http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:15:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22436/Google_Wave_Open_for_Federation_Among_Other_Wave_Providers/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22436/Google_Wave_Open_for_Federation_Among_Other_Wave_Providers/ "Google makes its Google Wave Federation Protocol available to let would-be Wave providers build their own Wave servers and get them communicating with other Wave servers, similar to the way e-mail servers talk to one another. This federation would ideally pave the way to making Wave ubiquitous, making it more available for future users. But given the learning curve stumping early users of Wave, how many programmers will want to build their own Wave servers? That remains to be seen." Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:01:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22401/Google_Releases_Android_2_0_SDK/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22401/Google_Releases_Android_2_0_SDK/ Today, Google has released the software development kit for Android 2.0, the company's mobile operating system. The SDK gives away all the new features, and there's indeed quite a lot in this one. The biggest new feature is multitouch support, but there's a whole lot more. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:18:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22346/What_Problems_Does_Google_Wave_Solve_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22346/What_Problems_Does_Google_Wave_Solve_/ "There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media. Is Wave the next Twitter? Nope. Is it the next Facebook? Nope. Is it going to replace Instant Messengers? Possibly, in some circumstances, but not any time soon." Read more here. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:18:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Google 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22299/_Google_s_Better_iPhone_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22299/_Google_s_Better_iPhone_/ "Today's Google-Verizon marriage means feature-rich phones will now be available on the top wireless network - and spells the end, writes Douglas Rushkoff, of Apple's dominance." Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:55:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News Moulinneuf http://www.osnews.com/story/22276/Google_Bites_Bing_back_Recovers_All_Usage_Losses_Since_Spring/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22276/Google_Bites_Bing_back_Recovers_All_Usage_Losses_Since_Spring/ "If the last two months should be interpreted as Microsoft suggests, with Bing's gradual ascent in usage share against Google as a sign of Bing's inevitably catching up, then a similar interpretation of September's numbers from live analytics firm StatCounter should be taken as a sign of Bing's ultimate demise. A sampling of five billion or more US page views from Web sites accessed by StatCounter in September reveals that, of the world's top three search services, Google's usage share has climbed back just above 80%, and is flirting with last November's peak of 81.14% -- meaning Google is back to serving four out of five US-based general queries. Bing's usage share in the US descended by 1.13% to 8.51% for the month of September, while Yahoo's dove 1.1% to 9.4%. Google's share among the top three has now climbed above where it stood in May (78.72%), when Microsoft changed the name of Windows Live Search." Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:41:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22257/Google_Angers_Android_Community_with_Cease_and_Desist_Letter/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22257/Google_Angers_Android_Community_with_Cease_and_Desist_Letter/ Building custom ROM images for popular phones is a relatively common thing on the internet. There are a number of forums dedicated to hacking and creating custom Windows Mobile ROMs, and there's also a community of people working on custom Android ROMs. The latter community has been up in arms over the fact that Google has sent a cease and desist letter to one of the most popular ROM hackers. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:37:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 37 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22210/Google_Fixes_IE_For_Microsoft_Adds_HTML5_Fast_JS_and_More/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22210/Google_Fixes_IE_For_Microsoft_Adds_HTML5_Fast_JS_and_More/ Google Chrome Frame is an open-source plugin that adds HTML5, Canvas, a fast JavaScript engine and more to Internet Explorer; in fact it just swaps out Trident with Webkit! Developers can opt-in to the feature on their sites via a meta-tag / HTTP-header and prompt users to install Google Chrome Frame if they don't have it. Update: Correction, they don't support the HTTP Header. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:48:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc Camen) Google 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22170/Google_Releases_Chrome_3/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22170/Google_Releases_Chrome_3/ Only a year after Google's Chrome entered the browser market, we're already hitting version 3. While Chrome 3 had been available in the developer and beta channels for a while now, the company has now released the first stable Chrome 3 version. Technically, this means Chrome 3 has been released. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:21:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 75 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22171/Android_1_6_SDK_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22171/Android_1_6_SDK_Released/ Xavier Ducrohet posted the announcement for the Android 1.6 SDK release: "With support for CDMA and additional screen sizes, your apps can be deployed on even more mobile networks and devices. You will have access to new technologies, including framework-level support for additional screen resolutions, like QVGA and WVGA, new telephony APIs to support CDMA, gesture APIs, a text-to-speech engine, and the ability to integrate with Quick Search Box." Check out the video in that page too. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:11:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Google 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22163/Google_Liberates_Data_Makes_it_Easier_to_Leave_the_Cloud/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22163/Google_Liberates_Data_Makes_it_Easier_to_Leave_the_Cloud/ Getting data into (and then out of) Web-based services can be tricky or even impossible. Google today publicly committed to liberating user data in all of the company's products, making it easy to switch services. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:35:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22144/Chrome_Extensions_Framework_Inching_Closer_to_Prime_Time/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22144/Chrome_Extensions_Framework_Inching_Closer_to_Prime_Time/ Probably the most often requested feature for Google's Chrome web browser was an extensions framework so that users can expand the functionality of Chrome in the same way people currently do for Firefox. Chrome has had an extensions framework for a while now, but it was turned off by default. They've now turned it on by default on the dev channel. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:08:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22099/Google_Chrome_Comes_Bundled_on_Sony_Laptops/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22099/Google_Chrome_Comes_Bundled_on_Sony_Laptops/ Google said August 31 that Sony is bundling the Chrome Web browser on its Sony laptop computers, the search engine company's first such bundling deal to help the now one year-old browser reach more users. Sony did not respond to requests for comment but a Google spokesperson confirmed to eWEEK that Sony is bundling Chrome. The spokesperson declined to provide financial details but claimed: "Users' response to Google Chrome has been outstanding, and we're continuing to explore ways to make Chrome accessible to even more people." Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:07:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22040/Google_s_Rubin_Android_Isn_t_Blocking_VoIP_Despite_Claims/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22040/Google_s_Rubin_Android_Isn_t_Blocking_VoIP_Despite_Claims/ This morning a USA Today article discussed the FCC's investigation into why the Google Voice App was banned from the iPhone. The article goes on to say that Google could "soon find itself in the hot seat" because Android cannot use Skype, proposing that Google itself blocks VoIP to force users into traditional voice calls. Andy Rubin, Google's Vice President of Mobile Platforms, had to step forward and call USA Today out. Rubin said, "Here are the facts, clear and simple: While the first generation of our Android software did not support full-featured VoIP applications due to technology limitations, we have worked through those limitations in subsequent versions of Android, and developers are now able to build and upload VoIP services." Rubin says it's up to the operators to decide if certain applications violate their terms of service. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:44:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21997/Google_Caffeine_What_it_Really_Is/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21997/Google_Caffeine_What_it_Really_Is/ "As it invites the world to play in a mysterious sandbox it likes to call 'Caffeine', Google is testing more than just a 'next-generation' search infrastructure. It's testing at least a portion of a revamped software architecture that will likely underpin all of its online applications for years to come. Speaking with The Reg, ueber-Googler Matt Cutts confirms that the company's new Caffeine search infrastructure is built atop a complete overhaul of the company's custom-built Google File System, a project two years in the making. At least informally, Google refers to this file system redux as GFS2." Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21989/Chrome_for_Linux_Improving_at_a_Brisk_Pace/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21989/Chrome_for_Linux_Improving_at_a_Brisk_Pace/ When Google released its Chrome web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X users were left out in the rain, without the ability to enjoy all the goodness that is Chrome. Thanks to the relentless porting efforts of the Chromium team, we now have daily builds of the Chrome/Chromium web browser, and I decided to take a look where the Linux version stands. Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:25:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Google 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/28 News