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1. Apple's small-minded strategy

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... from other sources, such as Amazon or (maybe?) Google. And they will gladly chuck their iPhones for the next cool thingamajig. So, why is Apple, full of many smart people, being so strategically small ...

2. Why Apple should license Windows 7

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   ... Office and it currently is the most at risk of competitive displacement from Google Apps. The server business, for much of the last decade, has been Microsoft's strongest unit and it is built on their ...

3. 10 reasons why analog is better than digital

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... than cold fish. Humanoids are better than Androids. Giggles are better than Googles. That's an analog judgement. So there.    ...

4. My 10 favorite Windows apps

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... An exception to my old software rule. But this software is really fab. It does so much and gives so much that I really wouldn't be without it. 7. Google Earth. Such a spooky application. I can zoom into ...

5. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   ... Microsoft one and that the headline is merely playing to the crowd and hoping for a big hit on Google News. Dissing HP is, of course, less newsworthy than dissing Microsoft, even if it isn't Microsoft's ...

6. Geeks Are Losers

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Opinion: Whether it's a book fantasizing about a world in which Google executives run the United States or another tome that suggests geeks are on the road to controlling the globe, there's a hopeful ...

7. Chrome for Mac finally arrives in beta, sort of

   (Software/Software Features)

   Google has announced availability of an official Chrome for Mac browser preview, based on version 4 -already available for Windows but not for Linux or OSX, but is advising people not to try it. Google ...

8. Windows 7 launches in London hospital

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... answer to Google Maps although the company also offers Bing Maps. Some of the features of 7 which Microsoft trumpets were bizarre. Location printing is one. This apparently prevents you printing a document ...

9. The Delusions of IT Startups

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... which ranks the buzz around some of the hot new firms, largely in the IT market. It uses some sort of Google-like algorithm to create its list of noteworthy companies. It also lets those companies post ...

10. Internet behemoths fight hard for net neutrality

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... have written to the FCC in a bid to influence the body on the vexed subject of net neutrality. The founders of Twitter, Facebook, Digg and CEOs including Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Google's Eric Schmidt ...

11. Kindle is no answer to reading books digitally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... The industry has to work out a way of us being able to do the same with an electronic book without making it free for just about everyone. Google and the internet have lulled many into believing that ...

12. AT&T slates Google Voice: nun today, nun tomorrow

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Giant telephone company AT&T sent a lengthy letter to the Federal Communications Commission yesterday attacking Google by accusing it of double standards for openness.Giant telephone company AT&T ...

13. Barnes and Noble leaks e-reader details

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... access to all books scanned by the Google Books project; probably books that are out of print." The upcoming Barnes and Noble e-reader will likely find itself competing against Apple's rumored tablet ...

14. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... the features you missed.     I can imagine a future OS, similar to Google Chrome, where you’d only have an operating system kernel and a browser when you bought a new system and then would ...

15. FCC scrutinizes Google Voice restrictions

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an official inquiry into Google's policy of restricting outbound Voice calls to certain rural areas. The probe comes just days after a bipartisan ...

16. Congress demands FCC probe of Google Voice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    A bipartisan Congressional group has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate Google's alleged policy of blocking high-cost calls to rural areas. According to Reuters, the legislators ...

17. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... We aren’t a one size fits all world (look at what we drive and wear).   To win this market Microsoft and Google have to create a product that is consistent enough so that buyers ask for it by name ...

18. Google leaks Apple's October Mac lineup: Mighty Mouse!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Google Ad Sense has inadvertently leaked Apple's new Mac lineup. The Netherlands-based ads - which were displayed on Google.nl over the weekend - reportedly directed eager shoppers to non-existent Apple ...

19. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... capitalists I talk to are in despair. Yes, yes, there are a few big bright spots - Apple, Cisco, and Google come to mind. But these few giants can't spur the overall economy. There is no longer a core ...

20. Google: AT&T attempting to "undermine" Web-based competition

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Google has responded to AT&T's allegations that its Voice application "systematically" blocks telephone calls to certain rural areas with high connection costs. According to Google legal counsel ...

21. Apple totally rejected Google Voice app over duplication fears

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The FCC has published an uncensored letter from Google in which the Mountain-View based company claimed that Apple rejected its Voice application. Apple had previously refuted the allegations and insisted ...

22. Google bolsters OCR capabilities with reCAPTCHA acquisition

    (Software/Software Features)

    Google has bolstered its optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities with the acquistion of reCAPTCHA. The company - which was originally spun-off from a Carnegie Mellon University research project ...

23. Google: Ah, Mr Bond. I've been expecting you…

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Opinion - Once upon a time, writers made phone calls, talked to people and wrote news. Google has stopped all that nonsense. Opinion - Once upon a time, writers made phone calls, talked to people and ...

24. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... while past conflicts, like Microsoft kicking IBM into the PC weeds a generation ago and Google more recently knocking Microsoft down a peg or two, typically involved relative newcomers picking off established, ...

25. Etre reaches a 20 year milestone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the story of AMD's Jerry Sanders III and the yacht he and his friends resorted to just off the South of France.This year speakers at Etre will be SAP's Leo Apotheker, Eric Benhamou, Google's Wesley Chan, ...

26. Khronos Group details cross-platform WebGL initiative

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... joined the WebGL working group, including AMD, Ericsson, Google, Mozilla, Nvidia and Opera. Participants are currently working to define a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 that will enable rich 3D graphics ...

27. Apple’s iPad: Like Apple TV or like iPod?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Ironically, this is likely the one device Palm should have understood how to do right first. In many ways, this would be Apple’s spin on Google’s Chrome OS idea (showcasing Apple’s hardware roots) and ...

28. Chrome to get hardware accelerated 3D graphics

    (Software/Software Features)

    Google has begun building its O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics into its Chrome browser. Google has begun building its O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics into its Chrome ...

29. Google goes postal down-under

    (Software/Software Features)

    Search outfit Google has managed to score a big win for its cloud-based operations in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand - Search outfit Google has managed to score a big win for its cloud-based operations ...

30. Google releases Moon in Earth on 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... has been integrated in Google’s Earth application. There is a new Moon section in Earth, which lets users explore the moon in a similar way as Earth. Chicago (IL) – On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong ...

31. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... starting with DEC and running all the way to Sun. Google’s new Chrome OS looks to be another example of people more interested in pretending to be doing something, rather than actually doing it well. ...

32. Apple's iPhone has yet to meet its Microsoft

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... seems more concerned with maintaining the status quo than he is with getting down and dirty with an opponent. Google has shown little inclination to appear aggressive, and although the company is dominant ...

33. 3G netbook market growing at rapid pace, iSuppli says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... news for Google and its Chrome OS, cloud applications and its investment in WiMax company Clearwire? El Segundo (CA) – Market researchers continue to believe that the netbook category will be posting ...

34. Google Chrome OS: Is Google finally jumping the shark?

    (Software/Software Features)

      Analyst Opinion - Every company reaches a point in its history where the bloom falls off the rose. I worry that Google has just hit that wall. Analyst Opinion - Every company reaches a point in ...

35. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion Google's upcoming Chrome operating system may be many things to many people, but one thing it certainly ain't is an operating system. Neither is it a threat to Microsoft. And it couldn't play ...

36. Google takes aim at Microsoft with new OS

    (Software/Software Features)

    It was only a matter of time before Google took on Microsoft at the operating system level and now it has confirmed it has plans to create the Chrome OS.It was only a matter of time before Google took ...

37. Get in line: Netscape founder has $300 million to spend

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Andreesen announced the founding of a $300 million VC firm, ready to give out somewhere between $50,000 and $50 million to the next great idea. If you have a convincing idea for the next Google or Facebook, ...

38. Update: Firefox 3.5 is fast, but still behind Chrome and Safari

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... from earlier this month, Safari beats the performance leader Chrome in the Peacekeeper, Celtic Kane and Slick Speed benchmark suites, while being a close second in Google’s own V8 and the WebKit SunSpider ...

39. Dell to make Android device using ARM chip

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      Hardware giant Dell has advanced plans to make an Internet capable handheld device which uses the Google Android operating system. Hardware giant Dell has advanced plans to make an Internet capable ...

40. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Google Chat. The driverless installation makes the Eyeball easy-to-use by simply connecting the USB cable to either a PC or Mac.  Using a custom-designed monitor adapter, Eyeball is easy to position ...

41. Bing to define Microsoft’s capability to innovate

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... with the “market leader”, Ballmer’s term for Google. “We’ve got our mojo now going,” he said. Ballmer sees Microsoft’s opportunity in the fact that “the market leader” cannot “experiment as much” as ...

42. Facebook gets $200 million, looks at paid services

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Yuri Milner suggested that Facebook could be monetized in a similar way as Google, with a “whole bunch of free services” as well as a “small number of paid services” that bring in substantial revenue. ...

43. Search me! Bing, Hakia & Co. keep Google honest

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - Finally, search is cool again. The search engine space, long considered the exclusive domain of Google, is suddenly hot with innovation. Last week’s launch of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge ...

44. Intel to play WiMax vs. 3G game as capacity vs. coverage

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... it was late to launch to begin with and it is now almost two years behind the initial rollout schedule. While Clearwire will be driving the network rollout, companies such as Google and Intel have an ...

45. Virgin Galactic spaceships set for test flight this year

    (Space/Space Features)

    Sir Richard Branson has told Google's Zeitgeist conference that Virgin Galactic spaceships will be ready for testing by the end of the year.Hertfordshire, UK - Sir Richard Branson has told Google's Zeitgeist ...

46. Dateline 2600 - one of our civilizations is missing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    The IDC report that we covered earlier today said that digital content doubles every 18 months, but there's a problem with this, a big problem. The IDC report that we covered earlier today said that ...

47. Gigapan+microscope means a better giggle than Google

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Over at the Nano Gigapan blogspot they aren't mapping the streets of London, San Francisco or the capital of the inhabited planets near Sirius. Can't remember its name right nowOver at the Nano Gigapan ...

48. Google apologizes for slow service

    (Software/Software Features)

      Following the reports of slowed and even interrupted service, which Google deemed a “traffic jam”, the company has now apologized for its slow service on the main page, the news site, and Gmail. ...

49. Google confirms outage, blames Asian traffic jam

    (Software/Software Features)

    Google has confirmed a massive outage that affected multiple services, including search, Docs and Gmail. The company attributed the downtime to a data "traffic jam" in Asia. Chicago (IL) - Google has ...