1 day ago

ReadWriteWeb Our own Marshall Kirkpatrick's dreaded brain chip for controlling computers and mobile devices may be closer than even he suspected.Intel researchers in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh! - told journalists today that brain implants are harnessing human brain waves to surf the Internet, manipulate documents, and much more. And just a (Read More)

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Wired: Gadget Lab MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.“We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast… to boot u (Read More)

1 day ago

TechCrunch We’re here today in Mountain View, CA at the Googleplex for an event during which Google is promising to give a lot of details about Chrome OS. This includes a full product rundown and details about the formal launch, which is expected to occur early next year.Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product Management and Matthew Pap (Read More)

4 days ago

FactoryCity PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.In the Matrix, Morpheus presents Neo with a choice: he can ta (Read More)

4 days ago

My Clippings on NewsGator Online PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.In the Matrix, Morpheus presents Neo with a choice: he can ta (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

TechCrunch Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall. What can we expect? Driver support will likely be a weak point. We’ve heard at various times that Google has a le (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Google just announced that it is working on a a new protocol that will minimize latency and speed up the web experience for users. SPDY (pronounced "speedy) is not meant to replace HTTP, the protocol that allows web servers and browsers to talk to each other today, but it does augment HTTP. The new protocol incorporates fea (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Chromium Blog Today we'd like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", an early-stage research project that is part of our effort to make the web faster. SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. It is designed specifically for minimizing latency through f (Read More)

Oct 11, 2009

Submitted by Sylvain from Google Reader: The big story today is about Microsoft subsidiary Danger losing all T-Mobile Sidekick customer data from their servers. Danger is the company noted for the T-Mobile Sidekick, the revolution in cloud mobile, and most memorably, almost everybody living in 90210 having to get new phone numbers because of Paris Hilton. Valued T (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

ReadWriteWeb It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade. It's been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. With that in mind, over the coming weeks ReadWriteWeb will look back on the defining Web trends of the past 10 years. From the dot com boom, to the nuclear winter after, to (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

TechCrunch HP is acquiring network infrastructure manufacturer 3Com for $2.7 billion. 3Com provides networking, switching, routing and security components. HP says the acquisition will further its data center strategy “built on the convergence of servers, storage, networking, management, facilities and services.” The acquisition of 3C (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

Top 10 Across Categories Rupert Murdoch said recently that he’s planning to stop Google News from indexing his publications including the Times of London and the Wall Street Journal. Murdoch’s idea is that Google News and the like make it too easy for Internet users to sample news for free rather than paying for it as God and Rupert intended. Mar (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

The Next Web Facebook has just announced at their Facebook’s Developer Garage that developers on their platform will be given access to their users email addresses.The goal is to create a more ‘open’ Facebook and let developers feel their users/customers are actually their own, rather than just Facebook’s.For developers, this will mean (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

TechCrunch A little before 9pm on Wednesday night and I’m standing on the ‘VIP’ balcony of San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom, holding a can of something called ‘MySpace Buzz’ and waiting for Weezer to take to the stage. It’s a weird scene, all told, and not just because I thought Weezer was dead.The bulk of the weirdness stems from the (Read More)

Oct 17, 2009

louisgray-com As comments on the Web become fragmented, conversations that occur on downstream aggregation sites often are taking place in a silo, disjointed from parallel discussions on the originating Web site. Over the last two years, many people have found this evolution controversial, hoping to unify the conversations in a central l (Read More)

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