5 days ago

ProgrammableWeb Your next meal could be served up by BigOven’s new API. The comprehensive service for those who like to cook provides more than 170,000 recipes in XML or JSON format (our BigOven API profile). From there, you can display it however you want, though there’s a yet to be determined fee for commercial applications.TechFlash rep (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

ReadWriteWeb The Google executive in charge of Google Enterprise is talking smack about Microsoft Office, saying that firms will be able to get rid of the software suite in one year's time.Man, those are some fighting words. The remarks came from Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division, in an interview with ZDNet Asia.S (Read More)

7 days ago

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Nov 12, 2009

Google Operating System Google's document viewer has a better search feature: you no longer have to manually locate the matches in the document. After performing a search, press Enter repeatedly to find the matches or click on the arrows placed below the search box.The document viewer is used for the PDF files uploaded to Google Docs, for PDF/PPT/ (Read More)

Sep 03, 2009

Submitted by Emaynard from Google Reader: Today we are releasing version 1.2.5 of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java, our first simultaneous release across both runtimes. We're excited about the great new functionality in this release ... including XMPP!XMPP SupportXMPP (or Jabber as it is sometimes known) is an open standard for communicating in real-time (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Google Operating System Google updated the pricing for the additional storage you can buy in Gmail and Picasa Web Albums. Storage Price (per year) 20 GB $5 80 GB $20 200 GB $50 400 GB $100 1 TB $256 2 TB $512 4 TB $1024 8 TB $2048 16 TB $4096 Google says that the storage is shared between Gmail and Picasa Web Albums, but it's (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

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Oct 27, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is "the great challenge of the age," Schmidt said in an interview in front of thousa (Read More)

Nov 07, 2009

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Nov 04, 2009

Hacker News At Zoho, we have been banging the drum on the coming new era of competition, thanks to the cloud, in software and how that is going to pose a serious threat to the stratospheric 90% operating profits that Microsoft enjoys on its Office suite. And sure enough, the news that Microsoft Drops Prices of Cloud Apps caught our att (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Google Watch Part of the magic for those who signed up for Google Voice, the phone call management application rejected by Apple and vilified by AT&T for skewering network neutrality principles, is that they get to choose a special Google phone number that will ring their home, work or mobile phones.Users of the service also enjoy using (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

Google Operating System Google has a small music search engine that shows information about artists, albums and songs. You can use the music: operator in Google's search box to access the service. Unfortunately, the information is outdated, the links to reviews are broken and there's not much to see.After many years of decay, Google decided to imp (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

TechCrunch Over the last few weeks there have has been an increasing amount of buzz about an unannounced Motorola smartphone due to come out some time between late October and early December. Rumored specs include a powerful OMAP3430 processor, 5 megapixel camera, slideout QWERTY keyboard and touch screen, all housed in a super-compa (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

CloudAve In the Desktop Operating System space, we all know what happened between Apple and Microsoft. While Apple tied their OS to their hardware, MS succeeded taking more of an open approach letting any device manufacturers bundle their OS. This resulted in an entire eco-system giving them greater distribution and eventually a mo (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

TechCrunch Facebook has just announced the launch of a new Create Application API, which makes it easier than ever for users to build secondary apps based off of another app. It sounds like a good idea at first, but it comes with one nasty consequence: those viral and sometimes incredibly annoying quiz applications are going to becom (Read More)

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