Tag Archives: Google
Apple’s iPhone
Steve Jobs announced the iPhone today. Very impressive. It has a touch screen, gesture recognition, a sensor that detects when you’re turning the phone so you can use it sideways (to read web pages, for example), it plays iTunes, you … Continue reading
The Goog Life
Aaron Swartz makes a very interesting blog posting called The Goog Life: how Google keeps employees by treating them like kids on this blog Raw Thought. From the posting: “It’s about infantilizing people,” she explained. “Give them free food, do … Continue reading
Google Transferable Stock Options
Over on the Official Google Blog they have a posting about transferable stock options which they intend to implement soon. From the posting: Typically, employees get value from stock options by exercising them after vesting, and then selling the stock … Continue reading
Google Web Toolkit Code Released
Google released their code for the Google Web Toolkit under the Apache 2.0 license. The interactive applications you’ve seen from Google, like GMail, use this. It allows you to write programs in Java, and then deploy them as Javascript applications … Continue reading
Gmail is slow
Anyone else notice that Google’s GMail has been really really slow for the last few days?
Google – A villian??
Now, I like Google as much as the next person. They’ve come out with some great stuff (like Google Earth), put out two new betas this week (Google Desktop & Google Talk), and generally being a darn good search engine. … Continue reading
Google buys Android
Google bought Android today. No one’s quite sure what Android makes (it’s a startup, after all), but some folks think it makes location based software for handheld devices.
Google Maps on your phone
Cristian Streng has created a J2ME midlet called MGMaps to put Google Maps on your phone.