It’s been just a little over a year since the mystical Blue Systems started sponsoring development of ReKonq. Blue Systems is second only to the KDE e.V. in platform investment, sponsoring not only numerous core applications, but multiple distributions as well. ReKonq has come a long way since 0.9.2 (May 2012) and with the help [...]
Google Keep Cameos To Challenge Evernote, Changes Mind
Stunt or stumble? I’m gonna go ahead and file this one in the publicity stunt pile. Every time a new Google service is about to emerge, it peeks its head above water just enough for someone to take notice. And that’s what happened today with Google Keep. Earlier today, Android mega-site Android Police was able [...]
Lenovo Enters The Chromebook Game, Lends Credibility
ThinkPad X131e Chromebook The Chromebook is now officially 2 years old, with the original model CR-48 officially long-in-the-tooth and left behind. After the initially testing period of the CR-48, Samsung and Acer have made their best, and different efforts at selling the platform for outrageously low prices. Since the release of Samsung and Acer’s latest [...]
Google Donates $20,000 to Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse, the multi-language open source integrated development environment (IDE), has just received a considerable gift from Google’s Open Source Programs Office: a $20,000 donation to help refine the performance of the latest 4.2 release. A Friend in Need This donation wasn’t exactly out of the blue. It was made in direct response to a lengthy discussion [...]
Google Talk Suffers Majority Outage
Google Talk is down. In the early hours of the AM today, users of the Google Talk service began tweeting about the service being down. Reports seemed to have started in India and other parts of the east today, and are quickly spreading to the west. According to Google service page for Talk: 6:50AM * [...]
Review: My Sordid Fling With The Nexus 7
I will give Google credit, their propaganda hype machine is starting to rival that of Apple Inc. I’ve had the Nexus 7 for two and half days now and I must say I am far from impressed. Don’t get me wrong, I love Android and have been a user of the ecosystem since day one [...]
Google I/O 2012 Starts Today!
Google I/O 2012 Starts Today! I am here in San Francisco and I am very excited to be attending my first Google I/O. Ever since I started Android development in 2008 I have wanted to attend Google I/O but I have never had the opportunity until this year. I arrived in San Francisco this afternoon [...]
Google Drive Exceeds 5 Million Downloads In Less Than 1 Hour.
Google Drive, the over-speculated, hype-driven, cloud storage platform that we always knew was coming, is here. Announced only a few thousand heart-beats ago, Google Drive is experiencing incredible demand in the Google Play store. With a broad, round number of 5 million (5,000,000) downloads recorded and displayed prominently, it may only be another hour or [...]
Latest Release Of Linux Contains Code Developed Via Google Plus
Say what you will about the mainstream viability of Google Plus, but anyone who has spent even a few days on Google’s rapidly developing social network can tell you that the userbase seems unusually knowledgeable and tech-savvy. There have been numerous posts and articles attempting to explain this phenomena, but the most common theory seems [...]
The Benefits of an Open Market, Revisited
The Benefits of an Open Market Two years ago I wrote a post giving some of my thoughts on the benefits of the Android Market, now known as Google Play. The general idea of the post was that while there are some problems with Google Play, there are also some great benefits for developers. One of [...]
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