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Google unveils web-based OS

September 2, 2008

A prod­uct long rumored and whose very exis­tence was long denied by Google itself finally launched: the Google browser, aka. Google Chrome. There are a num­ber of things that are good and a few that leaves one scratch­ing his head but ulti­mately, it is very clear that Google is work­ing very hard to ensure that it can […]

Blurring the line: Google Desktop

October 14, 2004

Today, Google unveiled a new appli­ca­tion that allows you to search your desk­top, blur­ring the lines between desk­tops and the web. This is yet another exam­ple of what I call hybrid com­put­ing, the new class of soft­ware that can be aug­mented through web use. It also has stag­ger­ing impli­ca­tions for a lot of play­ers. Microsoft Of course, everyone […]

OSX 10.4 preview: hits and misses

June 28, 2004

As it the case every year, the atten­tion of the Mac world focused on the Apple World Wide Devel­oper Con­fer­ence with high hopes for new prod­ucts and excit­ing new devel­op­ment from a com­pany that has man­aged to show­case a high cool fac­tor while remain­ing one of the small­est play­ers in the com­put­ing field. The news of ban­ners poking […]

From Scandinavia With Love

September 17, 2000

I was recently speak­ing at a con­fer­ence called Escan­di­navia 2000, which cov­ered the state of the Inter­net in Scan­di­navia. Dur­ing that con­fer­ence, I had a chance to speak to a num­ber of peo­ple about the state of wire­less in the Scan­di­na­vian coun­tries. Here’s what I’ve learned and how it can help those of you who are work­ing in the […]

Hybrid Computing

February 10, 2000

Appli­ca­tions that aug­ment their capa­bil­i­ties when con­nected to the Inter­net are the wave of the future.