Google Manufacturing Optical Switches Google has been quietly making their own optical switches. This is not a shocking development, as they already build their own servers, so you can really see this as just one more arena where Google is using in house technology to make hardware to their own [...]
Amazon made an interesting announcement of a new service called SimpleDB. (Click here to see the website.) The service allows an organization to rent a database online for transaction fees that are measured in pennies per gigabyte. This extends Amazons concept of providing Web based software tools so that developers [...]
GMail on the BlackBerry Grows Up I have been using Gmail on my berry for a long time now, but it was always lacking a few things to make it a replacement for the enterprise email most of us are accustomed to: notification, contacts, and calendar sync to name a [...]
Plastic Sheet Offers Wireless Connectivity The University of Tokyo has something promising in development; a plastic sheet that allows electronic devices to communicate wireless when placed upon it. This plastic sheet is actually fabricated on an ink jet printer in total, but the breakthrough here is in energy needed to [...]
NebuAd, Inc is pioneering a new way to study what you do on the Internet so that ads can be targeted to your interests. The question of whether the way they do it is invading your privacy is valid. In the past, most services use the practice of story "cookies" [...]
This is a picture of the new PayPal Storefront Widget. I have been tracking and marveling at the growth of the widget/gadget industry over the last six months. This is an elegant example of what I like about widgets. In this case, PayPal is using this small Web-based application as [...]
Google's new mobile service allows your cell phone to be triangulated by cell towers so that they can know where you are, and it provides a host of services based on the fact that they know where you are at the moment – or at least where your phone is… [...]
Business Software Alliance increasingly targets small companies in software piracy suits – that means you! You probably have not heard of Business Software Alliance, so it might be good to understand that their clients are companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Symantec. The service they provide is to be a [...]
Holiday shopping online gets a year older… Just a handful of years ago, there was not an option for purchasing Christmas goodies online. If you wanted to avoid the holiday rush at the local mall, you had to either outsource the shopping to a relative, or use a catalog. With [...]
Dell has just announced they will start selling Google's enterprise search appliance offerings. The Google Mini, aimed at small to mid-range companies or web sites and the Google Search Appliance aimed at the upper echelon on corporate IT and high document web sites. Google has been selling the appliances for [...]