Google Hangout launched with much gusto at Google I/O this year. There has been much talk about the project that was apparently codenamed Babel and that it would make the Google Messaging finally make sense. There are currently multiple ways…
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Samsung Series 3 Chromebook – Initial Review
by Kelvin Kang • • 0 Comments
My review of the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook is based on having it for about 3 weeks. To understand why I really enjoy using the device, here’s a little background before jumping into the details of the review. I had been…
Google Apps – Can it beat out Microsoft in the Enterprise in the long term?
by Kelvin Kang • • 1 Comment
I recently read this post through my google feed titled Google Still Doesn’t Get How to Beat Microsoft Office a while ago and thought this would be a great segway to some observations I had about Google Apps. For some context,…
Google, Motorola and other madness this week
by Kelvin Kang • • 0 Comments
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…
Hopes for Google Plus
by Kelvin Kang • • 1 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…
Google Voice
by Kelvin Kang • • 0 Comments
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…
Google Navigation comes to Canada
by Kelvin Kang • • 0 Comments
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…
Getting news aggregation to work for me – Attempt 1
by Kelvin Kang • • 0 Comments
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…
Why Google is THE Killer Platform
by Kelvin Kang • • 0 Comments
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…
Google, the Microsoft of the World Wide Web
by Kelvin Kang • • 0 Comments
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…