I've said it before, but I'm always amazed at what Tony Ruscoe is able to dig up about Google from snooping around. This time around while he was snooping on one of Google's experimental sites, he found that it looks as though Google is working on Macros for Google Spreadsheets.
Back in early April this year we wrote about a new service from Google called Google App Engine. At the time we questioned whether it would Compete with Amazon's S3 service because the two are similar in the fact that they open their infrastructure to developers so that they can focus on developing.
Last night at the D6 conference both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer sat down together for an interview. We've got two highlight videos from the conference below, and there were actually some interesting things brought up. What's even more surprising is that there were some jokes being thrown around.
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Keyboard shortcuts step aside! Mouse gestures have been around for quite some time, and are often used as a way to quickly issue commands. One of the places that these are used the most is in the web browser, and that's because a lot of repetitive actions are performed there. Just think about how many times each day you click the back or refresh buttons.
Canon and Microsoft have teamed up for what they're calling the "Top 100 Photo Contest." They're offering a grand prize package worth $10,000, but they're also offering other prizes including a 1st place prize and people's choice awards.
Microsoft has been very quiet on what to expect from Windows 7, and that's to be expected after they over-promised on Vista thereby leading to a lot of disappointment. Despite Microsoft's best efforts to keep things under wraps they still have a hard time dealing with leaks, and if rumors are right there's yet another milestone right around the corner.
Remember all of the fuss that the RIAA made over AllofMP3? They sued the Russian music website for a whopping $1.65 trillion back in December of 2006, and now that lawsuit has been dropped. Yes dropped.
It's always interesting to see the patents that different technology companies file because sometimes (not always), it gives us an idea of what's to come. The latest patent filed by Apple is for "solar cells on portable devices" which gives us an idea that they just might be solar cells to the iPhone and/or iPods.
When we announced back in March that Photoshop CS4 had been leaked there were (and still are) some skeptics that it's the real deal. The timing of the leak seemed about right since the Adobe Creative Suite is on an 18 to 24 month release cycle, which would place the final release of Adobe CS4 somewhere between October 2008 and April 2009.
Can you believe it's already been a year since Viacom tried to purge Google's money bank with a $1 billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube? Ever since March of last year (2007) when the lawsuit was filed, we hadn't really heard much of what was going on, until yesterday.
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It's crazy to think about how unpopular encyclopedias have become thanks to the various references found online, and the same thing is happening to dictionaries. These days word processors (and other apps) are integrating dictionaries so that they are even more useful to the end user.
It's Memorial Day today here in the United States, so we just wanted to stop for a minute to honor the men and women of the military who died serving this country. Additionally, to those members of the military, both past, and those currently serving, we thank you!
I always find it interesting to read and watch interviews with leaders of various companies, particularly when they give their take on their own products. Just last week a "Support Firefox Day" session was held over the IRC chat service, and in it they had four of the best known Mozilla employees answer questions that you may find interesting.
On August 4, 2007 the $325 million Phoenix spacecraft departed earth on a 422 million mile journey to Mars. Just yesterday the journey came to a head as Phoenix made its descent onto Mars.
Over the years, we've seen Symantec's reputation go down-hill as their Norton line of antivirus and security products has been labeled sluggish and bloated by those who use it.
Several months ago the highly-respected AV-Test.org ran a test to rank various antivirus applications. In that test they had 30 rootkits that were tested on both Windows XP and Vista. On Windows XP none of the seven antivirus suites could detect all of the rootkits, and only four of the 14 anti-rootkit tools proved to be 100% successful. Those aren't very good odds.
Back in mid-April, we wrote about a new Bill that was signed in New York called the "Amazon Tax Bill." It forces retailers to charge sales tax to customers who live in the state of New York which then provides the state with an extra $50 million in revenue. We mentioned at the time that if ever there was a way to kill online retailers, this could be it.
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