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Google, Motorola and other madness this week

Posted on August 19, 2011 in: TechnoFrazzle, This-and-That|Post Comment

This has been a pretty mad week in technology starting with Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12B followed by HP announced the folding of their PC business including their newly launched tablets featuring WebOS. There have been some articles about the Motorola purchase which I really enjoyed and some that I thought seem a [...]

Hopes for Google Plus

Posted on July 19, 2011 in: Social-Experiment, This-and-That|Post Comment

I haven’t been a big fan of social networks to date. Largely because I believe that social networks are defined by people and not so much by software. Software does have a place though and can play a very big part. Until now, social networks have been synonymous with Facebook. For me, Facebook is a [...]

Google Voice

Posted on July 25, 2010 in: Gizmodoodats|Post Comment

 
The other app that I absolutely fell in love with while I was in Hawaii was Google Voice for Android. Google Voice is the re-brand of Grand Central which Google purchased a while ago. What I love about it is that it is such a pragmatic and usable implementation of VOIP and mobile. Google Voice [...]

Google Navigation comes to Canada

Posted on June 30, 2010 in: Gizmodoodats|Post Comment

After months of waiting, Google Navigation finally comes to Canada. I was lucky enough to have been able to play with it in my trip to Hawai earlier this year and have to say that I fell in love with it. I first dabbled with navigation on the Android with first MotoNav which I found [...]

Getting news aggregation to work for me – Attempt 1

Posted on February 22, 2009 in: Social-Experiment, TechnoFrazzle|Post Comment

The challenge of news aggregation has been quite an interesting one for a while. The overall business problem I've been trying to address for a while now is to find a system that will aggregate my news information, read the information and allow me to share interesting articles with others through email or RSS feeds [...]

Why Google is THE Killer Platform

Posted on February 17, 2009 in: Social-Experiment, TechnoFrazzle|Post Comment

Google has the right idea; there's no doubt about it. Even though Google is most famous for it's search, it actually provides a killer service platform for someone like me. When I look at all the web tools that I use today, Google provides a reasonable use of it. It is definitely more useful and [...]

Google, the Microsoft of the World Wide Web

Posted on December 26, 2008 in: TechnoFrazzle, This-and-That|Post Comment

It has been really interesting watching Google manouver its way into being the next Microsoft of the web. I'm not sure if Google will run into monopolistic issues but I am certain that Google will be the dominant platform of the not so distant future. It's not hard to see if you simply look at [...]

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