Android has just joined in Apple’s App Store in the “>1 Billion Downloads”-club, if there was such a club. Apple’s App Store reached 3 billion downloads in in January 2010 so by now they are even more ahead, but Google and Android also seems to have a good thing going now that they’ve reached a … Read more →
WordPress has garnered much love from the blog community for its ease of installation, ease of configuration, and ease of modification. Many sites are even starting to use it as a content-management system (CMS) to drive the entire site, not just the blog or news portions. The power of WordPress really shines when you begin … Read more →
This sounds like a joke, but I’m afraid not. A woman from Los Angeles now sues Google because she used Google Maps which told her to walk down a rural highway – without sidewalk or pedestrian paths. She ended up being struck by a car and now sues Google for medical expenses ($100,000) plus punitive … Read more →
In just a few short years the iPhone has completely changed the way that people look at mobile phones. Apple’s smartphone introduced the world to the idea of downloadable applications which meant that phones were no longer home to static content, but could be updated with new software and features from third party developers at … Read more →
Last Friday (May 21st) was Pacman’s 30 year birthday and to celebrate, Google integrated a fully playable Pacman game into their logo on Google.com. RescueTime, who did some calculations based on the activity of 11,000 users, estimates that the time spent on Google’s frontpage last Friday went from 11 seconds on average to 45 seconds. … Read more →
Most online users today have tried, or seen, Google Earth in action. You know, the one with the satellite images where you can almost see yourself sunbathe in the back yard. In Google Earth, 3D isn’t something new – it’s been around for some time now, but it has mostly been in low resolution and … Read more →
According to New York Times, the Chinese Hackers you might have read about, is said to have obtained access to one of the more important parts of Google – their password system which controls access for million of users, to all Google’s services, including Gmail and Google Apps. The system is called “Gaia” and has … Read more →
“Recession? What recession?” – I bet that’s what the shareholders at Google are saying right now. Google increased their revenue with 23% in the 1st quarter of this fiscal year, compared to last year. The total revenue was 6.77 billion dollars in the first quarter, with a profit of 1.96 billion dollars, an increase of … Read more →
Just as I was starting to think Steve Jobs wasn’t going to let me buy a new iPhone this year, it has now come to light that Apple booked the same conference center in San Francisco for June 22nd, as they used to announce the previous three versions of iPhone. The media seems to think … Read more →
In a blog post yesterday, Matt Cutts explains how Google is now incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals that they use to determine search rankings. Don’t panic! As Matt Cutts also explains, Google actually launched this already a few weeks back and nobody noticed anything. Fewer than 1% of search queries … Read more →
You’re not gonna believe this. First when I created my “Funny Pictures: Google Street View Launched In Denmark“-post, I was amazed on how popular it got – and it still is, actually. So, a few weeks ago, I decided to do one more post, but with world-wide funny Google Street View pictures and that one … Read more →
Google already pulled the plug when it comes to abide by the censorship rules set by the Chinese government. Initially Google just redirected traffic from censured Google.cn to Google.com.hk in Hong Kong, uncensured. It didn’t take many hours before the Chinese censorship authorities put their own censuring in place though, and so, Google remains censured … Read more →
Yesterday I wrote how Google decided to redirect from censured Chinese Google.cn to the Hong Kong version, Google.com.hk. It didn’t take many hours for the Chinese government before censored results were once again censored, but from Google.com.hk. How exactly they’re doing it, I don’t know, but New York Times reports that it’s only results that … Read more →
I’ve been writing about this several times already and last week Google was 99.9% certain to shut down in China – now it seems they finally made the decision to go ahead and stop the censorship of search results on Chinese Google.cn. For now, Google.cn is being redirected to the Google based in Hong Kong, … Read more →
I’ve been writing more about Google these past few weeks, than what I usually do. Most of the reason is because of the issues between Google and China, and sometimes I also mention how I’m not totally crazy about the fact that Google is becoming more and more The Internet, if you know what I … Read more →
Recently I wrote that Google apparently didn’t mean business when they threatened to pull out of China and close down their activities in the country. It seems I was wrong, well, 99.9% wrong, according to Financial Times. Due to a hardening in positions from both the Google side and the Chinese government, it now seems … Read more →