stable... Posted Sep 15 2009, 03:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 30 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing

• Going Google: It's not a slam dunk yet, sorry

  Google has started up an interesting ad campaign in four major US cities (including Boston) in which it touts the benefits and simplicity of moving to Google Apps. Here's some info about this from the Official Google Blog: Every morning, millions... Posted Aug 05 2009, 04:22 AM by pthurrott with | with 68 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Chrome OS to be free, Google says

  The Google Chrome Blog comes to life again with the following tidbits ... Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost. The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design... Posted Jul 10 2009, 03:03 PM by pthurrott with | with 36 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Worst blog post ever? Or worst blog ever?

  I used to think of lazy bloggers as being the bottom feeders of the web. (You know, people who blog about absolutely nothing and then end the post with, "Thoughts?" or "Discuss!" in some weird bid to get an actual conversation going... Posted Jul 09 2009, 12:46 PM by pthurrott with | with 42 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Alt. Windows, Humor, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Gmail out of beta

  ... as is Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. Turns out businesses looking at Google Apps (which combines these and other products) balked when confronted with the Beta tag (which had been on Gmail for a silly 5 years). In typical Google fashion... Posted Jul 08 2009, 01:28 PM by pthurrott with | with 40 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing, Email

• Introducing the Google Chrome OS

  Well, it's official. Google will take on Windows, not with some based on Android (which is dumb, and curious, in my opinion), but with yet another OS based on the Chrome browser . Here's the full announcement. The bolded bits are my work, as I... Posted Jul 08 2009, 10:38 AM by pthurrott with | with 94 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Alt. Windows, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Microsoft warns of Google Apps Sync for Outlook issue

  Microsoft has responded, sort of, to Google's delivery of a free Exchange migration tool for Outlook users by trying to poke holes in the end result. More specifically, the company claims that the tool has a "bug/flaw" that causes Outlook... Posted Jun 17 2009, 10:27 AM by pthurrott with | with 39 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing, Servers

• Google Chrome gets even faster ... On Google sites ... According to Google

  Google Blog : We introduced Google Chrome back in September, and it's received a great response so far. Since launching, we've been working hard on adding the top requested features and making Google Chrome even faster. Today, we are updating... Posted May 21 2009, 05:21 PM by pthurrott with | with 47 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing

• Google Sync

  Oh my. Microsoft emailed me today to explain that they have licensed intellectual property to Google: Earlier today Google announced Google Sync , which is made possible by a patent license they obtained from Microsoft covering Google’s implementation... Posted Feb 09 2009, 02:50 PM by pthurrott with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Google, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Gmail gets offline support

  Google has finally added Google Gears support to its Gmail Webmail service, allowing the service to be used offline. It’s still a Google Labs feature, meaning that it’s basically in perpetual beta, but still. Here it is . So what can you do the next time... Posted Jan 28 2009, 10:23 AM by pthurrott with | with 24 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing

• The Plot to Kill Google

  Wired posts an appropriately controversial story about Google's enemies and their (separate, as it turns out) efforts to slow down the Internet goliath. Chief among these enemies, of course, is Microsoft. Tom Barnett, assistant attorney general for... Posted Jan 20 2009, 02:34 PM by pthurrott with | with 84 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing, Commentary